Sturmtiger - Sturmmörserwagen 606/4 mit 38 cm RW 61 1.7 by Uncle T

1,146 bricks. My take on the Sturmtiger rocket mortar infantry support tank, official German designation Sturmmörserwagen 606/4 mit 38 cm RW 61 (RW = Raketenwerfer/rocket launcher). Despite its massive size I had to scale it up about 10% because of the available wheels and the tolerances needed to be able to move the gun as it should. The real thing had 8 staggered idler wheels but since the game can't handle that (the track will just twist wierdly) I'm just using the 4 outer ones that were most visible. Info from Wikipedia, somewhat edited. *********** Sturmtiger (German for 'Assault Tiger') was a World War II German assault gun built on the Tiger I chassis and armed with a 380 mm rocket-propelled mortar. Its primary task was to provide heavy fire support for infantry units fighting in urban areas. The few vehicles produced fought in the Warsaw Uprising, the Battle of the Bulge and the Battle of the Reichswald. The fighting vehicle was known by various informal names, among which the Sturmtiger became the most popular. Only 18 were ever built using rebuilt damaged Tiger I chassis. The Sturmtiger was based on the late model Tiger I, keeping its hull and suspension. The front of the Tiger's superstructure was removed to make room for the new fixed casemate-style fighting compartment housing the rocket launcher. This was located directly at the front of the vehicle. Since the Sturmtiger was intended for use in urban areas in close range street fighting, it needed to be heavily armoured to survive. Its sloped (at 47° from vertical) frontal armor therefore was 150 mm (5. 9 in) thick, while its superstructure side and rear plates were 82 mm (3. 2 in) thick. The hull front was 100 millimetres (3. 9 in) or 150 millimetres (5. 9 in) if it had an additional armor plate fitted. The main armament was the 380 mm Raketen-Werfer 61 L/5. 4, a breech-loading barrel, which fired a short-range, rocket-propelled projectile roughly 1. 5 m (4 ft 11 in) long. Due to the bulkiness of the amm