Welcome Human, I would recommend a Tiger too, the only problem is that there's heaps in the hobby already. A panther would work quite well too. I would recommend building a Super Heavy Tank, but I believe they are against the rules, as the vehicles have to have been in production. You could always build a support vehicle, armored car or fixed artillery. Artillery is probably the easiest to make, the most expensive thing in it would be the paintball marker.
-Gregory On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Derek Engelhaupt <[email protected]> wrote: > First of all, welcome. Hmmm....starter kit? Not sure exactly what you > mean there, but any "kit" in the size of vehicles we dabble in would be kind > of expensive. I bought a 1/35 scale model and took measurements off of it. > Then I multiplied the measurements by 35 and divided that by 6 to get to 1/6 > scale (yes, I know there is some number to multiply the measurement by to > get directly to 1/6 scale but I personally didn't use it). I would choose a > tank that is somewhat large (small tanks as a first tank can cause issues > with fitting everything in the chassis). I would also build a tank that > doesn't have too many curves or wierd features that are hard to build. My > tanks are built using a table saw, drill press (and hand drill), grinder, > miter saw, dremel, and a jig saw. If I were you, I would start out with a > material like wood since it's cheap and fairly forgiving. Other than that, > look at how some of the tanks are constructed on the rctankcombat website to > get some ideas on good and bad designs. It took like a year and a half for > me to build my first vehicle. I'm building a second one and it will be > mobile by the end of this weekend after only a month and a half. And by all > means ask questions of the group. Personally I would build something like a > JSU-152, a Jadgpanther, or a Jadgtiger as a beginner, but that's just me. > Tank destroyers like those have gobs of room in them. > > Derek > T065 > > > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Achtung Bill <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> Well I am new to the R/C tank hobby, but I have been building armor >> kits forever and of course I like the German WW2 panzers just like >> everyone else. I would like to know what a good starter kit would be. >> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
