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Ummm let's try this again... http://www.forcesofvalor.com/

Interesting story. I know before the 1991 Gulf War the Bradley got a lot of bad press, as did the Abrams. Of course after the 1991 Gulf War that all changed. The WW2 GI had a reputation for innovation...sounds like your crew carried on the tradition. Sherman crews would add improvised armor on their tanks. Don't know how effective it really was. I don't know or have seen the same practice done by the British or CW forces. In any case it sure must have sucked in WW2 fighting with a tank that was widely viewed as inferior.

Here you go... http://vsallaccess.victoriassecret.com/supermodels/

I managed to find a T34/76 in 1/32 for sale so i was able to get it. Not sure what it will be like as it from an unknown source, but being how hard it is to find a early model T-34 I'll take the risk. I have other stuff, but I don't want to take them out of the box as it may affect the value. The Panzer III with a long 50mm gun was not easy to find. The-T-34 pictured above was a WTF was I thinking item. A few years ago when I recently got it, a friend and me were having some beers when I came up with the bright idea of "lets see what my brand new .177 pellet gun that shoots pellets at 1000 fps will do to the T34. The next morning I wondered if I would regret it. Sure enough I saw the same one put up for bid recently and when I saw what was paid for it I said to myself "WTF was I thinking?" Fortunately I have a similar one in green still in the box. You can be sure I won't be tank plinking anymore...

agreed. another factor is the Shermans had to be shipped from the US to the ETO. Is one thing to transport a Sherman on liberty ships or LST and a completely different proposition to ship a 52 ton Tiger across the Atlantic. I'm not even sure if the beaches on Normandy would accommodate a Tiger. The one thing that could have been done was to outfit more with 17 pounders, but the Not Invented in America (NIH-not invented here) mentality took hold, which was too bad because that really could have been a game changer. After WW2 the Israelis used upgraded Shermans to very good effect.

I kinda figure you meant plastic models. It been 40 or so years since I built one. I know Tamiya makes some good kits. I used to love building them back in the day before the internet and computers were available to the masses. Regarding the Sherman vs Tiger. I watched a you tube video where they compared the 2 and while the Tiger was rated far superior in protection and firepower the Sherman was far better in mobility, reliability and ability to be massed produced so it was declared the overall better tank. Yet when all of the British and German tankers who fought Western Europe were asked which tank they would have wanted to fight in they all said the Tiger.

If any of you have the following in 1/32 or 1/35 scale please let me know. I collect tanks-unfortunately not real ones! T-34/76 SU-85 SU-122 SU-152 Panzer II Sherman 76 M-36 Jackson

Really Serious...

Now the Germans are getting serious...

Did someone say the the little Czech tank still makes a comeback?

Very true....unfortunately I don't think I'll ever find a die cast T26 in the same scale as these More to follow...the good stuff..

This is a little more even..

38 special snubnose vs 9mm Glock...better get close

Cap gun gun vs 9mm

Next to a KV1. Not a good match up if you're a German...

Panzer III and T34

Next to the KV1 its almost like a toy... The only real effective weapon early on against the KV1 was this...

Comparison of tanks on Eastern Front. The German Army was shocked to discover the supposedly inferior Russians were quite capable of producing superior tanks. Historians have written the real arms race was on the Eastern Front... Imagine being a German tanker in this facing a T-34 for the first time-technically this is a T-34/85, not the 76mm version the Germans first encountered. Unfortunately dies cast T-34 in 1/32/35 scale is next to impossible to find...

Just for fun let's see how the WW2 stuff compares to some modern stuff.

and finally how the Pershing stacks up to the King Tiger.