Tanks from Saving private Ryan, (3 shots)

[thor67]

These were parked at a millitary figurine convention in Ontario CA saturday..
1 panzer and 1 abrams, they were also used in the making of saving private ryan...

http://uniqimage.com/weekending062405/CRW_1610.jpg

http://uniqimage.com/weekending062405/CRW_1612.jpg

http://uniqimage.com/weekending062405/CRW_1613.jpg

[Andy_T]

Pretty cool detail shots!

Thanks for sharing!

Best regards,
Andy

[CyberDyneSystems]

Nice shots..

Abrams?
In private Ryan?
A serious problem with continuity there... :lol: ...could it be a Sherman?

[Longwatcher]

Not sure on shot #1, but #2 and #3 look like a PzKfW VI, which although also technically part of the Panzer line, are more commonly called Tiger tanks. Very nasty things to go against, except with small expendable fast tanks. key word expendable.

Shot #1 is not a tiger tank though from the looks of it, still working on it though.

Mere moments later, I knew it looked familiar.
It is a T-34 (aka a russian tank), can't help with model though T-34/76 or T-34/85 spent enough time researching. The T-34 meets the requirement for small expendable fast tank though. Ask almost any Russian, T-34 was good (relatively) at killing panzers.

Unlesss it was near the end of the movie, I doubt a T-34 was used given the realism of the movie.

No american tanks in pictures though.

Good pictures, but I suffer from 20 years experience as an imagery analyst looking at tanks amoung other things.

[thor67]

I think you guys are right. I dont know enough about tanks just what the dude told me in the line... Maybye only the german tank was in the movie...
It looked a little familliar maybye its from the bridge scene at the end ?

[Longwatcher]

Just for trivia.
Shot #1: the twin exausts and the sloping rear deck give this one away
Shot #2: The rough finish let me to late war German tanks and then I found a front shot of a tiger and the turret and that whatever it is on the mid-point of the front confirms it as a Tiger.
Shot #3: With 5 road wheels and no suspension it had to be a Panther or Tiger, but since the drive? wheel is not promenant I assessed it as being a Tiger (that and shot #2 was a Tiger)

[Longwatcher]

I just read that they used T-34's with vismod to make a couple of them looking like Tigers for the bridge sequence, the supposition being that operational tiger tanks are in very short supply. This makes sense to me. The Tiger tank probably just sat there and looked pretty.

There are still a lot of T-34s running around the world and still in use at least as late as the 1990's, haven't been paying too much attention to any reports of them still being used this century though.

A lot of Sherman and Sheridan tanks were also used until recently to be vismod tanks in movies and wargames in the Mojave desert, but now they can get the real ones from Russia for wargames.

[CyberDyneSystems]

Sheridan is a circa 1960's MBT...

Your spot on.. that's a T-34

[Longwatcher]

Sheridan is a circa 1960's MBT...


Knew that, but had to add as I expected the possibility of someone pointing out they used Sheridans for vismod (from 1970's on), but before that they used Shermans a lot. And I never considered the Sheridan to be an MBT. The term Light-Tank comes to mind, big gun/missile tube, light armor, definately not a Main-Battle Tank.

And I did spend 20+ years as a USAF imagery analyst, I should be able to get it right most of the time, even with WWII era equipment. :) 8) :)

I loved looking at developing world combat locations when I was an IA, all sorts of interesting combinations of equipment involved from WWII to present. And I also used to be a miniatures wargamer (WWII and Modern (1980's) armor amoung my favorite), but with computer games as good as they are these days it is not as easy to find opponents (or the space to play).

Just rambling a bit.

[Tom W]

...... the supposition being that operational tiger tanks are in very short supply.

George Patton would love to have heard that some 40 or so years ago! :)
EDIT - try some 60 or so years ago. Patton, were he alive, would not have been as concerned about Tiger tanks 40 years ago as he was in the early 1940's. Bad math. :)

Nice shots, Thor.

[PhotosGuy]

Does anyone want one? The Russians are having a sale! There was an article in the paper a month ago that you could buy a "slightly used" T-34 tank for about $20,000. ;-)

[RockOne]

The rough finish let me to late war German tanks
That is a coating apllied to the tanks for low-magnetic reasons. It is called Zimmerit.
I remeber that from building plastic model tanks as a kid (too long ago :-) )!

http://www.armorama.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=30

[Ballen Photo]

Wish I could see these. Did you take them down? :rolleyes:
-Bruce