I noticed a year ago that the RC IR battlers were wondering what to do if someone came out with a E-100 or Maus. The things had 6-8 inch front armor, 5-6 inch side armor.....How any Hits to kill somethng like that? Well the release of the E-100 and Maus never happened....So I decided to look into putting one of them togather just for the heck of it.....and along came Ludwig....

  http://www.ludwigs-hobby-seite.de/flohmarkt.html

And that made me start to look into it more, then he had this thread....

  http://www.rctankwarfare.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=9390

And he was posting pics of scale thinkness armor! I sugested he look into making one that used Heng Long suspension to make the build easier....he said OK and I said sold.....this will be HACKS atempt at building an E-100.....

First issue in any tank build is tracks, wheels and suspension. You figure out these and the rest is easy. Since the E-100 is using a king tiger for a base, how are they different in size in these items?

Item....................king tiger..................E100
tracks..................800mm.....................1000mm
road wheels............800mm.....................900mmthis was the Adler built prototype, not the Krupp drawings
number of road wheels..18........................16

### Hack tip.....use mm to convert to scale.....just take the item you want to convert and devide by 16.....1000mm track = 62.5mm in scale, 800mm track = 50mm in scale.......I used to do this in inches....like I said, I am a hack.

First Issue, the tracks...the hl king tiger has 50mm wide tracks, the E-100 should have 62.5mm tracks.....I understand that some compeny is comming out with some 1/16 scale e-100 tracks but the cost is going to be around 1200 euros, I spend that much on a set of tracks, I need a part time job to cover the cost...so lets see If I can make some..... here is a pic of the tracks

Here are the track on the tank in the UK for testing....

Here is a pic of some 1:35 scale track made for the E-100

IMO, the E100 tracks look like king tiger tracks that have been centered and has duck bills added....here are some matero and heng long tracks, note that they are open pin also note the hl tracks on the bottom have the teeth holes a little closer togather and the non holed links have more closed sections than the matero's...

Now to make them wider....cut them at the outer teeth holes and add the extra peaces for width and you get 60mm wide tracks

 and glue with some PVC solvent/glue and cut off some teeth from the other track peaces and you have 63mm wide tracks

now to see If I can find 6 sets of hl king tiger tracks....

While I look for tracks, lets start the wheels....I need 900mm wheels insted of the hl kingtigers 800mm wheels.....that means I need to comvert 50mm wheels to 56.25mm......So I went to Lowes and found some 2 inch id pvc coulpers got out the miter box and cut 32 rings.....

here is a comparo with some hub caps I am messing with.....

I have to think about the hubcaps, not shure I want to spend the time to place 49 bolts into each wheel mmmmmm.....

Well, I ordered a E100 from Chris had here is the one he sent me.....

So I strated to throw on the HL suspension and I noticed that Chris kept the axil locations on both sides and had the swing arm guides forward of the axil holes on both sides....this is not how HL does it, the little tabs on the back of the swing arms are not centered, they are to one side....

Well, what a hack to do? Guess I have to cut off the tabs and drill the loaders side swing arms and put in some screws to act as the new tabs....

and she is a roller......

Now I started messing the center caps to try to get that "big" look....

This is kinda the goal....

here is a lol shot for an idea of size....thats a hl kt on the e100 hull.........

thats it for now....still need hl tracks......

Ok...something simple.....the rear plate....

and those suport tabs removed.....you king tiger guys should do this also....

And with one of the armored tail pipes cups cleaned off and one drilled for the manuel motor crank holder...the rivets are for the lifting lugs....

thats all for today.....