Welcome Canada, Glad to hear you are joining us. Always happy to welcome more to the community. Welcome. Leopard IIs are nice and I personaly am excited to see another build. Be sure to keep us informed with pictures and comments. Here is wishing you the best. Aaron F On Thursday, August 23, 2012 8:48:38 AM UTC-7, Paul-Andre Chapdelaine wrote:
> > Hi there everyone! > > I stumbled on your group a few weeks back and got pretty interrested in > the hobby, the way you guys do it, the collaboration, the end result, the > simple prospect of hours of fun and hard work in the shop followed by > some remote controled paintball tank games in the field. > > For a little about me, I'm in Montr�al, Canada. I have no military > experience like some of you have but I do hunt large game and play > paintball as well. Recent medical conditions have forced me to stop > active paintballing but the prospect of a more complex, developped, > remote controlled activity with hours of handy work is appealing. I > needed something to occupy my hands and my mind outside of work :-) > > I'm thinking about a Leopard 2, already bought a Tamiya 1:35 model to > have a reference in scale. Chose this one, question of keeping a little > nationalism with my fellow Canadian soldiers who use them. > > I'm currently gathering ideas and informations, as much as I can from > reading your exchanges, here and also from the website. How to build or > what to buy for tracks. Motors, etc... > > Someone mentionned looking at Intralox tracks, I visited their website > but didn't find exactly what would be required in 85mm or so, tracks. If > one of us contacted them and got more information, availability, pricing > etc... I'd be interrested. > > So far I'm thinking 12" aluminium, slim, lazy-suzan for turret support > and rotation, Tippmann 98 I already have as paintball marker... I'm also > thinking of a mechanical way to keep all the electronics in the hull and > have a dumb, fully 360� capable turret. But I'm sure I will learn a lot > as you guys did, when I begin putting the things together for real. > > It's fun and often amazing reading you and watching what you've come up > with... I hope I'll be able to show up eventually with my own tank on the > field. > Any stories about crossing the border with an RC tank in the trunk? :-) > > > PA Chapdelaine > Montr�al, QC, Canada > -- 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
