[go back] What I want to say? Boys will be boys! Men and tanks. (Or racing cars.) This is really somtehing! Worth to think about and work on it. Especially if so many people have/had to work and to die for, burning so much energy in that short time for nothing.

As I mentioned the Battle of Kursk [link] between german and russian forces. Not to talk about the incredible personnel casualities, there were thousands (!) of tanks, assault guns, cannons and airplanes destroyed in less than two month.

What is the effort to build a tank? What resources does it take? So you can imagine the deficit of quality of life for millions, if thousands must be built to blow it. Some of the reasons, even this stereotype of east battling west as a matter of civilisation, represented in that crazy Kursk-event, making a tank a special symbol.

This are reasons, why I turned it into a "Racing Tank" years ago. Fast, dangerous, shooting. A boy thing, mayhem, fetish. A scale model, based on an american M60A1 medium tank of the U.S.Marines. (See the "Banzai Baby" at the "balkan buro"!)

I was talking with an expert. Anton Kober (left, on the right Bernhard Kober) told me a lot about the machine of my interest. I could see some scale models of Sherman Tanks, the kind, we found in Novi Sad.

This is the startup of an process, of a narration, of "hands on!", cause Nikola Dzafo ("ART klinika") and me made some plans. It began on the 1st of january 2010, when we went from Beograd over Fruska Gora to Petrovaradin. (There is a story about that day, but german only: [link]) ...

[balkan buro]

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