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Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
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#451: Jan 10th 2015 at 4:37:15 AM

Let's try a few:

Exterior:

  1. Panzer II Ausf. L "Luchs"
  2. Renault R35!
  3. Borgward IV, remote-controlled demolition vehicle

Detail

Hard II: Marder I hull, based on a French FCM-36.

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#452: Jan 10th 2015 at 5:15:07 AM

  • Exterior Medium II: Object 292
  • Exterior Hard II: Semovente 47/32 (or is that actually a Polish/Hungarian/Czech tankette? LOL)
  • Detail Easy II: A Sherman variant? LOL
  • Detail Medium II: T-54/55
  • Interior Easy I: T-34
  • Interior Medium I: T-90
  • Interior Medium II: Tiger II

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#453: Jan 10th 2015 at 5:16:06 AM

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1. Nope! This is a Luchs. Notice the unbroken trackguard, differently shaped turret and vision ports, and slightly different running gear.

2. Yup - a Renault R35, known as the Panzerkampfwagen 35R 731 (f) in German service. Not sure where this picture was taken, but likely far behind the front - the captured French infantry tanks made for adequate security vehicles.

3. Correct - the Schwerer Ladungsträger Borgward B IV heavy remote-controlled explosive vehicle. Not considered a great success.

Right about the base vehicle, but wrong about the vehicle on that last one.

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Correct about the Object 292. Want more specifics on the T-34 and the Sherman. Wrong about all the others.

edited 10th Jan '15 5:18:12 AM by Achaemenid

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MajorTom Since: Dec, 2009
#454: Jan 10th 2015 at 6:32:01 AM

Number 1 is a Panzerkampfwagen II Ausf C. Initial mass production model prior to up-armoring for use in France.

MajorTom Since: Dec, 2009
#455: Jan 10th 2015 at 6:36:44 AM

This tank is a Type 59. Chinese knockoff of the T-54/55. (More in common with T-54.)

tryrar Since: Sep, 2010
#456: Jan 10th 2015 at 6:39:49 AM

Easy 1 is a panzer 2, but a J model rather than a Luchs

lazarus238 Since: Nov, 2010
#457: Jan 10th 2015 at 6:43:16 AM

Exterior: 1 is the German Panzer II Ausf. J (Pz.Kpfw. IIJ).

5 is the Soviet IRM Tracked Armoured Engineer Reconnaissance Vehicle which is based on the BMP-1 Chassis.

6 is the Italian L3/33 Tankette, it was also called Carro Veloce CV-33.

Detail shots:

1 is an exhaust port from a T-34.

2 is the HVSS system from a M 4 A 3(105) HVSS Sherman.

4 is the back right of a T-62M.

6 is the side of a Marder I.

Interior shots:

1 is the driver's seat of a T-34.

2 is a the breach of the Tiger I's 8.8 cm Kw K 36 cannon.

3 is the targeting computer of a Chinese Type 90 IIM, which served as the base for the Pakistan MBT-2000 Al-Khalid.

4 is the massive 380 mm Raketen-Werfer 61 L/5.4 and its ammunition racks in the Sturmtiger assault gun.

5 is the interior and main gun of a WWI French Saint-Chamond.

6 is the Maus's secondary 7.5 cm Kw K 37 gun and ammunition racks.

Still working on Detail 3 and 5 checking my reference books now.

edited 10th Jan '15 6:45:54 AM by lazarus238

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#458: Jan 10th 2015 at 6:54:55 AM

@Tom

Wrong on both counts, I'm afraid.

@Lazarus

Well identified! All correct except 3 and 6 - at least if my source is right. I would like some more info for the CV/33 though - it's a rather special variant!

edited 10th Jan '15 6:55:17 AM by Achaemenid

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MajorTom Since: Dec, 2009
#459: Jan 10th 2015 at 6:59:38 AM

"Wrong on both counts, I'm afraid. "

Curse you fine minutiae!!!

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#460: Jan 10th 2015 at 7:00:31 AM

Running gear never lies. tongue

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#461: Jan 10th 2015 at 10:12:30 AM

Thanks to Sabre for reminding me this tech existed.

