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Tank Gallery 15

The following Photographs and information have been donated by Battlefrontmodels Customers over the years they range from basic to customised RC tanks and vehicles to heavily modified models.

All images and data are copyright to the Members and BFM

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' Panther '

Sent in by

Malcolm Thulbourne, Sheffield South Yorkshire UK

Malcolm has done a stirling job on this early HL model Panther (Pantiger) doing a massive upgrade job using Battlefrontmodels kits including Schurzen skirt,wheel trim sets,drivers viewers, spare track wheel and pendant kit.

This modification took Malcolm 10 months to complete including Tri Colour weathering and zimmerite are excellant, we are very impressed with the battle damage and rust effect paintwork on tracks and exhausts.

Malcolm is currently re working a Tiger 1 and a 1980's model King Tiger, we look forward to the photo's... keep up the good work. BFM HQ

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DID YOU KNOW

Vasily Grigoryevich Zeytsev was a sniper in the 2884th, Rifle Division and is credited wth over 225 kills in Stalingrad alone he was asked to start a sniper school.

It is estimted that the snipers trained at his school killed more that 3000 enemy Axis soldiers.

Zeytsev died at the age of 76 in Kiev Russia.

The only Russian sniper with more kills was a woman

named Ludmila Pavilichenco at 309 confirmed kills.

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' Sherman Tulips '

Sent in by

Peter Symonds. Nottingham UK

Quite a different Sherman project this time from Peter, a Sherman with 60 lb. (Tulip Rockets) slung on rails and attached to the side of the Sherman turret.

The RP-3 (Rocket propelled 3 inch) was a British Rocket used in WW2 though primarily as a Air to Ground weapon, it saw limited use in other roles. It's 60 lbs (27Kg) war head gave rise to its other name of the ''60 lb. rocket'' The 25 lb. (11.3 kg) variant a sold shot armour piercing variant was referred to as the ''25 lb rocket''.

They were generally used by fighter bomber aircraft against targets such as Tanks, Trains, Motor Transport, Buildings and by Coastal Command and Royal Navy aircraft against U-Boats and shipping

Tank Use

In 1945 some Sherman Tanks were fitted with two rails one on either side of the turret, to carry two 60 lb rockets. These were used at the rhine crossing by Tanks of the first Coldstream Guards.

The tanks were called Sherman Tulips tanks fitted were the conventional Shermans and also the more armoured Sherman Fireflies

The rockets were highly inaccurate when launched from a tank being fired from a stationary position they had little initial slipstream over the fins so this caused instability in flight, despite this the RP-3 was highly valued by tank crews for the destructive effect of the 60 lb warhead.

DID YOU KNOW

The Leather Greatcoat worn by Field marshall Erwin Rommel is displayed in the Rommel Museum at Merse Matruh Egypt, 100 miles west of El Alamein.

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' German Sd.kfz 222 Armoured Car '

Sent in by

Peter Symonds. Nottingham UK

This is an unusual model to see in 1/16 'Leichter PanLeichter Panzersphwagenzerspahwagon' sdkfz.222 this top quality model is also fitted with RC control with all four wheels in traction modified by Peter.

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The Leichter Panzerspahwagon roughly in German; ''Light Armoured Reconnaissance Vehicle'' were a series of light 4 x4 wheel armoured carsproduced by Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1944.

They were produced by Eisenwerk Wesserhutte of Bad Oeynhause, the chassis were built by Auto Unio of Zwickau and assembled by F.Schichau of Elbing and Mashinenfabrik Niedersachsen in Hanover-Linden.

It used the standard Horch 801 (heavy car) chassis with an angled armoured body and turret.

Therear mounted engine was a 67 KW. (90 hp) Horch petrol unit giving a top speed of 80 kmh (50 mph) and a cross country speed of 40 km/h (25 mph) it had a max range of 300 km (186 miles).

DID YOU KNOW

In February 2006, the remains of some 4000 German soldiers were discovered in a disusedmfactory building in the Czech town of Usti-nad- Labem.(Aussig an der Elbe). The remains were found piled high in numbered cardboard boxes which had been stored in the building for over sixty years.

These Wehrmacht soldiers had fought and died on Czech soil during World War 2 but forgotten and never given a dignified burial.

A cemetery in the northern town of Hilucin was chosen as there final resting place,

the local council agreed to purchase and extend the cemetary land

An Amoured car receiving some TLC in the Desert Shade

A six wheeled later variant of the Light Armoured car also 6 x 6 all terrain drive.

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Wear You Poppy With Pride

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"Come Let Me Show You Where The Iron Crosses Grow"

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A Panoramic view of Stalingrad surrounded by German forces a 'hell on earth' for the Soviet people across the river Volga now known as Volgograd

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DID YOU KNOW

Since WW2 all British Tanks have been equiped with the means to make tea.

This is because British Tankers used to have to exit the tanklight a fire to boil water for tea making, this became a waste of combat time and dangerous for the crews.

The more modern types of boiler can be used for 'Boil in the Bag' meals and then used for tea.

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