Hi to all I'm a new signatory here but have been a modeller and RC hobbyist for 42 years.
I go back to a Tamiya CS Countach and aero engines with a compression screw.
I could probably count my RC vehicles but would prefer not to, I do know it's over 300 and I have over 100 working internal combustion engines.
If it spins I'm there.
I ran a hobby shop for several years and have several degrees, engineering, electronics etc so I'm not a Noob in the classic sense.
Bought my first tank in 2005 and have played on and off since then.
I've just finished a 1:7 scale Spitfire and a 1:5 scale Sopwith Camel
The last few years have been 1:5 scale buggies with 30cc Gas engines and some electric crawlers.
I've also got one of every series of RC10 ever made in better than V-good condition.
Slot cars, an 80 ft AFX layout and some 1/24 competition stuff.
Now I'm going to have a go at doing tanks to a respectable level.

This forum seems to be one of the better "Tankcentric" so I think that I'll concentrate my efforts here for the moment.
I've read every post from the last 2 years and so I'm pretty switched on in the level of knowledge and have taken much with me into my realignment towards 1:16 scale and tracks. I've also done the odd robot and Pi/arduino so that stuff is OK as well as a few drones and have a few 250 FPV racers as well as a couple of 450 size that I've been using for AI programming so I hope I can bring some of that tech to my Tanking.
I recently acquired a Bulldog , a Panther and a King Tiger as well and am looking for a Leopard at the right price.
I intend to do a series of build logs that would reflect the levels I'd recommend as the old school LHS bloke would do. Not extreme modding or severely over complicated controllers but good value solutions that you can grow with.
I am sure that the hard core tankers will chip in with invaluable advice but what I'd like to do is to show how you can get a good quality Tank going with relatively inexpensive kit.

I won't do scale, this is for those dedicated to it and from what I've seen here some of you do insanely good work, I'm going to work with a definitive set of hardware and electronic sets and optimise the user satisfaction.

And thus this adventure begins...
...with an old school Heng Long Pershing.

I'll update the electronics to an RX-18
Driven by a 9XR radio
and cleaned up internals.
For less than $100
We'll Get a a hobby grade i6x radio and mod it for centering on the throttle and assign other uses to some other channels.
For less than $90
Better motors and some reasons why.
A lot of stuff has been addressed so if I'm going somewhere and it's a redundant post interrupt and point me to the post.
Making it easy for a new tanker is the priority.

Then we'll do an OPENPANZER config.
I see this as the future of RC Tanks.
I'd just like to share some of the stuff I've learned and show it to a new community.

To a long and fruitful future
Salut'

Bill