1/16 Panther

ostketten · Post by **ostketten** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 6:23 pm

Just up at the Mato Toys of Canada website, 1/16th Panther RC. Four different versions including panzer grey, camo and IR equipped.

http://matomart.com/main.php

Tinman · Post by **Tinman** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 6:29 pm

Cripes, 1/16 armor just gets more and more tempting....

Post by **aferguson** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 7:39 pm

when are they going to run out of purple paint and switch to dark brown?

ostketten · Post by **ostketten** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 8:01 pm

The factory supplied paintjobs on most the RTR 1/16 scale tanks is almost an afterthought.

Of the half dozen or so that I own, the only ones that had halfway decent paint jobs out of the box were the WSN T-34/85 & Tiger. Most people repaint em' anyway, so the crappy paintjobs are generally not that big of an issue.

NWarty · Post by **NWarty** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:25 am

ostketten wrote:The factory supplied paintjobs on most the RTR 1/16 scale tanks is almost an afterthought. Of the half dozen or so that I own, the only ones that had halfway decent paint jobs out of the box were the WSN T-34/85 & Tiger. Most people repaint em' anyway, so the crappy paintjobs are generally not that big of an issue.

Yep, I'll be repainting my Tiger I this week

Post by **aferguson** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:28 am

i see tamiya has a kv 2 out now. I imagine it won't be long before heng long does too.

i was watching a video of the HL kv-1 and it moves kinda herky jerky..not smooth like a real tank. Didn't care for the recoil effect at all....it ends up jumping forward.

The turret turned nicely but does the turret turn 360 degrees or just 180 one way and then 180 the other way, like a bird's head?

Post by **aferguson** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 11:39 am

i also have a question about the rc t-34 by WSN.

what is the maximum range at which you can control it.....and if you had more than one of them in close proximity to each other would one controller control all of them?

GooglyDoogly · Post by **GooglyDoogly** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 1:18 pm

The HL turrets only turns 320 degrees, in order to protect the wires from getting twisted and tangled. Some people modded the turrets and made them turn 360 degrees though.

I haven't done range testing with my tanks, but I remember controlling my T-34 up to 25 meters, but the controls became jerky after that.

And that's without the aerial.

And if you have two tanks with two frequencies, you can certainly run both at the same time, even if they're close to each other.

ostketten · Post by **ostketten** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 1:30 pm

i see tamiya has a kv 2 out now. I imagine it won't be long before heng long does too.

Somebody already has a KV-2 conversion kit out for the HL KV-1 I believe, and there are some rumblings and rumors about an IS-2 conversion in the not too distant future IIRC.

a question about the rc t-34 by WSN. what is the maximum range at which you can control it....

While I've never attempted to test it personally, I have heard that 300 feet is about max, this seems a bit optimistic to me but 200 feet should be possible. Most people never run their tanks that far away though, several hundred feet is farther away than you might imagine.

Post by **aferguson** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:35 pm

ok thanks guys.

my question on frequencies was the opposite to what you are thinking.

i WANT to control several tanks at once with one controller. Are all the WSN T-34's on the same frequency so that i could control several of them at once with one controller? I know they'd all do the same thing, that's fine.

NWarty · Post by **NWarty** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 3:46 pm

aferguson wrote:Are all the WSN T-34's on the same frequency so that i could control several of them at once with one controller? I know they'd all do the same thing, that's fine.

Sounds like synchronized swimming for tanks!