Doug, Do you have allready pictures of the T-72? I would like to them, I love russian tanks =D For the turret, I haven't got an idea yet. I still have a big stock of fibre glass and resin from my previous tank. My T-34 had a fibregls turret and it's not very diffecult and it gives good results after sanding it. But I think it will be a metal turret. I don't have a lot of experience (none) shaping sheet metal. I think the T-72 turret will be more diffecult because the turret is completly curved, the T-55 has 2 flat plates on the top. I'm going to use my hands, plate work tools a bench-vice for shaping it. afterwards fill to make it smooth. The advantage of a metal turret is that you can weld a lot of things on it to give full details
I don't have a lot of experience with metal work, It's trial and error, that's what I like about this hobby. I hope this helps a bid > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [TANKS] Re: Sam is back! > Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:20:22 -0400 > > > Welcome back, Sam. > > I've been working on a T-72 and decided to make the turret out of fiberglass > because of the curved, teardrop shape. Are you planning to use metal for the > T-55 turret ? It looks similar to the T-72, maybe a bit more hemi-spherical. > Do you have any thoughts on you'll shape the metal ? > > - Doug > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Sam D'Haene > Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2009 2:45 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [TANKS] Re: Sam is back! > > > Steve, > > I had an operational T-34 wich has done a few European battles, But I've > completly disassembled the tank because there were a few things that were > broken down. Also I did not like the wooden construction of the tank, It > hasn't the mean heavy look of a real tank. > And I think The T-55 Will be very cool when it's build out of metal. And if > it's driving with a gas engine it will be a monster. > > Sam, > > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Steve Tyng" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2009 8:32 PM > To: "R/C Tank Combat" <[email protected]> > Subject: [TANKS] Re: Sam is back! > > > > > Sam, > > > > Good to see your back. Whatever happened to the Tiger1 you were > > working on? > > > > Steve > > > > > > > > On Jun 21, 2:08 pm, "Sam D'Haene" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I want to tell you that I'm back in the hobby. > >> I'm going to built a T-55. It will be made all out of metal (that will be > > >> a big challenge), a chassis with suspension, and powered by 2 EV-warriors > > >> at 24V or a gas engine. > >> It has to be built so that "the engine swap" can be done in half an hour. > >> But first I'm going to use electric motors, because I can't find,design > >> or built a good "cheap" clutch system. > >> > >> I'm also designing an ESC for handling the EV's. the expectancies are > >> good. It will be a lot cheaper than have to buy one. > >> > >> It is funny that I've start the project with building the tracks > >> first(without having a chassis done), It's a TTS with on the inside > >> aluminum and on the outside steel/iron joined together with rivets. > >> > >> Next year, There will be back a battle in Belgium! > >> > >> Sam, > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ Lentekriebels? Speel samen met je vrienden de spelletjes die Windows Live je aanbiedt! http://www.messengerbillboard.be/nl/play --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are currently subscribed to the "R/C Tank Combat" group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
