Matorro King Tiger
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Re: Matorro King Tiger
Thanks John
Job number one - see if it works!
Job number one - see if it works!
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Well that's a good start - not sure what they hoped to achieve with 2 speakers, we'll just move on...SimonCornes wrote:Well Tiger, I managed to whip the tracks off - for a change the pins came out of the tracks easily - and there were only two screws holding the top on either side. I was able to cut through the back plate/engine deck join with a scalpel very easily. So it has an RX18 MFU and two speakers!!
No great loss there then.And a smoker with pipes not attached to the exhausts!
Worth a shot, not sure about the mechanics of holding the upper hull to the back plate, you'll probably have to fashion some magnet holders out of Milliput?So I think I need to improve the back plate/ lower hull join and then make a clip to hold the top edge of the hull to the. Backplate. I bought 100 neodymium-whatever 5mm disc magnets yesterday for about six quid so I think magnets are the way to secure the hull in the future.
Pass - if they have bastardised the wiring to get rid of the original Matorro board, then I would carefully check everything before plugging in a known good board - you might find there was a very good reason why this was left as a static modelWould that be a straightforward case of unplug one, plug in the other?
Tiger 1 sound's are as close as you will get - after all its the same engine, buried in similarly sealed metal box, with a similar exhaust system. HL's representation of this is so low fidelity that it won't sound like either one in any case. There's always been a suspicion that they sampled the Tamiya sounds from the MF01, which were recorded from the King Tiger at Samur.I’m not sure if Taigen do a KT soundboard or if they use a Tiger I? If they use a T1 then a V6.0 might be the best replacement?
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Thanks Tiger. Regarding engine sounds, to me the sound on the v6.0 seems pretty good. I don’t know what a real maybach sounds like mind you but my Tiger 1 sounds okay - maybe!!
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was that correct? can be poorly expressedJofaur86 wrote:
look between the top of the tracks under the wings of the upper frame, presence of several screws? may be necessary to remove the tracks? for having opened a Sherman, seems to me well that so? of memory
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Jofaur86, that was fine! I removed a link pin from each track and could see the hull fixing screws. I’ve taken them all out and separated the hull. Now the real fun starts. The hardware is very much like the Pan-Tiger. As it stands, the motors run - after I swapped the rx-18 receiver as the one in the tank had blown. As to the upper hull, only the mg works. The wires have been altered from the standard arrangement so I will copy the Pan-Tiger wiring. That all works except the gun elevation!!
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I have to admit, it wasn't you best attempt at EnglishJofaur86 wrote:was that correct? can be poorly expressedJofaur86 wrote:
look between the top of the tracks under the wings of the upper frame, presence of several screws? may be necessary to remove the tracks? for having opened a Sherman, seems to me well that so? of memory
But we can understand the meaning
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Jofaur's first language is French so what is your excuse ?Son of a gun-ner wrote:I have to admit, it wasn't you best attempt at EnglishJofaur86 wrote:was that correct? can be poorly expressedJofaur86 wrote:
look between the top of the tracks under the wings of the upper frame, presence of several screws? may be necessary to remove the tracks? for having opened a Sherman, seems to me well that so? of memory
But we can understand the meaning
Don't tell me you were being sarcastic.
I think I am about to upset someone
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Oops
Bloody predictive
Bloody predictive
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correct, i have to admit, i'm not good at english, i use the google translator, and apologize, even if i try as much as possible to be understandable when writing.Son of a gun-ner wrote:I have to admit, it wasn't you best attempt at EnglishJofaur86 wrote:was that correct? can be poorly expressedJofaur86 wrote:
look between the top of the tracks under the wings of the upper frame, presence of several screws? may be necessary to remove the tracks? for having opened a Sherman, seems to me well that so? of memory
But we can understand the meaning
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Re: Matorro King Tiger
I had an entire lower with gearboxes for one.
But I used it to make up a King Tiger static diorama out of left over bits.
A mate of mine has a very new-still in the box Matorro KT that has all its accessories & is in mint condition.
As hes a Tamiya tragic, it will remain in the box for ever.....................
But I used it to make up a King Tiger static diorama out of left over bits.
A mate of mine has a very new-still in the box Matorro KT that has all its accessories & is in mint condition.
As hes a Tamiya tragic, it will remain in the box for ever.....................
HL JAGDPANTHER,HL TIGER 1,HL PzIII MUNITIONSCHLEPPER, HL KT OCTOPUS,HL PANTHER ZU-FUSS,HL STuG III,HL T34/85 BEDSPRING,
HL PZIV MALTA,MATORRO JAGDTIGER,HL F05 TIGER,TAMIYA KT,HL PANTHERDOZER,HL EARLY PANTHER G,TAIGEN/RAMINATOR T34/76,
HL AN-BRI-RAM SU-85
HL PZIV MALTA,MATORRO JAGDTIGER,HL F05 TIGER,TAMIYA KT,HL PANTHERDOZER,HL EARLY PANTHER G,TAIGEN/RAMINATOR T34/76,
HL AN-BRI-RAM SU-85