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Re: MERKAVA MKIV מלחמת חרבות ברזל WAR OF IRON SWORDS,GAZA
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2025 8:10 pm
by tankme
Taigen/Torro also has 390 motors that are black. A 390 is noticeably longer than a 380 motor.
Re: MERKAVA MKIV מלחמת חרבות ברזל WAR OF IRON SWORDS,GAZA
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2025 4:54 am
by Pavel
Of course!
It is 10 mm longer than it, which is what its series says.
I think that with such a wide hull I can install 400 series engines...
The main thing is that the tracks are not torn apart by such a rotation speed....
Re: MERKAVA MKIV מלחמת חרבות ברזל WAR OF IRON SWORDS,GAZA
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2025 11:39 am
by HERMAN BIX
While you guys have the discussion on horsepower, I’m trying to make a simple bloody cardboard box!!
Version 1 is a dimensional representation of how big a carton would be to handle several daily ration packs going in turn off the man/day packs issued to the IDF.
Being a Tank crew they get the bigger carton to last accordingly.
Measured & cut a pattern then folded & glued.
Re: MERKAVA MKIV מלחמת חרבות ברזל WAR OF IRON SWORDS,GAZA
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2025 11:45 am
by HERMAN BIX
Then a rough attempt at Hebrew script which is awful.
For where it goes and what it needs to be however, that’ll do pig, that’ll do!
Mucked around trying sized and stowage positions but none is working.
Need to make more
Re: MERKAVA MKIV מלחמת חרבות ברזל WAR OF IRON SWORDS,GAZA
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2025 2:02 pm
by Pavel
I know that Jews are a tight-fisted people, but you could have bought a whole canister at the market...
And what is written (my friend read it) is not subject to censorship.
Re: MERKAVA MKIV מלחמת חרבות ברזל WAR OF IRON SWORDS,GAZA
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2025 3:04 pm
by Herr Dr. Professor
Bix, I really like the home-made boxes! And I'd bet that was fun. RC tanking can lead to a great variety of modeling.
One can make some pretty cool stuff out of paper. Here's an example from my train layout. I didn't do the artwork (but you did, Bix) A CD file "kit" was printed on the heaviest stock my printer could handle, cut and folded
, weathered with chalks, dripped on a bit, and then sprayed with clear flat.
- FruitStand.JPG (318.98 KiB) Viewed 980 times
Re: MERKAVA MKIV מלחמת חרבות ברזל WAR OF IRON SWORDS,GAZA
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2025 8:18 pm
by MrChef
HERMAN BIX wrote: ↑Sun Mar 23, 2025 3:11 am
Note the date on the lower line of test on the box. 2021 I think.
After reading the info in the link I posted I reckon the ingredients have been changed since that video?
I did try to find a more current example.
Yes. I'd expect so but I'm also surprised how many forces do actually commonly still use canned goods.
HERMAN BIX wrote: ↑Sun Mar 23, 2025 3:11 am
I used to live on MRE's when out hunting or at gun-nut weekends, just to add to the effort.
Got pretty good at creating things out of unlikely ingredient combinations.
One of my mates was a Kiwi born but grew up in South Africa, served in the motorcycle recce units. He had a lot of well out of date but still palatable MRE's from there that we used up too. Those were good with Boerewors on we ekends away but jeez made ya thirsty!
ahh yes thirsty and prolonged constipation
Re: MERKAVA MKIV מלחמת חרבות ברזל WAR OF IRON SWORDS,GAZA
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2025 11:11 am
by HERMAN BIX
and when it goes, it reallllly goes
Ahem, mucking around with stowage.
Silly thing is that it’s going to be hidden by the tarp over most of it anyway.
This layout can work.
I made another carton & this time ripped the thing open, as a crewman might do trying to quickly get rations out of it.
This’ll do I’m thinking
Re: MERKAVA MKIV מלחמת חרבות ברזל WAR OF IRON SWORDS,GAZA
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2025 1:21 pm
by PainlessWolf
Good Morning, Herman,
Turning out beautifully! Following along,
regards,
Painless
Re: MERKAVA MKIV מלחמת חרבות ברזל WAR OF IRON SWORDS,GAZA
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2025 1:56 pm
by Herr Dr. Professor
I hope the tarp will be removable so one can see all that great contemporary stowage.