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Post by volkssturm on Nov 3, 2014 14:26:21 GMT -5
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Post by luftwelle93 on Nov 3, 2014 16:29:41 GMT -5
I've seen that movie on on YouTube before.Its a great WW2 film,somewhat a supernatural movie.It is really worth looking
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Post by 2nd Bat on Nov 3, 2014 17:32:04 GMT -5
Wow impressive trailer! Not just tanks but lots of tanks! they do not appear to be CG either?
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Post by LϟϟAH1944 on Nov 3, 2014 18:33:49 GMT -5
Most of em are t34s- no need for CGI when theyre surplus.
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Post by insterburger on Nov 3, 2014 21:00:52 GMT -5
Most of em are t34s- no need for CGI when theyre surplus. Actually, mixing CGI with a tank or two for close shots is going to be a lot cheaper than using large numbers of live-action vehicles these days, even in Russia. It's a testament to the filmmakers that they apparently decided to do things right, on what was no doubt a tight budget. But the fact that there even are that many tanks available is itself pretty awesome.
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Post by 2nd Bat on Nov 27, 2014 15:00:39 GMT -5
The Soviets really don't surplus anything (unlike the US). As vehicles, weapons or equipment are upgraded the "old" stuff is either relegated to a more removed eschelon, modified to another purpose or sold to a third world country. Many Tank chassis found themselves in a construction or agricultural role This of course to some degree happened in the US but not nearly to the degree in the Soviet system.
There are still huge numbers of T34s fully operational throughout the world. Given how many were built and how reliable they were in surprising how few functioning Shermans there are. the pricetag on a functional Sherman has really skyrocketed in the last 10 years. My son in law is seriously looking at one as an investment. he is currently my favorite son in law (also my only) but his stock would go up consderably!
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Post by volkssturm on Nov 27, 2014 22:32:22 GMT -5
I remember back in the early '60's reading an article in Popular Mechanics about a scrap dealer in the Midwest who bought 500 surplus Shermans. He pretty much scrapped them all, selling the spare parts to countries that still had Sermans, selling off engines, etc. Too bad he didn't have the foresight to stash a few in a barn somewhere.
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Post by 2nd Bat on Nov 28, 2014 13:42:09 GMT -5
They were for quite a while a consistently $50,000 vehicle when operational now they command incredible prices. Obviously storage and maintenance is a challenge but yeah he would probably should have hung onto a few of them.
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Post by volkssturm on Nov 28, 2014 14:12:55 GMT -5
On the reality TV show "Axemen" one of the logging crews they followed had a yarder built on a cut down Sherman.
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Post by volkssturm on Apr 28, 2015 21:36:50 GMT -5
Here's the whole movie on Youtube. Russian with subtitles. Just started watching, but it looks pretty good so far. A bit like WWII done by "The Twilight Zone." (Sorry, you youngsters probably don't remember that series). They must have raided the war Russian war memorials for props. In the opening scene there's a knocked out Matilda II, among other things. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoQ1jXmpIKcGetting an urge to do a Russian impression....(leave...credit...card...in...wallet...)
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Post by scvngr on May 2, 2015 0:38:05 GMT -5
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Post by luftwelle93 on May 2, 2015 10:22:08 GMT -5
That is just absolute beauty!Now if they run a line of FT-17's then I'll might consider
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Post by Jerry-ADK on May 10, 2015 7:07:19 GMT -5
The Soviets really don't surplus anything (unlike the US). As vehicles, weapons or equipment are upgraded the "old" stuff is either relegated to a more removed eschelon, modified to another purpose or sold to a third world country. Many Tank chassis found themselves in a construction or agricultural role This of course to some degree happened in the US but not nearly to the degree in the Soviet system. There are still huge numbers of T34s fully operational throughout the world. Given how many were built and how reliable they were in surprising how few functioning Shermans there are. the pricetag on a functional Sherman has really skyrocketed in the last 10 years. My son in law is seriously looking at one as an investment. he is currently my favorite son in law (also my only) but his stock would go up consderably! As of 6 years ago, the city of Saratoga NY had a intact,not sure if functional, Sherman sitting outside their town shed. I think they were planning on setting it in a park or something. I don't think they ever did that. It still may be sitting there and possibly for sale. Tell your son to inquire at the city hall there for a lead.
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Post by volkssturm on May 10, 2015 14:50:31 GMT -5
I went to college in Spokane, WA. Our rifle team used to go down to the University of Idaho in Moscow, and Washington State in Pullman. There was some little town on the way, the name long since forgotten (this was 40 years ago), that had a Sherman as a war memorial. We never did stop to look at it. Wish we had.
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Post by thunderw21 on May 11, 2015 11:39:21 GMT -5
The first half of the movie was decent, the second half sucked. It's as though the writers didn't know how to end the movie so they threw in some stuff that had absolutely nothing to do with the original plot and called it good.
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Post by aldrich on May 11, 2015 16:59:41 GMT -5
I kind of feel as though something happened in the making of this movie. First you have them putting all this effort into making a 1:1 scale tiger only to use a strange mock up instead. Then you have three completely separate plots that would each have made their own good movie, but are instead just sandwiched together. I don't know what's up, but it just seems like something fell through and they just quickly sandwiched something together at the end.
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Post by volkssturm on May 11, 2015 17:33:26 GMT -5
It seemed to me the ending veered off into a political message about being ready to defend Mother Russia because Fascism would rise again in the West. Very unsatisfying. I was confused when they cut to the end of the war and they still hadn't caught up with the White Tiger. I thought maybe they were going to have one last shoot out, but they didn't.
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Post by 2nd Bat on May 12, 2015 0:44:49 GMT -5
Sequel!!!!!
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Post by volkssturm on May 12, 2015 17:56:30 GMT -5
Sergeant Whatshisname and his T-34 show up to combat the White Tiger in the Donbass region of Ukraine?
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