Super Pershing...BAH!!!

[Mezzerik]

My favorite tank of WW2, only a shame one was never built. I plan in the future (And we are talking about several years) when my skills have developed and I have the time and money I will make a 1/16 scale version of this.

The P. 1000 Ratte

http://www.downloadmunkey.net/images/rt-02.jpg
http://surbrook.devermore.net/superpics/machines/ratte.jpg

The world will probably never see an armored land vehicle on the scale of the Ratte. Tellingly, Germans didn’t even refer to it as a tank: they called it a “land cruiser.â€

[BREL]

now that would have been a monster to deal with and drive

[BigPanzer]

That would be quite a model. Rough mental calculations means a 1/16 model would be around the same size as a 1/4 scale King Tiger, so presumably it would be just as heavy.

I would have thought this would be the ideal project for a group build.

Peter

PS Mark Spencer (M-1-T) once supplied a 1/6 Baneblade, fully functional, to Warhammer.  It takes 2 people to drive it, but it proved that large multi turretted tanks are not beyond the realms of possibility.

[Mezzerik]

Aye I saw that. It was a remarkable piece of work.

[Crispy]

So did the Nazi tank design team get paid by "tonnage per tank" then?

Mad as a bucket of frogs but yep it would make a great model in 1/16. To do it justice you'd have to model the 20 fuel trucks that would be needed to follow it everywhere though  ::)

[ck51dzz]

haha thats funny

[BREL]

20 fuel trucks, did the Germans have enough fuel to fill that many trucks?

[ck51dzz]

lol Brel thats quite true with the german depression and all that

[tankmad]

It was Hitler who had a fasination for huge weapons he was only trying to make up for his shortage in the trouser department
Stevie

[Mad Fox]

hmm wouldnt like to be the one that had to fix a track on that thing.

As for the Womble your probably right that he was trying to make up for his inadiquate equipment.