patches Posted October 11, 2021 Share #1 Posted October 11, 2021 There are a few over the years right, here's one, perhaps one of the earliest. It's from the 1959 Soviet film Ballad of Soldier. A Mock up of a Tiger I on a Soviet T-34 Tank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 11, 2021 Author Share #2 Posted October 11, 2021 Anyone who is familiar with this movie, knows its a story of a young Red Army Soldier who stands his ground and destroys a German Tank, and as a reward gets a leave, and story follows him on his leave, and the trouble he has of getting home and the people he meets along the way. He knocks out two Tiger with an Anti Tank Rifle, yeah he fires one shot into the front bottom of it as its heading straight for him,, unlikely a 14.5×114mm would of penetrated the 100mm Frontal Armor of a Tiger I, maybe it could penetrate the bottom??? but the second one, suppsbly hits in the side hull. And way here some still of him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 11, 2021 Author Share #3 Posted October 11, 2021 Hey and the scene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 11, 2021 Author Share #4 Posted October 11, 2021 Post any mock ups of WWII German AFVs as you think of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earlymb Posted October 11, 2021 Share #5 Posted October 11, 2021 Dutch army Leopard I used as a 'Panther' in A Bridge too Far: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earlymb Posted October 11, 2021 Share #6 Posted October 11, 2021 T34 as a 'Tiger' in Kelly's Heroes... 'Maybe he's Republican' 🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proud Kraut Posted October 11, 2021 Share #7 Posted October 11, 2021 Not that bad, both Tiger tanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 12, 2021 Author Share #8 Posted October 12, 2021 Speaking of A Bridge Too Far, there where a quite a few Mock Up AFV used in the 9th SS Reconnaissance Battalion's attack over the bridge, one made up we should think to look like a Marder Tank Hunter vehicle and other made up to look like the 4 Wheel and 8 Wheel Armored Cars. Though I have no idea on what real vehicles these mock up where made off of. Found a load of images of these vehicles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 12, 2021 Author Share #9 Posted October 12, 2021 Second batch This is the coolest, a Metal Mesh Screen Mock up as seen on the turrets of original Sd.Kfz. 222 Armored Cars, but as we see, totally mis designed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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patches Posted October 12, 2021 Author Share #11 Posted October 12, 2021 I think there was at least one original Sd.Kfz 6, 7 Sd.Kfz. 8 Prime Mover Half Track type vehicle in the sequence. You one of these types. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 12, 2021 Author Share #12 Posted October 12, 2021 19 hours ago, earlymb said: Dutch army Leopard I used as a 'Panther' in A Bridge too Far: I always thought these were supposed to be Tiger Royals of what I know now was the Army's 506th Heavy Panzer Battalion . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 12, 2021 Author Share #13 Posted October 12, 2021 Was there an original Sd.Kfz 251 Half Track we see, or was that a mock up too? The Kubelwagen, looks original or a more contemporary (1970s) made one at least. Like this one from 1975. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proud Kraut Posted October 12, 2021 Share #14 Posted October 12, 2021 Very nice, patches! VW 181 (new Kuebel) was my first thought too. The chassis of the mock-up Marder seems to be a Hotchkiss Type 42-1 "Cargo" with 4 road wheels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 13, 2021 Author Share #15 Posted October 13, 2021 10 hours ago, Proud Kraut said: Very nice, patches! VW 181 (new Kuebel) was my first thought too. The chassis of the mock-up Marder seems to be a Hotchkiss Type 42-1 "Cargo" with 4 road wheels. Here's a few views of the Hotchkiss for reference sake. No doubt they did an extesive reworking of it to look like a Marder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 13, 2021 Author Share #16 Posted October 13, 2021 Found more from your more unfamiliar modern films. Battle of Moscow a Soviet one from 1985, Mark IV G, but the Mark IV G was not out yet in late 1941, nor was for that matter the earlier Mark IV F2, the first to have the long barreled 75mm gun on it The insignia on the tank is for what I can tell, the one for the 29th Infantry Division (Motorized) the Falcon right, but it as you all know would not be applied in the place it is in the center of the front hull. Die Falke Division, insignia carried over to when this division was reraised in France in 1943 as a Panzer Grenadier Division after it was destroyed at Stalingrad and ultimately fighting in Italy for the rest of the War. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 13, 2021 Author Share #17 Posted October 13, 2021 3 hours ago, patches said: Found more from your more unfamiliar modern films. Battle of Moscow a Soviet one from 1985, Mark IV G, but the Mark IV G was not out yet in late 1941, nor was the Mark IV F2 The insignia on the tank is for what I can tell, the one for the 29th Infantry Division (Motorized) the Falcon right, but it as you all know would not be applied in the place it is in the center of the front hull. Die Falke Division, insignia carried over to when this division was reraised in France in 1943 as a Panzer Greadier Division after it was destroyed at Stalingrad and ultimately fighting in Italy for the rest of the War. Die Falke Division Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 13, 2021 Author Share #18 Posted October 13, 2021 And this one, yet another Mock Tiger, this is from a 2013 Russian one Stalingrad, again errors, as no Tiger Battalions and or Independent Companies or Detachment/Platoon were ever there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 13, 2021 Author Share #19 Posted October 13, 2021 And lastly the Tiger I from FURY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 13, 2021 Author Share #20 Posted October 13, 2021 And a real Mock Up, that was used in Action, In Action by the Germans The Fake U.S. M10 Tank Destroyer, made off the early model Panther, the Panther D. Here's and excellent site on it, a Wargamer Site. https://www.warlordgames.com/history-ersatz-panther-m10/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proud Kraut Posted October 14, 2021 Share #21 Posted October 14, 2021 Some more great pictures. The Ersatz M10 is an excellent kit. I built one about 5 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 17, 2021 Author Share #22 Posted October 17, 2021 One of the Mock up Tiger I's from Saving Private Ryan, Tom Hanks going out in the Blaze of Glory firing his 45 at it. Note what looks like a wood or cardboard panel with the vision port drawn/painted on the front hull. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 17, 2021 Author Share #23 Posted October 17, 2021 In the above topic I said "One of the Mock up Tiger I's" Because there seem to one more, this one, see how it does have a real mock Vision Port on the front, not like the one with Tom Hanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 17, 2021 Author Share #24 Posted October 17, 2021 A Swedish Stormartillerivagn m/43 used as a Marder, in Saving Private Ryan, but it gets points cause it's chassis is like the Czech ones used in WWII by the Germans with so many of their AFV to include the Marder III series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stridsvagn_m/41 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted November 15, 2021 Author Share #25 Posted November 15, 2021 Remembered this one, a Mock Up of a Armored Car of sorts from The Dirty Dozen, it arrives as you remember when the mission gets in full swing and reinforcements are called for by the Germans, it is based on a Daimler Scout Car it says. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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