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Re: RC Tanks
« Reply #250 on: June 11, 2013, 06:28:50 pm »
Nice one Geoff , nice to see someone else building something different.
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« Reply #251 on: June 13, 2013, 09:48:30 am »
After many many years of building ships,boats, aircraft, helicopters and tanks, I have gone mad and started another tank. BUT this time it's 1/2 scale. We have seen the wonderful manned model ships ( I was tempted, but lack water) so how about manned model tanks ?  A YouTube search for " scaled tank " or username Gizmo4T will give you an idea. Mine is to be a Matilda 2 . . . . . So good the Australians made a song about it .
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« Reply #252 on: June 20, 2013, 05:15:56 pm »
1/2 scale, flipping heck! Should be a right build!!!!
Nice one Rob, keep us posted please....

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Re: RC Tanks
« Reply #253 on: June 20, 2013, 11:16:54 pm »
Quote from: Getemuphigh on June 20, 2013, 05:15:56 pm
1/2 scale, flipping heck! Should be a right build!!!!
Nice one Rob, keep us posted please....

Should be able to actually drive it  :-)) :-))
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« Reply #254 on: June 21, 2013, 02:04:05 pm »
Yes, hydraulic powered, sit in and drive it. Have a look at those links to see them working.
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Re: RC Tanks
« Reply #255 on: July 04, 2013, 10:15:06 pm »
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Re: RC Tanks
« Reply #256 on: July 23, 2013, 02:35:52 pm »
I have a tamiya 1/16 Pershing . It is still sat on the work in progress shelf as i have not started weathering it yet . Still enjoying the "as new" condition .
I acquired some resin 1/16 scale stowage the will go well with it , when i get round to it ..

sorry for the grainy pics 
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« Reply #257 on: July 23, 2013, 02:46:05 pm »
Should look really good with the weathering.

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« Reply #258 on: January 18, 2014, 09:43:26 pm »
Here are a few pictures of my Heng Long Jagdpanther. I've modified it a bit with uprated wheels, suspension and gearboxes. I added some extra detail and changed the RC system to Taigen 2.4Ghz.
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« Reply #259 on: January 18, 2014, 10:13:11 pm »
Nice job, like you i've just updated a panther g with taigen electrics and made the turret do full 360 degree turns using some bits i had lying around, tell a lie i did buy the pick up wire, could'nt solder it so used some 3 amp conectors, the next one i do in a tiger i'll try the phosphor bronze strip. It's easier to do with the recoil unit fitted just use a slip ring or telephone anti tangle device but with mine they have bb units in the and it hangs down below the rotation ring
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Re: RC Tanks
« Reply #260 on: February 22, 2014, 10:38:54 pm »
hi I have around 20 tanks at the moment , all 1/16th scale heres a couple of pictures




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« Reply #261 on: February 23, 2014, 08:05:15 am »
I got my hands on a Tamiya Tiger I (56010).

What colour should I use for it if I go for the Africa version ?
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« Reply #262 on: February 23, 2014, 01:46:38 pm »
Hi i would use Tamiya dark yellow, then high light panels in a very thinned buff to show fading. heres a pic of my model of a  tiger that was captured in tunisia
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Re: RC Tanks
« Reply #263 on: February 27, 2014, 12:43:54 pm »
did tigers ever see africa?  :P - yes I know tunisia is NORTH africa, but I thought they didnt come into service till a lot later.
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« Reply #264 on: February 27, 2014, 02:22:55 pm »

The only working Tiger in the UK is in the Bovington Tank Museum.in Dorset, it was captured in ..North Africa.

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« Reply #265 on: February 27, 2014, 02:34:04 pm »
I know its a big place - be more surprised if they had found it in botswana  {-)  , third reich and on till morning until the fuel runs out.
 
Like I said, thought they didnt come out until later after the defeat of rommel, busy doing a bit of rework on the royal sov so unable to go digging for them, back to the loft for some soldering.
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« Reply #266 on: February 27, 2014, 02:39:25 pm »
decided to look - yep used in tunisia with the africa corp.  :D
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« Reply #267 on: February 28, 2014, 02:10:50 am »
Quote from: warspite on February 27, 2014, 02:34:04 pm
I know its a big place - be more surprised if they had found it in botswana  {-)  , third reich and on till morning until the fuel runs out.
 
Like I said, thought they didnt come out until later after the defeat of rommel, busy doing a bit of rework on the royal sov so unable to go digging for them, back to the loft for some soldering.
Soldering.....i,m needing some soldering done....maybe i can send you what i,m needing done...i could pay you with a Haggis.... {-)
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« Reply #268 on: February 28, 2014, 10:24:43 am »
ooooo that's ofal,  {-), anyway so is my soldering  >:-o, did all right last year, just tried soldering a M6 brass nut to a piece of M8 thread - without getting solder in either thread, would have preferred to have two nuts, one on top of the other on top of the M8 thread, but had to resort to just the one - reluctant to try again, initially tried it with a 40W soldering iron and a serious bit of cleaning and tinning no luck, probably due to the large heat sink of the vice etc, so used a blow torch - one extreme to another, just hope there's enough thread with the M6 nut, with another acting as a locking nut.  Anyway getting of topic.  :D.

I have a tiger from Tamiya, been a while since been out of the photocopy box she is in, but going to be looking through the loft - workshop soon for all the other kits I have.  O0
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« Reply #269 on: February 28, 2014, 03:23:45 pm »
here is a few more of my 1/16th tanks







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« Reply #270 on: March 01, 2014, 01:15:12 am »
Guys....those 1/16 tanks look superb  :-))....but enough of the haggis & ofal  :D.........

Please explain how you want to solder the M6 brass nut to a section of [?M8] thread..........

There will be a method  :-)) ......Derek
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« Reply #271 on: March 01, 2014, 01:10:10 pm »
It has already been done, just not that good, I don't want to mess with it now, as with all things, if I start to change it now it will go all wrong, this is off topic and therefore the nuts problem is going back on the fin thread.

Absolutely great tanks. love the 6th one
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« Reply #272 on: May 24, 2014, 08:47:10 pm »
i have a tamiya 1/16 mk1 tiger tank....had it some years now...nice models..............
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« Reply #273 on: May 24, 2014, 08:52:54 pm »
its got as much metal on it as i can get on it lol...will post some pics...lol...................
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« Reply #274 on: May 29, 2014, 04:33:45 pm »
Of course I have tanks doesn't every one  {-) {-)
The King Tiger and the Sherman I built some years ago from Tamiya full option kits both are upgraded with metal tracks, The Pershing is a Heng long I came across on e-bay a few years ago listed as (non working spares or repair) I thought it was worth a punt and to my surprise I got it very cheap, when it arrived it looked almost new, opened it up and looked at the control panel and on the under side immediately found the problem a wire detached form it using the length of the wire I narrowed it down two six likely soldering points on closer inspection I could see the signs of a broken wire on one of them, so I soldered it in place and put it back together switched on and the lights started flashing, pushed the ignition button and it burst into life, not a patch on my Tamiya's but for a tenner it'll do  :-))
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