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Not sure if this has been posted on the forums before. I did a search but couldn't find anything.

A full size replica of a Tiger 1 has been made for a new Russian film called "White Tiger". The replica Tiger isn't even the star of the movie! It is just for supporting scenes.

Here are some pics:

Replica Tiger 1

And a video:

Knocks the spots (or stripes :P ) off the "Tiger" in Saving Private Ryan.

Mike.

Source: New TigerI replica for "White Tiger" film

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The Russians have hundreds of WW2 hulks all over the Urals in scrap yards etc so I'm led to believe (Yes still - they never throw anything away). I image getting a working version would only be a matter of some elbow grease and a few 'friendly' handshakes. That and the fact their forever finding vehicles in forests, out on the Steppe, in the swamps etc must make the western side of the country a real armour lovers dream.

All I want to know is when are they going to do Kursk?

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Knocks the spots (or stripes :P ) off the "Tiger" in Saving Private Ryan.

Mike.

Don`t forget the three in Clint Eastwood`s Kelly`s Heros

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I'm guessing that big tank with the side skirts and a vaguely Tigeresque turret was the "White Tiger" of the film? Makes you wonder why they didn't just use an existing King Tiger? :hmmm:

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Amazing stuff,

Is it a brand new build or a cut and shut,using old hulks.

The Russians did a Kursk movie back in the 50's you may notice

clips in among real footage on some crap history channel docs.

They are quite good replicas for the time, if you see these Tigers among real footage

you will notice the turret roof has a much steeper angle, I think they were built on T55

In the Russian imagination the Kursk battle consisted of waves of hundred upon hundreds of

Tigers being halted by the heroic Russian tankers in their much smaller T34s.

The Russian at this time called all of the bigger German tanks inc Panthers Tigers.

This leads to their claim that they knocked out hundreds of Tigers.

In reality the Germans only lost a handful, but when you take the Panther and Ferdinand

losses into account it is not so much of an exageration.

Besides it was a titanic struggle, the Germans were far from beaten, and still not that

far from Moscow, for the Russians it was so much more of a desperate situation than the Battle

of Britain or the Bulge.

So yes they are still reflecting on this period with huge national pride.

One way of showing how heroic your people were is to portray your enemy

as formidable.

I remember the old British post war propaganda that portrayed the Germans

as incompetant fools.

The effect that had on me was to think that we must have been pretty hopeless

if it took 6 years to beat them along with the huge allied numerical superiority.

The Russians were glad to assist in the making of Downfall, so maybe we can

hope that these two once bitter enemies can work together and tell the story

of Kursk.

I get very fed up with only the US hollywood version of things in the mainstream.

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The Russians have hundreds of WW2 hulks all over the Urals in scrap yards etc so I'm led to believe (Yes still - they never throw anything away).

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To be honest I think this is a bit of an urban myth, like the Pink Panther in Vietnam. It's true that the Soviets have lots of old material discarded over the

old Soviet Union, for example

http://englishrussia.com/2011/10/04/hidden-in-the-woods/

http://englishrussia.com/2012/02/08/rough-...uipment-part-2/

http://englishrussia.com/2012/04/01/milita...dware-cemetery/

http://englishrussia.com/2012/05/22/adult-...ns-playgrounds/

http://englishrussia.com/2012/06/03/tanks-...pot-in-kharkiv/

But no evidence has emerged of WW2 'hulks' existing, surely some would have reached the market in the West, especially during the chaotic days of the

break-up of the USSR.

Oddly some WW1 still exist on public display in Russia, but the only online photos I could find included a naked model (I have no idea why?).

jh

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But no evidence has emerged of WW2 'hulks' existing, surely some would have reached the market in the West, especially during the chaotic days of the

break-up of the USSR.

Plenty of evidence here:

Surviving_Panzers

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