Re: 1/35 Tamiya Sherman\Tiger\ T-74 motorized series

modler · Post by **modler** » Thu Feb 07, 2019 5:16 pm

Update. Decided to add the Tiger and the J.G.S.D.F. Type 74 to this thread as they are also 1\35 scale Tamiya motorized series Tank.

I have owned this Sherman over 40 years and The Tiger for about 25 years .The Sherman originally had a metal dual motor gearbox but it got borrowed for another project about 40 years ago and I decided recently to get it going again but could not find a suitable gearbox on ebay so got the idea to use one from a 1\48 scale Tiger tank that was sitting around with no radio gear. So what you see here is a modified gearbox from a smaller scale tank being fitted to the 1\35 Sherman.

The Tiger is an original motorized series tank as well and still has its all metal gearbox.

Here is a recent video of the Sherman doing a narrow bridge crossing with its new lipo battery. https://youtu.be/imslUrkMn4Q
Crossing this narrow bridge requires precision control and excellent tracking. This is at a mild incline and I will increase the incline to find the limit of this and some other Tanks I am working with. I would like to make a "Tank testing and proving ground" Like the one my Dad worked at in the Army (mid 70's) @ Maryland US Army base Aberdeen Proving grounds.

In this video the gradient angle has been increased to about ~35 degree. The Tiger can do this angle easily.
https://youtu.be/t1C65VEw7vg

Sherman does ~35 degrees https://youtu.be/AsL0sFb4Txc

Sherman has a crash https://youtu.be/WHm4Wu5ybXo

Post by **Son of a gun-ner** » Thu Feb 07, 2019 5:46 pm

They're really cool at that scale

Thanks for sharing, love that you can drive them on a windowsill lol.

modler · Post by **modler** » Thu Feb 07, 2019 7:09 pm

Son of a gun-ner wrote:They're really cool at that scale

Thanks for sharing, love that you can drive them on a windowsill lol.

exactly

modler · Post by **modler** » Fri Feb 08, 2019 1:46 pm

Well I just checked the incline of my bridge ramp and it is only 20 degrees

Hand to get much traction at anything higher than that. I was surprised as I thought I was @ a steeper incline with my videos.

modler · Post by **modler** » Sun Feb 10, 2019 6:16 pm

Here are a few short slo-mo videos of the Sherman

Sherman crosses a obstacle..The sound when it comes down is interesting

https://youtu.be/YJb8_JsyNQA

and this

https://youtu.be/GB5GunIryxA

modler · Post by **modler** » Tue Feb 19, 2019 3:31 pm

Here is a video of the Sherman climbing the ramps of the M15-A1 trailer. The new 3 channel radio upgrade gives it super tracking control as you can see in the video.

https://youtu.be/C1t922s7HLE