Hi Fred and eminent listers,
>I'm a big Tiger tank fan (Tiger I or King Tiger). I really thought that
the
>props department did a really good job on the superstructure of the
T-34
>(?)(some kind of soviet tank anyways).
>
It is a T34 since these are reasonably obtainable here and fit the
requirements all bar the road wheels. This mock-up is at the Bovington
Tank Museum and is a very passable representation except hands-on as it
were the sheet steel structure is obvious.
>I was looking really close and almost
>thought that the Tiger I used in "Saving Private Ryan" was a real
>one....until I got a side view of the wheels and that was the dead
giveaway
>that it wasn't a real one. Oh well! I realize that there are few Tigers
left
>so I wouldn't really expect to have seen one in the movie anyways.
>
The "conversion" was done locally to me by Steve Lamonby who provides
this sort of stuff to the media, the road wheels just couldn't be faked
though within the budget and timescale. The Bovington curator tells me
though that many requests are received from Japan to sell this one or
produce more replicas. . . . . . .
As for real, running Sd.Kfz.181 Pz.Kpfw.VI Tigers, the world stock would
seem to be about 3 so the chances and economics of using one in a film
role are understandably zero, there is apparently one in the US,
however, getting it back with the Form 6 hassle and without some civil
servant taking the official gas-axe to it doesn't bear thinking about.
S'pose its a bit like asking the Louvre if you could borrow the Mona
Lisa as a film prop; the second word would probably be "off", in French
of course. . . . . . .
Richard
(Southampton UK)
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