I had a Tamiya German Leopard that had a motor for each side and a wired remote that worked quite well. The treads stayed on and it could climb pillows quite well. Good bang for the buck at the time.
Hey, so you have built a bunch of them, I’m wanting to mod a Pz.II G with the system.
However, I have NO IDEA what parts to get… Do you have any form of instructions that would be helpful for me? (Hard copy, PDF, generic picture and written)
The biggest issue is that the gearbox for the inside came in several widths. So one wide enough for a tank like the Abrams or M60 would be too wide for a smaller vehicle.
I would imagine the Pz II would use a narrow gear box like the type found in the M113. If you can find one on ebay, they are quite common. Here is an auction to a motorized Pz II.
Circa January 1964 bought a 1/10 scale Revell Allison T56 Model 501 D-13 Turboprop motorized engine model Catalog H-1552 per Thomas Graham’s Remembering Revell Model Kits 2004 page 53:
The Catalog H-1551 unmotorized version likely was released first in 1960:
The motorized version likely came out c.1962, a “Motorized” sticker slapped on box top in space below sample built model.
The H-1552 kit believed came with a 1.5 volt KKK (Tokyo Kagaku-?) bi-permanent magnet field electric motor ubiquitious to whole lotta Japanese & American made motorized toys of the late 1950s & 1960s:
The motor had a plastic mounting to fit it in the back of the propeller gearbox lower right side if memory serves correctly. One D-Cell battery sat in a separately assembled plastic cradle with electrical contacts, wires going from it to the motor. I don’t remember there being a power switch so when the battery was inserted the thing was supposed to work.
I did build the darn thing but only the gearbox mechanism worked; turbine section incorrectly glued together, rotor shaft broke second I’d applied power to the motor. In boiling disgust then-there threw the lot into the garbage can - an old fashioned metal one with matching metal lid - in 1997 I’d bought an 1982 unmotorized reissue at Riverside Hobbies in Sacramento (they’d bite the dust December 2011), kept in storage lotta years then gave it away.
Good ole’ Riverside. Used to meet another forum member there and have lunch next door. I got a good price on a 1/350 Hobby Boss Arizona, and a couple of other hard to find 1/72 aircraft kits.
I was the Chief Engineer on the campaign Widowson mentioned above. The man had a vision.
“The Shack” am presuming, decent fare, always busy. This was Doug Flores’ last store location, first was on Stockton Boulevard c.1978, Riverside Boulevard & Florin Road c.1980-c.1991, The Crossroads Fruitridge Road & 35th Avenue c.1991-c.1995 then Folsom Boulevard & 52nd Street till closed December 23, 2011. His son didn’t want to “inherit” the business so closed it permanently, only the Mossberg’s Viking Hobbies is left.
A club member built Tamiya’s WWI tank last winter. If you turned it on it would crawl right out of the diorama.
Hello,
Do you have any detail photos of your motorized 1/35th kits, or an information source that you referenced? Trying to add a motor/ gearbox to older kits (Tamiya) that have cut outs for axles, switches, etc.
Which specific kits are you looking for?
The new Tamiya Mark IV was pretty good,had a gear box,it moved to scale,I tried it a couple of times before I sealed it up.