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True to scale

Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2019 5:19 pm
by ronnie42
Been looking for recoil measurements, turret rotation time and tank max kms to scale . Just thinking why detail a tank and do a nice paintwork if it still performs like a toy. Would be nice to find a web page that give a run down of rc scale information for all the popular tanks. The aftermarket boards can be programmed , getting all the info is hard work and as always lots of different answers.

Re: True to scale

Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2019 5:46 pm
by mutt71
This a great idea. I also want the turret to turn, the Tank to drive, recoil of the main gun barrel, true to scale. Like you, I wish I knew where to find this info. I eagerly await developments to your search.

Re: True to scale

Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2019 6:02 pm
by jarndice
:haha: :haha: You don't want much do you ?
The day after my Heng Long 1/16 Centurion with metal hull arrives I shall sit down and go through all the Tank handbooks from Little Willy in 1917 upto the Abrams of today and copy down the required information and post it here.

Re: True to scale

Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2019 7:11 pm
by Ragnar
jarndice wrote::haha: :haha: You don't want much do you ?
The day after my Heng Long 1/16 Centurion with metal hull arrives I shall sit down and go through all the Tank handbooks from Little Willy in 1917 upto the Abrams of today and copy down the required information and post it here.
Oo,oo,ol Jarndice thank you for volunteering to step up to the plate ....can’t wait to know what the rotation speed of Red 13s turret suppose to be!, :clap:

Re: True to scale

Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2019 7:32 pm
by STHV
I will be doing this with my tanks hopefully
Most likely I will just pull the performance data from War Thunder and scale it down to 1/16 as its quite accurate because they take the data from the original documents and captured vehicle tests

Re: True to scale

Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2019 7:43 pm
by STHV
Ragnar wrote:
jarndice wrote::haha: :haha: You don't want much do you ?
The day after my Heng Long 1/16 Centurion with metal hull arrives I shall sit down and go through all the Tank handbooks from Little Willy in 1917 upto the Abrams of today and copy down the required information and post it here.
Oo,oo,ol Jarndice thank you for volunteering to step up to the plate ....can’t wait to know what the rotation speed of Red 13s turret suppose to be!, :clap:
If I am correct in saying that Red 13 is a mid production model Ausf E Tiger then it should have a turret traverse speed of at maxiumum 14 degrees per second due to the RPM assist from the engine however if it is idle it would only be able to reach about 8

Re: True to scale

Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2019 9:51 pm
by jarndice
I would not build up your hopes if I was you,
I shall be pushing up daisies long before Heng Long come up with a 1/16 metal hulled Centurion MkV11 :lolno:

Re: True to scale

Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2019 10:17 pm
by ronnie42
OK lets make a start KINGTIGER.
Turret rotation one turn high rpm 19s low rpm 77s very slow by hand.
Gun recoil a Flak43/41 = 120 cm , someone said half for muzzle brake =60 cm.
Spielberger 38cm-58cm ammo used?
Tamiya 16*37.5mm = 60cm found 2 saying 24mm and roundabout 30mm on 1/16 model
elevation/ depression 15/8 degrees
Top speed 38 km/h road ,cross country 15-20 km/h and reverse max 12km/h.
4km/h is walking speed so 2.4 km/h would be just over half normal walking speed for road , cross country 1/4 of walking speed.

Re: True to scale

Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2019 11:29 am
by General Jumbo01
Couldn't agree more but l got little support in a previous thread for developing new battle standard rules with a new mfu board developed to support this. The general public may be amused but won't impressed by our shows.

That said, checkout RC battle ship battles on utube. Watching scale ships chase sound a lake on the plane, even in reverse, is impressive but not for the right reasons :crazy:

Re: True to scale

Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:04 pm
by Raminator
I've found that wardrawings.be is a good source for this kind of data. Each vehicle's page contains a link to a datasheet that has all sorts of useful information on it; it's where I managed to find the elevation and traverse limits for the SU-152.