Re: Insane modellers (and another GZG...)

KHR wrote:

>Some mad scientists have had ideas to build such stuff in 1:1 scale.
There
>are:
>the WWII German 1000 ton "Rat" tank project
>http://www.panzerschreck.de/panzer/pzkpfw/p1000.html
>the 1500 ton "Monster" gun
>http://www.panzerschreck.de/panzer/pzkpfw/p1500.html

<chuckle> These are almost big enough that even USAAF high-altitude
bombing 
would've hit them... <g> And I can't help wondering about little details

like ground pressure, and finding clearings and roads wide enough to 
actually move them through!

>And in the early 1930's the "Midgard Serpent", a tunneling tank.
>http://www.geocities.com/madsin72/midgard.html
>Some data:
>Length 524 meters (a 6 mm scale model would be over 5 feet long)

Eh... *why*? I can understand "why a tunneling vehicle", but why make it
so 
long?

Later,

Oerjan
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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