Tankom 1/144 P.1000 Ratte
It is difficult to write about the Ratte for the same reason it is difficult to write about Shakesphere. Shakespeare has had several hundred years of expert analysis, with many brilliant scholars spending their careers trying to fully understand how the Bard constructed his works. Short of finding the legendary lost play, or finding some new, completely different folio of Shakespeare play transcriptions, it's difficult to imagine even the most diligent scholar today could contribute anything new. It is a similar deal when writing about the P.1000 Ratte, the preposterous "land cruiser" ultratank the Nazis briefly considered building. The history of the project is short, and most of what's worth saying about it was said in the book " My Tank is Fight" by Zach Parsons. Parsons has a chapter on the Ratte, and if you search the Internet for Ratte-tales you will find people nearly cutting and pasting what Parsons wrote.Unlike Shakespeare, the Ratte can...