I HAVE RETURNED! Many years ago I started a
1/6th scale Scorpion tank you may remember. I have since gotten into 3d printing and over the past few months I have been designing a fully 3d printed 1/16th scale FV101 Scorpion tank! I do not use my CNC machine much anymore because 3d printing has been so much easier for me.
The entire tank was designed from the ground up to be 3d printed. I plan to sell it in some form but I'm not quite sure how yet. I sold a bunch of 3d printed snow blowers over last winter, but this tank is far more complex and many many many hours of printing time. I know for sure I will be selling the STL files for people to print their own. I need to figure that out still.
It uses gears from the science kit tamiya double gearbox in a custom printed gearbox using 370 sized motors. It has an insane amount of torque and speed with this setup. The final drive gears are 3d printed even. I will be recording a video soon with it running around. It is full featured including real torsion bar suspension (using piano wires), idler wheel tension with a spring to keep the tracks tight at all times, gun elevation, recoil and turret rotation, some hatches open, it even has 3d printed clips designed to quick release the top of the turret and the upper hull to get access to the insides. Very easy maintenance on this thing. One of the storage bins also can open up, the one that hangs off the back of the tank.
I'm using a Clark TK22 board for this but it has the Leopard 2 sound set in it right now. (I upgraded my Leopard to the new TK22G with gun stabilization and put its old one in here)
Check out another of my recent projects:
3D printed snow blower
Me and a couple others are trying to start up a 1/16th battle club using the IR battle system like Tamiya has. I have a 1/16th Heng Long Leopard 2A6 that has been converted to Clark's board. The others in the club use Tamiya tanks. We have a website you all should check out here we need more members! We are based in Blaine Minnesota.
http://www.mntankfarm.com/
This is kind of a quick post and I will add more details later!
The last couple images are a comparison to my Heng Long 1/16th Leopard 2A6 (I painted it along with many other upgrades)