Si & Steve's Animal Antics GB: Oct 2019 - March 2020 Chat thread.

[stillp]

..... and a partridge in a pear tree :smiling6: :smiling5:

What make kit is that? :smiling5:
Pete

[BattleshipBob]

Looked and looked, even waiting for country file to get back to me

Not one bloody creature called a -------- Stug, bugger !!!

[PaulTRose]

Sorry to spoil your fun, but Focke-Wulf is not an animal. It is the company that made airplanes and was founded by Heinrich Focke and Georg Wulf. They built the FW 190 designed by Kurt Tank and other aircraft too....

however they had a habit, going back to the mid 20s, of naming their aircraft after birds

the 190 was shrike, the 200 was condor, 189 was owl......the 154 was a glitch cos it was mosquito lol

[rtfoe]

Paul, not only was the mosquito a glitch, their He117 was half bird half lion...Greif or Griffin. :smiling3: I have the Greif and Condor to choose from too d... it!

Cheers,
Richard

[Guest]

Hi Allen, no worries thought the Wulf was wolf in German :tears-of-joy:

That would be Wolf, as in:—

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There is a strong possibility it might be the Kaman HH-43 Huskie because of its oddity and being a helicopter. The spelling of Huskie might throw it off.:thinking:

I have a sneaking suspicion that “Huskie” here refers to Eskimos (or Inuit, the more PC term in the USA), since “Husky” is originally a shortened form of “Huskimo” that these people were often called in English way back when. American military helicopters are almost invariably named after Native American peoples, and I’d be surprised if the HH-43 was named after the dog that was named after the people, rather than after the people directly. However, the rules say must be an animal link, not that the subject must have an animal’s name …

Looked and looked, even waiting for country file to get back to me

Not one bloody creature called a -------- Stug, bugger !!!

Are you seriously saying you can’t link a StuG to an animal? Not even this variant?

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[peterairfix]

Searching through the stash turned up another victim.
This I will do first as I plan to get all the PE on offer for my lynx

[PaulTRose]

Paul, not only was the mosquito a glitch, their He117 was half bird half lion...Greif or Griffin. :smiling3: I have the Greif and Condor to choose from too d... it!

Cheers,
Richard

erm...the He177 was Heinkel not FW

[stillp]

That would be Wolf, as in:—

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I have a sneaking suspicion that “Huskie” here refers to Eskimos (or Inuit, the more PC term in the USA), since “Husky” is originally a shortened form of “Huskimo” that these people were often called in English way back when. American military helicopters are almost invariably named after Native American peoples, and I’d be surprised if the HH-43 was named after the dog that was named after the people, rather than after the people directly. However, the rules say must be an animal link, not that the subject must have an animal’s name …


Are you seriously saying you can’t link a StuG to an animal? Not even this variant?

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What's that Jakko? The caption is too small to read.
Pete

[Fernando N]

Since Peter is going for a Lynx too, I’m changing my subjects to a Tomcat and a whale in white for more variety in the GB:smiling4:.
Nice to have a zoo as a stash:smiling5:.

[Allen Dewire]

What's that Jakko? The caption is too small to read.

I believe he's referring to the "Saukopf" (pig's head) mantlet on the StuG III. It was also used on the StuG IV. I was designed to deflect AT shots. It was called that because it looked like a pig's head with snout…...

[stillp]

Could be Allen, but does that count as an animal?
Pete

[Allen Dewire]

Honestly Pete, I would say no as it refers to the mantlet only.

Poor Bob has been trying to get a StuG into this GB from the start…………..

[BattleshipBob]

Most Stug commanders liked bacon butties and had dashhounds

Still trying Allen

[Guest]

Could be Allen, but does that count as an animal?

The rule as stated in one of the opening posts is “there must be an animal link” — not “the subject must have an animal name.” In other words: I’m trying to give Bob a way to build a StuG by living up to the letter of the law rather than the spirit

[stillp]

Ah, but another rule is proper vehicle names only please, no nicknames , so I think Bob'll have to work harder to get a Stug in!
Maybe we should have a Stug GB....