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Neil_Baumgardner · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:18 pm Post subject: Favorite Science Fiction AFVs

By popular demand - okay me & Don, but aint that popular enough?

So post pics of your favorite SF AFVs... I would say it doesnt have to just be SF AFVs from movies & TVs, but you should at least have some pic. AFVs "described" from books (ie without pics) can get "honorable mention" I suppose...

Also, to keep this from getting out of hand, I'd restrict this to wheeled, tracked & possibly hovercraft AFVs - ie no walkers, no "mecha" (even if I am a fan of those).

To start off, here's the classic - the APC from Aliens - based on an airport tug.

BTW, this thing apparently had horrible right-side vision for the driver...

Neil

Neil_Baumgardner

Just slightly more obscure, the "M21 Anaconda" MBT from the Japanese anime "Megazone 23."

Neil

Dontos

1998 Movie 'SOLDIER' With Kurt Russell in staring role....

Here's a video link: Crawler Video Short...

I've got more inmind....

Don

Doug_Kibbey

- Neil_Baumgardner

BTW, this thing apparently had horrible right-side vision for the driver...

Neil

Not to mention ground clearance!

Maple_Leaf_Eh · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 517

The 12-wheeled four wheel station post-apocalypse transporter on Damnation Alley with Jan Michael Vincent and George Peppard.

www.imdb.com/gallery/m...5909&seq=4

Dubliner · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 94

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Sabot

Bandai's Batman Begins "Tumbler" Batmobile. Great kit, and it comes in black! I count it as an AFV since Morgan Freeman's character describes it as being built for the military for bridging operations.
www.hlj.com/product/BAN934048

Driving on rooftops is a great benefit to this AFV.

Neil_Baumgardner

Yeah, my friends and I were rather perplexed by the "bridging" concept for the "Tumbler" vehicle:

"She was built as a bridging vehicle. During combat, two of these would jump over a river, towing cables... We never could get
the damn bridge to work..."

I wonder why...

Neil

Scott_Taylor · Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:33 pm Post subject: Re: Favorite Science Fiction AFVs

For me, still the ultimate sci-fi armour. I fell in love with them when they first trundled across the screen in 1980:

www.daltonator.net/fan...alker1.jpg

From a literary standpoint, I also like the lizard tanks in Harry Turtledove's WorldWar series. I'd like to scratchbuild a model of one of them sometime.

Cheers,

Scott Taylor

Doug_Kibbey · Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 7:05 pm Post subject: Re: Favorite Science Fiction AFVs

"Terminator" Hunter-Killer thang. Unmanned. Maybe the FCS forerunner?

bobburns.mycottage.com...GES/41.jpg

blair · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 87

Scott TAYLOR ....GOOD CALL !!

I really liked that series and always wondered if the mechanics of the WW2 and the modern stuff made sense. I mean did'nt he basically propose that a sabot round from a Tiger could penetrate the lizards armor?

Kinda like a Tiger of that era taking out a M1!!

piney · Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 1:41 pm Post subject: Re: Favorite Science Fiction AFVs

Hammer's Slammers for me, great series of books by David Drake

Jeff Lewis

Neil_Baumgardner · Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 2:06 pm Post subject: Re: Favorite Science Fiction AFVs

Ah, I was waiting on a hovertank to appear...

Neil

Tanklord · Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 2:20 pm Post subject: Re: Favorite Science Fiction AFVs

Hey, thats where I got my handle "Tanklord" from! WOuld love to have one of them, or even better, how about a "BOLO", say a Mark XXIII?

Sabot · Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 2:38 pm Post subject: Re: Favorite Science Fiction AFVs

- Neil_Baumgardner

Yeah, my friends and I were rather perplexed by the "bridging" concept for the "Tumbler" vehicle:

"She was built as a bridging vehicle. During combat, two of these would jump over a river, towing cables... We never could get
the damn bridge to work..."

I wonder why...

Neil

Well, yes, I too question the story behind the developement. But it is a really cool Batmobile and includes an optional pseudo-desert camouflage scheme as an option.

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