Nice

One guy: Hey guys, let's make a tank model to scale.

Other guys: Okay.

Only in russia.

Question is why havn't we all joined the motherland?

Seems legit if you ask me.

I think its pretty cool.

***Stops building his 1/700 scale battleships in shame***

I remember building a model of the Army's Patton tank. A lot heavier than the Shermans and able to take on the Panzer and Tiger tanks. Those monsters were too heavy and cumbersome but they packed quite a wallop.

That's awesome. 

Uvah....the M46 managed to make it to Korea....it wasn't around in WW2....

Oopss!! Major Oops!

Then what one replaced the Sherman? I always get those two confused.

No...M26 Pershing replaced the Sherman.... the 46 replaced that.

BTW...hint...the designation numbers by then related to design date..... 46..47..48... the Ruskies weren't quite so 'accurate'...64...72...80.....all a bit out of whack, really...

Thanks for the refresher Jafo. Been too long since I did one of them. Too bad they're so expensive today.

I wonder what this one cost them....I think I'd hate to pay for even just the Oxy cost....

Probably a hefty sum. Hunting down all the parts alone would put a huge dent in this ones pocket.

By the looks of it, they made plenty of parts from scratch! I'm sure they must have had their hands on aoriginal to get measurements, or plans or something!
What a mammoth undertaking!

In either case, this indeed would not have been cheap!

What an accomplishment!!  Wow!