Over to you

An enemy stronghold is softened up by ME 626 Donner Vogel (Thunderbird) before a waiting armoured assault unit comprising of Jaguar MK2 Luftpanzers, goes into action. The enemy is not without teeth as one of the Tbird pilots has found out.

slingblade87.deviantart.com/ has wriiten a short story bringing the above image to life  - go check it out, its very good
Winter OffensiveThe biting cold of the Finnish winter reached through the thick great coat that Hauptman Hans Steiner wore as he stood in the hatch of his Jagdjaguar luftpanzer. The heavy tank hummed idly as it hovered on the snow covered road, besides it an identical tank hummed on its own idling engine. Steiner looked down the road, bracketed on either side by thickly snow laden trees. He hated this damned country, it reminded him of Russia in winter.
“How long are we waiting Hauptman?” his gunner asked from inside the Jagdjaguar's casmate.
“As long as we need to.” Steiner replied, his breath frosting in front of his face. “Our orders are to hold until we get the signal.”
Inside the casemate he heard his gunner shiver and smiled.
“Don't tell me you're cold in there.”
“Freezing Hauptman.”
Steiner chuckled. “Maybe you should come up here with me, it's quite toasty.”
“I will pass.” the gunner replied with a laugh as the

Tank and aircraft modelled and rendered in modo
 Background from  masyon.deviantart.com/
There are some fabulous photographs here.
Everything else in Photoshop

I have 3 versions of a new aircraft that just will not come together so I thought I would dump the project and do a tank as the last one was a bit ungainly.

Not really got a back story here as my knowledge of armoured fighting vehicles is not on par with that of vintage aviation – this could be a good thing

Alternative view :

Work in prog:
Decided I wanted a winter feel in the end.