old shool tamiya tanks plus other questions

[wibblywobbly]

I used to run crawlers, and I know what you mean about the control and torque. However, the secret with crawlers lies in the esc as much as the motors, as it is the esc that provides the low speed control and micro throttle. It depends what you intend doing. If you hook up crawler motors to an RX18 then the board will probably fry, you are pretty much limited to 400, or 400 sized 480 motors as nothing else will fit onto the gearboxes without some engineering, on top of which the shaft diameter for the pinion is larger on bigger motors.

As has been mentioned, 3:1 gearboxes are the way to go, they slot straight in, and the standard HL motors are more than adequate once you have them.

My Tiger weighs in at almost 14 pounds and is running on standard HL metal gearboxes and standard motors. The only time it struggles is on steep inclines and high obstacles (though it is running Elmod electronics which are tuned to scale speed). I have a pair of 3:1 boxes to go in which will solve all of the problems.

Have fun

Cheers

Rob G

[mikef350]

i have my eye on a tamiya flakpanzer geopard and was wundering why no one on here seems to have them,and did tamiya do theese as full option?and can battle systems be used with them.

thanks

mike

[Plastic scouser]

Hi Mike,
I always wanted a Flakpanzer Gepard when I was a lad but they where way to expensive so when I grew up and saw them on Ebay I managed to buy a couple. They never made full option ones but most people replace the gearboxes with the new Tamiya Sherman ones and use the Pershing dmd and mfu to make them full option, I was going to do this until I saw the Leopard 2 running so now I plan on getting leo gearboxes and mfu for them I also have this unit to go in the turret which will control the front and rear radars http://www.afv-model.com/4711shop/produ ... odule.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I am still gathering together the parts to build my Gepards but keep buying other tanks instead of concentrating on one build

Cheers Ian

[mikef350]

cool its good to see you can get parts for them.i would have never have found that site.i think iam going to go for it i think.what about the infra red system do you think one could be fitted?its not so much that thats the tank i want its just id buy pretty much any tamiya tank project at the minute