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NUMBER 1. SoCalBobS January

Okeydokey, I'll start the tanks rolling again.

This is a Zik-20, a 152mm fixed turret assault gun build on a KV chassis. It only reached the development point of a wooden mockup and was sidelined by some power politics. The SU-152 and the KV-2 ultimately filled this niche. The conversion kit is made by Vandramodel in Hungary. The camouflage pattern is based on the official Russian three color set, which I guess wasn't used all that often. I took off the side skirt plates on the Heng Long mold for this tank.

Sharp eyes may notice an incongruous object on top of the casement; an IR receiver. I use this tank in IR club battles. Because of its flush mount and the height of the casement, it's hard to hit in close quarters battle. The IR emitter is mounted in the barrel. The gun has servo actuated elevation.
A short video clip shows it running:

NUMBER 2. lmcq11 February

Let's have a competition.

This is the smaller M-113 Lynx Command and Recon version of the M-113, as used by the Canadian army from the 1960s to 1996, it was replaced by the Coyote 8x8 LAV-25.

The model has the following features;
- Scratch build chassis and turret with plasticard sheets
- Scratch build detailing in brass and plastic
- Tank Modellbau M-113 metal tracks with rubber pads, sprockets, idlers, torsion blade suspension, hooks, resin road wheel hub caps.
- Ludwig M-113 3D printed road wheels.
- Twin JGA25-370 motorization 250RPM with drive shafts to sprockets.
- Tamiya Browning M2 machine gun with Aber barrel sleeve, sight, ammo and links. M2 and barrel hollowed with embedded LED for flash.
- Classy Hobby Browning M1919 with Aber metal barrel
- Wired for Clark TK-22 control board
- Turret rotation with HL rotation unit and extra gears
- Browning M2 machine gun has servo elevation, firing with flash and sound
- Manually operable trim vane and crew hatches
- Modified DGS Commonwealth tank crew (the driver is a gift from Dean).
- Painted with Mig Ammo acrylics
- Shown in UN markings as used during peace keeping missions in the 1970+.

The complete build can be seen in the Modern build section at viewtopic.php?f=202&t=32329

NUMBER 3. SoCalBobS March

This is a 1:35 scale Tamiya model of the British Mk 4 tank. The original radio control was absolutely unusable, so I substituted electronics from a Heng Long 1:30 scale Pershing tank. This gave me sound, which the Tamiya equipment did not have; engine, cannon and machine gun noises. Of course, the sounds are "probably" not authentic, but who can remember that long ago! At least the Tamiya gearing allows slow movement.


Sorry about the portion of dead footage, I uploaded the raw video by mistake.

NUMBER 4. SoCalBobS April

Now that it's pretty much done (never completely), I'll submit my T-35:
3D printed.
Heng Long red motors and metal gears.
Servo operated main gun elevation and recoil.
Main turret rotation by a servo altered to be a motor/gearbox.
Auxiliary turrets in servo operated random motion controlled by a Pololu Maestro motion generator.
LED headlights, main gun flash and two machine gun flashings.
Heng Long smoke generator.
Here's a three minute video chronicling the development and function:



All proudly run from a Heng Long 6.1S main board. The build thread is here:

viewtopic.php?f=23&t=32811

NUMBER 5. PainlessWolf May

Finally, something new to Submit: My Late War Jagdtiger with MovieTone paint scheme. This is a Repair, Upgrade and Detail Build from a stock Torro IR Metal Version. All the touchy touchy stuff including paint and weathering was done by yours truly (with a Shout Out! to Jon's Magic Grime). The Markings are from Rad's Always Excellent Stencils.

Build Thread: viewtopic.php?f=23&t=31051

Show-Off Thread: viewtopic.php?f=33&t=32883



Pics: ( Click to Enlarge )

NUMBER 6. lmcq11 June

Hello,

Here is a M-12 Gun Motor Carriage 155mm Self Propelled Howitzer. This is a thoroughly modified Vandra resin base kit with;
- lowered scratch built rear area crew compartment and gun mount
- Complete new gun made of carbon fiber tubing
- New rear spade
- Mounted on Mato plastic M4A1 chassis with metal bogies
- Taigen T48 metal tracks
- Servo elevation
- 60mm of sliding breech recoil using hidden servo and a push rod
- Mato headlights and tail lights
- Scratch built details

The complete build can be seen at; viewtopic.php?f=23&t=32882


Regards, Louis

NUMBER 7. stu_the_flat October.

I'll stick my neck out with the Fighting Girlfriend, Did a lot of research and got it as close as I could to the original. the trick with this tank is it is possible to see the drivers perspective as you drive the tank.

NUMBER 8. Model Builder 4 November.

Here is my M51 Sherman, it was built using a tamiya lower hull and turret with a mato cast upper hull. All motor units inside are tamiya but it's running on an ibu2 board.
Built, painted and photos by me

Build thread link viewtopic.php?f=33&t=26050&hilit=M51+Sherman+build

Cheers,Lee.

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NUMBER 9. tomhugill December

Hey folks,

Finally got my act together for an entry, this month for your consider my T-72B1 in Ukrainian service.

The build threads here which goes through what was done and why

viewtopic.php?p=326895&hilit=T+72b1&sid ... fc#p326895

The tanks got the following spec:

Trumpeter static kit
PDSGB double differential gearbox
Metal ball bearing wheels
Metal suspension arms
Metal sprockets and idlers
Attracks correct pattern metal tracks
Adjustable metal idler
Output shaft bearings
Resin reinforced lower hull
WCP models speaker box w/FR7
Clark universal elevation
Clark t72 turret full option conversion (servo recoil, elevation, tbu base, speaker, mount for turret electrics)
Slip ring
Clark ttk system, TTK80 and TCK39 control boards in the hull and turret respectively.
Full lighting with headlights, marker lights, convoy light

The commander figures from Ali express and Gary farrow of rc model tank art did the paint job, inspired by a tank capture and pressed into service by the ukranian armed forces.




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