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First tank of a newbie here. Figured I'd make a record somewhere and this would be the best place to put it!






Nothing fancy yet. A little bit of weathering was done using a Tamiya Weathering Master drybrush kit I picked up for cheap, and it seems worth it for a noobie! On the inside, I put in two 40mm cooling fans stuck right on the rear vent, pushing air in - thank goodness the Leo has a functioning vent at the rear! The board was relocated to the rear in between the motors with insulation between them. Motors were replaced with a pair of Mabuchi RS380SH units. Turret rotation motor was replaced with a Tamiya Atomic Tuned motor. I'm looking next at fixing up the sound using sound cards, but first I'll have to sort out my airsoft unit; just turning it on makes it shoot like a really really mad autocannon.

Thanks for looking!

Looks great get mine on saturday cant wait

Updates to the insides hehe.

Everything moved to the rear, with the board cooling box in view:


The box without the board. The fan pulls air through the board, and I made four slit vents to get air where it needs to go through:


Back view!


Ghetto smoker experiment. Not working yet though, I think the wire wrapped around the wick got cut somewhere. Thinking about replacing it with one of those nichrome things from a blowdryer:


Yay painted metal idlers and sprockets!