Tank? V tank?

[Ad Lav]

Most of my knowledge is from good old fashioned books! Or modelling magazines.

Any in particular you want to know?

[silversurfer1947]

I would suggest you pick a war and Google "***** war tanks". I tried with the Korean war and got this.

https://www.militaryfactory.com/armor/k ... -tanks.asp

[Ad Lav]

Centurion faced many foes - M48's, T55, T62, RPG's!

It was in the Korean War, Indo/Pakistan War, Vietnam, Israel/Egypt etc in the Golan Heights.

Great tank and considering it's age, still used recently by South africa as the Olifant.

[Ad Lav]

T55 Hooben do.

As for the others, Ludwigs but you'll need a few quid

[Ad Lav]

Comes with gearboxes, turret gubbins etc you just need a speaker and a board.

[MichaelC]

Mick, the duel series of books from Ospray are good ones for this as they profile two different tanks that have engaged in some of the more famous battles.

https://ospreypublishing.com/store/mili ... books/duel

As to the Hooben T-55A, I just built one with stock mechanics and added in a IBU2 as the electronics and it runs quite nicely. In terms of duels, it would have fought with the IDF collections of Shermans perhaps ? I personally use it as target for the Merkava.........

[43rdRecceReg]

if you'd sooner have something audio-visual, rather than a book, I'd recommend the box set of 'Greatest Tank Battles' series 1-3 (8-disc DVD set). It spans decades of warfare between all manner of combatants, and armour.

Greatest Tank battles box set

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It's not cheap, and you'll need a region free (multi region DVD player to handle it), but it's compelling and immersive viewing of Tank on Tank action. Individual series are available separately, covering different theatres of War, I believe. Check them out though.

[MichaelC]

Thanks Michael and 43rd, much appreciate it, I will check both out

As for the Hooben T-55A, almost tamiya money and with Centurion prices as they are, maybe that's a pair for some deep thought lol.

But thanks again chaps

Mick.

Mick,

$259 USD before shipping is not Tamiya money, no ?

http://www.dklmrc.com/product/t55a

[Ad Lav]

Rctank is Germany are €330 plus postage.

You may get stung on customs from dklm. And postage. Takes it up to rctank germany prices.

[B_Man]

Centurion also clashed with T-34/85 in the Korean War so that's another potentially inexpensive option.