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First Tiger I prototype

Historical Tiger 1 tank, sorry if video in French, but there are still images, Introduced into service in 1942

This is how I did rebuild my Taigen Tiger 1 into an Initial Production, tactical number 100.
Has been a lot of work and still not done yet!
Still must add the big white Balkenkreuzen on each side of the upper hull, and some stuff here and there, slight weathering and altering.
The oxide red on the first roadwheels is not that orange in real, the cell phone messes up the colors a little bit
Needed a lot of research too to get it in the way you see in the pics, and this is the most scale build tank I have!
In the video from Jofaur86 above, you can see the original no.100 being shown in Leningrad to the Russian people, at about 38.24 minutes or so.

Rob 59 Hello, and congratulations for this superb achievement, it is so good

Merci beaucoup!
I did even contacted the war museum in Australia, to be sure about certain details I could not find anything about on the internet!
The boxes on each turret side can be opened too.
Regards,
Rob.

But let's not hyjack this thread which in fact was about gearboxes......
If you need more info just drop me a PM.
Cheers!

@ Velthal:
In the pic with both your Tigers, it seems to me that the sprocketwheels on both tanks are are too high!
Just compare the picture with the drawing of the Tiger in the next post following your picture.
Re-adjust the torsion bars again, so the roadwheels do come slightly higher, which makes it look like the sprocketwheels do come lower.
You understand what I mean?

I’ll throw in. Here’s my attempt to model an Initial Production Tiger. Lots of detail fun involved. It’s far from perfect. Heng Long dual current gearboxes work great.




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"velthal wrote: ↑Thu Aug 15, 2024 10:08 am
Thank you. That's an interesting description. I was referring to using an external regulator."

You can use an external ESC with the 7.1 board to run Brushless, BUT you need the right ESCs or the tank basically becomes impossible to drive. I don't know which ESCs those are as I've tried several brushless ones and never got an ESC that worked good for my tanks. The issue on the ones I used were the dead bands were set up for cars or crawlers. It meant there was a bunch of lag when using the sticks. Second issue was with reversing as most of them had brakes built in that couldn't be fully removed, required the motors to be completely stopped before reversing, or required extra stick movement to enter reverse. I gave up after buying and trying 3 different ESCs. Doesn't mean it won't work for you though. It was suggested to me to use a flight controller, but I never tried that.

Jofaur86 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2024 3:37 pm First Tiger I prototype
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I like this one

Jofaur86 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2024 3:45 pm Historical Tiger 1 tank, sorry if video in French, but there are still images, Introduced into service in 1942

no video