Sgt.Squarehead

Suspect it may have been used for testing/target practice.....There are several penetrations on the glacis and possibly one on the mantlet too.

Wrong:



sPz.Jg.Abt. 653 used one as a command tank, along with a Panther with a Pz.IV turret (it's on the next rail car).....These two are very well known amongst modellers.
I've just done some checking and the 'Leningrad Tigers' were ALL initial production Henschell types:

"When the first production Tigers rolled out of the Henschel factory, they were sent to the training grounds at Fallingbostel to equip the 502nd Heavy Tank Battalion. Although their tanks were still unreliable, they were sent to reinforce the siege of Leningrad after only 3 days of practice. Immediately on arrival in Mga they were ordered to the front line.
    A total of 9 Tigers were sent to this battalion, filling out its 1st company, before events in Africa diverted new Tiger production to that theater. The 502nd fought in forests and swamps south of Leningrad and achieved only limited success. Technical problems with the tanks caused as much trouble as the terrain, and so the more reliable Tigers, notably "111", were given the best components.
    On 18 January 1943 a breakthrough by the Soviets cost 5 Tigers, including numbers "121" and "100" which were captured intact. Only 2 of the original 9 Tigers remained in February, when they were joined by 3 new ones.
    These first 9 Tigers had a unique appearance. They had no fenders or storage on the hull sides. Their mudguards at front and rear did not project beyond the hull side (these were also used in Tunisia). They were issued with "mirrored" tracks, i.e. the right and left tracks were different, unlike those of any other German tank; the crews disliked the inconvenience and eventually put just a single type on each Tiger."



This image allegedly shows the first Tigers arriving at Mga station:

PS - Typical Tiger oddities on display in these images.....The tank in the first image is still wearing its transport tracks, yet the Tigers appear to have been delivered with their combat tracks fitted, based on what we are seeing in the final image.

Here is a nice project, maybe next year I can visit. A son helping his dad along the road. Tiger I towed by a Leo. 
 

Umm, what's Vietnamese for 'bring it, bitchez'?
.... Of all the fights China could pick that could end worse than a Taiwan invasion, you have just picked the second (attacking Siberia would of course be the first).
There are only a few military mobilization ready societies left on our planet, and Vietnam is one.  Nobody will fight more stubbornly and united in defense of their homeland (the dau tranh spirit), as the last 6 superpowers to invade Vietnam with conventional armies (Q'ing China, France, Japan, France again, USA, PRC) all learned to their cost.
(I won't go into the history of French colonialization of Vietnam; suffice it to say it was a series of piecemeal grabs brought about by internal disunity and corruption. There was no French Robert Clive, only the overwhelming advantage of steamships and breech loading arms -- the same tech used to force 'open' Japan, China and Burma, and to rapidly subdue warlike indigenous societies, from Zululand to the American West to the Northwest Frontier (Second Afghan War, not the first) to 'Tatarstan'. Once the Vietnamese people caught up, it was merely a matter of time before the foreigners and the hopelessly corrupt local elites were first confined to the cities and then ejected.
FWIW, I also believe that the US would actively support Vietnam, whether for reasons of reelpolitik or merely to expiate the guilt feelings of the Boomer Generation.

A sequel to CM:SF2 set in Africa might do the trick.....Just about everyone seems to have forces in Africa! 
As the eminently wise @LongLeftFlank has pointed out, while the PLA looks all shiny and exciting, it has absolutely zero relevant combat experience.....If I were China I might try something a bit more manageable than Taiwan for my first effort. 
Some scuffles with Al Shebab etc. might be just the ticket to season the troops.

'Bong-Hai' has a MOUT Map all of it's very own:

Wrong:



sPz.Jg.Abt. 653 used one as a command tank, along with a Panther with a Pz.IV turret (it's on the next rail car).....These two are very well known amongst modellers.
I've just done some checking and the 'Leningrad Tigers' were ALL initial production Henschell types:

"When the first production Tigers rolled out of the Henschel factory, they were sent to the training grounds at Fallingbostel to equip the 502nd Heavy Tank Battalion. Although their tanks were still unreliable, they were sent to reinforce the siege of Leningrad after only 3 days of practice. Immediately on arrival in Mga they were ordered to the front line.
    A total of 9 Tigers were sent to this battalion, filling out its 1st company, before events in Africa diverted new Tiger production to that theater. The 502nd fought in forests and swamps south of Leningrad and achieved only limited success. Technical problems with the tanks caused as much trouble as the terrain, and so the more reliable Tigers, notably "111", were given the best components.
    On 18 January 1943 a breakthrough by the Soviets cost 5 Tigers, including numbers "121" and "100" which were captured intact. Only 2 of the original 9 Tigers remained in February, when they were joined by 3 new ones.
    These first 9 Tigers had a unique appearance. They had no fenders or storage on the hull sides. Their mudguards at front and rear did not project beyond the hull side (these were also used in Tunisia). They were issued with "mirrored" tracks, i.e. the right and left tracks were different, unlike those of any other German tank; the crews disliked the inconvenience and eventually put just a single type on each Tiger."



This image allegedly shows the first Tigers arriving at Mga station:

PS - Typical Tiger oddities on display in these images.....The tank in the first image is still wearing its transport tracks, yet the Tigers appear to have been delivered with their combat tracks fitted, based on what we are seeing in the final image.

