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Post by hardslack on Oct 17, 2021 21:55:02 GMT -5
Since forums are not cool anymore, we don't get many youngsters pontificating on how cool it would be to run a reasonably sized Kursk airsoft game; say 300 players each sizem we could use golf carts for........ It wouldnt be that hard we'd just need..... etc etc etc. So I'll try to pick up the slack! A few years back I snipped this little article in Popular mechanics about an "almost full scale" plywood grant-lee (or whatever) tank. www.popularmechanics.com/home/how-to-plans/a24241/reader-project-plywood-tank/Looks pretty cool in the pictures. I poked around hoping for a personal blog but only found this unrelated project with mostly broken links at the end. www.gizmology.net/tanks.htmI kind of like finding the old forgotten corners of the internet, from more wild times.
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Post by 2ndbat2 on Oct 19, 2021 0:37:16 GMT -5
Wow that looks fabulous. 3/4 scale tanks to support airsoft battles has always been in my fantasy rhealm. Back when my son (now 35) was about 7 we built a half scale Panther tank Friends made some as well and we put on WW2 paintball games annually using these tanks as a novelty hook for turnout. 1/2 scale was too small visually and full scale too large and cumbersome to move around. I always thought mostly foam 3/4 scale would be the happy spot. I even imagined building them around the angular Ford aerostar mini vans that seemed to have an accomodating shape. Alas the dreams...
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Post by hardslack on Oct 19, 2021 14:40:19 GMT -5
One of the big groups/shops here in Utah has a mitsubishi montero (i think) based airsoft fighting vehicle. When I first saw it at a game I was kind of critical of the appearance, but overtime as I appreciate the great variety ofwheeled AFV's that aren't exactly aesthetically pleasing... I have softened my opinion on it. It kind of has a soviet look to it, if only they could stick wheels that were much bigger.
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Post by 2ndbat2 on Oct 20, 2021 19:26:00 GMT -5
Bigger wheels would go far to enhance the look. I like the paint scheme and the addition of the pioneer tools. What i always envisioned were non functioning treads on the outside of the actual functioning wheels. Side skirts and tall grass would disquise that reality.
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Post by norseman on Oct 21, 2021 9:22:44 GMT -5
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Post by 2ndbat2 on Oct 21, 2021 19:20:36 GMT -5
The Argo is a perfect size. It is transportable and can operate in most airsoft fields. The challenge is even used ones in good operational conditiin are a lot of money. This Englishman spent a lot of time and money but did a great job. At several lion claws there was an armored Argo that was quute intimidating and highly effective. Armored vehicles add a lot to the experience. For the massive paintball event D-Day they typically have about a dozen pseudo armored vehicles including one on a truck chassis that is a very convincing Tiger tank. fake tracks and road wheels outside the truck frame but look great at a glance.
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Post by norseman on Oct 24, 2021 15:29:56 GMT -5
The Argo is a perfect size. It is transportable and can operate in most airsoft fields. The challenge is even used ones in good operational conditiin are a lot of money. This Englishman spent a lot of time and money but did a great job. At several lion claws there was an armored Argo that was quute intimidating and highly effective. Armored vehicles add a lot to the experience. For the massive paintball event D-Day they typically have about a dozen pseudo armored vehicles including one on a truck chassis that is a very convincing Tiger tank. fake tracks and road wheels outside the truck frame but look great at a glance. My buddy has a weasel that the tracks are gone on. My son has started up a fabrication company and is going to take a look at the project. The old studebaker motor just purrs like a kitten. So we may end up being able to use that in games.
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Post by volkssturm on Oct 25, 2021 11:49:19 GMT -5
"My buddy has a weasel that the tracks are gone on. My son has started up a fabrication company and is going to take a look at the project. The old studebaker motor just purrs like a kitten. So we may end up being able to use that in games."
Now that would be cool. Weasels were great little vehicles.
Back in the Stone Age I did my last year of Army at Fort Hunter-Liggett (it was H-L military reservation at the time, in the coast range south of Fort Ord) where Combat Developments Experimentation Command played with tactics and what not. I was the guy who counted trucks and made sure the mess truck got to the right place. Anyway, before I got there they had been doing some test for which they made plywood shells that were mounted on 5/4 ton trucks (a modified Jeep Gladiator that was the interim replacement for the old 3/4 tons until the Humvees came out). These things looked like Russian BRDMs. When I saw them they'd been taken off the trucks and scattered around a test range as battlefield dressing. One guy was telling me that they put dual wheels both front and rear. It made the steering really hard, but they could go about anywhere.
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Post by 2ndbat2 on Oct 25, 2021 17:51:27 GMT -5
At Ft lewis they had fiberglass and Plywood shells that fit over assorted vehicles and at a glance did a great job of simulating Soviet armored vehicles. BDRMs, BT70s BMPs. The BMPs and PT76s of course were full tracked vehicles but they slid the bodies over CUCVs which were basically civiliam pick up trucks. The fake tracks extended about 8 to 10 inches beyond the vehicle sides giving the vehicle greater dimensions and hiding the actual functional wheels underneath. In grassy fields and in formation especially with the mufflers removed and dragging chains they sounded ominous and kicked up a lot of dust. They were also able to transport troops who approoriately clamored out of the back.
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Post by norseman on Oct 27, 2021 11:15:13 GMT -5
"My buddy has a weasel that the tracks are gone on. My son has started up a fabrication company and is going to take a look at the project. The old studebaker motor just purrs like a kitten. So we may end up being able to use that in games." Now that would be cool. Weasels were great little vehicles. Back in the Stone Age I did my last year of Army at Fort Hunter-Liggett (it was H-L military reservation at the time, in the coast range south of Fort Ord) where Combat Developments Experimentation Command played with tactics and what not. I was the guy who counted trucks and made sure the mess truck got to the right place. Anyway, before I got there they had been doing some test for which they made plywood shells that were mounted on 5/4 ton trucks (a modified Jeep Gladiator that was the interim replacement for the old 3/4 tons until the Humvees came out). These things looked like Russian BRDMs. When I saw them they'd been taken off the trucks and scattered around a test range as battlefield dressing. One guy was telling me that they put dual wheels both front and rear. It made the steering really hard, but they could go about anywhere. My father was from Seattle but went to basic at Ft. Ord. He got orders to Ft. Eustus VA. He thought he was going to Vietnam! We just went to MO to visit my wife’s family and swung through OK to see my dad and moms army buddies. A bunch of young couples dead broke in Virginia in the early 60’s. Heard some stories about my parents that was fun. They all drove truck in the military. And many continued on with it after.
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