Armortek

Hi William, sad to read, but also my decision to go back to the originals. I had two severe stops when track links were jammed with bended guide teeth. Worse however was that the track links didn't follow the roadwheels when curving on rough grounds. Olaf grinded his chevrons down to 1 mm but they d...

Hi William,

nice details, indeed!

Just a question: did you already get first knowledge with the steel track links when driving?

In my proposal I meant the model type, not the scale..........

For myself I can't use 1/4 scale because those models wouldn't pass the window of my basement, the only possibility for my tanks to enter or leave the room.

Hi guys,

the camouflaged cat is Reinholds Leopard II A7 in 1/4 scale, the other pussy is Peti, his tank commander.

Peti is the only cat I know with its own tank crew beret (sorry for the blurry photo).

Hi John,

ok; may I make another proposal...?








(cat not included......)

An airplane- (or perhaps tank-) -engine may be nice, but it's higher if it is able to run, like a running tank model is much higher than a static display. My avatar shows a life running 14 cylinder double radial engine that fits an 1/6 scale airplane model. I intended to build a Gee Bee with it, but...

In Germany we sometimes are surprised a little at the attention that german WW II vehicles are treated with in the whole world. Some comrades here would prefer to get a modern german tank like Leopard II with its varieties like Büffel, Keiler and so on. Generally a non-combat vehicle like a bridge-l...

Well, I think that the most important requirement for rocking is a very smooth-running bearing of the swing arms (using needle bearings or so). You can test it putting a bottle of beer or so onto a corner of the hull. When the hull sinks a little AND raises back when the beer is removed then the dri...

Too bad! Now my Jagdtiger will loose its unique characteristic to be the one and only in Germany........

If size would really matter, we all would build full scale (a StuG III presented in Stammheim, Germany, 1/1 scale, R/C, roadworthy, with hydraulic powertrain). So we have to be content with 1/6 scale..... :

With only one AT model till today I am not at all the specialist for these models, but my fellow seemed to have some wearout at his models according to rough operating conditions, and he thought that a lower weight could help to minimize wearing out of the drive train. Meanwhile he has other trouble...

Just some thoughts about tank engine sounds and their reproduction in models like 1/6 scale: 1. A real tank sounds very differently at front, side or rear view when passing a person. A model with its sound source down below cannot reproduce these different sounds for a listener. Therefore it is a li...

Just funny, but not everyone is excited to get his tank model in original thickness of its armor plates. In past a fellow of mine wrote a programm for his CNC milling machine to thin out the thick plates of his King Tiger at the inner side. He told me that he so could spare over 10 kilograms!

Hello Florian, found actually in german Amazon: https://www.amazon.de/SMX-Motorradheber-Motorradst%C3%A4nder-RicambiWeiss-Scherenlift/dp/B0144SGVY2/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=scherenlift+motorrad&qid=1567084039&s=gateway&sr=8-1 There are much more offers.............

Hi Christoffer, the chevrons of the Armortek tracks are not half as tall as the ones of the steel track links, and the original tracks are not half as heavy as the steel ones. I think that these both characteristics cause that Armortek tracks don't have the same issue, but depending on their true sc...