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Yep, November is here already, the time when my cats wonder how a German Shepherd can fit into such a small space whilst hiding from fireworks, they do give him strange looks. And at least we know that he's the one moving the furniture, and not left over Halloween spirits making us see things. . . .

Anyway, you have the usual seven days to submit one of your RC military AFV modelling marvels.
And as always, we look forward to seeing those visual treats.
Don't forget, you can submit photos, videos, or a combination of the two up to a total of eight visual representations.
And it is always better to give us a description of what you've done or had done to the model, and, if you have a link to a build thread, all the better.

NUMBER 1

For your consideration; The first tank (In an armoury that is slowly getting out of hand...) that I have upgraded, weathered and finished to my liking. So I might as well enter it to become TOTM.

Stock Heng Long M4A3 105mm pimped with metal Mato headlight, rear lights, bow machine gun and engine hatches. Used the metal cage for the metal Mato claxon, but decided to scrathbuild a new horn. Spotlight on the turret works and switchable form the WiFi cam channel, altho not plugged in at the moment. Still waiting for some resistors I need to add to avoid blowing the LED...

All hull welds enhanced with 3D-pen-printed weld seams. Metal tracks blackened with Birchwood gun black paste (which is AWESOME). Hull painted in a subtle mix of various greens, weathered by with acrylics to show rust and scratches and finished off with Magic Grime (which is ALSO AWESOME!). All major markings masked and airbrushed, and some of the decals used. Added a little Dutch touch with the Orange triangles.

Build thread (kinda) here; viewtopic.php?f=22&t=31939

NUMBER 2

Hey ho,

so i will yoin in after a longer break....time is a bit short at the moment.

Now i will show a strange piece of german armor.
Its a "Kugelpanzer".
Ther are not manny information on that "Kugelpanzer", but one was captured from the Russians in Japan. Before it was send from Germany to Japan.

The model is in 1:16 and desingnd and plott out by a friend.
I just give em an elektronik (2 ESC´s) and some smal sound card.
I made also color and weathering, here are some pic

Here the Germans chek the Tank:
And her you can see how its works:


...and how the Russians send it by train to direktion east (start at ca. 1.30min):


Greetz, Andy

NUMBER 3

Hello,

Here is a Churchill Mk III tank as used during the Dieppe raid of 1942. It was scratch built over a period of 2 months last summer. The complete build report can be seen at viewtopic.php?f=23&t=31950

The model has the following features;
- Scratch built Churchill Mk III chassis and turret
- Ludwig suspension, road wheels, modified gun barrel and track adjusters
- DKLM Metal tracks, 3D sprockets and Idlers
- Mato 5:1 panther gearbox
- Clark TK-60 control board
- Turret rotation, main gun servo elevation, servo recoil, flash and sound
- Coax machine gun flash and sound
- Bow machine gun servo horizontal movement, flash and sound
- DGS Tarr smoker and optional crew
- Optional air intake deep wading stacks
- Painted with Mig Ammo Khaki Green No 3 acrylic
- Home made decals created from upscaling 1/35 Echelon Dieppe decals with RAF letterings from Fantasy Printshop.




Regards, Louis