Thread: 40 Tonne Model 1:1 Scale

Originally Posted by Mutawintji

Thank you peoples for kind remarks.

Please note: I only built the cockpit control levers ... NOT the tank itself or any other part.

cool bananas ... Greg

Blimey Greg, For a few minutes there you were king and we all were in awe....without a steering wheel one goes nowhere...Top thread, cheers crowie

Originally Posted by crowie

Blimey Greg, For a few minutes there you were king and we all were in awe....without a steering wheel one goes nowhere...Top thread, cheers crowie

Crowie ... Your a cool dude, I've said it before ...

In these days of mobiles, internet and instant email this picture will seem incredible. But it is HQ Communications Armoured Division. .

Altho how the pigeons knew which tank they were attached to is beyond me.

greg

Thanks for sharing Greg

Is the original still on display?

Originally Posted by Ueee

Thanks for sharing Greg

Is the original still on display?

Thank you Ueee.

Up until recent years it was on display at the QLD Museum. But the QLD humidity was destroying it, the plates and rivets were swelling and stressing. It has now been moved to a secret location and is being stabilised. As well the 'tracks' are being 'freed up'. They were seized and in order to move it, it had to be skull-dragged about.

The 'secret-location' is not so secret, and if you wish to see it, it is not far from Brisbane in a well known Railway-Workshop-Museum.

cool bananas ... Greg

Congratulations, You must be proud to be able to say that you helped reconstruct part of History. This would make a great model to make in a smaller scale.

That is a great story Greg, it really makes the pictures come to life. As many others have already said, Thanks so much for sharing it with us. I might have missed it, but I wonder when you were involved in the reconstruction, and how long it took. Did you get to go to Germany to see the finished article? Cheers,
Rob.

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Thanx Peoples.

Originally Posted by Ropetangler

... I wonder when you were involved in the reconstruction, and how long it took. Did you get to go to Germany to see the finished article? Cheers,
Rob.

It was built over two years .... The fall of the Berlin Wall. 1989-1990.

Yes ... I was invited over, all expenses paid ... I got drunk with the Director of Porsche .... HaaHaa.

cheers ... Greg

Originally Posted by Scribbly Gum

There was a time, when I was a young boy, when Mephisto was housed outside the front corner of the old Qld museum.
I don't know if it was allowed or not, (probably not) but I do remember getting inside of it - as boys do. Very dark as I recall.
I never realised that it was the only surviving WW1 German tank.
SG

I lived up the road from there in the49-50, we might of crossed pathe. remember getting gought in side, with a mate once, by the ground personel