Re: MOTORS, MOTORS and more MOTORS [TANKS]

["Yasuyuki Ikehara" <vorfied-at-capital.net>]

Heya.

I'll leave the motor/wiring questions to the veterans, but for scale, 
somebody mentioned this site which is very useful.  Its got 1:1 full, 1:6 
and 1:35 scale built into the dropdowns if you have either of the scale 
measurements.  I myself am scaling up from a 1:35 model.

http://www.printmini.com/calc.shtml

Yasu Ikehara
vorfied-at-capital.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <denis.wagner-at-murraystate.edu>
To: <tanks-at-rctankcombat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 5:01 PM
Subject: MOTORS, MOTORS and more MOTORS [TANKS]


>
> Hello Everybody
>
> Being a modeler of 1/35 tanks, I'm finding the  1/6 Rc Tanks a little bit 
> of a challenge. I really don't know my butt from a hole in the ground on 
> the RC equipment and wiring everything up properly. I recently found a 
> kidde car that I plan on using for one of the drive wheels. If anyone has 
> a kidde car motor, or any motors they want to sell just haller. Now 
> talking about speed controls and dirctional swicthes could you use the 
> components out of the kidde car for this? I noticed everyone who start out 
> using kidde car motors end up replaceing them with ev warriors why is 
> this?(EV warriors are extremly rare) I was planning to build a Tiger 1 or 
> a KV-2(big boxy turret,and an easy target for the rest of you). How do you 
> determine the measurments of the tank. A KV-2 at 1:1 has a lenght of 22 
> 1/2 feet, but 1:6 scale is how many feet?
>
>                                                     Thanks for any help
>
>                                                            Denis Wagner
>
>
>