Hello all: I'm Pat from State College, PA. I have been interested in 1/6 models for two or three years but I was never able to find a group anywhere near me to join. I luckily found your website and contacted Frank who put me in touch with Joe: he lives about 5 miles from me. My son and I visited Joe and we are both hooked. I especially want to be involved in your battles; the idea of driving our creation around the woods and hunting down other vehicles sounds great.
My son turns 12 next week. I bought him a Taigon 1/16 airsoft RC tank so that he has something to run around the yard. For his birthday I am taking him down to the AAF Museum in Danville Va for their IR battle weekend. A fellow from the Philly area is going to let us try out the IR system on their 6k sq' battlefield. I think my son will enjoy that a lot. I am hoping this project is a way to get him interested in mechanical work and building instead of tv and video games. I am divorced so I try to make sure that when we are together we have quality time and do things that interest him but also challenge him. I have worked as an electrician, contractor (plumbing/framing. . . ), managed an Incinerator Facility for the past 22 years and owned/operated a Quarter Horse farm for almost 20. I can weld ok using an arc welder but I do not have a lot of experience with a wire feed. I am good with mechanical projects but by no means can I even think of designing some of the things that I saw in Joes workshop (incredible work). I believe I can make the chassis, upper hull and install most of the electronics on my own. I have doubts about my ability when it comes to making the suspension; that has been bothering me the last two days. I have watched videos and looked at the tank build pictures on the website; I still do not have a clue on how to get started with them. I looked at the Armortek kits and can't justify 3 to 4k on something that just drives around. I prefer something that we created ourselves and that can serve a function (shooting paintballs at things). I want to build a Jagdtiger; I know a huge undertaking for a first attempt. I really like the vehicle and its history and hope I can make a passable model of it. Joe has sent me some drawings and the stats of the vehicle. I have talked with George Bradford and he sent me his drawing of it. He also provided me with some reference material that he thought would be helpful. I am hoping once a can create a mock up chassis out of plywood I will become inspired and dive into the suspension issue. I am going to use the TSS track (I believe that is the designation for the belt one). I found a fellow that repairs exercise equipment and he is going to contact me as soon as he has some old treadmill belts. He threw out three the morning that I contacted him: as usual a day late. My goal is to try to have a running lower hull that I can bring to your first event this year; hopefully it will have some type of upper hull to offer target practice. See ya, Pat -- -- 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/d/optout.
