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Another disappointment as 66087 substitutes for a Tug hauling 6B33, the 13:49 Theale - Robeston empty tanks at Uffington
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During the Autumn of 1943, the Germans built an air base at Haslemoen using Russian POW's captured on the Eastern front.
Turrets from destroyed or scrapped tanks were recycled and placed on top of bunkers as part of close combat defensive positions, usually at airfields.
For the insiders, this is a so-called Lehký tank vzor 35. The Germans renamed this tank to Panzerkampfwagen 35(t) when they seized the tanks after the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1939.
Type - Light tank
Place of origin - Czechoslovakia
Manufacturer - Škoda, ČKD
Main armament - 3.7cm (1.5in) KwK 34(t) gun
Secondary armament - 2 x 7.92mm (0.3in) MG 37(t) machine gun
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer_35(t)
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The airport was planned by the Norwegian Army Air Service as a main air station during the late 1930s, but the plans were stopped by the break-out of the Second World War. Haslemoen was built as a labour camp in 1943 and then taken over by the Luftwaffe, who built the airport. Opening in August 1944, its main purpose was to station a squadron of Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condors.
Haslemoen was rebuilt and opened as the base of the Artillery Battalion in 1955. Operation of the airport resumed in 1960 with the delivery of Cessna O-1 Bird Dog observation aircraft. They remained in service with the artillery until 1992.
The grass ultralight runway was established in 1990 and was sold to Våler Municipality in 2007.
This tank, featured in my most recent MOC, is inspired by the tank featuring in Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade. In the movie the tank is owned and operated by the Republic of Hatay in Turkey and is therefore referred to as the “Hatay Heavy Tank”. From what I found the design is based on the real-life British Mark VII and Mark VIII tanks from late WWI, with the main turret mount on top being the major difference. In the movie this platform doesn’t appear to be able rotate, but this is a feature I wanted to add. I have no idea whether this is “historically accurate” or not. I spent hours looking at various reference pictures from the movie, and other non-LEGO models to get a good sense of the scale of the model. I found some very interesting articles detailing the different features and characteristics of the tank.
I decided a long time ago that I wanted to build this, and the intention was always to use dark tan. My starting point was the part of the tank called the sponsons, with a gun-mount on each flank. After getting those right, I built the “side-panels” with the tank treads mostly using the SNOT technique. The tank treads sit in perfectly in place but are not mechanized. With the way I built the model, this should be possible to achieve, so I might go back to it someday. The tank treads can actually move though. Both side panels attach to a middle section that is fully detailed on top and underneath, but with no interior. The middle section with where the cloth-piece and dynamite sit isn’t attached to anything. It is held in place by some slopes, and can simply be lifted off. Building an interior is also possible, but I didn’t feel it necessary to do. The gun mount on top of the tank does, however, fit one minifig, as you can see it other pictures. The model isn’t 100% accurate to the Hatay Heavy Tank from Indiana Jones, but this was never my intention either. Building this tank was an extremely fun challenge and process, as it’s completely different to what I usually do. The result is a lot better than how I expected it to be, when I started.
Little River Railroad 0-4-0T #1 leads the railroad's Santa Train west through Coldwater as fast as its stubby little wheels will allow.
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Here's my Scorpion Tank build from the Halo series.
It's design is a mixture of the ones featured in Halo 3 and Halo: Reach.
Its features:
- A 360° rotatable main cannon that can be angled up to vertical.
- 4 independently movable track sections with suspension.
- A movable front mounted machine gun.
- Access to the inside driver position, via a hatch behind the machine gun.
www.flickr.com/photos/origin-of-the-brick/5105836667 was my inspiration for this build.
More Halo builds to come soon!
Flo Barnett walks back to her truck after flagging the Arbor Road grade crossing at the south end of Ohi-Rail's Minerva Yard as a yard crew sorts out tank cars.
This is a piece that was done for commission. I am pleased with the final product. The buyer will not get the figs, and he will be using light bluish-gray tank treads instead of black. Should look sharp.
M60a3 tank seen at the General Patton Memorial Museum - Chiriaco Summit, California. The site the museum is on was part of the Desert Training Center of World War II [Arizona Maneuver Area training troops in desert warfare].
This tank was created specifically for use in the regions with really low temperature. Blizzards are no problem for this one, 'cause it is eqipped with a wide variety of sesors and radars. Also it's capable of carrying a small radio-controlled robotic rover (tanks front section opens serving as a hatch for it) and eleven soldiers countig a driver.
