I am new to RC tanks. I want to find an M4A1 Artillery tractor

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I am new to RC tanks. I want to find an M4A1 Artillery tractor

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I saw a few posts on the forum about the M4A1 tractor from WWII. I have a set of original drawings and would like to get them into the right hands to make a scale model. My father got two of these tractors in 1960 that were brand new and had 50 miles on them. He turned them into unique fire trucks used in Gary Indiana.
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Re: I am new to RC tanks. I want to find an M4A1 Artillery tractor

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Hello! I cannot help with any advice on building an RC M4A1 Tractor; however, did you try the search function? A viewtopic.php?t=32236 , "jee" keeps a remarkable list of 3D printing plans. I did notice your comment that your "father got two of these tractors in 1960...had 50 miles on them." Now that's a teaser to pique one's curiosity.
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Morning
It is something we could help with, I design alot of models on here. If you check out WCP Models.
Happy to discuss things via email, pm, or phone
We were looking into the possibility of doing these tractors as we have recently made a Long Tom and need a suitable vehicle to tow.
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Re: I am new to RC tanks. I want to find an M4A1 Artillery tractor

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As I am sure you are aware, the M4 was built to pull the Long Tom. I have attached photos of the drawings I have. I also have a full maintenance manual for this vehicle as well. I am just trying to get them in the hands of somebody that can use them and not just have them thrown out when I am gone. I have no idea what it would cost to make a one off model. It seems that we have availability of dozens and dozens of tanks, would seem that something like this tractor would add something new to the mix. I have photos of the drawings but this forum says they are too large to send.

This is a dropbox link to the photos



https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/iu4laglq ... s701r&dl=0
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I've been trying to convince Inkor in Ukraine to design some American HSTs for 3D printing. I don't know of any scratch build kits that are even available except in 1/6th scale and that is built to convert the existing the 21st Century M5 tank.
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Given the Heng Long M4 and Coolbank M5 as a starting point it's going to be less difficult than it was. If I muck up any of the M5 conversions/modifications I may well have a go at that HST.
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