Re: Not exactly a tank, but.........

Mackem · Post by **Mackem** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 12:13 pm

I certainly wouldn't like to come up against it!

This is the South African Rooikat armoured car.

It's big, it's fast, it's well armoured, and it is designed to take out a T55.
If I knew anything about RC cars/trucks I would definitely have a go at building this.

John

Post by **Matdragon** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 1:02 pm

wow, that is awsome man!!

deffinatly worth a try in 1/16

tiger205 · Post by **tiger205** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 7:20 pm

that is a nice looking bit of kit, what size gun is it?, it would be great for going shopping in

Tony

Mackem · Post by **Mackem** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 9:56 am

The original version was fitted with the 76mm Cockerill, the export version has the 105mm GT7.
The specs of this thing are as impressive as it looks,

http://www.army-technology.com/projects/rooikat/

Do any of the RC car/truck builders out there think a scratch build would be possible by
joining 2 4wd chassis together?

John

mcevoyi · Post by **mcevoyi** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 6:11 pm

hi all

i think the italian army have sometig almost the same ..and trumpeter have doin it in 1/35 ... so easy to scale up .. just a question of running gear

would not mind a shot at makeing it !

mcevoyi · Post by **mcevoyi** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 6:16 pm

a link to trumpeters website

http://www.perthmilitarymodelling.com/n ... mpeter.htm

have a quick look

Mackem · Post by **Mackem** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 8:27 am

Nice find on the trumpeter site.
I've PM'd one of the RC car experts on this forum to see what they think
should be used for the runing gear. I was thinking of joining 2 4WD chassis
but I'll wait and see what the experts say.

Cheers
John

oztruck · Post by **oztruck** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 5:10 am

Tamiya do some nice diffs for there truck range and ones that even have CV joints for stearing on 6X4's. It could be done

Rocketman · Post by **Rocketman** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 1:42 pm

Ah did you have to show me this? ::) Your not gonna believe thsi but in my office ive four wheels that are juuust the right size , now, all in a line! Tammy running gear would be too big though. Rest would be a pice of pi, sorry cake. Time to dig out the plasticard.

Needs to be faaast though. Time to have a dig throughteh r/c car options

Mackem · Post by **Mackem** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 2:56 pm

Go for it Rocketman, and keep us posted on progress.

John