1 72 scale Maus in action !!!

[bazers]

Hi guys I am not in to paper panzers … But could not resist buying the 1 72 scale dragon maus kit ,as it wasn't far away from completion?
.I wanted to have it in action in a dio and saw a photo on line of a Russian T 34 crushing a panzer 2 tank and decided to ring the changes .
Hope you like my bit of fantasy, crew have decided to bail out.

 

[Steve Jones]

Very nice Barry. Wonderful subject and a great looking little dio. Looks like you had a lot of fun. Great stuff

 

[Deleted member 6559]

A great idea and pretty amazing work at such a small scale.

 

[SimonT]

Neat, shows off the huge size of these beasts nicely.

In reality they weren’t around long enough to start rusting but as you say they did actually exist - could be a Russian trial that has gone horribly wrong

From memory I think two prototypes were built. There are definitely pics of the one with a concrete structure on top instead of a turret undergoing trials at the proving ground - Boblingen?
I converted the Dragon 35th one many years ago when the kit was first released.
The Russians got the one that is now in Kubinka - think I read that they got a hull and a turret and joined them themselves to make a complete tank.

 

[Gern]

Oooohhh that's nice!

 

[grumpa]

Love it Barry! nice seeing a Maus in an action scenario, well done!

Jim

 

[bazers]

Thanks for comments guys .