Re: Lots Of Track Pictures and Another Tiger

["ZBoucher" <teamundertow-at-attbi.com>]

thanks for the sweet into man :)

                                       Bryan Boucher

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Pittelli" <frank-at-pittelli.com>
To: <tanks-at-rctankcombat.com>
Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 8:10 PM
Subject: Lots Of Track Pictures and Another Tiger


> It's clear that the winter building season is well underway because the 
> photos are starting to roll in.
> 
> Tyng Laboratories has been very busy this week building a track system 
> for it's T34 "Tiger Killer" that is based on a surplus running machine 
> belt.  Although the T34 has yet to enter a battle, it is clearly winning 
> the information war, with a valuable stream of detailed construction 
> photos.  See http://www.rctankcombat.com/order-of-battle/tanks/T005 for 
> over 45 construction photos (and he's not done yet).
> 
> The NorthEast US has begun preparations to defend itself against the 
> Canadian hordes by starting the construction of a Tiger-1.  Bryan 
> Boucher comes to us from the Battlebot world, bringing with him plenty 
> of solid technology and experience.  (Hopefully he'll remember to leave 
> out the chainsaws and crushing pincers when constructing his tank ;-) 
>  From the photos, it looks like Bryan's Tiger is moving along quite well 
> and has therefore been designated as Tank #T008.  You can see the 
> initial photos at http://www.rctankcombat.com/order-of-battle/tanks/T008
> 
> In addition to the 8 tanks that have been officially designated, we know 
> that Lief Goodson has an almost working Stuart down in Florida (still 
> waiting for photos Lief) and I've recently heard of a 1/6 scale Hetzer 
> being built in State College, PA. by Joe Sommer.   My brother, John 
> Pittelli, is also in the process of motorizing a Panzer IV hull that he 
> built over 10 years ago when we first thought about this hobby and Mike 
> Blattau has begun construction of a Marauder Tank Destroyer (big gun, no 
> armor).  So, if my math skills are still working properly, it looks like 
> we have a dozen AFVs at various stages of construction.
> 
> Could be an interesting Spring!!!
> 
> Frank P.
>