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Hello Peter! Well, I think that a tank is a tank and must be able to be driven like a tank, also if being 1/6 scale: logging small trees up to 2 m of height, crushing hedges and so on. This may cause some smaller damages, which may be repaired. That's real live of a tank driver (also full scale) :tw...

The StuG uses a special RC equipment designed for industrial purposes like cranes. I hope the King Tiger will use similar equipment....

Nice build!


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A German manufacturer offers a radio controlled StuG in full scale:

My M48 firing at dusk. At the left side you can see the tracer:

Well, I don't know Tracey Island, but a suitable air raid shelter is a good thing, I mean.......

My tanks rest in the basement on hydraulic car lifters; their tracks free in the air. To use a model, I lift it up until the wooden blocks fit under the tracks and the car lifter gets free when sink it. Then I can tow or drive the model to my lifting carriage, move it to a ramp at the basement windo...

Winston Churchill: "first of all: never social media!"..... (or was it "sports".....?)

Hi John, I think you should upload some pics that show your problems to a file hoster and put the links here to the forum that we can see your specific difficulties. This is very easy to do and would help a lot. Similarly you could make a short video, upload it to youtube or so and give us the link....

Hi all,

I am not sure that hot soldering flux in the slide bearing of the motor is a good thing......

I think legal use of a blank firer may be different from country to country. In Germany e.g. it is not allowed to adapt a blank firer to a barrel, because this would be an illegal alteration of this 'weapon'. But there exists an electric firing machine gun with 6 mm blank cartridges (originally desi...

Hi John,

I don't know which kind of blank firer was used in this Tiger, but you can see that there is la little risk when using.......


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFigCJhcv1U

Once we organized a 'combined arms meeting' with rolling tanks and flying warbirds at our model airfield. So we had a lot of fun looking at a Spit attacking a King TIger!

If you are using steel track links, you don't have any problem with weathering. Simply put them into the garden for a month or so, and the weathering is complete.......

Hello Mark, very nice work, indeed. But are you sure that the labelling is correct? In German 20 tons would be named as '20 Tonnen'. All pics I found about this jack, in German named '20 Tonnen - Stockwinde', look like this: http://www.fahrzeuge-der-wehrmacht.de/Bilder/Stahlwinde_20t_Ch_01-1.jpg htt...

Well, not everybody will be amused to see his model being crushed by such a monster...........