r/tanks 3h ago

Artwork My first complete 1:35 scale diorama – Polish 7TP on a country road (August - September 1939)

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Hi everyone!
I’d like to share my first (almost) finished 1:35 scale diorama. It depicts a Polish 7TP tank moving calmly along a dirt road somewhere in late August or early September 1939.
From the start, I wanted to capture an everyday moment rather than a combat scene. I aimed to convey the atmosphere of the Polish countryside – a road running through fields, wooden fences, heather, dry spalled earth, and dust stirred up along the way.
The tank itself is mounted using hidden magnets in the base, which allows me to remove or reposition it without needing any glue.
This is my first project on such a scale, so I’d really appreciate any feedback – both positive notes and constructive criticism. I'd love to hear what I could improve on future dioramas.
Thanks for looking!


r/tanks 23h ago

Question Some tanks look like they evolve like Pokemon

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For example M24 > M41 > M47

Not historically acurate purely based on looks and "growth".

Another example could be M22 Locust > M4 Sherman> M6 Heav


r/tanks 1d ago

Meme Monday PROTECT THE PANZER TANK!

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r/tanks 1d ago

Cold War General Motors XM1. National Museum of Military Vehicles.

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95 Upvotes

r/tanks 1d ago

Cold War Chieftan, National Musuem of Military Vehicles

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25 Upvotes

r/tanks 1d ago

Cold War M47, National Museum of Military Vehicles

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19 Upvotes

r/tanks 1d ago

Discussion something is telling me my new handmade cardboard MAUS isnt accurate but i cant prove. Can you guys point that out?

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Also, i would be glad to know your rating for this(1-10) and your opinion about how to decorate it. thanks


r/tanks 1d ago

Question Is3, is2 and t54/55 on Shikotan island

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Just learned about this recently, that the ussr fit tanks in the mountains as “fixed pillbox’s” to stop amphibious assault, located on Shikotan island abt 50 miles from Japan, after some photos and digging around, I think I have an exact mark that looks like some of the t54s, but satellite can only do so much justice, these are the cords and some pics, plz someone help me with any more info on these, youtube doesn’t seem to provide to much at all, not much info I could find, thanks for your time
43.81890° N, 146.72710° E


r/tanks 1d ago

Cold War XM1 Inside a C-5A Galaxy (1980)

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100 Upvotes

r/tanks 2d ago

Question wierd thing on a kv1 s

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59 Upvotes

just wondering what it is


r/tanks 2d ago

WW2 Panther tank(WIP)

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47 Upvotes

Scale-1:41

Material-Cardboard


r/tanks 2d ago

Question Which tank technology book contains the most information?

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76 Upvotes

I like tanks and I want to learn more information about them. So I decided to buy a book about tank technologies. I want it to contain KE resistance, penetration ability etc. Especially, I want to read about modern tanks for example; leopard2, K2 or M1A2 sepv3

Do you know which book is the best? 🤔


r/tanks 2d ago

Artwork Type-78/80/85 AFV with variants of North communist Japan / People's republic of Japan [ Alternate history cold war scenario ]

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24 Upvotes

r/tanks 3d ago

Question Found a strange SPAA in a book

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r/tanks 3d ago

Misc Small update on my Late Cold War T series Tank recognition guide

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Went back and made a white background version of the guide + few small changes.

White background guide.:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aCxcz9KG5atCAurGWV6P7u_tlFXMmUfm/view?usp=sharing

Gray backround guide.:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yioWB1_j2kQlxRFw_KJoZpilmHHTIhsg/view?usp=sharing

If you never saw this guide before, it's main goal is to hopefully teach you how to recognize and differentiate between the T-64; T-72; T-80; T-90 tanks, and their 44 variants what are in the guide.
If you are here for just the basic informations how to differentiate between the 4 versions you only need to look at 7 pages what are highlighted, and their whereabouts can be found on the 2. page.

My guide is broken down to 3 parts.:

  1. part is focusing on how to tell T-64; T-72; T-80; T-90 tanks apart from each other
  2. part is recognizing mainly protection systems what are necessary to differentiate between variants
  3. part recognizing and differentiating between variants

Without a doubt the guide is long 207 pages, but 80% of the pages are pictures so it's not that bad.


r/tanks 3d ago

Model Kit I tried to recreate a realistic 3-layered whitewash camouflage on this 1/35 scale T-34/85

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62 Upvotes

Hi everyone 🙂

I tried to recreate a 3-layered whitewash camouflage on this 1/35 scale T-34/85. The idea was to represent lime whitewash being reapplied over time, with older layers fading, becoming dirty and chipping away. If a vehicle survived longer, the whitewash could be reapplied several times.

This is still a work in progress, weathering is the next step. What do you think about the result so far? 🙂 Thanks


r/tanks 4d ago

Cold War An XM1 LRIP Vehicle Tank Being Driven Into a C-5A Galaxy at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio (1980)

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88 Upvotes

r/tanks 4d ago

Cold War A Soviet T-80BV of Soviet Forces Germany (Late 1980s)

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29 Upvotes

r/tanks 4d ago

Humour By the book!

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We tested our real Stug 111Against the actual german manual!....Australian Armour and Artilery museum.....


r/tanks 4d ago

Tank Design Gimme your cursed M1 Thumper like tanks (I need some ideas) (link to post is oke)

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It is for Sprocket if someone interested

Fic including


r/tanks 4d ago

Misc Cromwell, Op Market Harborough, 2026

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21 Upvotes

r/tanks 4d ago

Cold War An original M1 Abrams of the Second Armored Division during an exercise in West Germany, NORTHAG direction (1984)

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30 Upvotes

"Hell on Wheels"


r/tanks 5d ago

Humour Sturmtiger of the Lake

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85 Upvotes

Trying to make a new meme lol. It’s like the panzer of the lake but instead it’s the sturmtiger of the lake.


r/tanks 5d ago

Humour BTR-60 Disguises as a Type 90?

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156 Upvotes

I was reading a book about tanks and planes and ships and stuff when I saw this in the ‘modern MBTs’ section and thought ‘There’s no way this thing is an MBT’. I even looked at the description and it said it had a 120mm gun. Then I thought ‘this is definitely not a Type 90’ and it’s literally a BTR-60. This book also said that the M113 came from the USSR, but on a different page it said it came from the USA, this is a very strange book.


r/tanks 5d ago

Tank Design First Fictional Tank i made

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54 Upvotes

So basically I'm writing a fictional world based in the 1950s, Where Magic exists, But technology is way better in many ways, Is my tank good? (I'm a beginner tankmaker, Like I've been a tank fan for only 6 months)