[MoMo]

This is all the intel that I've been able to pick up on this one:

Looks good! I'll have half a dozen.

At about $700 each, it's an investment! I like the crew members posing for a photograph. Be careful with the crow's foot antenna!

UN85504 - 1/16 Extreme Metal Series 3 (Due October 2007) Michael Wittmann - "Final Battle" Special Limited Edition

Michael Wittmann

Fourth release of the Forces of Valor Extreme Metal 1/16 series is the Tiger 1 "Michael Wittmann Final Battle" Limited Edition of just 2000 pieces Worldwide. Each limited edition Tiger comes with its own unique "Certificate of Production" together with a boxed Michael Wittman figure. Also included are the four crewmen. Each is unique with different pose and facial expression. The engine is included in its own display box, there are also 2 full colour brochures detailing the history of the Tiger 1 at War and also the story of Michael Wittmann, the most successful tank commander of World War II.

1/16 German Tiger 1 Sd. Kfz. 181

Die-cast metal turret that turns and is removable Die-cast tracks roll on working suspension! Die-cast barrel can be raised and lowered. Die-cast weathered tank body! Hatches open to expose interior and engine Removable machine gun and repair tracks! Tow Lines, axes and hammers are removable! Detailed removable engine! Die-cast rounds for the gun that are removable Supplied with 2 reference / collectors Booklets Michael Wittmann Panzer Commander and 4 crewmen all included.

[hworth18]

Very nice piece, although I see FOV is embellishing history a little.... The famous pic of Wittmann wasn't taken on "007" as this tank was borrowed and wasn't his normal vehicle although it was the one he died in..

[tank nut]

Cool tank! Hey momo if you are going to have a half dozen and you don't have room for all of them ship me one to canada care of dave the tank nut LOL I wish.

[MoMo]

Save up your pennies Tanknut,

It will cost £350 here, but it's bound to cost a lot less on your side of the pond! It looks like an icon to be, to me, so I may think seriously about purchasing one. The hobby shops which I visit are bound to get in a sample to tempt the addict, so I'll wait till I can get my hands on one, then I'll know if I am destined to own one ( i.e. when it becomes useless to resist! )

Choices....that's what Capitalism is all about! When Park Avenue rebranded Capitalism as Consumerism, they rekindled the dying embers of the Baby-Boomers' lust for all those toys they missed out on when they were kids. This may well be the very toy which many of us have been waiting on.

But will it bring us happiness?

YOU BET YOUR SWEET ( WHATSITSNAME? ) ON IT!

[Shawn 507]

Are they going to make the Firefly that KO'd him? Or perhaps the Tempest that also claims the kill? No probably not.
- Shawn

[tank nut]

Yes momo I will have to save up, my jar is just about full so maybe I should count up and maybe I will have enough lol. I seen the frist one at a hobby shop down here for about 400 so I guess it will be a tad cheaper then what you will pay. I have a 21 century 1-18 tiger but this is just a bit more better in fact it blows the doors of it!!!

[MoMo]

Go for it, Tank Nut!

If you've got a jar full of quarters, it may be just enough. Let us have your impressions if you've eyeballed it!

[tank nut]

If I get a chance to see it I will surly let you know, I like tigers a lot and this one would look good on my self, the wife might say other wise LOL.

[FormerViperDriver]

Originally Posted by Shawn 507

Are they going to make the Firefly that KO'd him? Or perhaps the Tempest that also claims the kill? No probably not.
- Shawn

Yes Shawn, we know you hate the Nazis (presumably, in your mind, unlike the rest of us who positively adore them).

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[watou06]

It does look super good. I hope it will come out before christmas.