I just love tanks

[James Tainton]

I have lots of reasons why I love tanks. What are yours.

[Stuke Sowle]

They just look G**damn cool to me. :thumb:

[Flip Hendrickx]

this is a difficult one...
actually I don't know. Because they look cool I guess.
for me it's an object on which I can practice and refine my modelling skills. Originally I started out modelling airplanes but I took up armoured vehicules because it opened a whole new area of modelling for me (heavy weathering, rust, ....)
I do not have any preferences regarding era or the country they come from. If it's a cool tank, I'll build it, does not matter if it german, british or whatever.
When I start to build a tank I usually don't know anything about it. I buy reference books and learn about the tank as I go along
I can tell the difference between a Panther and a Tiger tank but don't ask me to point out the differences between a Panther G and D because I don't have a clue ;)

Cheers

Flip

[panamadan]

You haven't lived 'till you have a .50 call! Panamadan ;)

[serpico]

I agree with Flip...well that is my reasons concur more what he says

My first models were just painted with spray can paint, some detail painting on the tools etc. Then I read a book about painting tanks and weathering, and I found the techniques great, so I learned alot about painting etc.

I learned alot about the history of tanks and especially the German tanks of WW II. My first model done with these techniques was the Italieri hetzer, and I went from there.

Now I spend most of my time admiring other people's work and trying to learn more and more to improve, recently I got into scratchbuilding some stuff and got hooked on trying to improve basic kits.

I really enjoy peoples work and effort to improve a piece of plastic...

regards, serpico

[KingTiger]

My first kit was a 1/48 scale King Tiger from Bandai. The box art showed that long menacing 88mm gun and I was hooked. I also enjoy the feel of weight and (presumed) invincibility inside a tank. When I was in the Marines the tank of the US was the M60A1 without reactive armor. I want to find one like that again. I really liked the lines of that tank.

KingTiger

[Finnmodeler]

Hi,
I must admit that I don't love just tanks. I guess I love modelling :lol: I build tanks, planes etc. I'd say it's the small engineer inside of me that loves all kind of technical stuff and especially WWII era stuff. Camos or markings aren't the driver that I get interested in a vehicle. It's more like a story of that particular plane or tank. That is the historian inside of me:)

Cheers,
Niko

[panamadan]

Originally posted by panamadan@Jan 16 2005, 08:52 PM
You haven't lived 'till you have a .50 call! Panamadan ;)
Shouldn't post when tired! It should have read:you haven't lived until you have fired a .50 Cal! Dan :lol:

[Finnmodeler]

Originally posted by panamadan@Jan 17 2005, 08:36 AM
Shouldn't post when tired! It should have read:you haven't lived until you have fired a .50 Cal! Dan :lol:
Hi,
I was a bit puzzled what it meant:D I was thinking that I have to prep my English a bit more.

Niko

[franck]

Well ...

during a good part of my youth i've been woke up each 14th of July by the tanks passing just in front of my window to reach the commemoration day in Paris, so in those times i begun scale modelling tanks, some years later i was riding my motocross bike once a month on a testfield for french tanks ... some more inspiration came from the demos i saw there. And finally being a native from Normandy i've been able to see a lot of tanks remains, wrecks and restored ... creating a natural interest for ww2 armor.

on another side i'm deeply impressed too by the brutal force and the fear that a tank is inspiring.

regarding scale modelling i guess that there's so much different styles you can achieve on a tank that it is almost impossible to get disinterested from building armor !

cheers
Franck

[Stuke Sowle]

Originally posted by panamadan@Jan 17 2005, 05:36 AM
Shouldn't post when tired! It should have read:you haven't lived until you have fired a .50 Cal! Dan :lol:
Yes, firing a .50 cal is quite the treat. But I liked firing the smoothbore 120 just a bit better. :)