![]() It actually did not require a penetrating Sherman round to take the King Tiger out of the fight. This type of KT loss was repeated many times over. Read about one Battle of the Bulge tanks to tanks encounter recounted in a German tanker's own words and you will understand this typical tank fight. By the time the Ardennes Offensive happened, the Shermans and various tank destroyers were fighting in very efective wolf packs to neutralize the big German tanks. The typical very young American GIDogface or American tanker on the front lines, sometimes did not note the difference between all the various German tank types and there were a lot of different tanks out there.īut give credit were credit is do. The conscription based American Army in the 1940's did not do that level of reporting and record keeping. Very good points, of interest the professional WWII German Army kept meticulous records down to the smallest unit level after action report. assume that if 70 were knocked out at least another 50 would been abandoned by their crews through breakdown, battle damage or lack of fuel which plagued the offensive, truly remarkable numbers, or were they actually Panthers/PzIV/StugIII/JPzIV/Hetzer The HL M-41 road wheels are fairly within reason for an M-24, but hey, that's a starting point Scale wise, the Century 21 is much closer to the correct size corresponding to 1 16. maybe one reason there aren't but a couple out there. ![]() The engine deck is a total scratch build. Likewise, the hull will require extensive work and the sprocket has to move to the front as well as relocating the support rollers and shocks. The turret is like no other and crew positions are reversed from every other US tank. On the M-24, if you're very ambitious, an M-24 is going to wind up a 95% scratch build. You should do a bit of reading on history and armored combat. Tanks are NOT used as they were portrayed in the movies and tigers did not lead attacks.smaller Pz IIIs went out and the tigers sat back and made good use of thier long range and accuracy. I think there is a re-do in my future!Įither way.have to agree 100% with Rivetcounter and Commander.what you see that gets you all turned on is pure Hollywood BS. That 21st Century 1/18 model looks like a closer size for a Chaffe conversion to me. The photos of the 3 scale tanks are, Glencoe is the small one in front (about 1/20), 21st Century is the middle one (1/18) and Heng Long is the biggest one in back (1/16). The Chaffee is on top, the Walker lower hull is on the bottom. Here are some photos of dusty shelf queens, the both tanks are facing to the left. I only did the extensive upgrade on the first one.I bought two more for a total of four.a good source of some cheap parts. That never happened at the time, but still could. I was going to "extensively correct" one to accurate standards and build the other one straight out of the box to provide a point of comparison between the two. I bought one, and then bought another one. Back in the olden days, there was a Walker Bulldog from Glencoe that was a very crude kit.Yuk! It was kinda sorta 1/20 scale really. Yep, it can be done that way if you aren't real picky about dimensions. the setup is identical to that of a bulldog. SS501 didn’t use a full complement of 45 Tigers it’s thought that around 20 started the offensive and only 13 made it into battle of these 13 losses 9 where abandoned some destroyed by crews though not all 4 were actual combat losses.įurther south 506 fought around Bastogne through to Houfalize, they started out with 40 Tiger II of these 11 were lost up to 17/1/45 at least 3 were destroyed by their own crews 2 were lost to rocket firing Typhoons 1 lost to AT gun of C battery 81st AT battalion 2 lost to 6th Armoured Division the other 3 are not noted as to what destroyed them so for the 24 Tiger II that were actually lost in the Ardennes offensive over 70 kills were claimed and as we all know they were a mechanical nightmare so one must assume that if 70 were knocked out at least another 50 would been abandoned by their crews through breakdown, battle damage or lack of fuel which plagued the offensive, truly remarkable numbers, or were they actually Panthers/PzIV/StugIII/JPzIV/Hetzerįrom the looks of the chaffe the lower half of the tank could be taken from a HL walker bulldog and made to run in reverse. Claimed 53 Panthers/TigersĪmerican unit reports, the battalion lost more tanks than it started with! The after action reports of the 823rd Tank Destroyer Battalion and Company A of the 825th Tank Destroyer Battalion alone claim 20-22 “Tigers†or “Mk VI†tanks destroyed around Stavelot from 18 to 21 December, this unit fought against SS501. 630th were in Wiltz before withdrawing to Bastogne.
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