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Old 02-27-2007 | 10:44 AM
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Hi All...This might be the wrong SPOT or Place to post this here but not sure where this would belong !!
well here go's somewhere on the net or maybe somewhere else, I have seen some pictures of a mutant or hybrid tank crossed with an rc monster truck upper half ?? or beetle ?? and it looked really mean and it's just something quite differen't you could do with the henglong tanks
anybody know of this as I would give it a go to be differen't ,
anyone seen any pics of anything like this
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Old 02-27-2007 | 10:57 AM
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Be interesting. Something that could be done with one of the Wallmart Panzer IVs and a '57 Chevy top.
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Old 02-27-2007 | 11:01 AM
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Hi Bill ,,yes it could very interesting !! what name would you call this animal ,,how about a corvette or a ferrari ?? this could be a new trend here hmm
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any pickies anybody ??
Old 02-27-2007 | 11:59 AM
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How 'bout Chevy Tracker?
Old 02-27-2007 | 12:25 PM
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HI...A chevy tracker why not !! any idea where I could get the top of a chevy from
to suite this scale ??
Old 02-27-2007 | 02:14 PM
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seek and ye shall find, plenty of large scale toys around....you may have instigated a way to use up old parts laying around. Heres something I did to clean up my parts pile. Anyone care to ID the tank parts, incl crew??
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Old 02-27-2007 | 02:40 PM
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Bulldog turrent, Panther Tank
Old 02-27-2007 | 03:39 PM
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Nice crossbow, explosive warhead?
Panther hull, Tiger hatches, Bullldog turret, sprockets and idlers froma Bulldog?, Panther road wheels, silencers of a M-60?, hull gun of an Abrams maybe?
Chevron of a Me-109
Nice "Frankestank" Bill
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Lots of close IDs....Panther hull, M-60A1 turret (without an N), Panther gun, KT suspension, M-60A3 track, back deck from M-47 and Panther, exhaust mufflers from Matilda and M-41, Lower hull hatches panther/late Tiger, hull cannon cut down M-60, with M-48A2 mantlet, TC Cupola M-60A3 with 3 cal 50's, turret rear from Jagtiger, R2D2 AA device on turret rear (idea from Challenger II) from M-47 turret vent with M-41 headlight on top with 2 eyeballs and armed with a cal 50 MG. Driver British, Bow gunner US, loader with nuclear cossbow (10KT, range 800 meters) German with Russian rank, TC AWOL. Powered by 16 1944 VW engines, fueled by Schnapps. Truly a tank to be feared....Iran watch out! What's life without a sense of humor?

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...........fueled by Schnapps. Truly a tank to be feared....Iran watch out! What's life without a sense of humor?
Bill
You're inhuman! Muslims can't even smell Schnapps....
Old 02-28-2007 | 08:33 AM
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OK, as an alternate fuel, lets try distilled goats milk strained thru a burda.
Old 03-01-2007 | 05:00 AM
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HI..What'a Burder never heard of it
Please explain !!
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Old 03-02-2007 | 01:28 PM
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A burda is the full length potato sack the women have to wear over there to cover themselves. All that shows is thier eyes.
Can't immagine how they cope with heat.
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