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Makes me wonder why everyone tries to model saggy tracks on these tanks when the vast majority of pictures of them (and not pictures of models) show pretty tight tracks?
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All tanks have track slack to a certain degree... the photo you found is extreme though
Hello again lposter... I can only speak for myself on the tank track slack issue ...as I'm sure everyone has their own reasons...My reasons are they give the tank a little more realistic look...as the tracks "run in " in time...also the tension changes as the tank moves over different terrain ... and the most important... I've found if the tracks run too tight on the 1/16 scale tanks... they grind up your gearboxes...My Stug made such a nasty noise straight out of the box... you could clearly tell the gearboxes were grinding... I stopped testing it immediately... I didn't contact the seller because I didn't feel it was his fault... but HL's ... the remedy was to add a tensioner ...since the HL metal tracks can't be lengthened
I'm pretty sure you won't run into that problem...so as I said before... if the height didn't bother you ... you could leave it ... as it is your tank..
Good Morning,
I don't know, Iposter, that is a pretty cool looking rat's nest there. Your amazing work is tank building at it's finest. Somewhere, Ol' Colonel Kliment is nodding his head in approval.
regards,
Painless
I agree ...I don't think there is any way possible to lighten it...for some reason I had the impression you could lift it ...didn't think at the scale you built it ..it would weigh as much as it does... There was another poster that showed his 1/6th Sherman... said it weighed close to 200 lbs ...yours must be close to half of that give or take a few pounds ... the one thing good is you might now have enough weight to collapse your suspension...though now it looks very difficult to adjust with all the gadgetry in it
Still it looks very good... wish I had that kind of talent
Well Dang!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ...She is really something... is that just a primer coat ...or do you just plan to weather her from there ?
What a Beauty lposter... an awesome piece of craftsmanship...even though she's a bit of a back breaker lol
lposter wrote:Thats just primer. I,ll paint it when its fully built.
Weighed it on a baggage scales. . . . 37.8 kg.
Moveable but not easily.
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Whew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...just a tad under a 100lbs ...a special rig would be a good thing to design... maybe something simple ...like two threaded padded rods that slide under the hull (one in front one in back)... chains secured to both ends...with a bar across the triangulated mid point above the turret to act as a handle ...might make it more like lifting a piece of heavy luggage that way
Whew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...just a tad under a 100lbs ...a special rig would be a good thing to design... maybe something simple ...like two threaded padded rods that slide under the hull (one in front one in back)... chains secured to both ends...with a bar across the triangulated mid point above the turret to act as a handle ...might make it more like lifting a piece of heavy luggage that way
Mr Alpha, with the effort Mr Poster puts into things, a "something simple" would be another project !!
At 100lbs it will be restricted to road freight as any air travel will atract the full ire of the "overweight Baggage charge" zealots !!
Could you imagine driving this thing up to the baggage conveyor for check in ??
HERMAN BIX wrote:
Mr Alpha, with the effort Mr Poster puts into things, a "something simple" would be another project !!
At 100lbs it will be restricted to road freight as any air travel will atract the full ire of the "overweight Baggage charge" zealots !!
Could you imagine driving this thing up to the baggage conveyor for check in ??
It's funny Herman...for some reason.. I did think a simple solution would be out of the question for lposter....I actually thought because of his precise work ethic... making a scale Dragon Wagon would perhaps be an easier task
...yours must be close to half of that give or take a few pounds ... the one thing good is you might now have enough weight to collapse your suspension...though now it looks very difficult to adjust with all the gadgetry in it 
...She is really something... is that just a primer coat ...or do you just plan to weather her from there ?
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