Amazing Tank RC vehicles

Adam-NLV

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It's been a while since I saw the latest technology on these radio controlled vehicles. They have You Tube vids of these as well and all kinds of different models.

This tank, really looks realistic; moves, sounds and even smokes like a real one. Kids & hobbyist of today, have access to amazing technology we could only dream of. :)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-16-RC-2-4...er-2-Tank-Metal-Gearbox-Version-/152187703758
 
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Bevelsd

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I like that...A far cry from the one I have from 1962. This is a Deluxe Reading Tiger Joe I got for Christmas back then and still hang onto. Only goes forward, reverse, and operated from a wired remote control unit. It is almost 3ft long though.attachment.jpg.......And I have been known to take parts from a damaged Tiger Joe and add them to a Barbie motorhome so my vintage GI Joe's have sattachment.jpgomething cool to ride around in...
 

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cjpayne

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It's been a while since I saw the latest technology on these radio controlled vehicles. They have You Tube vids of these as well and all kinds of different models.

This tank, really looks realistic; moves, sounds and even smokes like a real one. Kids & hobbyist of today, have access to amazing technology we could only dream of. :)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-16-RC-2-4...er-2-Tank-Metal-Gearbox-Version-/152187703758
I'd love to have one of these, but since I'm older now, I want it to shoot pellets or something. Airsoft balls would be good enough for me. My neighborhood has a lot of stray cats.lol
A WWII Sherman tank that shoots 22cal would be outright awesome. Semi auto would be outright awesome badass!!!! A freind of mine has a pond that I could set up targets at and have the time of my life with it.
A replica of the USS Missouri that shoots 4/10 rounds would be the bomb.
 
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Adam-NLV

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Yep, these things are pretty cool. My dog would freak out! On you tube, they're putting metal tracks and takin em off road in the back yard lol. I'm not sure how long these have been around, first I've seen of them.

In time the price should get lower... will wait, I think these are a fairly new item.
 

Mike_

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yes, trying my best to stay away from this hobby!! I did mange to get one of these... relive my wishes of when I was a young lad, all we had was electric motors and always wanted gas!! Tanks are soo cool!! so hard not to get a few!!!

what I had when I was 12, ran for all of 5 mins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1fNyLZvAvQ


What I have now! Runs until my $28 gal of fuel runs out!! or I brake it!! I frigin love this thing!!! :36:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWg_xwnPB3s
 

Adam-NLV

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yes, trying my best to stay away from this hobby!! I did mange to get one of these... relive my wishes of when I was a young lad, all we had was electric motors and always wanted gas!! Tanks are soo cool!! so hard not to get a few!!!
I feel your pain. Not much money in the budget for cool stuff like this when I was a kid, plus they didn't even have this technology!

Here's the mother-load web site for these tanks.
Man, the prices are way more than I ever guessed. check it out:13: The US M41A3 Walker Bulldog is on my wish list....

http://ec-hobby.com/rc-tanks.html
 
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Awesome R/C tanks!!! When my brothers and I were young, we built all kinds of models, including tanks, but none had a gas motor... might've been a small electric motor in there somewhere, 10-4? Only the best finished models survived in the long run: the rest were eventually blown apart with M-80s or used for pellet gun practice, LOL. I still remember making balsa wood airplane models, the kind with doped wings and fuselage and---no $h!t---a rubber band for powering the prop. Those planes usually only made one flight before crashing hard and self-destructing... when that happened, what was left got torched, LOL. Balsa wood planes: a whole lot of work followed by a few seconds of flight. The plastic models were more durable and took more abuse in the long run, which was important to us when we counted our ages in single digits. Those brothers in double digits (eight of us all told, and one sister) monitored the firecracker & pellet rifle activity. As an aside, and when I was even younger, I nearly burned down a house in VA by playing with matches in a walk-in closet... when my pop (Submarine CDR, USN) returned home and heard about it, he yanked his belt and gave me a strapping I still recall to this day, LOL. Couldn't sit down for about a week, and I didn't touch any matches for a year afterward, 10-4??? LOL. :30:
 

OLD CT

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I still remember making balsa wood airplane models, the kind with doped wings and fuselage and---no $h!t---a rubber band for powering the prop. Those planes usually only made one flight before crashing hard and self-destructing...

Yes, I remember saving all my pennies up to buy one at the corner store and fly it one time to self destruction! :102:
 
Yes, I remember saving all my pennies up to buy one at the corner store and fly it one time to self destruction! :102:

I think it'd be best to fly one off the South Rim of the Grand Canyon... get more flight time before the big crash, LOL. Salt River Canyon would work too, that's just down the road and it's pretty impressive. Some motorcyclist just fell to his death there a couple of weeks ago, not in the way you'd think, riding over the edge, but parking his bike and walking to the rim. I reckon he was trying to get a selfie, or maybe just a straight pic, and he wandered too close to the edge. The Sheriffs had to use a drone to locate his body 425' down the cliff... sheer cliffs and headwalls in Salt River Canyon, it's a bad@$$ venue. :13:

Last day of painting the two bathrooms, been a long week of rolling and cutting in, but they're looking good and I'll be glad when they're done. I can reclaim my throne rooms by clearing all that newspaper, brown shipping paper, blue tape, etc., outta there, along with the plastic bags covering fixtures and thrones, 10-4? Put the cat litter boxes back where they belong, instead of on tarps in adjoining rooms. Use my bathtub again... I missed that tub this week, it's a great tub for taking a hot bath, LOL. Manana, a day of rest, good food, beer and football, WOOHOO!!! Painting is VERBOTEN!!! :41:

Think I'll run to Tractor Supply Co. and see about buying a state flag decorative license plate, saw one yesterday on a big ol' Dodge and it looked good. The owner walked out and I asked him where he bought the plate, and he said TSC, which isn't too far down White Mountain Boulevard. I don't hafta start painting till about noon, I don't have much left, just the final cutting in with the Purdy brush, hitting all the corners and areas I couldn't reach with the roller. A couple hours of brush work and it's all done... unless I put additional coats on those goddam louvered doors. :43:

Hey, my new pit bike might arrive today, that Thumpstar TSX 125 LE-M with the inverted Marzocchi forks and rear monoshock... 12" wheel in back, 14" up front. Should be a fun bike to ride on these trails here in the White Mtns. Once I'm done with this home rehab work, I'll hafta ask one of these gorgeous women in town to go for a ride... I see hot women every time I run to town, but I've been on a mission to complete this rehab work before I start having fun. Friendly gals too, most of 'em... not all stuck up like those sand crabs in Coronado, LOL. :30:

WELL, TIME TO GET CLEANED UP AND RUN TO TRACTOR SUPPLY CO., I'D LIKE TO BAG ONE OF THOSE PLATES FOR THE FRONT END OF THE CAMRY... AZ ONLY ISSUES A REAR PLATE, SO IT'S FULLY LEGAL TO SLAP A RISING SUN PLATE ON THE RIG'S FRONT END. :red70:
 
That's funneh... considering my recent interaction with the opposite sex. Ya got the painting part right, LOL. Just finished a little while ago, now I'm enjoying a cold beer and watching this Nature program on fake spy critters planted in the field to observe wildlife. Some o' these fake critters actually move and simulate the actions of the species which they are filming (with eye cameras), and they get some pretty amazing close-up shots of the real and much larger critters. I guess putting a small and non-threatening spy critter in the field is the way to go, otherwise the real critters would get gripped and go ape$h!t, LOL. :13:
 
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