I converted a 1/16 TORRO RC tank (Prometal Edition: metal chassis, turret, wheels, tracks) into a Tiger II tank of the German 505th Heavy Tank Battalion, famous for its assaulting knight's unit mark. There are three problems with the appearance of TORRO's Tiger II. -Zimmerit coating is applied only to the vehicle body side and not to the turret. (Does not exist in actual tanks)
The gap between the main gun Zaucop (shield) and the front of the turret is too large and extends. -The pistol port at the rear of the turret is omitted.
- Real tank zaucop
The Zimmerit coating has been reproduced on the metal turret with epoxy putty and a minus screwdriver. Rollers cannot be used like the 1/35 scale model, but the minus screwdriver was just the right size. For the modification of the distance between the shield and the turret, I added and processed plastic material on the shield side with reference to the photograph of the actual tank so that it would be in the same state as the actual tank. The mounting brackets for OVM etc. use the etched parts of the Voyager model, and the MG gun mount and ammunition bag of Commander's Cupola are not good on the market, so I made them by myself with brass material etc.
This battalion's Tiger II was launched before April 1944, so the bolted circular armor flange cover has not yet been attached to the air intake in the center of the engine compartment of the King Tiger belonging to this battalion, and the circular opening is The meshed cover is bolted. (The armored flange cover was bolted to vehicles manufactured after September 1944.) Therefore, the original circular flange cover was removed and remodeled so that the mesh cover was bolted. The historical evidence here is the part that I was particular about.
The RRZ spec track recoil of TORRO Tiger II is too intense, so I inserted a resistor in the ATRC to adjust the recoil amount. The light emission timing of the main gun has also been changed so that it is just before the start of the gun recoil.
My TORRO TIGER II Pro Metal Edition is a used item that I got at an auction before. I attached the USM-HL2 sound board to this and improved the details, but the main gun recoil is still RRZ. RRZ has been in good condition without any trouble, but the body recoil is terrible. It's like a tank jumping up when firing. So at that time, I bought an anti-recoil circuit (ATRC) named MRM-02 from Tank-Modellbau to prevent it from track recoiling.
This circuit is made by myself in order to raise it cheaply after this. However, I thought that it was not enough that there was no track recoil at all, so I inserted a resistor in this anti-recoil circuit and adjusted the amount of track recoil.
