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[DavidN]

You are such a wise gentleman......Bob!

[SoCalBobS]

Apropos of crew poses....I've had these two guys, wasn't sure where they belonged, tried it in my KT. THAT'S where!

[DavidN]

Apropos of crew poses....I've had these two guys, wasn't sure where they belonged, tried it in my KT. THAT'S where!

Those two panzer crews look so serious. Nice paint job!

[DavidN]

I bought this 1/15 Bandai Hummel on Craigslist for $50. Seller only lived 10 minutes from me. I repainted it and put a 6.0S HL inside. It is now a RC Bandai Hummel.

[Vaseline]

I bought this 1/15 Bandai Hummel on Craigslist for $50. Seller only lived 10 minutes from me. I repainted it and put a 6.0S HL inside. It is now a RC Bandai Hummel.

Im extremely jealous haha.

[DavidN]

Yes, the whole tank is repainted. However, the base green is a very good match to the HL color: Tamiya TS28. Though if you're painting a turret, you might as well paint everything else so all the weathering, streaking, filtering, dust, etc. match.

I still tinker with it every now and again. The original build was to see what could be done on a somewhat limited budget as well as test out the servo outputs on the HL 6.1.

2 challenges come to mind on this build.
1. Turret ring. I think the M36 turret from Mato is not mounted as high as the HL Sherman turret. So, mounting in the factory configuration caused the ring and turret to clamp down on the upper hull, limiting movement and dragging. You could probably just add washers to the posts, but I wanted it to be as clean as possible.... and justify my 3D printer. So I created a ring that locks inside the HL ring and creates a small spacer.


2. Servo throw: In order for the barrel to recoil and the gun to elevate, servos must be adjusted. With more advanced radios and boards (IBU2U, Clark, etc.), adjustments can be made digitally in the board or in the radio. The HL requires adjustment in the linkage itself. It is a bit fiddly, but works with time and patience.

I'm still working on crew placement and IR base. I hid the receiver mount with a faux radio box. It simply pops on and off. I'm moving the wiring as we speak.

I finally made to the point that I can show you my tank and hope to join your platoon :-) I still need to order the 6.1S main board to work on the barrel elevation:

[DavidN]

[RichJohnson]

Nice work on the custom bash David. I see you also painted my Barbie castle, :-P

[DavidN]

Nice work on the custom bash David. I see you also painted my Barbie castle, :-P

Thank you! It's a Mato M36 turret on the HL lower chassis that I followed Bcurious's work. And if you did not see the whole castle in the other thread, here it is:

[Hellcat 7]

Finish my Tank. I made the camouflage bag out of plastic bags along with the Trap. Had a problem with the paint staying on the plastic, so I sprayed it first with plasti-dip and then painted the main color.

[DavidN]

My second Porsche KT....sitting next to my first Porsche before. And then after the new paint job:

[Elbee]

[SIZE=16px]My second Porsche KT....sitting next to my first Porsche before. And then after the new paint job:]

DN, Really nice work. Best, LB

[DavidN]

Got this mid version Tiger I two weeks ago from Taigen. I opened the box and this was the color on the tank:

[DavidN]

Two weeks later.......

[DavidN]

[DavidN]

My 1/6 RC American M5

[DavidN]

And my RC 1/6 M5 that was captured by the German in the Western Front 1944 :-)

[DavidN]

The German used the captured US tank for intimidation as they approached the American tank and demanded the American to surrender :-).

[Rob1970]

My humble stable of vehicles... SWMBO goaded me into taking a group picture. I suspect for blackmailing purposes... but I fell for it anyway.


...and no, this is not all of them. Not included in this picture are the Renault FT-17, Panzer I and M3 Stuart kits (and the first of the Heng Long 1/30 Sherman donor tanks), the ongoing Sherman-to-Grant conversion and the poor Sherman that is doomed to become a BARV...


...but yes, there's two Tigers and a poor Pantiger. And the Willys (Alas not quite the right scale) a cargo truck that one day will get a 3D printed GMC cab.

If the post office does their job, this ridiculous amount of armour will be joined by a Jagdpanther on Tuesday. One thing is painfully obvious tho... the Allies are pretty brutally outnumbered. High time someone started producing more (RTR) US and UK tanks.

[Rubicon99]

Heng Long M4 Sherman turned into a post war Russian themed “Firefly”. Still a work in progress. This tank will be used as a “loaner” tank for IR battle days at both the LA and San Diego tank club battle days.