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Offline Viking

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« Reply #15 on: January 24, 2007, 05:37:46 PM »
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Oh, and that's definitely a T-34/76, not an 85.


Yup, but it has the late-war turret, not the early/mid-war we've got in AH.
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« Reply #16 on: January 24, 2007, 05:53:48 PM »
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Yup, but it has the late-war turret, not the early/mid-war we've got in AH.


Yeah, the 76mm gun mantlet looks weird with that late model cupula.

BTW, I hate to admit it, but I never paid much attention to the "Immigrant Song" lyrics before I saw the V Kittens. (and I bought Zeppelin III when it first came out!) It's now my favorite LZ song. Cool avatar:aok
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« Reply #17 on: January 24, 2007, 06:40:08 PM »
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Yup, but it has the late-war turret, not the early/mid-war we've got in AH.


T-35/76 1943 version

The earlier one with the hatch folding forward is the 42 version.  My son and I built matching T-34s one time and I did the 42 and he did the 43.  It still has the rubber on the road wheels, where many of the later ones had just metal.

So I'd say it's a fairly new production 43 version that was captured by the Germans and put to use.
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« Reply #18 on: January 24, 2007, 07:30:04 PM »
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Hell, there are thousands of T-34's in Russia.  Last time we checked into it, I could have one delivered to Colorado in running condition, for 60k.  I have never heard of a captured one in that type of condition.  It is simply amazing.


     Bodhi has jogged my memory.  I knew bookmarking this site would
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     I guess with all those thousands of T-34s, the Russians were bound
to lose track of one or two :D
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« Reply #19 on: January 24, 2007, 09:09:49 PM »
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BTW, I hate to admit it, but I never paid much attention to the "Immigrant Song" lyrics before I saw the V Kittens. (and I bought Zeppelin III when it first came out!) It's now my favorite LZ song. Cool avatar:aok


lol thanks :)
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« Reply #20 on: January 25, 2007, 01:12:12 AM »
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Hell, there are thousands of T-34's in Russia.  Last time we checked into it, I could have one delivered to Colorado in running condition, for 60k.  I have never heard of a captured one in that type of condition.  It is simply amazing.


The picture I provided is one of a captured specimen. :)
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« Reply #21 on: January 25, 2007, 01:33:12 AM »
They have discovered human bodies nearly perfectly preserved in Peat.  It is an excellent preserving agent.

Very cool article, thanks for posting it.
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« Reply #22 on: January 25, 2007, 05:08:28 AM »
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 "This the only combat active WWII Tank in the world available to the general public to Ride in,  Drive, or just crawl around in and look at."

That's quite a bold statement.
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« Reply #23 on: January 25, 2007, 07:10:08 AM »
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"This the only combat active WWII Tank in the world available to the general public to Ride in,  Drive, or just crawl around in and look at."

That's quite a bold statement.


Yes it is if you can prove me wrong, I'll remove it. It is something I check often. The fact is you will not find one always open to the public for Rides, Driving. Most of the companies that do things similar to me are located in England and they use modern armor. If the day comes that I have to remove that statement. My new one will be "We are the ONLY place in the world that you can Drive or Ride a Combat Active WWII Tank and Shoot Machine Guns"
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« Reply #24 on: January 25, 2007, 07:20:27 AM »
Is the Sherman still active with some armies?

The T-34 is still on the OoB of some African countries, is it not?

ps. saw this posted somewhere about 6 months to a year ago.
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« Reply #25 on: January 25, 2007, 08:36:34 AM »
Wasn't it in CZ a few months ago where demonstrators fueled up a display t34 and drove it off of it's concrete stand?
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« Reply #26 on: January 25, 2007, 08:42:46 AM »
While not really a public entity. Tamiya has been allowed to run a tiger, a king tiger, a pershing and a sherman so that they could record the sounds for their rc models.
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« Reply #27 on: January 25, 2007, 09:33:21 AM »
Sweet little find there. Thanks for posting it.
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« Reply #28 on: January 25, 2007, 10:39:40 AM »
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Yes it is if you can prove me wrong, I'll remove it. It is something I check often. The fact is you will not find one always open to the public for Rides, Driving. Most of the companies that do things similar to me are located in England and they use modern armor. If the day comes that I have to remove that statement. My new one will be "We are the ONLY place in the world that you can Drive or Ride a Combat Active WWII Tank and Shoot Machine Guns"

I'm not going to try to prove you wrong, but I used to work in place which offered rides and adventures in many different types of warmachines. T-34 was one of them, but i'm not sure if that example had seen combat. It was my first job, I used to play with the turret on lunch breaks:), and also got to ride the beast. Based on my experience I'd say the odds are that someone else is somewhere offering rides in a T-34 which has seen combat. Your statement can be true of course.
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« Reply #29 on: January 25, 2007, 11:19:54 AM »
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Wasn't it in CZ a few months ago where demonstrators fueled up a display t34 and drove it off of it's concrete stand?


it was in hungary. it`s amazing that nobody got ran over from the crowd.


youtube link
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