[DirtyACE]

Originally Posted by Copland

The videos were great! Thanks for listing them.

Glad you enjoyed them! I've found more documentaries if anyone is interested.

chascbv, thanks for clarifying about the panther. I believe after his return to duty, Bix was given command of a jagdpanther. I don't think he ever returned to his former unit (Pz.Rgt 35).

[chascbv]

Originally Posted by DirtyACE

Glad you enjoyed them! I've found more documentaries if anyone is interested.

chascbv, thanks for clarifying about the panther. I believe after his return to duty, Bix was given command of a jagdpanther. I don't think he ever returned to his former unit (Pz.Rgt 35).

Information is not clear about this particular point (at least for me!), but it seems that Bix was given a Jagdpanther when PzRgt 35 was transferred to West Prussia in January 1945. He did return to his former unit, where he stayed until the war was over.

Regarding documentaries I believe we are ALL interested; the ones you posted before were just great!

[DirtyACE]

Here's another documentary. This is one is about the Tiger and its variants. It even has some comments by Otto Carius. Enjoy!

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWCveR-bT8o

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh3xaM6f33A

Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FpEXKJRRwQ

Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2XZCJUfeb0

Part 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d9Y4tzp7go

[chascbv]

Again, thanks a lot for the excellent links, DirtyACE! Awsome documentaries, indeed!

[DirtyACE]

Originally Posted by chascbv

Again, thanks a lot for the excellent links, DirtyACE! Awsome documentaries, indeed!

You are very welcome! Hope you don't think that I'm trying to hijack your thread I'll post more documentaries as I find them. With your permission of course, since it's your thread.

[chascbv]

Originally Posted by DirtyACE

You are very welcome! Hope you don't think that I'm trying to hijack your thread I'll post more documentaries as I find them. With your permission of course, since it's your thread.

I never thought of this thread as "my thread". I just felt it was a thread for us all, armour buffs, collectors, and akin species.

As I noticed that the "reviewing" approach was not predominant in the forum (and I definitely am a bit of a fusspot in love with the genre, I'm afraid ) I just decided to open up this thread (and a parallel one under the Hobby Master heading) so that readers looking for reviews and reviewers alike might have an easily recognizable meeting point. So, please DirtyACE, I insist that you post your links here - if you so wish - and let's make it OUR thread!

[chascbv]

Dragon would have us believe this is a new model, but this same tank has been previously released - in fact, to make things even worse, as a special edition by Cyber Hobby! Nothing is wrong with the model - a very good T-34 obr. 1941 in fact - but something must surely be wrong with the manufacturer! What do you think of this sort of stuff?

The model represents a vehicle in 116th tank brigade, which fought at the Storozhevoy bridgehead across river Don during the summer of 1942. These were the initial stages in the fateful, bloody battle for Stalingrad, and the fighting was fierce in September, when our tank fired in anger to keep the bridgehead open, and ultimately advance to close the deadly pincer around the city that would not surrender, thus encircling a whole German army.

The real tank was photographed in March 1942 while on manoeuvres, and the version is roughly consistent with Dragon's model. One visible difference, though, is that the real tank had only one periscope on the turret top, while the model has two. The slogan reads "Lazo" after Sergey Lazo (stressed on the last syllable, if you care for that sort of thing), a communist leader during the Russian civil war. Even though he had been born in today's Moldova he became famous for his activities in the Siberian Far East, particularly around Vladivostok. In 1920 Lazo and a few other Red Army commanders were arrested by Japanese troops, and they all disappeared. Nobody knows for certain what ever became of them.

Well, a second chance to have a very good T-34 if you like the scheme and missed the special collector's edition by Cyber Hobby!!!

[Berkut76]

Originally Posted by chascbv

In 1920 Lazo and a few other Red Army commanders were arrested by Japanese troops, and they all disappeared. Nobody knows for certain what ever became of them.

Technically, he wasn't Red Army, but rather a leader of Communist Partizan movement in the Soviet Far East. The legend would have it that either he was burnt alive by Japanase in locomotive furnace, or chopped up to pieces and then burnt in a locomotive furnace. Given the Imperial Japanese troops penchant for violence and torture in their most basic and vile forms neither story would surprise me a lot if proven true.

Regards,

Sergey

[chascbv]

Originally Posted by Berkut76

Technically, he wasn't Red Army, but rather a leader of Communist Partizan movement in the Soviet Far East. The legend would have it that either he was burnt alive by Japanase in locomotive furnace, or chopped up to pieces and then burnt in a locomotive furnace. Given the Imperial Japanese troops penchant for violence and torture in their most basic and vile forms neither story would surprise me a lot if proven true.

Regards,

Sergey

Thank you very much, Sergey. I stand corrected!

I had read that story on Lazo's alleged end, but got the impression that many sources deem it communist propaganda. Unfortunately, I would not be surprised either if that brutal event eventually turned out to be true.

[chascbv]

Also in The Flying Mule now is this "definitive" model of an early Tiger II - please, a real loud WOOOOW and a deafening big hand must go to this stunning masterpiece. I really can't find fault with this one, and I don't really care if it's metal, plastic, or plywood - it has the mandatory zimmerit coat for this version, all the appropriate tools, cables, and hangers, hollow exhausts, perfect detailing throughout, and this time the lack of track-link hangers on the turret IS correct!! I don't know about you, but I really have to order this one for my shelves - it's simply a must-have!

Expensive? - Well, yes, but it's worth every cent!!

The model represents almost the same tank that HM released in 1/48 a few days ago - one of the Koenigstigers that fought during the Nomandy campaign with sPzAbt 503.

Now, if you'll excuse me... Got to get me one of these on the double!