'Bong-Hai' has a MOUT Map all of it's very own:

I'm in the Midlands, so it's not my quarrel either. 
Not any more dude.....We're nearly mid November and I'm wearing sunglasses when I walk the dogs during the day! 
Global Warming FTW! 
 

Liked a bit of KLF in the past. 
As someone who is from 'up North' but has lived in the South West for a long while, I can neither agree nor disagree 😉.

LOL. When we were getting ready to move there, a British friend of ours who lives in Boston, on finding out where we were moving to, said, "Oooh, it's pretty grim up there in the winter. Actually it's pretty grim there all the time. Well, all of England is pretty grim in the winter. "    Of course, by New England standards, it was just fine. A little rainier than we were used to but as we were told, "there's no such thing as bad weather, just inappropriate clothing."
BBC Cumbria radio one morning, the weather guy gave the forecast for the day as I was driving to work, "Light overnight rain ending about dawn, winds will pick up, rain returning about 9am, winds will pick up from the west (off the Irish Sea), winds of 30-40mph, with occasional gusts up to 50mph. But it will be warm, so all in all not too bad a day."
He was Scottish  🤣
Dave

There. Brought that up to date for ya  
As to "immigration broke the NHS": that's utter fallacy. Immigration from the EU has been propping up our economy (and the NHS, or at least its associated social care sector) for years. And the disintegration of the sense of community over the past couple of decades can be pinned on the divisive rhetoric (aka blatant [emphatic expletive] lying) of the Tories, their Brexiteer friends and their pet attack dogs at the Daily Fail and other tabloid press.
 

Wrong:



sPz.Jg.Abt. 653 used one as a command tank, along with a Panther with a Pz.IV turret (it's on the next rail car).....These two are very well known amongst modellers.
I've just done some checking and the 'Leningrad Tigers' were ALL initial production Henschell types:

"When the first production Tigers rolled out of the Henschel factory, they were sent to the training grounds at Fallingbostel to equip the 502nd Heavy Tank Battalion. Although their tanks were still unreliable, they were sent to reinforce the siege of Leningrad after only 3 days of practice. Immediately on arrival in Mga they were ordered to the front line.
    A total of 9 Tigers were sent to this battalion, filling out its 1st company, before events in Africa diverted new Tiger production to that theater. The 502nd fought in forests and swamps south of Leningrad and achieved only limited success. Technical problems with the tanks caused as much trouble as the terrain, and so the more reliable Tigers, notably "111", were given the best components.
    On 18 January 1943 a breakthrough by the Soviets cost 5 Tigers, including numbers "121" and "100" which were captured intact. Only 2 of the original 9 Tigers remained in February, when they were joined by 3 new ones.
    These first 9 Tigers had a unique appearance. They had no fenders or storage on the hull sides. Their mudguards at front and rear did not project beyond the hull side (these were also used in Tunisia). They were issued with "mirrored" tracks, i.e. the right and left tracks were different, unlike those of any other German tank; the crews disliked the inconvenience and eventually put just a single type on each Tiger."



This image allegedly shows the first Tigers arriving at Mga station:

PS - Typical Tiger oddities on display in these images.....The tank in the first image is still wearing its transport tracks, yet the Tigers appear to have been delivered with their combat tracks fitted, based on what we are seeing in the final image.

Give "FINN Teppo's Sotka" a little spin if you desire...some stuff still needs done if SOMEBODY ELSE wants to mod the AFV crew uniforms. I modded the AFV crew headgear with a simple discount mod using @Frenchy56 M43 replacement of crusher cap and sidecaps. 
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4zu1imx4a8uur6t/AACqGDONf1vuVeXSGINqZtefa?dl=0

How would you handle infectious bites? 
Didn't he say that about CM:CW once upon a time? 
 

I will make a fully tagged set and ensure that I use the appropriate set in anything I make.....Can't tell you how impressed I am (I thought your earlier stuff was brilliant). 

How would you handle infectious bites? 
Didn't he say that about CM:CW once upon a time? 
 

Sure,  Stephane I was only present the Berlin cars for CMRT, I have already a bunch of others vehicles waiting to differents theaters, CMFI CMBN CMRT CMCW soon present you for CMCW !
I am working now only for the CMRT (sinon c est la catastrophe et le grand desordre dans les modules ) I loose already some because bad save of vehicles in wrong folder)  grrrrrr !
I show you the citroen that I did from couple of week before I starting exclusively for CMRT !
but all are statics vehicles from Favour objects, just saying ,you cannot "play" with them moving with your hand like when were child and make vroum vroum !!
Perhpas one day I or we can be able to import export in CM !
 

 
But in the game appear in this way so I let it fall for the time and do exclusivly for CMRT but after I will come back on it I like very much this kind of car almost ready from the partisans somewhere in, (rue Lauriston a Paris do you know ?),  pour essayer de deloger les Gestapars 😆!
 
Textures are not ready partisans as well, (l heure du glas n a pas encore sonne) !
Battle of Falaise encore tres tres loin !

 
But I will make an execption and present you the Gestapcitro, or minimum "a Citroen", "the maquis" keep an eyes everydays of the men in black !
 
a+
JM

I'm going to have to get my CM:BN install sorted.....These look absolutely amazing! 

ROFL! 
It was all going so well, but you just couldn't help yourself, could you? 

Shhhh.....Be careful or the Yanks will elect it! 

T'is an excellent place! 

Twice.....Really?