I'm thinking of doing a maus for my first tank as it has great size and straight lines so that I can fix up my mistakes.i first have to read the rules and see if I can use it in battled as the tank was not used in any battles and only one was produced and a haul was made.
Sent from my iPhone On 2012-08-23, at 4:03 PM, Derek Engelhaupt <[email protected]> wrote: > I may someday build a modern tank, but if I do I would like to do it as more > of a scale model and not a paintball target. I chose the KV-2, the > Sturmtiger and the M113 out of a personal love for all of the those vehicles > and the fact that they were more simple designs to build. Modern tanks have > all kinds of crazy angles and compound curves. I would prefer a modern tank > over a WWII tank, but only if I could go all out on the modern tank. JMHO. > > Derek > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Michael Butts <[email protected]> wrote: > The Iosif (Josif) Stalin 3 (IS-3 or JS-3 and IS-3M variant) will be my build. > It's hemispherical turret and crazy hull lines are iconicly Russian/Soviet. > It really shocked the world with its debut. I think it has very aestheticly > pleasing lines as well. Many might disagree with me on that point. Though > difficult to model I imagine an Abrams or its peers might be equally if not > more difficult and I just don't like the way most of them look. > Mike B > > > > On Aug 23, 2012, at 4:06 PM, Aaron <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Funny how I was going to start this conversation topic and all of a sudden >> some one comes out saying they are going to build a modern MBT. But this is >> my question. >> >> Why are the overwelming majority of our tanks of the WW2 era and not of the >> modern design? What drives most of us to model after older and inferior >> armor instead of the newer and superior breeds? >> >> I chose an M4 Sherman variant as my own despite the obvious flaws and >> limitations it possesed in history. I did so for a few reasons >> - It had simple lines >> - It was iconic American >> - It for some reason spoke to me in a way that no other had >> That may sound funny, but I wasnt really overly interested in the biggest >> and the baddest. I was drawn instead to the over worked and under powered >> machine that did by sheer determination. >> >> What are your thoughts? What made you choose yours? >> >> Aaron F >> -- >> 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 > > -- > 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 > > -- > 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 -- 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
