| optional field | 07 Jun 2017 8:13 a.m. PST |
I know the multi-turret landship concept had some advocates during the interwar period. I'm also aware that the Soviets built a handful of such types such as the T-35 and the Germans built prototypes. I have no idea how much of the information in this image is factual or alt-history fiction, but this has got to be the weirdest implementation of the concept I have seen.
The illustration is brilliant. It looks like it could have come from an Osprey title, but the design itself is beyond ridiculous. Does anyone know if this is based on anything from the time or if it is only speculative alternative history? |
 ColCampbell  | 07 Jun 2017 8:28 a.m. PST |
Results from a Google search: link link link Evidently this was originally done as an April Fool's joke. Jim |
| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 07 Jun 2017 8:41 a.m. PST |
It's up there with this:
But someone should definitely make these. |
| Murvihill | 07 Jun 2017 9:20 a.m. PST |
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| brass1 | 07 Jun 2017 9:40 a.m. PST |
The KV-VI is a model made in 1995 by Brian Fowler for a science-fiction model competition. link LT |
| Zamboni | 07 Jun 2017 9:44 a.m. PST |
Always room for more guns…
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| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 07 Jun 2017 9:58 a.m. PST |
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 20thmaine | 07 Jun 2017 10:44 a.m. PST |
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| 20thmaine | 07 Jun 2017 10:45 a.m. PST |
I also like the OP – it's sort of a low tech OGRE. |
| JimDuncanUK | 07 Jun 2017 11:06 a.m. PST |
Bet you the maintenance and repair manual is huge too! |
| Woolshed Wargamer | 07 Jun 2017 12:10 p.m. PST |
That photo above of the 5+ barrelled KV is all the photographic proof I need to field ten of them in my FoW Russian tank force. |
| wargamer6 | 07 Jun 2017 12:28 p.m. PST |
Vertical integration should go some way towards relieving the car park effect. |
| deephorse | 07 Jun 2017 1:51 p.m. PST |
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| Simo Hayha | 07 Jun 2017 2:57 p.m. PST |
i always thought the tsar tank was the weirdest. link also the germans did produce 5 of these Neubaufahrzeug link |
| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 07 Jun 2017 5:10 p.m. PST |
Of course, the Tsar tank did exist--briefly:
Someone made a kit:
Cool fake pic:
And a battle painting:
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| 7dot62mm | 08 Jun 2017 4:40 a.m. PST |
The clutch-brake steering system of the KV would have made it just about impossible to get the KV-VI to turn at all :) Most of the time it would just have plowed straight ahead… |
| optional field | 08 Jun 2017 10:38 a.m. PST |
@7dot62mm I imagine steering isn't the biggest problem. Imagine cresting a slight hill in this thing. If the hull doesn't snap in two the teeter-tottering will knock the driver unconscious! |
first saw these figures, he was dreading painting them...
