Greetings All, The other day I caught the Indiana Jones The Last Crusade rerun. I had forgotten about the tangle with the tank in that movie. Does anybody know...
Hi Dan This is the closest I've seen the British TOG: http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/7413/tog.html http://www.clubi.ie/exalted/togii.htm ...
Greetings Mitch and All, Wow! Thanks for the Links! Silly me, I had gone and forgotten all about those "tanks designed by committee". I still love those great...
Greetings All, Always one with a keen interest in alternative forms of RC mechanized locomotion I caught something while watching cartoons with the ...
Hi there! First of all I would like to say hello after not haveing posted here in the last months. I am looking for information regarding my new project of a...
... Hannes: The Star wars RPG sourcebooks might have the measurements, so I'd say find an online Star Wars gaming group and ask someone there. In a pinch, the...
Hi WhitWolf, thank you for your rapid reply! Well, I found something useful on the internet after all. The AT-ST in 1/6th scale will be exactly 1,355 meters...
Greetings Hannes and All, Like Three Stooges and Godzilla flicks some women just don't seem to get it. But if she loves you she'll learn to adapt. --LOL Your...
Hi Dan! Well, making the AT-ST walk would be a real challenge. I was thinking of a static model for the time beeing - but who knows. A friend in Austria wants...
Greetings Hannes and All, I think that just about any type of walker would be very difficult to build let alone to actually fight. The less legs, the greater...
Hi Dan, well, first of all I will have to do some detail drawings of the AT-ST wich will take some time and then gradually start on building. The "Avenger" is...
Guys & Gals... I've looked on eBay, and one seller has a ~BAD~ feedback rating, the other wants more for shipping than the price of the kit. Anyone know of a...
Greetings WW and All, Hhhhmmm..... A V1 Buzz Bomb???? Should we start getting a bit worried about just what it is that you might be up to???? --LOL Dan G ...
Greetings Hannes and All, ROFL! -- I just love the "WASH ME" touch!!!! What a truly GREAT JOB! Now you said that this was a working missile system? Would you...
Greetings All, Anybody who has ever had the enjoyment (?) of assembling any one of the many assorted GI JOE action vehicles knows that every single one comes...
Hi Dan, try to heat them slightly with a hairdryer and start peeling them of - that should work ok! Start picking and then give heat until the stickers peel...
... Worried, naw, I'm not into rocketry, besides, firing a model rocket in North America a set amount off vertical can get you arrested. I think the value is...
... Castrol SuperClean dinna work? How about Mean Green. I've had them strip Polycarbonate paint off lexan and even the decals without damaging the lexan. ...
Hi Dan, the missile system is not "top secret" and I would be happe to share my experience on that system with you. The system (electronics) I have no Idea of...
Greetings WW and All, ... amount off vertical can get you arrested.< Not if you present it as an explorative alternative form of space travel. Then you can...
Greetings All, Thanks for the tips!!! I guess that I shouldn?t try WW?s lighter fluid and Hannes? hairdryer tricks at the same time though either. --LOL Thanks...
Greetings Hannes and All, WOW! You are using Estes Rockets! A little dangerous, and defiantly cheating, but VERY COOL! And you didn't include shots of a...
Greetings All, I have always believed in taking notice of not only the successes but the failures of R&D as well. Hopefully a failure or a setback will inspire...
Greetings All, Okay, I don't want to hear any more about us "Crazy Americans" when it comes to building tanks with working weapon systems. You folks have got...
Greetings All, Make no mistake, I love those great lumbering armored two legged mechanized monsters as much as everyone else, but...... Since that day, many...
Greetings All, In David Sherman and Dan Cragg's book StarFIST no.3 : STEEL GAUNTLET they raised an interesting concept.... the death of the tank. The point...
... < snip > The 'big walkers' began before RoboTech... with the 'Godzilla' crap. Then all the japanese animation got into it with Dougram, Crusher Joe, and...
... I could point to a similar situation in G. Harry Stine's 'Warbots' series, when telerobotics had taken over, and the US Army had to re-learn how to be a...