Northman

[Glassback]

Hello to everyone out there.
Back in the late seventies I bought a Military Modelling magazine with a picture of a radio controlled Tiger tank on the cover, at the time it was far too expensive and complicated to pursue, and I was just about to discover girls and drinking! Fast forward to the present, married, grown up kids, mortgage, modern day stresses. After a session of Blackband Porter, I was surfing an online retail site and saw a Heng Long King Tiger, well with the beer and having left over Christmas money, I thought why not, upon further research I came upon this site and I an in awe of some of the projects with the tanks the level of detail and skill which has inspired me. Although these days its as if my eyes have been smeared with Vaseline and someone has swapped all my fingers and thumbs for Walls thick pork sausages!! However, everybody needs a hobby, Iv'e already spent many happy hours out from under the wifes feet, researching on the internet and painting the extra bits for the tank. The Heng Longs may get a bit of stick, but I am chuffed to bits with mine, the only thing being the scale speed being close to an F1 racing car, but thanks to this forum that is something else I'll sort out in due course. Cheers, Andy.

[The Tank Man]

Hi Andy and Welcome to the forum! Loads of info on here and friendly advice!
It sounds like the Tank bug has bitten you lol

If you Fancy running your Tank around in an indoor battlefield then you should come over to Hyde in Manchester were we run the Norths only rc Tank club!
The Manchester Armoured Division!
Our next meet at our club building is March 16th sunday!

[cannedheat]

before you venture to far into the abyse think of your sanity your family wot wot or book your place in the nut house ,

[PainlessWolf]

Good Morning,
Welcome to the Forum, Andy. There is a wealth of knowledge and knowledgeable sorts here who will prove very useful as you go forward with your Tiger 1. Please keep us updated with your progress and post pictures of it as well. We love to walk around and kick the virtual road wheels. ;o)
Regards,
Painless

[[ICE]monkey]

Hi and welcome to the forum, get out while you can, armouritus is a serious case ,and before you know it you've ended up with a 1/6 scale tiger II, its to late for us but save yourself
regards, Cliff

[Horses45]

Hi Andy and welcome along to the forum, as for choice of tank it can be made to what you like .i have torro, taigen and heng long tanks but to be honest I like them all . But again welcome and enjoy but I know how you feel with sausage fingers

[ALPHA]

before you venture to far into the abyse think of your sanity your family wot wot or book your place in the nut house ,

[ALPHA]

Hi and welcome to the forum, get out while you can, armouritus is a serious case ,and before you know it you've ended up with a 1/6 scale tiger II, its to late for us but save yourself
regards, Cliff

[ALPHA]

Welcome Andy....enjoy the hobby... the various characters on our illustrious board.... and the wealth of knowledge

ALPHA

[Glassback]

Thanks for the welcome and the warnings!! Unfortunately I have already turned to the dark side, thank you for the invite Tank man. I did have a factory fresh tank but due to being led astray by the forum my tank is currently in multiple pieces while I attempt to 'pimp' it, I did try putting paperclip handles on the jack but the less said about that the better, still lots of fun . Cheers Andy.