Cased Telescopic 40mm Ammunition system If the claims are to be believed it has 140mm RHA penetration. Pretty good for a non-tank vehicle.

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#462: Jan 10th 2015 at 1:28:41 PM

Any more guesses for the AFV recognition challenge? There are still a few unguessed. smile

Currently "enjoying" Sparky's Failed Tanks series on YT. A disappointing lack of craziness, because he cribs it from Wiki. Still some silly choices though.

edited 10th Jan '15 1:29:45 PM by Achaemenid

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#463: Jan 10th 2015 at 1:36:35 PM

Those interleaved road wheels on number one, hmmm. That should at least tell us what chassis it's built on; according to Wiki the earlier Panzer models lacked that feature. (With the exception of the Pz-II Luchs, but that's been ruled out already.)

EDIT: VK 901, I think. That sure looks like a Pz-II chassis.

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Achaemenid HGW XX/7 from Ruschestraße 103, Haus 1 Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Giving love a bad name
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#464: Jan 10th 2015 at 1:39:42 PM

Been identified already, sorry - it's a Pz II ausf J.

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Morven Nemesis from Seattle, WA, USA Since: Jan, 2001
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#465: Jan 10th 2015 at 7:39:26 PM

Hard 2 in the Detail section is one of the rare Marder Is built on the French FCM 36 chassis with the 75mm Pa K 40 gun. It was obviously German and the profile fit a SPG, so I went searching for rarer German SP Gs. Seems that they only had ten of these.

Pictures near the middle of here.

edited 10th Jan '15 7:40:16 PM by Morven

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#466: Jan 11th 2015 at 10:13:18 AM

It's actually the 10.5cm artillery piece, but it occurs to me that you wouldn't be able to tell that from the picture I posted. So everyone who guessed Marder on a French tank wins.

Just three to go now:

Detail: Hard I Clue: An old old relic in a very modern setting.

Detail: Medium I Clue: Should have been flat-pack.

Interior: Medium I. Clue: Strasbourg, via Tunisia, and Paris.

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#467: Jan 11th 2015 at 10:25:30 AM

Detail: Medium I: I'm gonna guess STRV 105, based on the clue alone. At the very least, I think it's Swedish.

Detail: Medium II: Leclerc?

Morven Nemesis from Seattle, WA, USA Since: Jan, 2001
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#468: Jan 11th 2015 at 11:04:37 AM

I think the above is correct, the last is the gunner's station on the Leclerc. Seems pretty similar to the interior shots I could find.

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#469: Jan 11th 2015 at 11:11:47 AM

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Those look like Centurion tracks to you? tongue

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Yep - I think it's actually the commander's hole, though.

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Morven Nemesis from Seattle, WA, USA Since: Jan, 2001
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#470: Jan 11th 2015 at 11:13:45 AM

I'm stumped on the hard detail shot though. Looks like it could be a smoke canister launcher but doesn't match any I can find.

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#471: Jan 11th 2015 at 11:36:13 PM

The markings for Hard I may tell us something. I can't quite tell what it is: it doesn't resemble most smoke-launcher arrangements I'm familiar with. Also, that looks a little like a vision port behind it.

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#472: Jan 12th 2015 at 12:13:15 AM

Well, I did try Googling the text and got nothing.

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#473: Jan 12th 2015 at 12:15:51 AM

I wonder if it's some kind of rangefinding device or stereoscopic optics?

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#474: Jan 12th 2015 at 12:33:22 AM

I'm generally not familiar with what optical rangefinders look like from the outside, but I do know the optical rangefinders for earlier-mark Patton tanks were installed on the turret sides. The longer of a baseline you have between the two optics, the more accurately you can range; given that, it'd seem a little unusual for it to be a rangefinder...

Achaemenid did say it was very, very old, so I'm halfway wondering if that's not actually a mounting for machine guns or the stub 37mm cannon or something.

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#475: Jan 12th 2015 at 12:40:18 AM

I was thinking some form of secondary cannon as well honestly.


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