World of Tanks my 16th scale Armortek Tank

[BIRMA]

This is my recently acquired Panzer !V Ausf H made by Armortek. It is all metal and weighs about 90 kilos but the detail is incredible.
It has a smoke unit that 'chuffs' on start up then once underway a fan kicks in to make it look more realistic, at the moment I'm running it on a mixture of paraffin, Castrol R, Johnsons baby oil and Smokey Joe's diesel smelling train smoke.
It has an authentic tank sound card and a very loud high quality sound system so it not only looks the part it sounds it too.
It measures about 3 feet long and two foot wide and I'm told can pull a car and with two 24 volt motors I can believe it. Could have sworn I put 1-6th scale in the title




Here are some close ups of the tank personnel.

Edited by BIRMA on Friday 16th September 17:16

[Mansells Tash]

Awesome, I'd love a play with something like this when it is snowing!

Every big kids dream.

[BIRMA]

Mansells Tash said:

Awesome, I'd love a play with something like this when it is snowing!

Every big kids dream.

Thanks, I forgot to mention the main gun has a clever 'flash system' and recoil and a very loud authentic boom plus the machine guns have LEDS and sound with one moving from side to side the detail is astounding.

[bigkeeko]

Pretty amazing detail but could do with some `weathering`. There's a place near me where guys hold 1/6th meets. The layout of the place is unreal. Search for `tanks Ardwell` on youtube.

[BIRMA]

bigkeeko said:

Pretty amazing detail but could do with some `weathering`. There's a place near me where guys hold 1/6th meets. The layout of the place is unreal. Search for `tanks Ardwell` on youtube.

Good point, I've just started to do some weathering having bought some rust paint, the first photos are of when I first got it since then I've been slowly messing it up with rust and weathering.
I'll check out the Youtube
Just checked it out somebody has really put some work into that place, whereabouts in the country is it?

Edited by BIRMA on Thursday 15th September 13:39

[bigkeeko]

South west Scotland. They have regular meets and photo shoots apparently. I went once just for a look.

[BIRMA]

bigkeeko said:

South west Scotland. They have regular meets and photo shoots apparently. I went once just for a look.

Next time I visit Faslane and surrounding area I'll check it out, bit of a trek for my tank transporter though coming from Portsmouth.