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My friend build a metal FT-17 just a tad smaller, check this its in the video!

Really nice project. Some wonderful engineering.

Stunning and good Ole English metal working / toolmaking on show.
I bet you have a grey dustcoat too

Marco Peter wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 2:43 pm My friend build a metal FT-17 just a tad smaller, check this its in the video!

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Very nice!

HERMAN BIX wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 8:37 pm I bet you have a grey dustcoat too

Ahem,
its brown actually.

Ahh!...............youre a real mainliner then
My Tradesmen from the UK when I was an apprentice would use grey, but the very senior ones had the brown.
From memory the Brown was the toolmaker/patternmakers, & they looked down on the rest with distain, the grey were the fitter & turners !!
The Class system at work in New Zealand

Wearing a brown dust coat is very soothing and relaxing.
Mines a bit manky now though.

MikeN wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 10:06 pm Wearing a brown dust coat is very soothing and relaxing.
Mines a bit manky now though.

Manky from years of dedication I'd say

Yeah, I mean give the motors a shot. I could be wrong. I know a lot of guys run 550s with 1/10th tanks, but those are mostly plastic also. The plastic M5 Stuart uses them, but it's really light for a 1/6th scale tank. Project looks awesome though.

Hello Mike,

I'm totally blown away by your Renault FT ! I'm working on one, which is smaller and in styrene and resin 3D printed tracks and it's a nightmare, but I see yours, wow mine is a breeze in comparison !

Your work looks so good, every part looks perfect from the rivet to the sprocket.

How did you manage to create the curvy shape of the track shoes ? Do you have any more pictures of the building process of them ? Of the rough assembly before you grind and clean them ?

Can't wait to see more, I don't know if you're going to paint it because it looks so nice and impressive in bare metal !

Keep up the good work Mike !