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Old 09-01-2016, 05:52 PM
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frijoles108
 
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Hello guys,
So first. If you had not seen another thread I had started, It was following my desperate look for new blueprints for my tank, as the past ones were horrific and caused me to mess up my measurements, so i have to start from scratch. Before I had realized my error, I had ordered the book "Ft-17/m1917 walkaround" by David Doyle. I was at a crossroads. Use some mysterious russian blueprints that appear to say they are of the m1917, yet are very high resolution, make a slightly innacurate conversion of ft17 to m1917, which would drive me nuts over the accuracy. I had decided initially on using the russian blueprints, and blew them up each view of the blueprints on seperate pieces of paper, as seen below:


These two above photos are my previous plan.
Then the saving grace arrived when my book came in the mail today...
I found in this book extremely accurate dimensional measurements of the m1917!!
and i found this beautiful page... WHICH IS BETTER THAN SKETCHY RUSSIAN BLUEPRINT!!


My new plan is now that I will photocopy this page at a local photo shop. Then i will have them increase the image size to that of the 1/16 tank. Then I can get them to print out these blueprints from the book in the 1/16 scale and life will be a lot easier for me. I wont even have to copy from an unknown scale to 1/16 scale, and will just have to simply measure the 1/16 scale image and can directly make the parts from it.

Additional question:
Would this gearbox work well for a tank? it will fit within the tank, but I'm curious as to whether I will be able to hook it up to a controller where it will be able to drive it like you do on normal rc tanks, will it hook up to the motherboards I will need for the tank?

https://www.walmart.com/ip/70168-Dou...=1086490668190

What motherboards would you guys suggest for the tank that are smaller, what electronics would you suggest for turret? Any advice would be valued!
See you all later!
Ben
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