Landships

The Russian T35 heavy tank in 20 mil scale. This beast was huge with a crew of 11. Around 60 were built in the mid 30s. They served with the 64th and 65th Tank Regiments in the Kiev District in 1941. Most were lost through breakdown and abandonment.

The T35 was based on the Vickers A1E1 Independent heavy tank. Only one prototype was built in 1926, now on display at the Tank Museum, Bovington.

The plans for the Independent were sold to the Germans by the fascist traitor Norman Baillie-Stewart.

The Germans built five Neubaufahrzeug prototypes before abandoning the concept. They were used for propaganda purposes in Norway and broken up for scrap in '41.

And that was the end of the landship concept that Vickers and the British Army set running in 1924.