Your Top Anime/Sci-fi Tank

[Ratchet]

Mine would have to be this tank from Detonator Orgun:

This crazy Ishtar tank from Venus Wars:

Sparta Hovertank:

[Chewie]

It's all about Bonaparte from New Dominion Tank Police.

[lord_breetai]

Blitzwing from Transformers would be up there

Blitzwing... good on the ground and in the air.

[EXO]

Gunhed

[Jasonc]

MMMMMMM,,, gunhed!!! LOL. Yeah, that's definitely up there.

[myk]

I'd have to go with the big white tank from the Ghost in the Shell movie, or maybe one of the Tachikomas...

[Mr March]

Like myk, I really like many of the Think Tanks from the Ghost In The Shell movies and series. I especially like the Standard Light Weight Tank (Crab Tank) in the GITS feature film, the Tachikomas and the HAW206 (Scorpion Tank) seen in GITS-SAC 1st Gig.

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I also really like the Patlabor future tanks, like the HAL X-10 and the AFL-98 Lhada.

Edited September 14, 2007 by Mr March

[Necron_99]

What is it with these tank threads?

[the white drew carey]

It's all about Bonaparte from New Dominion Tank Police.

Exactly.

[baronv]

The Metal Slug tank from the video game...

[warpaint22]

The M808B Scorpion MBT from Halo, then the APC from Alians, very cool designs.

[eugimon]

tachikoma for me as well. I just love them little guys something fierce!

[Greyryder]

Would the M60A2 count, since it was also called the "Starship?" Functionally it sucks, but it looks cool.

From science fiction, I'd have to vote for the Battle Force Tank, from the video game Recoil. I also rather liked the various Grav Tanks from Renegade Legion.

[sketchley]

Tachikoma? No, no, no! The Fuchikoma is where it's at! Not even the Uchikoma can compete!

[myk]

What is it with these tank threads?

MODS!!!!

[jwinges]

1. Tachkoma-Kun

2. The Tanks from Nausicaa

3. Bonapart

[reddsun1]

I've always liked the AFL-98 Lhada from the Patlabor 2 movie. A real-life version - as impractical, expensive and fragile as it may end up being - seems not too far-fetched, much like a lot of the designs from the Patlabor films (I've not seen/followed the TV series in comparison). Those designs have always struck me as very realistic, which is what makes 'em so dang cool for me...

Edited September 15, 2007 by reddsun1

[sqidd]

Terminator HK Tank

[Boxer]

One of my favorites was the Rail-Gun Tiger tank from the old Sierra game Outpost 2

Since there was never a really good picture of it, the best I got is my own drawing from DA

[sqidd]

Oh, no he didn't. Gotta give props to the tanks from Tron

[the white drew carey]

Oh, no he didn't. Gotta give props to the tanks from Tron

Ooooo... I forgot about those!!! Second behind Bonaparte!!!

[gerwalk25]

I gotta soft spot for the Guntank.

[ShadowerV2]

The Sparta Hover Tank for me.

[Keith]

Since absolutely no one has already. I'll split my vote between Metal Gear Rex & Ray.

[the white drew carey]

Since absolutely no one has already. I'll split my vote between Metal Gear Rex & Ray.

Meh... While they were neat, and I love the MGS games, Rex and Ray just weren't that cool to me.

Plus, do they really qualify as tanks? They're main source of movement is locomotion through the legs.

[wolfx]

The Baneblade, an Imperial Guard tank from Warhammer 40k. The motha of all tanks in the 40k era.

A 3D model.

http://www.3d-ring.de/forum.php?topic=1038...a=4&limit=0

[Lynx7725]

The Baneblade, an Imperial Guard tank from Warhammer 40k. The motha of all tanks in the 40k era.

A 3D model.

Why a 3D model? Go for a real plastic model, fresh off the oven..

http://warseer.com/forums/1903011-post1.html

As for myself.. still the M.A.C. II.

[1st Border Red Devil]

Just to be contrary, I'll go with the AIFV from Southern Cross. The cool thing about the design is it and the C³I vehicle are the same basic chassis (kinda like how Germany was developing the MRAV <Multi-Role Armored Vehicle>), meaning you can build alot of them and use the same basic parts across the platforms.

Though, to be fair, the C³I vehicle appears to use camouflage better than the AIFV....

[Valkyrie]

Here's one for ya. The otherwise unnamed "Player's Tank" from the 1988 Namco arcade game Assault.

It's an old favorite of mine. I'm gonna scratchbuild a model of it one of these days...

Those are two sides of the same tank, by the way

[Kurisama]

Masamune's Tanks ROCK!

I always loved the Bonaparte from tank police, and the Fuchikomas - and the think tank...

Anyone know why it and the tank from metal slug are almost the same if not identical?

Anyone have pics of the other tank in the first ep of tank police that gets destroyed? that was sweet!!! Or the spider tank thing in tank police that is like the grand daddy of the think tank in GiTS?

[F-ZeroOne]

If by "spider-tank", you're referring to the very tall, spindle-type walking tank from the Dominion graphic novel, that design is actually based on a T-4 Bacteriophage...!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T4_phage

[valkyrie13]

Clearly not the strongest but there is a tank in Macross that briefly appears and gets blown up during the sequence of Earth getting annihilated by the Zentradi force in the TV series.

[Axelay]

If we're counting tanks from games, then I'm definitely going to say the Harkonnen Devastator from Dune II (and Dune 2000). Slow as molasses, but nearly unstoppable and with more firepower than anything else in the game. And if you manage to destroy one, you had better be a LONG way away from it 'cause it's going to leave quite a nasty hole in the world when it explodes.

A very close second would be the GDI Mammoth Tank from Command and Conquer.

[konimon]

There are many sci-fi tanks around Gun-Hed and it's enemy, Ghost in the Shell, Patlabor and so on.

I'd like add a couple though.

Hildolfr from MS Igloo and Bonaparte Tulcas from Dorvack.

Edited September 18, 2007 by konimon

[Mislovrit]

There are many sci-fi tanks around Gun-Hed and it's enemy, Ghost in the Shell, Patlabor and so on.

Yet half of the "tank" entries in this thread aren't tanks in function or form. Edited September 18, 2007 by Mislovrit