Originally Posted by
Crius
You might just want to shoot yourself now instead of later.
I'm doing a 1/6 Hetzer and it really is a great scale, but you're going to find some challenges along the way. For example, with my Hetzer I ended up completely replacing the drive system with better motors and chain drive. What kind of features are you planning for the King Tiger? I mean, besides the usual rotation and elevation and what-not. Are you going to put in a paintball cannon? Maybe a smoke and flash feature? Do you want barrel recoil? LED flash in the machine gun? What about sound? Smoke? Gotten that far in the planning yet?
My plan is by the end of my 4 years of engineering ill encorporate as much as i can from my classes (im wanting to make it detailed as possible). So im designing eveeything in a cad program so that i can calculate stresses and all that stuff so i can lick the right motors. my main features i want to an opening closing breach and recoil (if possible kinda like the armortek flak 88), tops will swap with jagdtiger upper, and if i can learn how i would like to design and build a maybach engine (like the artimus v12), possibly a hydraulic system for rotation elevation, but untill i build all that stuff im sticking with electric motors, smoke system, recoil and flash (i might have found a better way for flash and instead use a secondary smoke machine and a solenoid valve to puff when fired out the barrel). Im sure theres some other stuff ill do along the way but that is the main stuff