Pat,
First, welcome to the “club”. I’m a vendor of 1/6th scale product, so I have to be careful of what I say here… First, Armortek kits are not $3-4k. It’s more like $5k+ for just the empty shell of a large tank. Then you have to add all the electronics and other components to reach about $8-10k for the kit... then you have to build it My company, FOA, provides the Jagdtiger RC fully designed <http://www.fieldofarmortanks.com/foa017rc-1-6-jagdtiger-henschel-version-un-assembled-rc-kit/> with suspension, motorization and electronics for about $2.6k as a kit. It’s a MONSTER. Here’s a photo of a built static kit <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Ce4yLjOx22I/WK3kvvGJ0rI/AAAAAAAAASs/7kriQQTvQIwKs_anhphlrmCUNFe8hgTrQCLcB/s1600/smallimage.jpg> Often on this forum, builders are interested to build their own design. It’s part of the “fun”. I have found out that it is a very complex endeavor to achieve the “best” design unless you have the experience of the finest “engineering mind” from the members of this forum. I just talked to a customer who bought our Tiger I static and installed his own suspension system. He spent numerous hours of frustration and design changes before he got something “acceptable” – still his Tiger’s sprocket seems slightly too high. He is now buying our RC Kingtiger with the pre-designed suspension system to focus his interest in other form of modeling, like detailing his tank I LOVE this forum, because it is a source of intelligent and willing fellows who will help. FOA has worked with many of its members, whether as designers or customers. And then there is the practical aspect of the build, which is the actual combat! But I think the pitfall to avoid is the total frustration of a far-stretch project that undermines the finishing of the “dream tank”. I’m wishing you luck and will follow with interest your build-up Happy Modeling! Loic Anthian http://www.fieldofarmortanks.com -- -- You are currently subscribed to the "R/C Tank Combat" group. To post a message, send email to rctankcombat@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe, send email to rctankcombat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 rctankcombat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
