My Scratchbuilt MkII Carrier a WIP

[pzrwest]

Update:
Now I have the rear drive sprocket made I turned my attention to the rear road wheels and rear suspension units. For springs I went to my local dollar store and picked up 8 dart guns and removed the springs from them. The metal rods are just coathanger wire with the nuts from old video and audio card soldered on the ends. When finished a nut will be soldered to the opposite ends as well. Here are a couple pics of the 2 suspension units. One assembled and one just the componants. When these are finished I will move onto the front units

[Matdragon]

looking real good!!! keep up the hard work, your moulding looks the biz!!!

Matt

[pzrwest]

Update:
Work continues. Here I have made the front road wheel suspension system, and temporarily mounted the track and suspension parts to the hull.

[Ex_Pat_Tanker]

Looking good And I mean really good!

The only concern I can see is maintaining track tension - you might want to take a few links out there
Testing will tell tho :-\ You might be the first to make a R/C 1/6th Universal Carrier - thats gotta be something to be proud of for sure!

Keep on pluging away
Mart

[pzrwest]

Actually I'm not the first I think there is a guy in England who has an rc carrier and it's for sale but it may be a static one and he's asking 650US for it. with no rivit detail etc on it. One of the guys from the Ottawa 1/6th club I belong to builds static ones from pink foam for diorama setups.

[pzrwest]

Well curiousity got the best of me and just had to see how the carrier ran on rc so I used the spare radio gear for an HL rc tank. I added my regiments marching song called I'm Ninety-Five. For the first test run it doesn't run too bad. Here's the video.
PS you will see one good reason for doing up the chin strap on your helmet.... LOL

[BREL]

that's on cool looking carrier that you have there, nice work on the build

[grompix]

Brilliant work on the carrier. Looks really good on the video too.

Cheers
Chris 

[pzrwest]

Thanks it even dips and dives like the real ones did

[Mad Fox]

That is Awesome, does it turn ok? would love to have a go at one of these but dont have the molding capabilities that you have.
the movement of the vehicle just screams realism.