Thread: Every German Tank is a Tiger

Originally Posted by Albany Rifles

Not to give them too much of a pass but....

In the West we tended to have whatever was in the National Guard repainted and marked up to be the Germans with the recon tanks play the Americans (see Battle of the Bulge for M47s as Tigers and M24s as Shermans). In "Patton" is was M48s as German tanks, M47s as American (newsreels showed actual M4s).

In "A Bridge Too Far" you may recall they did have some Shermans but the German tanks were all Leos.

I think what you see in most of those films are old T-34s which were more easily into looking like a Tiger.

I don't know of many succesful attempts to portray other German armor until the 1990s when we saw the converted FV-432s used as German armor.

Its kind of using what is available.

http://the.shadock.free.fr/Repros.pdf

This website shows a lot of vismods which have occured.

In the new Hollywood we are lucky to have guys like Spielberg who wanted to do the vets right. He used T55s to make the Jadgpanthers, actual 38ts for the assault guns, he built or borrowed German 1/2 tracks and trucks, used the 432 series APCs to make StuGs, and went way out of his way to make everything accurate. But it all started with one movie Kelly's Heroes