What's your favorite fake tank, paper panzer or design nightmare?

The APS goes in the shopping cart that the ball tank tows.

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Too high-tech to be sustainable: mounted on Space Hoppers would give better mobility in muddy conditions…

Cheers,

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Do it !

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Paint them in bright multi colors and disguise them as beach balls!

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What about those fictional tanks, from games & animes?

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That is an option but probably not one I will choose.

As the ear worm went deeper, this is kinda my thoughts on using the kugel since it was real.

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Oh! You’re disguising it as the flying nun!

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Not my intention but pretty much what happened. :rofl:

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T90 US airborne tank always a favorite love to see a plastic 1/35 kit of it

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Excellent point & choices :clap:

Fictional qualifies as “fake”, IMHO as OP.

@Tank_1812 Ryan, that’s a cool idea & sketch, would definitely like to see you build “nun” aka Penguin :penguin:

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Maybe one or two years back, I vaguely recall seeing a diorama with two or three of those ball tanks in these forums. At the time, the models and Kublinka specimen were new to me and I made some sketches. Unfortunately, I was not keeping a journal at the time so those sketches went into the shredder. My idea was to extend the ball into a pill shape, change the round tracks into a hexagon with three long sides and three short sides, and allow the whole track unit to flip when crossing very rough terrain, a la the Landmaster from Damnation Alley. It was a silly design but greatly decreased the ground pressure of the vehicle. Some time later, I learned that the Tsar Tank used a very similar layout for engines and crew spaces.

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I too would love to see this one in 1:35 injected - or even resin - I mean, what the hell?

Tamiya did one way back when in 1:50 I; here’s the box art:

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Conceivably, this would have fitted in with a 1:48 collection OK,but probably need a fair bit of work, kits being quite primitive then.

And for good measure another image off the www:

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So would I Wade. We will see what I can do.

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