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Re: The 'Miasto 44' movie Panther
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 6:31 pm
by ALPHA
KELLY'S HEROES had a replica based off a T34
Still one of my favorite movies
ALPHA
Re: The 'Miasto 44' movie Panther
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 7:47 pm
by dane61
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW6CRf64o-Y
this is the tiger 1 replica made for the film " White tiger" , but not used. The tank used was a fantasy tank. The film has lot of action and lots of T34 , SUs and a single panzer IV . The films plot is wierd, but the tanks alone make it worth to watch.
Re: The 'Miasto 44' movie Panther
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 7:55 pm
by dane61
http://photo.qip.ru/users/stepsa73/3974007/
pictures from the Russian company that made the replica of the tiger 1
Re: The 'Miasto 44' movie Panther
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 8:39 pm
by ALPHA
Lert wrote:'Miasto 44' (City 1944) is an upcoming polish film about the ill-fated Warsaw Uprising of 1944.
Trailer 1,
trailer 2.
This movie will have scenes featuring a Panther. Now, the problem the production team faced was, where to get a Panther? Being a Polish production with limited budget they couldn't get their hands on a real one for rent and insurance cost, and they didn't want to CG one.
So, they built one.
This 'Panther' is built on a purchased T55 chassis. They chopped off everything above the fenders and threw it all (upper hull, turret, gun) away, then scratchbuilt a Panther upper hull and turret from sheet metal, and the gun from carbon fiber with steel reinforcements to keep the weight down. They actually went to Bovington museum to measure an actual Panther for this build.
This conversion was undertaken by hobbyists, rather than a movie production team. Anyone who's seen Saving Private Ryan (hopefully meaning everyone on this forum) will know what a
horrible mockery of a
german tank is made when a movie production team tries to make a german tank. However, this reproduction Panther is absolutely gorgeous. The proportions, the turret location, the shape, it all seems spot on to the naked eye. The only place you can see this isn't a real Panther is in the drive train. They wanted to fix that too, rebuild the running gear to a more historically accurate version, but they didn't have the budget.
Those two trailers and that 'Panther' clip really make me want to see this movie. For a limited budget eastern european movie, the production values seem off the chart. The 'Panther' is a work of art, and that's just one setpiece in a much larger overarching movie, which seems more a character piece set during the uprising than focused on the actual war.
Between Fury, Saints and Soldiers: The Void and this, this is a good year for fans of WWII movies.
Thought the Panther looked ok...the Tiger on the other hand....yeah............................................not so much
ALPHA
Re: The 'Miasto 44' movie Panther
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 1:53 pm
by billpe
tomhugill wrote:billpe wrote:Apart from the idlers, that is a very good conversion to a Panther. I agree with other sentiments, its much better than the Tiger conversions in other films. The one in White Tiger looks very strange.
The one in white tiger isn't supposed to be a replica tiger.
I've not seen the film, just the images. What is it meant to actually be?
*edit* I watched the trailer and read the synopsis - I don't really understand tbh. I wish I understood Russian because the western version says its meant to be a Tiger.
Re: The 'Miasto 44' movie Panther
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 3:04 pm
by Lert
Isn't the 'white Tiger' supposed to be a Porsche Tiger with added sideskirts?
