Tamiya Type 10 Tank
02-14-2016, 10:06 AM
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Still waiting for the missing part
Did a dry run with one wheel missing to see if everything would work & uploaded a bit of video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTWuuGgyWnY
Put the machine gun together but it didn't look very convincing so I drilled the barrel (0.8mm is about scale) and added some ammo & spent cases which Tamiya don't supply.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTWuuGgyWnY
Put the machine gun together but it didn't look very convincing so I drilled the barrel (0.8mm is about scale) and added some ammo & spent cases which Tamiya don't supply.
02-14-2016, 11:57 AM
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02-15-2016, 01:28 AM
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I have been looking at other peoples reviews of this tank as I have never had any contact with the world of tanks & this is my 1st Tamiya r/c model so I wasn't sure my comments would be of value. As a modeller & engineer with over 60 years of experience I will say that even leaving aside the particular problems with my kit this model is very poor value for money & I regret buying it. There are glaring omissions & poor detailing obviously to cut costs which are not passed on to the customer. IMHO if you are thinking of buying this one look elsewhere.
02-15-2016, 03:20 AM
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Besides the original Tiger I, all of Tamiya's RC armor offerings fall short of being a great scale model and I probably wouldn't consider them a 'good value'.
As a modeler and an engineer, It's a given you'd spot to short comings, and short of Trumpeter's static kits, anything in 1/16 pales in comparison compared to 1/35. Heck, I've had 1/72 kits that were better detailed than some 1/16.
It sucks, but it's the way it is. Tamiya has always been expensive compared to other modeling companies, and in armor at least, not as good as DML, AFV Club or Tristar, but they are the originators of the 1/16 RC genre and after a while, when you look at the other offerings or what the cost in cash and time it would be to convert, the price is more palatable.
I remember when I bought my first, the M4. I felt the same as you. Coming from the static modeling world, dropping $500 on a kit was hard to do and to open the box ans see a 1970 mold without detail I was livid. But after assembly, the blow was lessened. Then I got the Tiger I, which is still their best. After that I went with a few HLs, and then you really get an idea of the quality of Tamiya and the value is in that it works.
So, value no, but it's a hobby. I'm typing this on an eight year old Macbook Pro that I use probably six hours a day. In the past eight years, I probably could have bought 5 new Macbooks for what I've spent on tank models and I'm lucky if I spend 6 hours a month running them collectively. None of that makes sense.
As a modeler and an engineer, It's a given you'd spot to short comings, and short of Trumpeter's static kits, anything in 1/16 pales in comparison compared to 1/35. Heck, I've had 1/72 kits that were better detailed than some 1/16.
It sucks, but it's the way it is. Tamiya has always been expensive compared to other modeling companies, and in armor at least, not as good as DML, AFV Club or Tristar, but they are the originators of the 1/16 RC genre and after a while, when you look at the other offerings or what the cost in cash and time it would be to convert, the price is more palatable.
I remember when I bought my first, the M4. I felt the same as you. Coming from the static modeling world, dropping $500 on a kit was hard to do and to open the box ans see a 1970 mold without detail I was livid. But after assembly, the blow was lessened. Then I got the Tiger I, which is still their best. After that I went with a few HLs, and then you really get an idea of the quality of Tamiya and the value is in that it works.
So, value no, but it's a hobby. I'm typing this on an eight year old Macbook Pro that I use probably six hours a day. In the past eight years, I probably could have bought 5 new Macbooks for what I've spent on tank models and I'm lucky if I spend 6 hours a month running them collectively. None of that makes sense.
02-25-2016, 08:06 AM
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Shown next to my last project which was my 1st ship model & my 1st experience working with wood. Give me metal & plastic any day!
02-25-2016, 09:01 AM
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Much of it is scratch built, started it in May 2014 but spent most of last year in hospital so finished it last month. I estimate somewhere between 1500 to 2000 hours. The ships boats are removable to show internal detail. Biggest problem now is where to put it as it takes up a lot of space!
02-25-2016, 09:53 AM
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Thank you. I am quite proud of it but it's very much a one-off, something I always wanted to do. I am working on another ship but in plastic & PE brass the USS Chevalier. This was inspired by a Lindberg "Blue Devil Destroyer" kit which I had many years ago but was stolen before I could build it. The Chevalier famously torpedoed a Jap ship whilst sinking having been torpedoed herself. This like the tank is another one-off as my main love is aircraft & especially helicopters.
02-25-2016, 12:28 PM
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Thank you. I am quite proud of it but it's very much a one-off, something I always wanted to do. I am working on another ship but in plastic & PE brass the USS Chevalier. This was inspired by a Lindberg "Blue Devil Destroyer" kit which I had many years ago but was stolen before I could build it. The Chevalier famously torpedoed a Jap ship whilst sinking having been torpedoed herself. This like the tank is another one-off as my main love is aircraft & especially helicopters.
02-26-2016, 12:31 AM
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02-26-2016, 09:36 AM
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The rigging on the ship would have pushed my over the edge...excellent work all around.
I too put together the Lindberg, but quickly handed it over to my son and got myself in over my head with a 1/72 U-boat conversion.
While I'm sorting that out, I started on a Vospers MTB.
Nice Helis, I was doing the AC stuff for a while but got tired of the flying space/weather shut downs. I got as far as a MSR with helis, never even close to CP, that's a lot learning curve.
I too put together the Lindberg, but quickly handed it over to my son and got myself in over my head with a 1/72 U-boat conversion.
While I'm sorting that out, I started on a Vospers MTB.
Nice Helis, I was doing the AC stuff for a while but got tired of the flying space/weather shut downs. I got as far as a MSR with helis, never even close to CP, that's a lot learning curve.
02-26-2016, 10:26 AM
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The rigging on the ship would have pushed my over the edge...excellent work all around.
I too put together the Lindberg, but quickly handed it over to my son and got myself in over my head with a 1/72 U-boat conversion.
While I'm sorting that out, I started on a Vospers MTB.
Nice Helis, I was doing the AC stuff for a while but got tired of the flying space/weather shut downs. I got as far as a MSR with helis, never even close to CP, that's a lot learning curve.
I too put together the Lindberg, but quickly handed it over to my son and got myself in over my head with a 1/72 U-boat conversion.
While I'm sorting that out, I started on a Vospers MTB.
Nice Helis, I was doing the AC stuff for a while but got tired of the flying space/weather shut downs. I got as far as a MSR with helis, never even close to CP, that's a lot learning curve.
If you can fly a MSR you can fly anything, the bigger the better in my experience.
02-26-2016, 10:51 AM
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The good thing about the MSR is I could order a pile of replacement parts and it caused no damage to anything else. If I go bigger, it gets more dangerous as well as expensive. The kids and I used to have competitions to land on small elevated platforms anr move small objects.
These days, all the coax stuff has been hacked up to use bricks in other things. I have a 1/1200 Yamato that is double screw steeering via a coax heli brick. I'm finishing up a 1/128 Flying Sub fom Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea that steers via two impellers. The sub is under three inches wide. Coax bricks are great since they have two servos and two FETs that can be controlled by rudder movement.
02-27-2016, 10:01 AM
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Finally
I can never say a model is finished, I can usually find something I've missed or an improvement of some sort, even just looking at these photos noticed a couple of things.....but it's just about done.
02-29-2016, 07:52 AM
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