I just saw that someone resurrected this. Thanks for the kind words. Agreed, it does look similar to Maschinen Krieger stuff, probably because both are inspired by WWII German armored vehicles. But I think the MK stuff is lot more imaginative design-wise. I really had to throw this thing together in about 2 weeks with stuff I had lying around. That's why the gun looks like a Browning because I had a spare barrel jacket from 1/6 toy. Though the barrel itself is from a 1/35 Tiger I and the receiver is scratch built. I did post this on a 1/6 scale modeling board and a guy sent me a spare MG34 toy he had lying around which was very nice. But I'm probably going to use that for another project as I'm kind of done tinkering with this piece. It's now on the shelf gathering dust.
As for the future of this project, it's way on the back burner. I went to over 15 production companies with this (including some biggies like Bad Robot and Kurtzman/Orci, which is in the Amblin offices where I got to pet Steven Spielberg's dogs). Getting a high concept project like this with no preexisting source material (comic book, graphic novel, or whatever) by a complete unknown (me) made in this town is about as impossible and impossible gets. And though I made that short video for only $2,000, it's really hard to convince someone that this could be done for under 40 million. So, I'm just concentrating on some much lower budget stuff right now and maybe some day this will pan out. Or not. Rejection is 95% of the job.
But it's extremely encouraging to hear from you guys that I'm not the only one who's into this kind of thing. So thanks for posting!