Back to my roots?

[BenTank]

Hi there, I am Ben, about to hit the 60 years-mark. I am born in the Netherlands (some would still say Holland) and I am now living in Germany.

Ever since I was a teenager, I have been building plastic models, at the time mostly airplanes. I an an electrotechnical- and electronics engineer, but haven't done much in that field since I was about 28. Been in IT mostly. Last year, through a garage-sale, I stumbled upon an RC-helicopter and got interested in modelling again. Due to a bodged eye-operation, I have occasional field-of-depth-issues; I sometimes have a hard timefinding the right point where to put my Soldering-iron.. But I manage.

I am currently proud owner of a converted Graupner Leopard 2A5, which now has a Heng Long RX-18 controlling it's functions. I bought it fully converted and built up, but wasn't happy with it. So I bought an M41A3 Walker Bulldog from Heng Long, with an RX-14 board and no RC. There were several parts missing, so I have been building that up. in July, I ordered a TX-7.0 with a transmitter from Banggood and I converted my Bulli (My nickname for my M41A3) to 2,4GHz. Several other adaptations (Electrical and electronical) have been made, but nothing too special. It does have a Laser built in, which serves no purpose, other than looking cool. I know, I know, that has never been part of it's equipment, but I don't care, my Bulli is my favourite up till now and I use her as a platform to test several options.

I recently bought another M41, also with a 27MHz receiver, which was as good as new. I have made that one complete, tested it, replaced the crystals and defective controller and will be putting that one up for sale soon. I hope to find me a Tiger which I might overhaul and improve.

I love the combination of history (have been into WW2-stuff, from D-day onwards and everything that has been in the dutch military), modelling and weathering and electronics. A complete pckage for me. Now to find peers in my vicinity..

[Ecam]

Not sure of peers in your area, but globally... Welcome aboard! Terrific work on the ancient 27 MHz radios. The new stuff is vastly improved! Nice work on the armor.

Again welcome to the forum.

[Herr Dr. Professor]

A Yankee heartfelt welcome to you, BenTank! Like you, may of us were modelers as youngsters and teens. You have the advantage of more than ten year's better kits than this oldster, but I loved every minute of it. Thank you for putting up photos right away: we all like seeing and learning about what you have already accomplished. Join in the fun here (with your excellent English---and Dutch, and probably German, too); ask questions, answer questions, and please do keep us informed of your projects.