Hello everyone,

after quite some time, we’re going to have a competition. That’s right – and this time, I really have something cool for you, courtesy of the British guys from the Research Squad (Panther Project), specifically Mr.Brian Balkwill. Something about them first then.

You can find those guys on their website:

http://www.theresearchsquad.com/

As they describe themselves:

We are a group who share a common passion towards the preservation and restoration of historical items of interest. Our aim is to professionally document, research and publish studies on significant subjects in a variety of media, for the wider public to enjoy.
In addition to the books we publish, this site will contain large amounts of information in the way of galleries, drawings, diagrams and research projects for free use of wider communities.
To this end we are also currently working in close co-operation with The Wheatcroft Collection, a privately owned collection of some 200 plus major military and civilian items. Our intention is to publish a series of books on important items within the collection, whilst also working with the collection to raise its public profile via its website.

In short, they take things apart and document them and one of those “things” is the mighty Panther. You see, these guys made this wonderful thing:

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Source: http://www.dom1n.com/newsy/ferdinand-italeri-unboxing/

Hello everyone,

as you might remember, model kit making company Italeri launched recently a cooperation with Wargaming, introducing some of the vehicles, that can be found in the game, as special edition kits with various accessories. Dom1n managed to get his hands on the Ferdinand kit and here’s how it looks inside the box. The kit itself consists of two main parts – the hull and the superstructure. Those are already fitted together apparently.

For fullsize picture, right click and press “view image” (hosted on Imgur)

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Thanks to Ugly_Joe for this one

Source: http://simplepimple.com/2013/11/artist-builds-chinese-tank-using-only-empty-bullet-shells-10-pictures/

Hello everyone,

the following pictures show a model of the Chinese ZTZ-99, made entirely of spent shells and casings (in total over 48 thousand). The model weighs 6,5 tons. It’s currently on display in China’s Museum of Industry in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province.

That must have taken a LONG time to make…

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Hello everyone,

a couple more invite codes from the Polish CD Action magazine (500g + 3 days prem) by Plmarian, Radoslaw K., CaptainTeemo_2013, SchnauzerFaust, “Pawel”, Tigerwaffe, Kewis7

DWRT4-7S76N-TKSB2-SWTVC-MVYBT
DWRTS-75GUY-WV89T-3S592-T7AFP
DWRT4-HBM2U-7CTYB-F8HXU-D3RWG
DWRT5-ZR3AG-6FTMA-UYY3C-5X579
DWRT9-GT9VZ-SWC7X-9Z5NT-GPX5Y
DWRTC-ADC4F-9G73K-HXD2P-DTHFU
DWRTV-4H2GR-Z2TF3-R87VW-XE5MA

Hello everyone,

the following picture was posted on Yuri Pasholok’s blog. I do think that it’s very… self explanatory. The post was called “realities” (in the sense of “how it really is”) – I think it’s very realistic depiction of the current state…

Thanks to (just like the previous screenshots) J.Saunders for this one.

Hello everyone,

yesterday, I posted tankopedia screenies with some of then vehicles, that were developed a long time ago. Here’s one more. It’s a vehicle, that will very likely appear on tier 4 of the “Firefly” branch – it’s the M3 Grant.

Keep in mind that these stats belong to a vehicle, that wasn’t even supertested and was developed years ago.

Hello everyone, as you probably know, today, the official testing of WoT Blitz for Android started. I have absolutely no idea how to apply for a tester position (if it’s possible at all), but a lot of people asked that recently for some reason – so yep. Started today.

Hello everyone,

some slowpoke news – as you might have noticed, patch 9.3 is here! A weird thing – maybe I am blind, but I can’t see any mention of the HD textures anywhere, so just keep in mind – for maximum quality, you have to download them separately (see previous posts on FTR). Much stronk.

If your launcher throws errors, try restarting it several times, helped for me. Now I am downloading the patch normally. Also, as for the “forums down”, some stronk haxor group claimed they “shot down” WG EU server or whatever, but it was likely just some kid making fake claims.

So – enjoy!

Thanks to mbd for this one.

Hello everyone,

as you probably know, after the fall of Qaddafi, Libya became locked in a state of perpetual civil war with several fractions fighting each other, Al Qaeda and IS got involved as well, it’s a mess. In any case, this is what happens when people, who are not regular army soldiers, get a hold of tanks. The drifting is nice though…