kanan Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t229/zrolimit88/DSC00136.jpg http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t229/zrolimit88/DSC00135.jpg enjoy people!!! peace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shortsonfire79 Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 Whaaattt!!! It is a lot smaller in person! =-D Never be able to fit 10 SMs...or 2 =-D Still pretty dope! Whered you get it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzz_navy Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 nice did it move under its own power ? that would be sweet to have parked out front in the driveway (in ultramarines colors of course though :yuck: ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highmarshalHelbrecht Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 HA! It's a M113! Funny... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kanan Posted November 1, 2008 Author Share Posted November 1, 2008 now where on Terra are they gonna find an APC scaled to 8 foot Humans lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kanan Posted November 1, 2008 Author Share Posted November 1, 2008 yeppers they drove it in ~grins~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hubernator Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 Oh I heard about this. I think this was at Birmingham... or maybe Milton Keynes... anyway, I did hear about it. It looks pretty cool, I was expecting something huge lol Hows a Marine meant to squeeze in there? ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kanan Posted November 1, 2008 Author Share Posted November 1, 2008 yah your first guess was right on the money, ~high fives you~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Tiger Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 HA! It's a M113! Funny... Afraid not, its actually a FV432 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FV432 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hubernator Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 yah your first guess was right on the money, ~high fives you~ Woo! *high fives* I knew it was one of them two places. I remember seeing it on a leaflet lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LBraden Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 I do know there is a blog somewhere of the construction of this vehicle, but as agreed here, there is no way that is true scale, hell I doubt that it can carry even 10 squadies in it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ompfris Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 Wow thats pretty good, and I was gonna ask the question, who is going to make a 'true scale' Rhino, one which looks like it could hold the 10 marines! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vassakov Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 This was at GDUK, done by Relic to promote DoW II. Old news, I'm afraid. Also, why in the WIP forum? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brother Hastatus Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 Yeah, it was at GD UK 08. Built from a real tank. Apparently it was road legal, as it had lights, indicators, etc at the back hidden under a flap that could be lifted up. So I'm assuming they made it road legal because it did actually work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kanan Posted November 1, 2008 Author Share Posted November 1, 2008 darn it. i didnt realise i posted it in the wrong sub-forum. er... could one of the Inquisition move the topic to an appropriate forum please, thank you ~smiles~ peace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apothecary Daxam Posted November 22, 2008 Share Posted November 22, 2008 I thught it was pretty awesome. Just wish they'd put those hatches for the gunner on it. I think I spent a good deal of time standing behind that thing, waiting for the preview. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Toddius Posted November 22, 2008 Share Posted November 22, 2008 25% larger and you're in business. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy1391 Posted November 22, 2008 Share Posted November 22, 2008 that is an m113 not a fv432... however the m113 is the base vehicle for the fv432 and several variants that have become ifvs in the past half century .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWJP Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 jeremy1391, it is an FV432 As can be seen in the link here To quote the article: "This ambitious project will see a British army FV432 tank go under the knife. Used by armed forces around the world since 1960, the FV432 weighs 15.3 tons and is designed to carry twelve equipped troops into battle." And plus, the FV432 was designed separately to the M113, and was by no means "based on it". It is easy to make the mistake though, the two do look very similar... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alys Dwr Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 Reading through the link, it seems they should have just used the M113 to get around the shape and rear door problems. Maybe a M113 was too expensive or too hard to obtain though. Al Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarabando Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 this is THQs Rhino it was at GD and at the eurogamer expo in london :) were i must admit i did try to hump the rhino but i did get to play DW2 :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbyssKnight Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 If anyone would like to try this conversion for themselves, I found this website. http://www.tanksforsale.co.uk/ Any one else surprised at how cheap these things are?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sevano Tomasin Posted November 23, 2008 Share Posted November 23, 2008 Any one else surprised at how cheap these things are?! No not really. Wait until you try to fill the thing up at the petrol station...every week... It was nice to see the "rhino". Shame about the still damp paint. And the fresh paint smell - I'm not sure about anyone else that saw it/smelt it, but to me it smelt like they'd used house paint. FV432s are very easy to get in the UK. Mainly due to the fact there's so many left over after we replaced them with the chime...I mean Warrior MCV. M113s on the other hand, weren't used by British forces, however the Australians did. Aside from stealing an M113 from a museum, I don't think finding one in the UK would be so easy... the FV430 series is different to the M113 series in design and they were not based on each other. Its like saying that the M1 Abrams is based on the Cheiftain MBT. Sure, from a distance they look similar, but they aren't the same. Any similarities in shape are due to the fact that the shapes and angles of armour have been found to work. On a funny note, when I was going down to GDUk this year, there was long convoy of Warrior MCVs and a few challenger 2s on trucks heading towards GD.... S.T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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