![]() Clint wanted the movie to be realistic and he and a few other actors that were history buffs where behind getting them to look like tigers.If the Discovery Channel can have Shark Week, may TMJ have War Week? After WWI and Parade’s End, we jumped to WWII and The 12th Man. When they were filming Kelly's Heroes they got three original t-34s. PantherAusfG44 wrote The 3 Tigers were those from the Battle of Neretva, only given with new stuffs. Hiergehts wrote T-34 wheels/tracks and the position of the turrent is too far forward but this is still better the a US M-48 or M-60 "Tiger Tank".ĭidn't they use M60s as German tanks in "Patton"? True they were not label as "Tigers" per se, but. The 3 Tigers were those from the Battle of Neretva, only given with new stuffs. Hope the kids don't get too curious and try to open the hatch. Which kind of bugs me considering the dead crew must still be inside of it. At the end, after the town is liberated and the fire has died down, some children climb on it. One guy survives (the gunner I think) and tries to get out, only to be shot by Gutowski. It gets blasted right at the beginning of the battle and spends the remainder of the film a burning wreck. Tiger 112, featured in the main pic, does nothing. Tiger 113 is the "supporting" tank whose commander was killed by Kelly at the beginning of the battle while poking out of the turret, which gets shot "in the ass" after being accidentally blasted with paint-filled shells: Tiger 115 is the main one, the one used by Karl Otto Alberty's character who Clint Eastwood and the gang have a high-noon showdown with and the only one to survive the movie: ![]() There are three of them in the end sequence: 112, 113 and 115. I painted my 1/35 Tiger model to look like this. ![]() Yes, it is a conversion based on the Soviet KhPZ (Kharkov Steam-Engine Factory) T-34. T-34 wheels/tracks and the position of the turrent is too far forward but this is still better the a US M-48 or M-60 "Tiger Tank". Saving Private Ryan also used a T-34-based Tiger replica: According to the IMDB, it's a T-34 modified to look like a Tiger: ![]()
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