Armortek

Maybe not a good conversion.
According to a book I have written by Peter Chamberlain & Chris Ellis, The T10 was tested but found to be unwieldy and the project was cancelled autumn 1944.
Mark

Also did you set the track tension with the model in the air or on the ground ? It does make a difference.

The M3 has the drive sprockets at the front so it only moving in reverse would suggest to me the tracks are too loose.
Have you visually checked the sprockets are not turning or just presuming they are not as the tank is not moving. ?

Dad has been enjoying both building and spraying John´s Rolls Royce, whilst also building my PAK 40.
Mum has sewn a couple of overalls for my chieftain crewmen.
Just doing our best to keep them occupied & active during these lock-down times
Mark

The bi-stable relay will stop unwanted "drop-outs". It will also stop you getting a warning that you need to get that model into your vehicle ASAP.
Getting a SdKfz 7 across 30 meters and into the car was not fun.
Mark

I would personally wire in a battery shut off in parallel with the relay as a get you home method. Use the relay as long as it works but if it starts dropping out due to low battery voltage or fails completely, then activate the battery shut off to get the model into the car.
Mark

No, the Salamander was a CVR(T) used in BATUS, altered with a bit of drain pipe and a few oil drums to represent a russian tank.
It was a lot smaller than the russian tank it was supposed to resemble. Not only did the Opfor know the terrain they also cheated at times to beat the battlegroups.

Stephen would ruin the lines of it by adding a length of drainpipe.

Stephen your such a comedian.................( Michael McIntyre eat your heart out,,,,please :!: ) If Armortek were ever build the CVR(T) promise me Stehpen you won't spoil the lines with the bins off your Chieftain. :lol: FV107_Scimitar_IFV.jpg I've got a piece of a CVR(T) in the garage, a track l...

Not sure the FT-17 would sell well. Certainly would not be on my shopping list. I personally think it looks rather ugly. For a small model I would go with the CVR(T) Scimitar although no doubt Stephen White would turn it into the abomination of a Salamander.

Here is one of the photos mum took of it moving, the others are even more blurred. It was moving that fast the camera could not get a good focus Dad is one happy bunny today.

I cannot remember how new Chiefy tracks came but in 2007 when I left the british army, replacement tracks or track links for FV430 series, WR series & CR2 were painted black. Use would have worn the paint off at various places revealing bare steel. Same use would have prevented a rust build up. I ag...

Dad still needs to strip down the diff casing but our thought at the moment is that he went exactly by page 8 of the manual and only pinned the axle shaft on one side and did not pin the Ep0205 on the other side to the differential Cp0279 as the pin on that side is not shown.

Mark

Carbonic acid is H2CO3. CO2 is carbon dioxide.

Reference the custom head sculpts, here is a photo I took at Hausen am Bach 2019 of a Jagdpanther with a female crew. Whilst taking the photo, I was informed by a friend of the owner that one was the spitting image of the owners girlfriend, the other of her best friend, and that the girlfriend had i...