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Kugelpanzer, Anyone?
Buckeye198
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Posted: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 - 04:08 PM UTC
If anyone has some spare time on their hands (modelers with spare time? Yeah right...) I would love to see someone try to build one of these weird buggers. It doesn't seem like there's a lot to the vehicle...it's just weird as #!*@ and I've always been a sucker for the unusual ones. Anyone up to the task?

And as an aside, does anyone know how this thing would've been used?
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Posted: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 - 04:45 PM UTC
I think it was designed and built as a prototype for George Lucas to use in one of the Star Wars movies !!
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Posted: Thursday, November 04, 2010 - 01:29 AM UTC
Jusy FYI, Attack Hobby Kits has a resin kit of the Kugelpanzer in 1/72 and 1/35 scales. I keep thinking about getting the 1/35 one.

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Posted: Thursday, December 09, 2010 - 01:03 PM UTC
A former EOD officer says that the kugelpanzer was most likely a suicide tank. It would be able to withstand small arms fire and would act as a fragmentation bomb if there was a explosive charge inside. Theory seems sound with Japan losing the war.
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