Roboticus_Prime

I did see a thread here where someone built one.

ausf

Between Tamiya and Takon, I think most WWI tanks are on the shelves now, some out, some released this month. That's 1/35, but Clark is releasing (or has?) a board for it. Tamiya has a kit or two that is already motorized, so RC wouldn't be a stretch.

But honestly, a 1/16 WWI tank would be a relative breeze to scratch build. All straight angles and the track links are for the most part, solid. I love the Pz I, but scratching the links in anything short of an alloy wouldn't be strong enough. You could run WWI links in resin with little problem since there are castable formulas stronger than ABS.

If you are really interested, buy one in 1/35 and give it a good look over. If it's in your wheelhouse, measure and scale up to 1/16.

Max-U52

I saw a thread by a woman that built a WWI tank, but it might have been larger than 1/16. Maybe 1/10 or 1/8. Tanque would probably know. She did an excellent job, too. Very, very cool.

ausf

The laser cut wood superstructure, right? IIRC it was 1/6.

Airbrushler

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I would love to build a 1/16th Renault or Mark IV. I am crafty enough to build the body structure, but wouldn't even know where to start for building the track system. A Mark IV out of all aluminum plate sure would be cool though! lol

ausf

Buy Tamiya's Mark IV and do what they did, upscaling to 1/16.

tomhugill

A club mate has built a mkiv in 1/16 using a similar drive train.

ausf

Since most of the drive train is hidden, I bet you could get away with a small timing belt as a base for the track links.

tomhugill

Mark used T34 tracks, they're the right width and pretty close the the right size

Tanque

We might consider posting highlights of previous debates as a sticky. May head off potential arguments if someone could wordsmith a neutral unbiased presentation on the pros and cons of each camp.

Jerry

Panther F

Once upon a time when I first started building there was a 1/15 Mark IV tank available in resin (Verlinden maybe) that I wish I had got a hold of but it's long out of production. But, in the meantime the Takom 1/16 FT-17 is about what we have available in plastic.

Juckenburg has the A7-V in 2 versions in 1/16th scale, but it too is resin and therefore some work to RC one.




Jeff