What's crazy, impractical and bigger than a Maus...

[Techno]

Oooooh.....Nasty !
Cheers - Phil

[sultanbev]

Leon, you do realise, now you've done this, you have to do the Russian ones as well?

http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?style=4&f=52&t=127848

Mark

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

NO please NO - lets  stick to REAL vehicles.



IanS

[fsn]

I did move into 10mm so that I could have some reasonable looking forces on the table.

Three Rattes, and a couple of Russian Land battleships and that's the table filled again!   

[Luddite]

I reckon my 10mm Sectrets of the Third Reich game is getting closer to happening.

Will the Ratte be going on sale Leon?

[Fenton]

If you went 6mm you could have aircraft taking off from it

[Leon]

Will the Ratte be going on sale Leon?

Yep, definitely, far too much time/money in it to leave it sitting around!  It's currently away being resin moulded, so we're hoping to have some stock of it arriving Jan/Feb time in theory.

[Hertsblue]

I reckon I'm relatively safe in north-west Burma in 1944. Try getting that Ratte thing up Mount Pulebadze - no chance! 

[Wulf]

I reckon I'm relatively safe in north-west Burma in 1944. Try getting that Ratte thing up Mount Pulebadze - no chance! 

They could paradrop it in.

Now... build the aircraft that drops it...

[Russell Phillips]

They could paradrop it in.

Now... build the aircraft that drops it...

When I visited Duxford in the 1990s, I saw a wooden wheel which was taller than me. It belonged to a bomber that the Germans were working on during WWI, intended to have enough endurance to bomb the US. Wikimedia Commons has a photo: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mannesmann_Poll_Wheel.jpg

[Hertsblue]

Still not impressed. If you read the accounts of the Allies paradropping supplies and how often they landed well wide of the mark you'll understand why. And the parachute would require the entire silk production for the year (or more). 

[marshall1945]

I'm all for a bit of 'crazy tank' but this one really is bonkers 

I do like doing the odd conversion for the things the Germans and Allies tried out or just got to the drawing board. This is a nice site to see what they look like:

http://henk.fox3000.com/index2.htm

about half way down the main page there is a section that gives variants (real and never saw the light of day) of the main vehicles. the section is headed -

Henk of Holland Model Summary:

With vehicle pictures from several countries. A summary in pictures, not in words. It's gives information what is available on the market and the variants.

[Russell Phillips]

There's an interesting discussion on the Wikipedia talk page for it, about whether or not the whole thing is a hoax:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Landkreuzer_P._1000_Ratte#Hoax_Discussion

I couldn't find mention of it in a quick search through Speer's memoirs, but that's hardly conclusive evidence :-)

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[Ithoriel]

Still not impressed. If you read the accounts of the Allies paradropping supplies and how often they landed well wide of the mark you'll understand why. And the parachute would require the entire silk production for the year (or more). 

Paradrop? Go the Russian route and fit it with wings and a tail

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_A-40

[Hertsblue]

There still remains the problem of how to get it up beyond stall-speed. Especially on unpaved airfields.