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Firstly I'm going to apologise to anybody's sensibilities that this project isn't really an RC Tank build but it is 100% a tank looking vehicle IMHO.

Its from the late 1960's/early 1970's Gerry Anderson (of Thunderbirds fame) Sci-Fi series "UFO" that was broadcast in the UK and USA (maybe other places as well- Japan possibly) and set in the future of the 1980's. So arguably it's kind of classed as a modern build as it was a 1980's imagined design from the late 1960's. Interestingly enough the studio models used were built on a wired remote toy Tiger Joe tank chassis (no idea what that was based on if anything?) that had a overall length of 22".

As there is a such a strong link to "tanks" and a lot of the challenges and things I will be trying to achieve/ I'm going to face would have been previously overcome by many of this fine forums members I thought this was the forum to join.

This is what a UFO SHADO Mobile looks like (Control Version with radar) for those unfamiliar:-

I love obscure models from movies and TV shows

Glad you got a build thread started. Tuned in....

So the plan was to convert a 3D printed kit of the Mobile I had purchased from Ebay which was to have an approximate overall length of 60cm which would make it as close to the Studio scale models used by the series original modellers. At the same time I had also ordered a tracked Moon Defence Vehicle kit in the same size (that's yet another thread for another day) from the UFO series. The studio scale is about 1/14 as far as i have been able to determine as the Mobiles were apparently 28 feet in length.

So kits duly arrived at the beginning of last month after a two month wait (as 3D printed to order) ...but they were the wrong size as the seller also produces a 30cm long version, which is what he mistakenly sent me...Grrrrr. Although to be fair to him he immediately put his hands up and admitted it was his mistake and I could keep the wrong sized kits FOC whilst he now cracks on and produces my two "new" kits in the correct dimensions. Although a setback it has allowed me to get him to tweak the axle dimensions to be 8mm to align with HL/Taigen gearboxes.

I’m looking forward to this.

Funky, Glitch, Funky! I gotta follow this one: it looks like fun!

I'm also looking forward to this! I've been weighing up RC'ing the APC from Aliens by Hiya Toys, but I've got too many projects.

The Canadian Defense Department? Clearly the aliens had already infiltrated all levels of the Canadian military. Defense? It is "Defence", so take off eh? Alien hosers.

ColemanCollector wrote: ↑Sun Nov 05, 2023 2:24 am The Canadian Defense Department? Clearly the aliens had already infiltrated all levels of the Canadian military. Defense? It is "Defence", so take off eh? Alien hosers.

I hadn't spotted that spelling error before, must have been the model making departments apprentice or such like who made that prop for that episode, surprising for a British production in the late 1960's.

Hey neighbor to the north: "defenCe" is what the cows do when the grass is greener on the other side. Sheesh!