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My Maus with TARR Mk I Smoker
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 7:24 pm
by MichaelC
This smoker is amazing. This is just with HL stock smoke fluid. Can't wait to try the Mega Steam diesel. The Maus is actually one of teh few German tanks that uses diesel !
http://youtu.be/1RLXBpmAfD4
MichaelC.
Re: My Maus with TARR Mk I Smoker
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 7:34 pm
by PainlessWolf
Michael,
What a beauty that tank is. ;o) You'll really like the Mega Steam stuff. I can see every pulse of the smoker now on my tanks and on the proportional ones, you get a big cloud when they move off, just like in real life. ;o)
regards,
Painless
Re: My Maus with TARR Mk I Smoker
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 7:40 pm
by ALPHA
NICE
Surprised you could fit a smoker in that skinny Hull ...Terrific Job
ALPHA
Re: My Maus with TARR Mk I Smoker
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 7:52 pm
by sassgrunt
That's just beautiful. What I want to know is how in the HECK did you manage to do such a great job on drilling out those flimsy (and thin) exhaust ducts?
Re: My Maus with TARR Mk I Smoker
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 7:54 pm
by ALPHA
sassgrunt wrote:That's just beautiful. What I want to know is how in the HECK did you manage to do such a great job on drilling out those flimsy (and thin) exhaust ducts?
...Hand them over to me Mike...did my KV2's exhausts...they are much smaller
ALPHA
Re: My Maus with TARR Mk I Smoker
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 8:47 pm
by MichaelC
Thanks guys....... Never got so excited about a smoker before. Anyway, the exhaust is not too bad, I just drill a big hole from underneath to fit the smoker tubing, and then a small one that just fit in the flat exhaust from the outside on an angle so that they intersect. I have actually wrap a brass piece right around the exhaust before so it managed to hide some of the ugliness of the drilling.
The smoker is quite small and managed to fit between the small Hobbyking 9x receiver in the hull. Unfortunately the smoker is not proportional and I don't think Clark board are proportional like IBU but will see how it runs. I am just so happy smoke is pouring out of the exhausts......... on HL fluid to boot !
Just a quick update, I am replacing all the hatches/periscopes/fan etc on the turret with metal ones. Found this place that sells all of them. So now I can actually fit a IR receiver on top once I have some of these openings. The original resin kit it is all molded on.
MichaelC.
Re: My Maus with TARR Mk I Smoker
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 9:46 pm
by sassgrunt
Michael, could you please post a link to where you found the metal detail pieces?
Re: My Maus with TARR Mk I Smoker
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 9:57 pm
by MichaelC
Here you go...... My order is somewhere over the Atlantic right now........
http://mk-modellbau.de/main_bigware_29. ... ouse-e-100
MichaelC.
Re: My Maus with TARR Mk I Smoker
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 10:37 pm
by sassgrunt
Thank you for the link. There are some really neat things there!
Re: My Maus with TARR Mk I Smoker
Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 11:37 am
by kwiky
That looks amazing!
Are these available commercially?