My this has turned into a lively discussion. James, I look forward to seeing your build picks.
Regarding the components you are choosing to build from. Remember these are from vehicles generally meant for racing and as such are engineered to be light and "just" strong enough to stay together for the environment they are meant for. You will probably be more than doubling the weight these r/c "monster" trucks are designed for after the addition of a turret, marker, co2 bottle, etc. If you go with lead acid batteries instead of the lightweight nicad type packs you will increase the load even more. In addition, you will need to design for the higher center of gravity that a turret will add. I can't see the long-throw soft and squishy suspensions of a typical monster truck handling that very well. Figure some custom anti- swaybar additions. You made a comment stating you like scale. I've got no problem with that but the typical battle site is anything but 1:6 scale (unless of course were talking of the manicured battlelawns over in the UK ;). Figure on scale features akin to modern MBT's battling at 60MPH over a typical WW1 battle site and you'll get the idea. Steve Tyng -- 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
