The Germans did manage to capture a few T34-85s before the war's end, so it seems perfectly possible they could have captured one of the this tank had it entered service.

By no means could those tanks be captured by the Germans. They were on trials thousands of miles away from the frontline. There is a well-known story of an early batch of M26 Pershings deployed to Western Theatre during final stage of operations, but when it comes to the T-44, there is no such story.

By no means could those tanks be captured by the Germans. They were on trials thousands of miles away from the frontline. There is a well-known story of an early batch of M26 Pershings deployed to Western Theatre during final stage of operations, but when it comes to the T-44, there is no such story.[/quote] I know that the T-44 was never used in combat IRL, I was talking in a what if scenario where it was accepted into active service.

If I understand correctly not "what ifs" but stand ins for Nazi tanks from some Soviet era war movies.

I think the tank is usually modified with extra metal plates to stand in for one of the nowadays rare Tiger I tanks in films such as Downfall.

Mini Art will probably produce more T44 kits than the real ones were produced!

Since the Soviets built 1800 T44s in total, I'd have to disagree

I just think its great miniart went forward with this project T-44, and it opens alot of varients.

In some early soviet WW2 movies the T-44 has acted as "German tank". I think Miniart's German markings are focusing on that There will be an T-44M version also. The assembled kit in Nürnberg was a M variant.