RC Tank Warfare community hobby forum

Hi thanks for letting me join your site. My interest in tanks are early WW2 British tanks. Been modelling for years, i have moved away from kits such as 1/35 scale as they are too small to work on prefer bigger stuff, the bigger the better. Hopefully i can get advice on builds browsing the forum and keep up with the latest trends.

Welcome Sir!

Barry

Hi and hello welcome

Cheers! Would your turning to 1/16 have anything to do with age and eyesight? If so, join the old age and bad eyesight club! If not, hey, we 'Murricans love big toys. Do you plan to do any radio controlled tanks or other AFVs? Some of the wizards here on RCTW convert Takom or Trumpeter kits to RC. Then, too, I like static kits (currently on a Takom Type 95) and RC (slowly working on an Asiatam FAMO) and I find that detail painting and weathering mass-production RC tanks can be satisfying, too. It's all fun. Keep us informed of what you're up to.

Welcome to the Forum
Of course 1/35 is too small as my 1/35 Tamiya Panzer 4 still in its unopened box will attest
I have had my cataracts fixed care of the NHS but 1/16 is still the scale that rewards most in my opinion,
Ask the questions and enjoy the Forum.
Oh by the way we are far too old to do TRENDS

Hi and welcome

Eye sight is one problem but i can correct that, its just that some parts are so detailed in smaller scales that the parts are too small to deal with like cutting and cleaning, then i drop or the part pings off for ever and thats it, its not modelling its then becomes a chore. I love big scale, easy to work with and can be turned it into RC. I plan one day to scratch build full size, but a step at a time for now which i am experimenting with and feasibility of buildi. I have started a Covenanter, copied from a Polish cardboard 1/25 model and enlarged it on a photo copier using 1.5 thin ply for the body, cut out with ruler and scalpel hard work for now, hope to go the laser cutting way, at the moment i am doing the suspension. Going to be trial and error, the Covenanter is a odd shaped hull in its design because of the amount of equipment and auxiliaries which hide the hull profile, difficult to see which is armour or mud shield's etc.