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I wonder where can be seen fictionnal "WW1 flavored" military vehicles. I came up with the following list but any addition would be welcome :

Games & model kits :  "Warhammer 40000"

Movies :"League of extraordinary Gentlemen", "Indiana Jones and the last crusade", "Wild Wild West", "the great dictator"

TV series : "Wild Wild West"

JCC

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I've built a lot of W40K tanks, their WW1's look is really interesting, especially on the resin forgeworld range.

On your list, my favourite is definitively, the heavy used in the "last crusade" as it is very close to a real MarkVIII, An interesting conversion!
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Gilles(Lostiznaos)

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Gentleman

  Hello, I am also interested in Forge World, I have built a few of there resin models, and I have collected all of thereImperial Armourseries books. They are expensive, but very well done. As all can guess, who ever the designer of the Armour series is must have a good knowledge of WW1 Armour.

For those who have not witnessed Forge World, take a look.

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/

All the Best

Tim R



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Hi JCC, not sure if wild wild west(film) "tank" is WW1 since there was a "steam gun" built by the CSA during the Civilwar.....Histoy is Bizarre heres a link .....perhaps its Sci-Fi after all...........

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1861/may/winans-steam-gun.htm

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I posted this a while ago. Victorian Tanks - British, German, and Miscellaneous. The inspiration for several of them is pretty obvious. Very amusing.

http://www.zeitcom.com/majgen/60lshp.html

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The "Akuyaku No.1" from Tasca Models shows some clear design influences from the Vickers Independent. Incidentally, Accurate Armour has just released a resin model of the Independent - its retro-futurist look has always struck me as resembling something from a 1930's sci-fi movie.

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Although not very WW1-inspired, I gotta admit I really liked the steam tank in "Wild Wild West". smile

In the strategy PC-game "Jeff Wayne's war of the worlds" there are alot of WW1-inspired tanks and armoured cars, although the tanks are referred to as "armoured tracklayers". smile My favourite is the "Tunneling Tracklayer Mk III". It looks pretty much like a Mk V* with a big funnel on top and a huge drill at the front.

-- Edited by Kaiser at 17:37, 2008-06-08

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Must admit to liking the Miyazaki pig-tank. Wondered about building it and rescaling some of the details so it appears to be a smaller tank at 1/35... then Germanifying it...

HOWEVER, one idea which has intrigued me is the idea of a Mk [IV or V] with a rear mounted engine [between the horns, for access, and balance], but with an elevated mid drivers turret a bit like an A7V therefore freeing up the whole nose for a 'tank destroyer' style heavy artillery mount. Probably whack on some femalish sponsons for fun. Could be a fun build! weirdface

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The 'future' tanks of the Second World War, which breaks out in 1940, in the Alexander Korda / H G Wells sci-fi spectacular 'Things To Come' (1936) are a strange mix of the old and new. Superficially they look 'futuristic', with their smooth contours unbroken by rivets (Christopher Frayling, in his marvellous BFI book on the film, charmingly refers to them as the 'white Bakelite tanks of the enemy'), but with their long narrow hulls and separate track sponsons with all-round tracks, together with the rise in the tracks at the front, they definitely retain an air of the Great War about them. Attached are some screengrabs from the DVD of the film. Incidentally, the main gun doesn't traverse, and actually retracts into the gun compartment, popping out only to fire (which is what you see in a couple of the stills)! I can think of no real practical reason, but it looks good in action...!

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Courtesy of William Heath Robinson: The Suction Tank (USA).

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