Loic wrote: "I'm contemplating a NEW product right now using our experience with the Panther hull, but more oriented toward the "gamers". The difficult question is always: THE TRACKS?"
You hit the nail on the head. Our scale combat models operate in a very un-scale environment. They are asked to do things by their operators that a full size tank could never accomplish (in like field conditions) without throwing tracks all day long. The answer to a reliable track design is big ass tracking tabs! The taller the tabs, the less likely your going to throw a track (especially with active suspensions). Even with a tensioned solid suspension, large tracking tabs are beneficial. Joe's little Hetzer is a well designed and executed vehicle with a solid suspension, but he went with OTS plastic conveyor tracks that have tiny little tracking tabs. As a consequence, Joe's gotten very good at track remounting in the middle of a battle. With an active suspension, where the track runs loose around the wheels, tracking tabs are the only thing keeping things were they belong. In my designs, I build as large a tracking tab as possible with no regard to scale. This is for performance sake as I'm a "gamer" where function comes first and scale a distant second. This offers a quandary for you as your designs are most decidedly scale first. To offer a performance suspension for gaming, are you willing to redesign the entire suspension? We're talking not only larger tabs, but also the wheels and drive sprockets to accommodate them, maybe drop the segmented tracks altogether and go with a TTS belted design? Is there a market to support the time, effort, and expense? All good questions. Steve Tyng <http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w499/FOAtanks/251side2_zpseb3bae4a.jpg> >>>> >>> -- -- 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 received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R/C Tank Combat" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
