Vintage

This is a nice video of the King Tiger from Saumur Tank Museum in France and is the only one still kept in working condition in the world.  Saumur is one of the best tank museum of the world.

This is a great video of the Bovington Tank Museum Panzer III Ausf L (and Stug III) which my 1/6 scale Armortek Panzer III is replicating.

 

I have just finished a 1/35 scale version of the Panzer III which I will use as one of my reference sources for the Armortek build.

 Here are a few photo's.

 My Armortek Panzer III is arriving today!!!

Standby for pictures 

Yesterday I re-installed the CSM Revlock and test flew the Mongoose and although iy appeared that the governor was working I could not set the correct headspeed which when tached, was alway lower than I had set.

After double checking my setup (ration, engine speed etc) and test flying a couple more times I decided to switch back to the Futaba GV-1 in which I set the same ratio and target headspeeds.

 Again I had a friend tach the actual headspeed when flying and it matched that set in the GV-1.

As I "borrowed" the Futaba GV-1 governor from my Align Trex 600 Nitro I decided to replace it with the Align RCE-G600 governor.

 Installing it was very easy with the sensor bolting on to the outside of the frames.

Setup on my JR 12x radio was also easy using the governor function allowed me to change headspeed from the radio and have a different speed set for each flight mode.

Yesterday I test flew the Mongoose with the Futaba GV-1 governor in place and experienced similar problems to the CSM Revlock.

After disconnecting the Governor,  the problem still existed and turned out to be engine tuning related and after a few adjustment I got the engine dialed in and re-activated the GV-1 which performed fine.

 My next test is to re-install the CSM Revlock and see if it now works.

 So today I fitted a Futaba GV-1 governor that I had on my Align Trex 600 Nitro and did a breif test hover in my back yard.  The governor appears to be working fine which I will confirm next week with a more comprehensive flight test.