Hopefully I'll be able to upload more images of it soon to show all the functions.
I never had any of those small rubber tank treads until Brickworld this year. They seemed to go well with the lime mudgards.
Scary looking petroleum storage tanks making one ask how long before a major spill... Fredonia, Arizona.
The M89 MBT started its life in the early 70's as People's Commonwealth engineers got a request for a new MBT that could knock out the potent South African Leviathan tank from extended ranges frontally. Something most of their aging soviet and Chinese tanks could not. As such the design was based upon a soviet designed 152mm smoothbore cannon and the chassis was a lengthened T series design incorporating an additional roadwheel and new larger power pack. By the mid 1980's the tank began its initial trials by fire along the disputed border regions of the Kalahari desert. Initially the tank suffered from a poor fire control system and even if it did hit its shells lacked the penetration at distance to knock out the newest Mk.V and Mk.VI leviathan tanks. Along with that the South African's had made strides in newer APFSDS shells resulting in the South African's still retaining the edge in effective long range gunnery in tank duels. This resulted in the early M89's being withdrawn and sent back to the drawing board and by 1989 it was ready once more. This time being deployed to counter a SAR army offensive into southern Angola. This time though the M89 would find much greater success as it's new FCS was able to match their SAR counterparts, unfortunately their APFSDS and HEAT ammunition was still inadequate. So many crews turned to their very powerful HE ammunition to disable and cripple leviathan tanks by knocking out their cannons, engines, tracks, FCS systems and even their imaging system which resulted in numerous leviathan tanks being destroyed by their crews after the PCA beat back the offensive. The battle would cement the new tank in the PCA forces and result in its designation as "M-1989 MBT".
"The Renault FT or Automitrailleuse à chenilles Renault FT modèle 1917, informally known as the FT-17 or FT17, was a French light tank; it is among the most revolutionary and influential tank designs in history. The FT was the first operational tank with an armament in a fully rotating turret, and its configuration with the turret on top, engine in the back and the driver in front became the conventional one, repeated in most tanks until today. Armour historian Steven Zaloga has called the Renault FT "the world's first modern tank"
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I have allways loved the FT-17 since I began my interest in World War One. It has a chunky, cute and chibi look to it and an all around unique appearance. I attempted to create one in Lego when I built my Trench Dio for the BAF Last Stand Contest. The design failed and I used the Light Grey pieces to create my Marder III. Now with the Bley from my Tiger I, Which Is now broken. I feel I succeded in recreating this iconic tank. All that could be improved is to have Black tracks and to make it fit figures inside, but it's practically impossible considering the tanks size.
C+C Please!
Colas rails 66849 named "Wylam Dilly" passes Burton Salmon working 6B95 the 04.54 Grangemouth to Lindsey O.R. `tanks for stone` move 31/03/2025.
Newley painted 60054 Tanking it through Lon Las with the 6B41. 12.19 hrs Westerleigh to Robeston empty tanks (Photo By Steve Powell)
M4A1E8 Sherman Tank. Headcorn - Combined Ops 2022. Sunday 14th August 2022. Headcorn Aerodrome Kent.
Inspired by @Aranethon. 's LDD model. Made many changes but kept the general idea and story
(www.flickr.com/photos/127366867@N03/28282556742/in/faves-...)
The New Brickikan born Johannes Smuts first entered a tank shortly before the "Destructions of the 12 Colonies war", and from then on he would know no other home. During the war he served in both the Allied Army (under General George S. McFatton) in Deland and the Republikan Army in Bolindia, during which he compiled an excellent combat record, a number of medals, and extensive experience as a tank commander. After the war he migrated between various military positions around the world, with a notable career with the Briolui Defense Force, and otherwise working for whoever paid him and put him in command on the front line. It was in 1985, while working in Briolui, that he was paired with an M5 Olifant. One of his jealous superiors thought it would be funny to give their boisterous New Brickikan commander a New Brickikan tank. But Smuts became attached, and would remain with this tank for the rest of his life, even refusing to upgrade to any of the newer vehicles entering the Defense Force. He ultimately left the BDF in 1990, refusing the grand ceremonial honours offered to him by the Brioluian government, but requested that he could take his tank with him. From there he found employment in the Coalition to Restore the Republic in New Brickika (or The Rebellion), and gained heavy experience as a guerilla fighter in the "Bush Wars" of 1995-99 in Nak Hu. During this time he had the tank extensively modified. Aside from flattening the hull, near completely replacing the turret and installing a more powerful (but fuel hungry) engine, the additions included a new 125mm smoothbore gun, a self-entrenching blade, "Bear Claw" mine plows, a comfortable new interior and a variety of other things most tankers only dream of. He also found it a name; "Old Mud and Rust", joking about the filthy, dilapidated appearance of the aging tank. But man and vehicle were so inseparable that his men soon swapped them around, whereupon he became Old Mud and Rust and the tank became General Smuts. And together, they are Old Mud and Smuts. After recovering from a busted hip bone he had himself, and his tank, smuggled out of New Brickika, and retired to Plantasea. His peace didn't last long, as the Plantasean Armored Command bribed him out of retirement with a hefty new salary, and he commanded an armour force with distinction for the duration of the war in Filace and Xenor
Don't know what this was used for but there is a vent at the top, a drain at the bottom & an inlet / outlet at the side.
