interesting photos from Japan

Post by **Armortek** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 5:15 pm

We have just posted some photos from Yoshitomo Isoya of Japan who is not opting for the standard Armortek Motion Pack in his Jagdpanther and Panzer III!

http://www.armortek.co.uk/gallery/main. ... emId=10769

Gill

Adrian Harris · Post by **Adrian Harris** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 5:48 pm

Not easy to tell from the photos but looks like a four cylinder engine with turbo charger

And a brake band based steering system

I'd love to see footage of that on YouTube - hint

Adrian.

Tim Bowman · Post by **Tim Bowman** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:43 pm

HOLY SHMOLY

Stewart Ashton · Post by **Stewart Ashton** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:55 pm

Tim Bowman wrote:HOLY SHMOLY

Good heavens

Regards Stewart

Matthijs Dijkstra · Post by **Matthijs Dijkstra** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:01 pm

Good heavens!!!

Why do I feel so small???

Matthijs

P.S. I think the van is for cooling the 4 cylinder engine?

Roland Mann · Post by **Roland Mann** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:50 pm

Hi Matthijs,

you are right. Its an air cooled engine. Four cycle four cylinder, sideway camshaft, pushrods and overhead rocker arms. What a beautiful piece of engeneering is this set up ! It realy makes me thinking.

Roland

Martin Cohen · Post by **Martin Cohen** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 11:00 pm

I'm amazed at the lengths to which he went to avoid having to buy the Smoke Generator!

Adrian Harris · Post by **Adrian Harris** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 11:36 pm

Adrian

Per Sonnervik · Post by **Per Sonnervik** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:32 am

Hi Gill,

Thanks for posting these photos, very impressive indeed.

The engine is an OS IL 300, 4 cycle, should make an interesting sound, nice to see something else than electric motors for a change and some engineering work as well. Everythings so nice and shiny and the only let down is the braked differential which to me is a bad choice, he should at least opted for a Cletrac (braked differential).

Per

Pierluigi Patri · Post by **Pierluigi Patri** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 1:33 pm

Hi all.
Has anybody among the forum's users tried to motorize its tank with a internal-combustion engine? And what about the gear case for steering and speed changes?

simon_manning · Post by **simon_manning** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 1:59 pm

mind blowing ability to constuct and design,it must be a treat for the engineers on the forum,amazing some builders talent

would like to see more.

simon manning

Alfredo Campanini · Post by **Alfredo Campanini** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 2:44 pm

Hi Pierluigi,
I have assembled a very fine Tiger 1/8 scale, with petrol engine 50 cc. : a tragedy.
Difficult in engine running, gears was not hardened and was broken immediately; the operation with the gearbox is very sharp, not at all realistic.
I think that electric motors are much more better.
If you like I can explain better in Italian (sorry).

Jeffrey Goff · Post by **Jeffrey Goff** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 5:49 pm

Hi, just in case you would like to put this engine in your model;
check this out on ebay,number,190229078789,
O.S. IL 300 Dia Star 4 Cylinder Inline Engine OS 36310
a snip at Â£1500, plus you will need a gear box, now if you were making an aeroplane this would do nicely

regards
Jeff

Pierluigi Patri · Post by **Pierluigi Patri** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 8:44 pm

Jeffrey Goff wrote:Hi, just in case you would like to put this engine in your model;
check this out on ebay,number,190229078789,
O.S. IL 300 Dia Star 4 Cylinder Inline Engine OS 36310
a snip at Â£1500, plus you will need a gear box, now if you were making an aeroplane this would do nicely

regards
Jeff

I've found a less expensive engine (Â£ 750,00) in this link
http://www.modelworks-int.com/asp/d-no. ... =1&CatID=3
I know this is not so "beautiful"

but saveing Â£ 750,00 is really interesting

As Alfredo wrote the gear box is the problem.
The gearboxes by Iliya Cerjak (see:
http://members.tele2.nl/s_weggeman/CT.htm)
seem to be not suitable for heavy tanks but only for 1/16 ones.
I agree with Simon: this is a challenge for for the engineers on the forum.

So I throw down the gauntlet to them.

P.S. I beg your pardon but I'm not so friendly with English

Per Sonnervik · Post by **Per Sonnervik** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 9:21 am

Alfredo, do you have any photos of your tank and steering system, I would be very interested to see what it looks like. IÂ´m sorry to hear you had some difficulties and prefer the elctric motors.

Petrol (gas) engine is a challange, especially the steering system and I could write about some of my experiences with my petrol driven 1/8 Tiger II if somebody is interested.

Per