This photo turned up on Quora yesterday - apparently taken at the T34 Museum near Moscow. Presumably it is not scale size! Does anyone have more information?
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It looks approximately to scale. The wheels on my 1:25 cardmodel scale out at 8.75m diameter which looks about the same as the replica.
Nice to see the replica got the spoke pattern right - the spokes are radial not the crossover pattern found on bicycle wheels - there is an image of
the tank before it was broken up which shows this clearly.
I wonder what possessed the museum to do this - it must have been a huge amount of work and materials. Although after the 1:1 scale polystyrene foam Saint-Chamond
built by a French high school some years ago anything is possible.
Charlie
-- Edited by CharlieC on Sunday 16th of April 2023 08:06:52 AM
