Anyone Build BIG models?

I have built a few big "models" it all began when my Dad built me a sheet metal Sherman Tank playhouse when was a kid.
I build my boys a Tiger tank playhouse out of mostly wood with a steel turret that was originally the base for a boiler (It resembled the turret alot!)
I am presently making a 1950's riding toy into a riding toy hearse, lengthing the wheelbase out to 48inches and building a strong steel chassis and suspension under the antique 57 Caddy sheet metal body.
I also have a tank of my own design in my front yard which sort of borrows it's design cues from a T-54 and a T -34, this tank is all steel and features a tank commander in a suit of armor since he is my "cat", Mr. Tuxedo.
In the second floor of my house I built a Panzer IV about half scale, something for those "Nazi-Babes" to sit on, mannequins dressed as the 1950's Men's magazines usually portrayed those mythological creatures. down the hallway from them is my plastic model room with maybe 1,200 assembled military (mostly) kits on display.
I have a thick plexiglass door cover to keep the tourists out but last summer some of them forced open the secret door into that room resulting in breakage from models falling from the shelves!!! GGGRRR!!!
I think it would be a real kick to build a life-sized Russian T-35, the tank with the five turrets!

Holy ****.

Interesting statement there! I'm sure someone can relate, don't worry about MY attitude.

This might be relevant...

I remember stumbling across a company that sold tank kits that were crazy huge. Some like 1/16 or 1/8. They were the size of a large microwave or an apple box. They marketed them as "extremely difficult- only for the extremely experienced."

One thing of note- they were actually detailed precision model kits, not like something you'd scratchbuild.

I'll go see if I can find the site. If nothing else its something to talk about.

Yes, I think I saw some of those someplace, once. The company also bragged about casting the plastic the same scale thickness as the actual armor on the real tank, which might be kind of neat!
One might have been the Porshe Elephant?

I seem to remember the Elephant, but I also think it was cast in resin. I could be wrong.

At any rate, I can't seem to find either. I googled "1/8 tank kit" and got a lot of interesting sites and youtube vids of RC Tigers that scale, but nothing of the precision just-to-build-it variety.

I think my resin site I found might even have been 1/6 or (holy ****) 1/4. That would be the size of a Go-Kart, correct? Or a refrigerator? I highly doubt it but for some reason it stuck out in my mind.

When The Squadron Shop was in Elmhurst, Ill. they had , I believe, a 1/10th scale Tiger I that had all metal construction with a gearbox that was quite impressive looking, but then it had to be strong enough to handle moving an all-metal 1/10th Tiger.
The selling price 30 years ago was a mere $1,200.
Only a very limited number of them were in this country and for sale.

Yeah the kits that I saw were in the $1000's.. Man I wish I could find that!

The site i found cast resin tanks of immense scales, but I think they were closer to 1/8. The refrigerator comparison seems a bit big for the picture (in my head). They had only 4 or so to choose from- I seem to remember the MK something Panzer and M4 Sherman, along with another German tank which might have been a tiger tank or elephant assault gun, but they would be MUCH bigger if the scales were accurate. So maybe not either of the last two. The detail looked exquisite but might have lots of prep and mold-cleaning issues. Thats quite difficult with resin, especially with such BIG kits.

And as I can't find it, either somebody should try looking (i'm still trying) or I'll stop beating the dead horse.

One more thing- I'm a sci-fi wargamer at heart so most of my knowledge comes from Flames of War (a WWII miniature wargame) which I know is slightly inaccurate in its history. I do know what an Elephant looks like though. I know about resin because one of my wargame suppliers makes miniatures at an extremely fine level of detail with it.

The model making duplicating the Elephant has an easier time of it, just like the Germans did, because of there being no turret to worry about, just a flat-sided metal box instead of those mechanical complexities....