The last surviving tank landing craft used at D-Day which avoided German shelling during the landings only to sink 66 years later in a dock on Merseyside arrived in Southsea today as part of her move to a museum.
Landfall, also known as LCT 7074, was restored at the Portsmouth Naval Base in a £4.7million project and will now go on to grace Southsea Common in Hampshire in front of the D-Day Story museum.
The 194ft (53m), 300-ton vessel was one of 800 such boats which carried tanks and military supplies on to the French beaches at Normandy as part of the Allied invasion force of June 6, 1944.
The last surviving tank landing craft used at D-Day which avoided German shelling during the landings only to sink 66 years later in a dock on Merseyside arrived in Southsea today as part of her move to a museum.
Landfall, also known as LCT 7074, was restored at the Portsmouth Naval Base in a £4.7million project and will now go on to grace Southsea Common in Hampshire in front of the D-Day Story museum.
The 194ft (53m), 300-ton vessel was one of 800 such boats which carried tanks and military supplies on to the French beaches at Normandy as part of the Allied invasion force of June 6, 1944.
But a £5million rescue operation by the Royal Navy's museum then saw her raised four years later and restored at the Portsmouth Naval Base.
Pano shot of the reflections at Tank Lakes.
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Read more about the trip on on my blog, or watch a video of day three.
See the tanks in higher definition!
T-5 and PA-5 description: tinyurl.com/T5description
PA-3 description (PA-3(b) shown here has a 76.2mm L/20 howitzer in a cast 55mm turret): tinyurl.com/PA-3description
PA-4
The PA-4 started its life as the PA-3. The Army
requested the development of an even heavier tank, officially classed as a super heavy tank.
The original tank's armor was increased everyhwhere, 75/55/40 with a 80mm cast turret and by some modifications, its engine power went from 320hp to 350hp.
However, the most significant change is the main armament, a high-velocity 76.2mm L/40 naval gun that was originally an AA gun on Tongorian warships. With such powerful gun it can destroy any other tanks it might face on the battlefields, even a tank of its own class.
Karapuzhnyi tanki concept tank (shown here is a wooden mock-up).
A concept being currently researched by Tongorian engineers. It would surpass even the PA-4 in every statistics, armor, armament weight. The requirements it needs to meet:
Armor:
Hull: 130/100/90
Turret: 140/100/100
Weaponry:
107mm naval gun in a turret
several water-cooled light machine guns
The engine would be a 600hp radial engine, using the same ones as on the Shetsov Sh-3 heavy bomber. This coupled with the wide tracks would provide relatively good off-road manouverabilty and a reasonable 15km/h maximum speed. However, most of the generals think such a vehicle might not be possible currently and funding should be focused on the PA-4 and other tanks.
So there you go, all my tanks I plan to use in D&C V.
This structure at the Midhope tank firing range, north west of Sheffield, was constructed in the early 1940s to enable tanks to have the accumulated peat and mud washed off after a day on the moors. There would have been a heavy steel grille on top through which the detritus fell into the pit. The washing would have been by fire hoses. The silt would have to be dug from the pit on a regular basis. Tanks that were used on the range included Churchill, Centaur, Cromwell and Convenanter.
Here is my M2a1 medium tank.
sorry for my lack of posting lately but i have had some major builders block tank wise but I ave a lot of projects to work on now. Also the .50 cal and marine on the tank isn't meant to be accurate to the division the tank belongs to it is just to show the size of the tank. The tank never saw combat.
c&c is wellcome
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