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WWI RENAULT FT18 - 8/21/2006 9:57:45 PM   
Templars83



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Status: offline 		I wouln't mind an older WWI tank model just to be different. I had a mark V static once upon a time.

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RE: WWI RENAULT FT18 - 8/21/2006 11:41:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		Man, these are really great pics... thanks.

Remember an old Laurel and Hardy film where they were fighting in the trenches and somehow got ahold of a tank? I think it was one of these French Renaults. One of them was stuck in a hatch and accidently captured gobs of Germans with a bunch of barbed wire.

I think an older tank would be fun. I'm not sure how effective they were relative to traction, etc. but it would be fun to build one.

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RE: WWI RENAULT FT18 - 8/22/2006 4:14:59 PM   
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Status: offline 		I wonder if that is the American version of the F-17? US did make their own version from the Renault around WWI.


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RE: WWI RENAULT FT18 - 8/22/2006 8:21:43 PM   
Templars83



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Status: offline 		Looking at the first picture, which I'm afraid I was too rushed to read concerning this particular tank, it would suggest it was made in France - somehow ended up in Afganistan and then on to Kentucky. I will find out for you the next time I visit.

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RE: WWI RENAULT FT18 - 8/22/2006 8:50:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		WOW! I actually remember the article that 2 of these were found in Afganistan and were slated for museum in the US! Must be one of those I read about a few months ago:

http://www.cmvmag.co.uk/cgi-bin/news.cgi?article=040601

Thanks for showing those pics.


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RE: WWI RENAULT FT18 - 8/22/2006 9:52:36 PM   
Templars83



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Status: offline 		This is why I still come to this forum - good work man. Really interesting and I'm quite sure this is one of them. I may have pictures of the other one as well - I took over 100. Thanks again

For some reason I seem to remember reading another description of this one - it may be a 17 even - or it may be the other one they spoke of.

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RE: WWI RENAULT FT18 - 8/22/2006 11:03:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		The tank museum in Danville Va. has one too:


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RE: WWI RENAULT FT18 - 8/23/2006 1:01:07 AM   
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Status: offline 		Can you imagine fighting in that thing? Bumpy to say the least.

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