WW2-1979 Graphics Showcase

[GoPostal]

All US Divisions in WW2 and a few recent ones. 82nd Airborne and 101st are Fariline's

[curtsibling]

Great work!

[curtsibling]

Here is a mighty, but never built, mega-Panzer! - The Ratte!

From a new project underway...

[jim panse]

Very excellent stuff here, keep it up, both of you!

[Sarsstock]

Wow, the Mega Panzer. Curt that project you just mentioned wouldn't be Dictator 4 by any chance would it? Double barreled turrets seem to a popular feature in hypothetical tanks in Civ II. The thing is the only actual research I can remember reading about into multi-barrel turrets was done by the Soviets in the 1930's and they were dissapointed with the results.

Was there any other nation ever that thought multi-barrel turrets could work?

[Arthedain]

Curt: just beautiful! (if tanks can be that)

[fairline]

Originally posted by curtsibling
Here is a mighty, but never built, mega-Panzer! - The Ratte!

From a new project underway...

Blimey Charley! that would hurt if it got you with both barrels

Brilliant graphic C.

[Justinianum]

Red Front renovation

While I was playing Red Front 1.5 I was surprised to find no new graphics, so I've made a graphic renovation with Fairline's units. For the missing ones I've made a slight retouching to Nemo and Alex's original units, mainly using pieces from Fairline's units (you're the no. 1). Here's my restylings, compared to the original ones. The Scharnhorst is made nearly entirely from scratch.

[curtsibling]

Originally posted by Sarsstock
Wow, the Mega Panzer. Curt that project you just mentioned wouldn't be Dictator 4 by any chance would it? Double barreled turrets seem to a popular feature in hypothetical tanks in Civ II. The thing is the only actual research I can remember reading about into multi-barrel turrets was done by the Soviets in the 1930's and they were dissapointed with the results.

Was there any other nation ever that thought multi-barrel turrets could work?

This one is a special unit for Dictator ToT...

The Ratte was one those fanciful behemoth tanks envisioned by the Nazis to crush all armoured enemies.

The secret behind it's twin turret was the fact that this massive machine was the size of a building, and packed a naval BB turret!

It would have been powered by 4 U-boat engines and mostly likely been useless in battle, except as a mobile strongpoint...

But such firepower would have been dramatic...!

Imagine the terror of being a trooper faced with a steel house with tracks!

[curtsibling]

@Justinianum :

Damn fine work sir!

[Justinianum]

Red Front renovation part 2

Here's other units. And after........prepare for winter

[Sarsstock]

Great conversion job on the units Justinianum. I can't believe that monster of a machine was an actual design Curt!!

The problem with that bohemith that I envision is the fact that one brave solider armed with a bazooka could disable its tread and render the entire thing imobile. Then what would they do? Get four Tigers to tow her back to her depot for repairs? Still, its quite a frightning image indeed.

[Case]

Originally posted by Sarsstock
Was there any other nation ever that thought multi-barrel turrets could work?

In order to test wether the tank could take a 17 pounder gun, the Australian Army experimented with placing two 25 pounder guns on Sentinal tanks during WW2. However, this occured after the tanks had been withdrawn from service.

From: www.thunderandsteel.co.uk/sentinel.html
To test the turret ring which was increased in size to 70 inches and to see if it could withstand the pressure of a 17 pdr being fired a twin coaxial 25 pdr mount was added to the turret of the Sentinel prototype number E2 with the turret ring increaed to 64 inches. The firing of this combination together would give 20% greater recoil than the 17 pdr. This was done using a lanyard from a safe distance. There was no adverse affect to the vehicle from the firing of this combination. The designation of this vehicle is said to be AC IV. A sowage capacity of 50-60 rounds was recommended.

[Case]

...and of course there is the weirdest AFV ever deployed by the US: the M50A1 Ontos, which mounted no less then six 106mm recoilless rifles.

[typhoon]

Scared the hell out of the Vietcong I recall.