the last A7V

[OchoinParticipant]

A few years ago, this was parked outside the local museum & my kids (along with others) could climb all over it.

 

https://www.9news.com.au/national/2018/11/10/22/46/queensland-museum-anzac-legacy-gallery-armistice-centenary

 

After some restoration, it now & fittingly, has pride of place.

 

donald

[kyoteblueParticipant]

It is a good looking Museum.

[OchoinParticipant]

kyoteblue wrote:

It is a good looking Museum.

The Aussies take WW1 very seriously. I believe their armed forces had the most casualties as a percentage of the population than any other participant.

For Australia, from a population of fewer than five million, 416,809 men enlisted, of whom more than 60,000 were killed and 156,000 wounded, gassed, or taken prisoner.

Pretty sobering.

 

donald

[Darkest Star GamesParticipant]

That is extremely cool.  I would love to be able to see and climb on and in one.  The WW1 tanks hold a sort of mythological status for me.  They seem so huge yet I know they were a lot smaller than my mind paints them…

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[deephorseParticipant]

I would very much like to see “Mephisto” in person but I know that will never happen.  I can console myself with being able to see a number of WWI tanks at Bovington instead.  They have an A7V there, but sadly it’s just a replica.  But you can climb in and out of one or two of the exhibits, and they are quite large, bigger than many a WWII tank.

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[OchoinParticipant]

Mephisto always seems big. Whether inside in the exhibit hall or out in the museum grounds, it dominates the space. I’d love to see a Mark 1 sitting next to it but the Diggers used the various ones they “captured” , ground down, as shaving blades.

 

 

donald

[Darkest Star GamesParticipant]

Nothing says “manly” like using a tank to shave…. 

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[Kaptain KoboldParticipant]

I took quite a few pictures of Mephisto when it was on display in Canberra a few years ago. I blogged them here:

https://hordesofthethings.blogspot.com/2016/03/mephisto.html

 

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[Darkest Star GamesParticipant]

That is awesome!  Thanks!  At first I was shocked by how huge it was, then I realized it was on a plinth/platform.  Beautiful pictures.

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[deephorseParticipant]

Nice photos, thanks.

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[Kaptain KoboldParticipant]

Darkest Star Games wrote:

That is awesome! Thanks! At first I was shocked by how huge it was, then I realized it was on a plinth/platform. Beautiful pictures.

It is still pretty big though. Unfortunately they’d displayed it in such a way that it was difficult to get a long-shot of it such that you could appreciate the length.

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