karma99

In the movie U571... no, don't even get me started!

pattoncommander

Be nice if Hollywood had Pz III, IV, Panthers and Tigers,,,,they only have a very meager stock of old Shermans and a ton of half tracks they like to use for German stuff...although there lots of Czech OT's available that were made into the early 70's on the 251 1/2 track design. Nice panzers are in museums but they aren't going to let Hollywood beat them up in a movie. Patton and Battle of the Bulge had to use "Hollywood Mickey Mouse" and pose M-47s and M-48's as Tigers. The M-41 and 48 were introduced in 1953-54, nearly a decade after the war ended. . They also used M-44's to resemble M-7 Priests, which came out with the M-41. From what I recall, the M-41's were used to represent WW II US tanks although they did burn a couple early Shermans and an M-24. What you see from Hollywood has to be taken with a BIG grain of salt, as they could care less about reality and have to do with what they have. Exceptions are movies like Saving Private Ryan. European film makers go all out and use Tigers made in Jugoslavia from Russian T-54 chassis and built up with fiberglass. They look super real until you check the suspension, track width and 3/4 size of the mock Tiger.

Bill

swathdiver

Well Benny Boy that would make the M41 a movie actor, not a combat veteran!

uhu

Hi guys
Almost all the scenes corresponding to Tunisia in the film Patton were shot in Spain.
From Wikipedia:
"Ironically, however, many of the tanks on both sides in the film were the M-47 and M-48 models of the Patton tank series of the 1950s, which were post World War II developments of the M-26, as they were the models used by the Spanish Army which assisted in the production of the film. There were few actual Word War II vintage tanks seen in the film except in archival newsreel footage."

Regards

martin g

terminology; tank gun barrel = gun tube

Maybe In the US...us Brits usually just call that a barrel

martin g

Was that gorrilla in king Kong real then??? bloody big isnt he

Benny Boy

ok i will get some pics for yas

schutzstaffel

benny ,
having problem choosing between the beauty and the ugly ?!!

go bull dog

fv432

shes on her way as we speak went for the bulldog
(wish that postie would hurry up)
is it here yet
is it here yet
is it here yet

pattoncommander

Hey Swathdriver....measured the M-41 Gun tube and it's 115 inches to the front end of the bore evacuator wiith a 13 inch muzzle brake.....10'6" overall length. Also, some M-41s had the little joe muffler routed up front next to the pioneer rack on the right front fender, including the M-41A1 at Ft Jackson Museum. If you want to re-do the gun, you can compute the 1;16 length and maybe trim down the width to 76mm instead of the thick 90mm looking gun HL put on it.


Bill

swathdiver

Thank you very much Bill! I have a Tiger and Pershing to finish first then I'll tackle the Walker. I think what I'll do is not use the external HL barrel when I upgrade the gun with a brass barrel. I'll leave that exposed and fabricate a new muzzle brake and bore evacuator.

From what I was reading the A3 tanks were upgrades of the earlier ones to diesel power. So what details might ours be lacking is they were previously A2s or earlier models?

Thanks again for all your help!