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20-05-09, 15:07
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sorry rather than it being powered by electric motors you could use a 4 stroke engine out of a model plane, i have a large scale P47 which uses a 4 stroke and she sounds amazing on full throttle. IC being "internal combustion"
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20-05-09, 16:43
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No I won't be useing a fuel powered engine in it. It is very light so the electric motors/gearboxes should handle this carrier quite well. There are sound moduals that can be used and one can record engine sounds and use them.
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20-05-09, 17:53
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awesome ! its looking great cant wait to see it all painted up.
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21-05-09, 02:13
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Well curiousity got the best of me and just had to see how the carrier ran on rc so I used the spare radio gear for an HL rc tank. I added my regiments marching song called I'm Ninety-Five. For the first test run it doesn't run too bad. Here's the video.
PS you will see one good reason for doing up the chin strap on your helmet.... LOL 
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21-05-09, 16:54
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excelent ! once you get the center engine compartment in you may even be able to fit the sound and smoke module in there. love the suspension ! any chance of some close up video of it going over something on a desktop to show the suspension at work ? I would love a kit of this so i could tear down that spare tiger i have (which is spare parts for Nathans tiger) so i could build one too.
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27-05-09, 05:49
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Update:
I decided to remove the 5-spoked road wheels and idlers and replace them with the 6-spoked wheels. I have sealed, sanded, and primed the front top glacis and temporarily added the upper shield. I opened up the openings in the divider between the drivers compatment and the rear compartment. I also added more tension to the rear suspension so it sits level now... and the work continues. Here are the latest pics        
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28-05-09, 05:05
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This is a nice model, congratulations on your very rapid build. The tracks you chose look very suitable for the scale, too. Presumably you are steering it by switching the motors, but I'm curious - are you going to implement track warping too? Your last photo above seems to show the centre bogie assembly in a slidable tube. By the way, a popular and very cheap drive unit for large scale tanks are cordless screwdrivers. They have very compact dual-stage planetary gearboxes with heaps of torque.
Steve.
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