Tiger tank replica

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Found this and though you guys might find it interesting.. A Russian man has built a full sized replica of a Tiger from scratch

http://englishrussia.com/2015/03/31/german-tiger-tank-replica-built-by-one-man/
 
It's strange, the fixation that Russians have with the Tiger tank, even to building a full-size working replica for the movie 'White Tiger' a few years back, using an AT-T as a basis. Over here in UK, however, there is the only operating Tiger 1 in existence, based at the RAC Centre at Bovington Camp in Dorset. It was used in the making of the movie 'Fury'.

There are loads of movies on Youtube of this iconic vehicle futzing around on demo-days down there, if you care to take a look sometime. Comparing it with the contemporary opposition, you can easily see why the sight and sound of a Tiger was such an OMG moment for the Allies - ask anybody who was there at the time.

tac
 
tacfoley said:
It's strange, the fixation that Russians have with the Tiger tank, even to building a full-size working replica for the movie 'White Tiger' a few years back, using an AT-T as a basis. Over here in UK, however, there is the only operating Tiger 1 in existence, based at the RAC Centre at Bovington Camp in Dorset. It was used in the making of the movie 'Fury'.

There are loads of movies on Youtube of this iconic vehicle futzing around on demo-days down there, if you care to take a look sometime. Comparing it with the contemporary opposition, you can easily see why the sight and sound of a Tiger was such an OMG moment for the Allies - ask anybody who was there at the time.

tac
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there was also 2 replicas built for fury one based on a apc and another just a hull they are for sale now the UK seems to be packed with old armor. there also a company in Australia that made a aluminum replica of a tiger
 
antiqueguy said:
there was also 2 replicas built for fury one based on a apc and another just a hull they are for sale now the UK seems to be packed with old armor. there also a company in Australia that made a aluminum replica of a tiger
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The Tiger I depicted in Fury is authentic, from the Bovintton Tank Museum, and is the only fully operationalTiger I utilized in film to date.
 
Just was at the tank museum in munster Germany. Something else to see the tanks in person. Tiger was big. But still Panther was something else to see. But sturmtigre and the king tiger (tiger II) was big.
 
this looks like this tank makes me wonder where the tracks/trans/engine came from I would have to build it from excavator/dozer parts because there no destroyed tiger tanks sitting around in the bone yard here

 
Next month I'm going to take a look at the Tiger near Vimoutiers in Normandy. I last saw it 28 yrs ago. It's a bit of a wreck and most probably beyond restoration, but there just aren't that many left around. Not too far away you can see a preserved Sherman at the Polish monument on Hill 262 where the Polish Armoured Div became the cork in the bottle to prevent the German breakout from the Falaise Pocket. This was a very critical piece of terrain with excellent panoramic observation and fields of fire. You can understand why the Germans made the efforts that they did to wrest it away from the Poles.
 
The PIAT would probably just bounce off that damned thing, unless it hit either the road wheels. track, or the engine compartment.

NOW I know why my maternal grandfather hated the damned things (he was in a Canadian armoured unit and assigned as a driver for a Sherman Firefly)!!!
 
shredder said:
The PIAT would probably just bounce off that damned thing, unless it hit either the road wheels. track, or the engine compartment.

NOW I know why my maternal grandfather hated the damned things (he was in a Canadian armoured unit and assigned as a driver for a Sherman Firefly)!!!
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a PIAT would not bounce most likely a lot of flat armor there. it took 4 or 5 Sherman's to bring down a tiger or so they say dam things had reliability issues though and could not be easily maintained
 
Why so few tigers operational? Around 1350 made. Surely some were still intact when the germans surrendered or were captures by the allies.
 
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