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Rock vs Cannon
Spoiler; Rock wins, when shoved down the barrel of said cannon. :P
The tank featured in Last Crusade, while based on the general shape of the MkVIII Liberty tank, was in fact scratch-built by the mechanical effects team.
Supervisor George Gibbs went to a museum to negotiate renting a French WWI tank, but decided he'd rather build one instead.
The Hatay tank was thus built on the frame of a 25-ton excavator, with 6.4-ton tracks powered by two Range Rover V8 engines added. Steel was used to construct the tank rather than aluminum or fiberglass, to allow the realistically suspension-less vehicle to travel over the rough terrain.
It was transported on a Short Belfast to Almería, where filming was taking place.
It broke down twice, and moved so slow (12 mph!), that a mock-up of the top half of the tank was created on a flat-bed searchlight trailer, for filming the scenes with Indy riding alongside.
After filming, the tank ended up in the Boneyard at Disney Hollywood Studios, where it languished for years, until finally being brought out, restored, and placed at the exit of the Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular show, where it resides today.
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My favorite sequence in my favorite movie of the entire Indy franchise, featuring one of my favorite movie props of all time, in a fantastic setting.
What's not to like? :D
The tank is a complete rebuild of this not-so-great build, and I'm much happier with it this time.
The hull doors and the turret hatch open, but alas, I could not get the treads to move, at least right now. :(
The red circle tiles represent the Republic of Hatay's crest, since I was unable to create stickers for it.
Cheers, and hope you all like it!
Rock vs Cannon
Spoiler; Rock wins, when shoved down the barrel of said cannon. :P
The tank featured in Last Crusade, while based on the general shape of the MkVIII Liberty tank, was in fact scratch-built by the mechanical effects team.
Supervisor George Gibbs went to a museum to negotiate renting a French WWI tank, but decided he'd rather build one instead.
The Hatay tank was thus built on the frame of a 25-ton excavator, with 6.4-ton tracks powered by two Range Rover V8 engines added. Steel was used to construct the tank rather than aluminum or fiberglass, to allow the realistically suspension-less vehicle to travel over the rough terrain.
It was transported on a Short Belfast to Almería, where filming was taking place.
It broke down twice, and moved so slow (12 mph!), that a mock-up of the top half of the tank was created on a flat-bed searchlight trailer, for filming the scenes with Indy riding alongside.
After filming, the tank ended up in the Boneyard at Disney Hollywood Studios, where it languished for years, until finally being brought out, restored, and placed at the exit of the Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular show, where it resides today.
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My favorite sequence in my favorite movie of the entire Indy franchise, featuring one of my favorite movie props of all time, in a fantastic setting.
What's not to like? :D
The tank is a complete rebuild of this not-so-great build, and I'm much happier with it this time.
The hull doors and the turret hatch open, but alas, I could not get the treads to move, at least right now. :(
The red circle tiles represent the Republic of Hatay's crest, since I was unable to create stickers for it.
Cheers, and hope you all like it!