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Coming along with the next build. A Tamiya 1963 VW 23 window bus. It's a very simple but well done kit.

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Space Ritual said:
This Tiger was my very first RC tank and after I painted her again in 2022 she went in for a total interior mechanicals and board overhaul. A year later and what an amazing battler

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Do you have the rf/laser setup for battles? I never had my own tank but I was a operator in a local club. It was really fun I wish more people got into it.
 
ra7c7er said:
Do you have the rf/laser setup for battles? I never had my own tank but I was a operator in a local club. It was really fun I wish more people got into it.
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Yes our club uses the Tamiya IR protocol which unfortunately makes it a bit more expensive/slightly more complicated for people who buy say a Heng Long because you need a new board and radio to upgrade it to battle. It is incredible fun and unfortunately it is also a very niche part of the RC world so very few people know about it. The tanks can really be painted and detailed up to a pretty high standard too. I posted an aerial view of our battlefield back on page 44 which has been further improved since then
 
Well this tank was only painted and decals applied on Thursday ( I'd never done a Panzergrau tank before and for some reason Heng Long had it in dunkelgelb which was inaccurate for Operation Barbarossa) and I wanted to test it to see if this base HL Tauchpanzer PZIII with plastic tracks, wheels and drive sprocket and idler could handle a torture test (and it did) on our field as we closed it up for the winter this Saturday. One of the guys in the club took these pictures. It's not finished as there are still parts to be added and the Echelon decals which are beautiful but a handful left me with a bit of a stumbling bear on the left side as I didn't want to take the chance of tearing it but the first image he shot came out pretty amazing so I figured I'd post them as this thread has been very quiet of latePZ III at field 1.jpgPZ III at field 2.jpgIMG_7559.JPG
 
First boat model I've built since I was a kid. Can't recommend the AMT kit. After getting into it a little further there are to many pieces that are poorly molded with divots and actual holes. It will take a little longer but will turn out fine just more work. After looking into the history of PT boats it looks like a lot of the ones in the Pacific were green which I didn't know and there's different sides as to if the 109 was gray or green at the time of it's demise. I like green so that's what I'm going with and I think it will show details better.

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sanford12 said:
First boat model I've built since I was a kid. Can't recommend the AMT kit. After getting into it a little further there are to many pieces that are poorly molded with divots and actual holes. It will take a little longer but will turn out fine just more work. After looking into the history of PT boats it looks like a lot of the ones in the Pacific were green which I didn't know and there's different sides as to if the 109 was gray or green at the time of it's demise. I like green so that's what I'm going with and I think it will show details better.

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FWIW, the movie PT-109 shots of Kennedy`s PT-109 appeared to be painted the common Navy Grey.
But that was the movie, and we all know how Hollywood takes liberties with historical facts for various reasons !
 
sanford12 said:
First boat model I've built since I was a kid. Can't recommend the AMT kit. After getting into it a little further there are to many pieces that are poorly molded with divots and actual holes. It will take a little longer but will turn out fine just more work. After looking into the history of PT boats it looks like a lot of the ones in the Pacific were green which I didn't know and there's different sides as to if the 109 was gray or green at the time of it's demise. I like green so that's what I'm going with and I think it will show details better.
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I remember seeing those PT 109 models molded in dark green when they came out(may have been Revell or Monogram). Never saw a gray one before - except for maybe on McHale's Navy when they moved to Italy.
 
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