| From: | "Marc en Wendy" <marcmethorst-at-zonnet.nl> |
| Subject: | New project [TANKS] |
| Date: | Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:11:19 +0100 |
| Reply-To: | tanks-at-rctankcombat.com |
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I am glad to announce my new
project: the 1:6 paintball StuG III, Ausf. F.
After having played with the ideas
of building an S-Tank or a Sherman I decided to give myself a break and build a
simple StuG.
The StuG is a low profile, easy to
operate (i.e. turretless) and effective vehicle that will scare the opponents
&*#!less...
The hull is made of 12 mm plywood,
the roadwheels were made using a router and are mounted on a welded steel frame.
No suspension; this is going to be a solid monster that can handle the
battle!!
Motors will be the EV's (indeed:
the last ones from the Robotmarketplace :-)), tracks: plastic conveyor chain as
used on several other tanks (except that these are blue, hence the camo paint
job will also be slightly off-standard), speedcontroller: Anvilus, shafts:
experimental aluminium tubes.
I chose the turretless StuG mainly
because I'm not too good with joysticks; since I was born far before the
Nintendo generation my eye-hand coordination with joysticks is quite bad so one
stick for driving and rotating the gun will be hard enough to
handle.
More pictures will follow; my own
website reached the 20 MB limit so no new chapter will be added for this tank on
short notice, perhaps later!
Tomorrow my other tank project
(T028) will be covered in an article in the leading Dutch newspaper 'De
Telegraaf'. I hope they'll mention my website; this could mean more people
getting enthousiastic about the paintball tank scene since I mentioned the
RCtankcombat-site in the links page. We could have a global paintball war in no
time!
Marc |
