Really liking the look of that weapon action! Those arm extensions could easily see you getting some OOTA's! And like the last one its all white and shiny... apart from the forks, they need shinying up! Shiny-shiny!
Oh yes, what can be made shiny shall be shinied (lol). Thanks mate.
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Today/tonight we did quite a bit. We got the locking bolts for the lifter in, so it can now theoretically self-right from all positions. We have also mounted a good bit of the lifter motor gearbox. If we get stuck in tomorrow we may even get to a test stage with the lifter!
Pics of the progress on photobucket as always: http://s1088.photobucket.com/albums/i32 ... menta 2/
More progress, more!
The lifter motor and gearbox is fully in. Took some doing, but it's straight and solid. Unless we find something very wrong, all that is left before testing the weapon is the chain tensioner and to stick a Deans on the motor.
pics: http://s1088.photobucket.com/albums/i32 ... menta 2/
Starting to look cool!
Also, we weighed it, and we have about 2kg left for the scoop, side armour, top panel and a load of nuts and bolts. Going to be tight!
Wahey!
Awesome!! really like the way it self-rights in any position it can find itself in, and it does it in style! Well done :wink:
Very very nice. Now get some li-po's so you have weight to armour it!
That looks brilliant! Well done for getting it moving so early, ours are just bits mainly.
What is going on the side? More plastic? I am a little worried that it wont stand up to any spinners if you get caught on the side.
Thanks guys. Yeah we're pretty happy with it!
LiPos may end up being a necessity, but I think we'll get it in weight with the NiMHs. They may start to struggle to put the power out if all 5 motors are blazing at once, so we'll see.
The sides will be 10mm HDPE. They should be pretty solidly mounted (across 4 points; front shaft, chocks between the wheels and a bolt at the back), so hopefully they'll just get slashed instead of ripped off!
do you think 10mm hdpe will be enough? I'm sure it will not break like a chopping boardbut it just might get punctured, its a bit soft you know - think I'll add a thin sheet of steel on mine say 2mm at strategic points...
We did 7 battles with badly mounted 6mm HDPE sides on Tormenta and they hardly got touched. NST got us right in the front of Tormenta, admittedly doing big damage to other things before reaching the HDPE, but the 10mm that it hit got a little sliced and that's it.
Fairly confident it'll be fine... Explosion manages with just 5-6mm!
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