AwardWinner Built Dragon 1/35 SdKfz.205 Panzer VIII Super HeavyTank MAUS/Mous

Description: DREAM WORKS HERE Item Name: .German SdKfz.205 Super Heavy Tank Panzerkampfwagen Panzer VIII Maus ("Mouse") Kits .Dragon Scale: .1:35 Builder:.Volcano Item Status:.Built To Order / Pre-Order Detail features: Award-winner built and painted huge super heavy tank Ferdinand Porsche, Krupp, Alkett, SdKfz 205 Panzerkampfwagen VIII (PzKpfW VIII) / Maus with realistic heavy weathering. Beautiful late war Strip Ambush camo color scheme with accurate unit markings. Extremely well-detailed throughout the model.Top building quality with outstanding details throughout the whole model and very high standard accuracy on every individual part.Foundry cast and welding details. Tracks with road wheel detail. Rotating turret detail and gun elevation. Add gas tank and more add-on details. * Top building quality with victory marking add on. * Very high standard molding with sublime details overall. * Superb accurate on each small parts. * Excellent exterior features (great rivets, panel lines and appropriate weld beads). * The upper hull with plenty of fine detail including weld marks and more. * Rotation turret with great on-vehicle equipment details. * Main gun barrel with coaxial AA gun details. * Open-able hatches with details on both sides. * The lower hull realistically reproduced features some nice details such as suspension, axles. * Hull deck with superb grill and more. * Large side skirt with details. * The road/idler wheels and drive sprockets have detail on both sides with great tooth ring details. * Lifelike track with crisp details and right sagging finish. * Big drop tank with sharp detail. * Scratch-built antenna base and antenna. * Adding many small exterior details and accessories including lights, shackle, panels, and more. Buffing and polishing to remove mold seam. Base color with primer and putty for better surface detail. Airbrushed and painted with multicolor. Add clear paint for good finishing on decal applying. Washing to enhance the surface detail increase the appearance of depth including panels, doors, hatches, rivets, bolt head and more. Dry brushing to emphasize and highlight texture with edge for good wear, tear and fading. Multi-color filters for blend color effects. Adding nonglossy paint for better finishing. The great detail paint job on rust and paint chips off with scratches, worn and bare metal realistic simulating, flow rust and rain streaks effects, grease with staining appearing, engine smoking and muffler burned representing. Also smear and dirt with dust and real mud and more on real-life weathering. Final protective layer for long-term collection. Discontinued high priced kit, the price may higher or lower when you order, a good chance to have a rare kit high building quality model at this price, should be higher in future, but if you really want have cost lower, just switch to other kits or check or store and contact us for detail. 3234 1 Dream Works Hobby 2 Dream Works Hobby 3 Dream Works Hobby 4 Dream Works Hobby 5 Dream Works Hobby 6 Dream Works Hobby 7 Dream Works Hobby 8 Dream Works Hobby 9 Dream Works Hobby 10 Dream Works Hobby 11 Dream Works Hobby 12 Dream Works Hobby 13 Dream Works Hobby 14 Dream Works Hobby 15 Dream Works Hobby 16 Dream Works Hobby 17 Dream Works Hobby 18 Dream Works Hobby 19 Dream Works Hobby 20 Dream Works Hobby By the time the super-heavy Maus tank rolled out for its first tests in January 1944, the Nazis had — six months after Kursk — effectively lost the war. It was just a matter of time before the Allied armies would slog their way into the heart of Germany and finish them off. Yet the Nazi regime pressed ahead with developing and propagandizing all manners of so-called “miracle weapons.” Almost until Germany’s capitulation, a belief that secret wonder weapons would emerge and force Britain and America to reach an armistice were widespread among German troops — no matter the actual effectiveness of such weapons when they existed. The Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus was one such weapon. It was impractical and also huge — so huge it holds the record for the heaviest fully-enclosed tank ever built. The Maus weighed 180 metric tons. That’s around three times heavier than the M-1 Abrams battle tank fielded by today’s U.S. Army and Marine Corps. And it was all for nothing. The Maus (likely) never saw combat as the Soviets overran the Kummersdorf proving grounds on April 21, 1945, capturing Germany’s two prototypes. German surrendered less than three weeks later. “It is a fact that destroyed tanks were found,” military historian Waldemar Trojca wrote in German Secret Panzer Projects . “However, what is not known is whether they were destroyed in combat or intentionally by the Germans.” The Maus’ specifications are still somewhat hard to believe. The front glacis — the sloped section beneath the turret — was a remarkable 200 millimeters thick. The front turret was 220 millimeters thick. Its side armor, typically a more vulnerable section on a tank, were 180 millimeters thick. Germany’s frightening Tiger I heavy tank only had 100-millimeter-thick frontal armor. The Maus was heavy. The Maus wasn’t even really a tank … it was a massive bunker with tracks. It also did not have a traditional tank gun. Instead, the Maus packed a 15-centimeter howitzer specifically on Hitler’s orders. Although only one of the two prototypes ever produced had a turret. (The first used a concrete mock-up for weight testing.) This design did not correspond with modern concepts of armored warfare, which emphasize blending a combination of a tank’s strengths — including speed — to blast through a defended position and wreak havoc behind the lines. The Maus would have slowly lumbered toward the front line and forced its way through with sheer destructive power, opening a space for more maneuverable forces to pass through. It’s a strained comparison, but the Islamic State’s practice of sending armor-encased suicide bomb trucks to blast through built-up defenses reflects a similar tactical philosophy. The Maus was a single-purpose weapon. First proposed by automotive engineer Ferdinand Porsche in June 1942 to Hitler and German armaments minister Albert Speer, the Maus production plan envisioned a total of 152 tanks. But it was a tall order. By the middle of the war, steel and critical alloys were in high demand elsewhere in the German war industry. Another engineering challenge centered on the engines. Porsche went through several design changes before settling on an MB 517 Mercedes-Benz diesel engine for the second prototype. However, the engine failed during its first trial due to a broken crankshaft. Was it useless? Not exactly. Trojca noted that test drivers found the Maus easy to steer — which might seem counter-intuitive in such a beastly machine. And it was certainly fearsome in its own right. But by 1944, the concept of a super-heavy tank for offensive breakthroughs was senseless, as medium tanks which balanced firepower with flexibility emerged to set the standard for fighting vehicles to the present.

Price: 319.98 USD

Location: Scarborough, Ontario

End Time: 2025-01-25T21:27:31.000Z

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