Another excellent model Alfred! The longer barrel is really apparent in this video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjizELNwRCg – I love the shots where the turret is turned almost perpendicular to the hull!

Hi Don, thank you.
the video is great. And Ramstein (the name of the band) do their part to emphasize the story.
While I worked on the Leo 2 Family I saw a lot of videos. for me this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cye86-9Abtk&feature=PlayList&p=342A6A68F5A5312E&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=32
was very useful because it explains the history of that tank very good.
And I like the part where the Leos in winter carmoflague were running full speed across the country.

You’re right alfredix – that is a great video and I agree that watching the Leopards catch air in the snow is fantastic! Seeing the two different cannon configs is cool too. It’s still hard to gauge the size of the thing. Someone needs to park an old Tiger next to one and make the comparison!

Hi Billybosue, we should ask Nobbnob. He introduced the Tank group. Maybe he has a Tiger somewhere. I am not so much into WW II things.
I think for the size, the Leo2 is about the size of the Abrams. Beside the cannon they share a lot of parts. The LEO2 and the Abrams both came out of an originally joint project between the US and Germany. Both countries intended to make a common tank. This project was canceled and both countries developed their own tanks, the Abrams and the Leo.

Congratulations Alfred! Your model has been included in the 49th weekly Top 10 models blog with pictures and links to your model.

Go to http://www.3dvia.com/blog/3dvia-top-10-049/ to check it out!

so cool great tanks
i see you now is on the heavy weapons stage..just love it
as usual great details and specially nice to se a tanks with crew .
oh sorry HI ALFREDIX long time since last..
hope all is well with you and that you have made a lot of good models i can study..
your lost but hopefully not forgotten friend Smike is back..

Hi Smike, welcome back (you were not forgotten, don’t worry). thanks for the kind words.

great model, i’ve seen this up close and it’s absoloutely massive, but i’ve never seen an abrams in the metal so i cant’ compare. i do have a tiger but i dotn ‘knwo if i can upload it on 3dvia because of copyright and all that.

Splendid!

thanks everybody.
@hobbnob: too bad about the tiger. I plan to do a Abrams. Maybe I can do a model with both tanks included.