Armortek

This is what I have used successfully for the past three years. A good futaba 'Brick' servo, giving a good 3-4" of movement. Originally I was using a 9mm pistol which discharged out of the barrel, but it kept jamming, and therefore a bit of a pain! So I now just use the Benedini gun fire on the sound card.

Doubled for some reason!

Your setup looks really good, very orderly in the set up.

My Tiger has Pete Fertl's Barrel and the Armortek Firing unit; I am not sure that I will ever actually ever fire a blank in it - I like to know it's there though. Ideally I would like the recoil to work with everything as it is installed now (with or without shooting a blank). As if that wish is not enough, I'm also tinkering with ideas of upgrading speaker(s)/sound output.

Has anyone successfully installed a servo recoil within the Turret along with the Armortek firing system?

Martin

We appreciate why you are asking about a recoil unit with the Armortek blank firing system and why the effect would be desirable. However we must emphasise once again that the Armortek firing unit MUST be rigidly fixed to the tank and that modifications are not recommended. Any such mods are entirely at your own risk. The firing unit is a powerful device.

Mark

Richie,

The shooting is good fun but I now do air rifle Saturday morning and clays Sunday morning, so I'm getting a bit of nagging from the boss!!!

Moving is a rail pain in this country and these new HIP's make it even more difficult.

The helicopter sounds fun and a challenge, I better not go there otherwise there would be even more "toys" around the house. I ve been told I have to sell off some of my stuff - especially the 1/16th tanks as I haven't touched these since getting the Armortek Tiger going.

Hi Mark,

While I do have professional experience with firearms and other devices, I have not used the firing unit therefore I am not fully familiar with its dynamics. So I do welcome all thoughts.

If there is recoil of any useful sort generated by the firing mechanism, then could some mechanism be devised to harness the energy from the shot to make the barrel recoil? But then this system alone would only work when the blank is fired, and I would prefer a system that gives the choice of working with or without shooting the blank.

Not giving up too easily....in the tradition of a good Tiger commander

Martin

PS: why wasn't this thread under "Tiger I"?

hi allan
sounds like your getting a good ear bashing buy her sum thing nice for xmas, a tank!!!
just fitted my anatronic figures from spear head, nice, brings the tigger to life also been working on the smoker, i wanting a good blast of smoke on start up still on with that, also altering the recoil, got the bang, flash, smoke and recoil nearly right now, just going threw alot of 8mm blanks mind you never seen a cat for ages so the birds are happy
hows the sherman going?
richie

Richie,

The Sherman is going really slowly with such a lot of scratch building to do with this conversion. I've spent the last week of evenings making the tw brackets for the rear hull plate. I only do about an hour's work per night.

You seem to be making good progress with the Tiger, the animatronicfigures do make a big difference to the model, especially if they move all the time like the ones Vince made. Mine only does a 30 second party piece.