Show Your Tank’s Wear and Tear

[Jimster]

A recent post of mine gave me an idea. Some rc tanks are shelf queens or indoor warriors. Absolutely nothing wrong with that in any way. However I drive the living crap out of my old bucket outside, sometimes over horribly treacherous terrain whenever I get a chance for the sake of realistic driving fun.
Just for fun, post up a photo or two of your tank’s “service badges”.



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[Herr Dr. Professor]

Real weathering: great idea! I wish I had a photo of my friend's Tiger I: a few years ago in a living room carpet war, I nailed it with a BB from my T34 and it actually left a mark from the hit. Let's see more, tankers!

[Jimster]

That’s hilarious! Just like a real T34 hit on a Tiger. Just left a mark!

[Kaczor]

It would be great if the plastic underneath was dark brown in color

[Jussek]

heya guys

good topic

in my case, not self queens in any way, my tanks roll on fire, embers, wade the river, roll off-road, on land, over vegetation, hills, steep slopes ... and the occasional collision, that has taken its toll

It would be great if the plastic underneath was dark brown in color

you mean this? in this case, it's tamiya red hull in the belly on my KöTi





The most punished is Tiki, he has already completed 10 years of service (or use and abuse), and that is visible in the damages and repairs, he already has 12 broken suspension arms and an idler wheel





also, the back of the lower hull under the rear shield was brocken, so here the Werkstattkompanie applying a big patch





the last 'batch' of broken suspension arms, the red hull ones



but the worst thing is the deformation of the lower chassis due to the strong stresses that it supports, as you can see, it no longer closes completely with the rear shield



well, at least this way the water that enters when fording the river will come out more quickly

best regards

[Kaczor]

Yep. Chinesium parts are very brittle (in Poland known also as "scheissemetal" or "gównolit")

[Jimster]

Now that’s some seriously well earned damage! Looks like real battle damage.

[Timbo68]

A bit of alu sheet helps to minimise the damage - it helps to know someone with a metal guillotine, though...

[Jimster]

That’s awesome. Field applied armor.

[Son of a gun-ner]

That’s awesome. Field applied armor.

It could have been applied in a forest

@Timbo68, I was going to get 1mm galvanised sheet cut to size for the bases of all my tanks, but the two sheet metal places nearest to me have gone out of business and closed down during the lockdown.
I was also considering having galvanised steel tubs made to replace the chassis of Heng Long Sherman's.