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From: Aaron
To: rctankcombat@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 4:06 PM
Subject: [TANKS] New School vs Old School
Funny how I was going to start this conversation topic and all of a sudden
some one comes out saying they are going to build
Funny how I was going to start this conversation topic and all of a sudden
some one comes out saying they are going to build a modern MBT. But this is
my question.
Why are the overwelming majority of our tanks of the WW2 era and not of the
modern design? What drives most of us to model after
Two things sent me towards the Leopard 2:
1- since it's my first time modeling something of the sort from scratch I
was looking at simple lines and shapes. There are lot of superb older
models that have a the look and the history that make them great... But
since the internals are pretty much
I may someday build a modern tank, but if I do I would like to do it as
more of a scale model and not a paintball target. I chose the KV-2, the
Sturmtiger and the M113 out of a personal love for all of the those
vehicles and the fact that they were more simple designs to build. Modern
tanks have
I'm thinking of doing a maus for my first tank as it has great size and
straight lines so that I can fix up my mistakes.i first have to read the rules
and see if I can use it in battled as the tank was not used in any battles and
only one was produced and a haul was made.
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On Behalf Of Derek Engelhaupt
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 6:04 PM
To: rctankcombat@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [TANKS] New School vs Old School
I may someday build a modern tank, but if I do I would like to do it as more
of a scale model
i think some of it is about the way we like to look at other things. I
always liked the Tiger, other tanks that i like i would consider would be the
Elefant, Stug, S-tank, Hungarian Zrinyi (40/43M) assault gun, A7V, Hetzer,
ASU-85, M41 bulldog (and what ever that huge thing is, with 4 sets
