Workbench: T35 Death machine

First, a moment of awesome.



See this? This is a Soviet T35. When they built the T28 an engineer came up and asked the designers if they had enough turrets. They curtly replied "Nyet" and sent him to the Gulag. Of course there wasn't enough turrets, IT NEEDED MORE TURRETS. Thus this 100 ton leviathan was born. It had paper thin armor and needed 11 people to operate, but hey, it had more guns than Navarone and was made of awesome. And get this, in later production runs they turned the awesome dial to 11 and installed FLAME THROWERS- Plural. One flame thrower wasn't enough for a tank this cool; they needed more.

It would come up to smaller tanks and go, "hey you there, with your 45 mm gun. Yah, that gun's cool- I had 2, I hear some of your friends have a flame thrower installed too. That's pretty sweet. But look at this... 2 flame throwers. Aw yah, this trash right here is special. I can even do 18 miles per hour and I'm taller than a house. Pretty sweet I know. I can even do wicked sweet back flips. You should check it out sometime." all while hanging out behind a soviet 7-11 sipping on a slurpy and nursing the injury he got in a shallow ditch 'because he wasn't ready dude-GOSH'.

Only 90% were lost in the only action they partook in during the stages leading up to the battle for Moscow to transmission failure alone... and shallow ditches.

But that last 10%- WERE EPIC.




And I digress. Board progress. I actually don't have a more recent photo. The boards are 50% flocked but I didn't photo it. Shame.