My youngest son decided he wanted a model tank for his birthday so we got him a HL M41A3. We were impressed and my son "forced" me to buy a Taigen Tiger 1 from rctank.de (great service from them BTW) so we could do BB battles in the garden, but the side effect of me getting this was to reignite my passion for model building because I now desperately want to build a 1/16 RC Tank.
The issue is I think I've made a costly mistake buying my RTR Tiger 1. The only non-Tamiya (I really like the metal stuff) 1/16 RC Tank kit I can find is the exact same one I've just bought as an RTR! I've costed the options of buying separate components to build an alternative tank (a Panzer III) but that works out to be a lot more expensive. Anyway, I'll work something out (might buy the Tiger 1 kit and add a Sturmitiger upper hull), but in the meantime I got a 1/32 Tamiya self-build plastic kit to dust off and practise my airbrushing techniques. (I was previously into building model spacecraft, so tank painting is new to me).
I'm looking forward to reading and participating in these forums.
- Our Tanks Together
- Paint Test Article
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