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anybody have the tamiya RC 1/16 sherman?
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:18 pm
by scbvideoboy
and how much bigger is it? Than the 21C 1/18.
All these tanks shows have got me itching to buy one.
Dave
Don't KNOW why they did the howziter version.
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:21 pm
by Panther F
My 1/16th scale Tamiya Sherman with the stock turret is 14 inches long, 7 inches wide and 7 1/8 inches tall to the commanders hatch.
Does that help?
Jeff
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 5:17 pm
by scbvideoboy
yes, but I was thinking a side by side eye ball visual comparsion.
DH
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 6:05 pm
by Panther F
Sorry it's so dark but I'm not a photographer and it's 8:00 P.M. here!
Jeff
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 7:42 pm
by Rowsdower
Wowsers!
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 7:45 pm
by scbvideoboy
wow, cool you CAN really see the difference! man I need to get me a digital camera.
Thanks, DH
Here's mine.
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 7:45 pm
by GooglyDoogly
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:02 pm
by Rowsdower
So how much is one of these R/C beauties?? And do you have to glue it together and paint it like a kit or is it a 1:18 aircraft style pop a few bits together type of assembly? Also I see it has the Horizontal suspension. Very cool.
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:37 pm
by GooglyDoogly
They're around 300-400 for the kit, plus you have to supply your own transmitter/receiver.
But they're tons of fun. They make you feel like you're driving an actual tank because of the analog controls, and they're durable enough that you can drive them pretty much anywhere (with a few exceptions of course).
You have to assemble them, lotsa gluing, and lotsa screwing (sounds like college).
Er, anyways, the Sherman is the most simple to assemble. You can probably assemble it in 1-2 days.
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 9:32 pm
by Rowsdower
Sounds pretty cool. I figured it must cost a few hundred. I'd have to save my milk money for quite some time.
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 5:11 am
by Panther F
Plus they have the actual recorded sounds of what a real tank (in this case a radial powered M4 Sherman) would sound like.
Main gun, machine gun sounds, engine start/accelerate/idle/shut off, turret and gun elevation sounds and if a IR battle system is added, can score or be scored upon hits and hear the actual explosions of shells and final destruction, disabling the tank.
AND, you decide what you want the tank to look like at the very begining and there are so many aftermarket pieces to get to 'update' the tank for that one of a kind look.
I'm with you. While I like the HVVS and it working much better than the VVVS, I would have liked a more popular version to start off with like maybe an Easy 8.
Jeff
