RE: Tamiya Tiger 1 Build
Orange Blast,
The gearbox reductions have no effect on the recoil peed of the barrel; that is a completely separate mechanism from the gearboxes. As far as the apparent recoil of the chassis goes, I would say the scale of the chassis recoil is reduced proportionally to the amount of speed reduction. I can only comment at this time on the effect on my King Tiger ( and only partially so; my King Tiger had the gear reductions from day 1). From the videos I saw on the Tamiya web site, I thought the amount of chassis recoil was a tad overdone (it takes a lot to move 70 tons). With the gear reduction, the effect is much reduced and in my opinion, looks more realistic.
Not to worry... more pictures will be coming as the build progresses...