Welcome Pat! Looks like you're in a wonderful spot to get started in this hobby. Joe will be able to show you a lot of the "do's and don'ts" when it comes to building tanks. I'm about an hour and a half due east of you near the town of Sunbury. I can understand how hard it looks to build the suspension units for a tank. It's one of the hardest parts to build...if you build it. Most of the tanks at the battle just have solid axles for that reason. About three or four tanks have working suspension units (mine not included). Anyway, looking forward to seeing the beginnings of your tank. Caleb
On Wednesday, February 22, 2017 at 1:57:23 PM UTC-5, Ghost Division wrote: > > Hello all: > > I'm Pat from State College, PA. I have been interested in 1/6 models for > two or three years but I was never able to find a group anywhere near me to > join. I luckily found your website and contacted Frank who put me in touch > with Joe: he lives about 5 miles from me. My son and I visited Joe and we > are both hooked. I especially want to be involved in your battles; the idea > of driving our creation around the woods and hunting down other vehicles > sounds great. > > My son turns 12 next week. I bought him a Taigon 1/16 airsoft RC tank so > that he has something to run around the yard. For his birthday I am taking > him down to the AAF Museum in Danville Va for their IR battle weekend. A > fellow from the Philly area is going to let us try out the IR system on > their 6k sq' battlefield. I think my son will enjoy that a lot. I am hoping > this project is a way to get him interested in mechanical work and building > instead of tv and video games. I am divorced so I try to make sure that > when we are together we have quality time and do things that interest him > but also challenge him. > > I have worked as an electrician, contractor (plumbing/framing. . . ), > managed an Incinerator Facility for the past 22 years and owned/operated a > Quarter Horse farm for almost 20. I can weld ok using an arc welder but I > do not have a lot of experience with a wire feed. I am good with mechanical > projects but by no means can I even think of designing some of the things > that I saw in Joes workshop (incredible work). I believe I can make the > chassis, upper hull and install most of the electronics on my own. I have > doubts about my ability when it comes to making the suspension; that has > been bothering me the last two days. I have watched videos and looked at > the tank build pictures on the website; I still do not have a clue on how > to get started with them. > > I looked at the Armortek kits and can't justify 3 to 4k on something that > just drives around. I prefer something that we created ourselves and that > can serve a function (shooting paintballs at things). I want to build a > Jagdtiger; I know a huge undertaking for a first attempt. I really like the > vehicle and its history and hope I can make a passable model of it. Joe has > sent me some drawings and the stats of the vehicle. I have talked with > George Bradford and he sent me his drawing of it. He also provided me with > some reference material that he thought would be helpful. > > I am hoping once a can create a mock up chassis out of plywood I will > become inspired and dive into the suspension issue. I am going to use the > TSS track (I believe that is the designation for the belt one). I found a > fellow that repairs exercise equipment and he is going to contact me as > soon as he has some old treadmill belts. He threw out three the morning > that I contacted him: as usual a day late. > > My goal is to try to have a running lower hull that I can bring to your > first event this year; hopefully it will have some type of upper hull to > offer target practice. > > See ya, > > Pat > > > -- -- You are currently subscribed to the "R/C Tank Combat" group. To post a message, send email to rctankcombat@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe, send email to rctankcombat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R/C Tank Combat" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rctankcombat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
