I Bought some parts from my friend Buckeye on RCU
i have 2 barrels one IR the other Air
upper and lower hull
all road wheels, idlers and drive sprockets
a couple of spare road wheels for my Panther G
all awingarms
hub caps for the road wheels and many other variuos parts like travel lock spare handles

this is what i'm thinking of making

Nice, will it be IR?

yes Glen i'm making it an IR when i can afford a system i need some parts still i nee tracks, gearboxes, springs for suspension and screws for all the roadwheels and the drive sprockets

I think we need to implement the "Strato Solution" for the big turret-less tank destroyers;

Strato50 wrote:

This upcoming Battleday, I'm all for trying out the impregnable front end of ANY tank destroyer, since they have the exact same limitations as any turret-less tank. Bring on the masking tape.

Have we even tried that before?

I think it will add an interesting dynamic to battles.

The AFV's were pretty heavily armored in the front, so there is a historical precedent.

It would level the playing field a bit for the turret-less tanks and we might be more of them on the field, which IMHO is a good thing.

Airbrushler wrote:

gearboxes,

Just be aware, some upgrade gearboxes that will fit the HL Panther G will not fit the HL Jagdpanther.

The left motor sits too high and makes contact with the upper hull, due to the upper hull's shape to accommodate the mantlet on a JP.

At least, I ran into this.

If I can get a set of upgrades that fit and we do the "Strato Solution" I could be persuaded to make my JP into an IR.

Thats one sexy toy good sir.....Do it!

Gearboxes for the Jagdpanther, these are supposed to fit, the motors are much lower mounted and should not have the difficulties I encountered.

http://www.welshdragonmodels.co.uk/asiatam-improved-metal-gearboxes-for-heng-long-panther--jagdpanther-116-scale-586-p.asp

those look pretty nice did you order these before and what was the total cost if you did

I did a quick search because Welsh is out of stock, beware the "steel gears" for JagdPanthers on eBay, they're definitely the cheap pot metal versions. If you like I can email Welsh / Mato / Rctank.de guys and see whats up with the nicer asiatam / taigen (?) versions for it.


Glen Im guessing they're LONG gearbox shafts? What are the panther's?

*EDIT* Oh wait, nevermind, BINGO! Nice asiatam LOW PROFILE long shaft Jagdpanther gearbox

I did not order them.

I seem to recall that Freakydude at Immortal Hobbies might be getting something in that will fit the JP, if that happens, it would be a "good thing"

Damn when this thing is done can you come on down to my area and run some RC cars over for me? (Or we can convert it to fire paintballs...)

well i hope to star t this soon


need suspenion Springs and gearboxes with motors

Sexy, henglong kit as a base or tamiya?

this is a Heng Long i have to get tracks to but just going to get plastic ones

Be sure to put an over powered motor in....i want to an RC Car TD! >

I have to aggree most of the big turretless tank destroyers did in fact have much better frontal than the main battle tanks only because they were at a disadvantage being turretless
And having all that area available for armour in someway a advantage

all i think i need for this is axle screws for the road wheels i might use the gearboxes in my scratch built halftrack for it

hey Greg, why is it all parted out like that? Is it leftovers from other projects?

yes i got it from Buckeye a while back had almost everything got it cheap Buckeye is a really nice guy gave me a great deal on it  i had some tracks sent over from Matomart when the prize Sherman tank for the muster was sent

well i did a bit of the welds and i rigged up my recoil be nice to make this stuff out of aluminum but styrene is all i had

Very nice recoil

Thanks i call it a contraption ...lol

Mines a beast and is Gona kick all allies @$$

what one you talking about

this is suppose to be the real one looks like lots of rust on it