The Mighty MooseGeshutze!

[PainlessWolf]

Good afternoon,
I have been asked by a Friend of mine and Sassgrunt's to post some pics of Sass' latest Crazy Creation! Without further ado, The MooseGeshutze!!! I'll let Sassgrunt chime in to elaborate on the many cool features of his Cartoon War machine! ( Pics: Click to Enlarge )

[43rdRecceReg]

Might one enquire if it is fully functional and, if so, how does it function? The top illustration suggests it dispenses jelly beans from its rectum
At all events, that is truly one unique creation- and one kids will have lots of fun with, I suspect. Once they get over the bafflement.
It almost looks like a creation by Rowland Emett (of Emettland at the Smithsonian; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and etc..)

[sassgrunt]

Oh crap....now I gotta 'splain myself. The actual name for it is the PzMsG Panzer MooseGeschutz, and I'm having a nametag printed that will be mounted as a signboard in the foreground.

A friend of mine went to Alaska and brought me back a wooden "pooping moose" candy dispenser, as in the first photo, (you fill it up with small round candies and when you depress the tail, it "drops" them). I decided that I wanted to turn it into some type of AFV, and thought a Bullwinkle theme would be fitting for it. Lower hull is a Heng Long Pz IV that has been severely shortened and narrowed, with rear drive sprocket and front idler. Forehead-mounted gun is from a 1/25 Jagdpanther, with a 1/6 scale 20mm ammo magazine. Pz IV cupola for Bullwinkle, and the driver is Boris Badenov. Fearless Leader holds the flag, and Rocky brings up the rear. When you depress the tail, it "drops" cartoon-looking bombs. A friend who works with Photoshop was able to make me the German flag-ish moose pattern in several sizes, which I used on the background, tank pennant, armbands, and Fearless Leader's flag.

As for the helmet, I collect original tanker helmets to complement my 1/16 tanks, and decided I needed to have one for this as well. I could NOT find a decent-looking plastic one that I could hack up, and ended up buying a metal reproduction M-35 helmet. I had to use a hole saw to cut holes in the sides for the stuffed antlers, which came from a very strange moose cap. I wanted to add the flag pattern to the helmet as well, but did not have sufficient room due to the antlers, (and it didn't look right to place it in the front of the helmet).

Oh yeah. The absolutely hardest part was trying to paint bushes on the schurtzen that looked like something out of a cartoon! I tried SIX times with watercolors, gouache, and acrylic paint, and was never happy with the results....it kept coming out too close to what you'd see on a "normal" 1/16 German tank. I finally ended up scrubbing off the existing paint as well as I could, and made stencils to use with spray paint. -Mike

[williamthedog]

I'll never look at jelly beans the same way again

[Max-U52]

Somebody's got waaaaay to much time on his hands. I love it!!

[43rdRecceReg]

I'll never look at jelly beans the same way again

Interestingly enough, the most expensive coffee in the world comes from beans ( 'Kopi Luwak') that have passed through the digestive system of the Asian Palm Civet (a distant relative of the domestic cat).
Sh*t hot coffee!

Mike, I'm trying to make out the donor tank which serves as the basis for this amusing, and unique contraption. ? I can't quite work it out.
In Britain, we have an expression: something is 'Very Heath Robinson' (William Heath Robinson, 1872-1944, Illustrator, Cartoonist, and creator of imaginary contraptions). It applies to oddball machines, and improvised- if unconventional-repairs to machines, devices, and the like; repairs that actually work.
Here's a typical Heath Robinson:

Heath Robinson contraption

click to ENLARGE