1/35th scale vintage Motorized Academy (Tamiya Knock off) M48A3 Patton tank 

AFV club did share a lot of molds with academy back in the 90's when the company was first getting off the ground, but since the late 90's or the 2000s that's no longer the case. All AFV club tooling on kits from that era are all 100% AFV OEM tooling

Glad I could help. What tank did you want to do the conversion to? Some are easier than others. Others may be impossible

@@oddball759mm jagdtiger 1/16 trumpeter. but I think I am going to use a taigen motor and board.

@history view for 1/16 you can't use the system I used here, it's way too small / underpowered for a model of that size and weight. The best way to do it is like you said with the taigen gearboxes

@@oddball759mm thank you for your videos very detailed lot of great ideas. currently working on a t-72 converted to look like a Syrian tank. thanks again.

@@panzertracks np, thanks for watching.

possible yes, easy no. The M113 issue is that the hull is very narrow and the front area is very restricted. off the shelf gearboxes will have difficulty fitting. Tamiya themselves did have the model motorized and used their own gearbox, academy also made their M113 (tamiya clone) model motorized and with a 2 way remote so it is doable. You can track the academy motorized ones down with not too much difficulty, however another way to do it is if you have access to a 3D printer you can design your own gearbox that fits in the front hull section. I'm doing this now with a vintage tamiya Stug 3 that I'm motorizing and it has the same issue as the M113

the ones i have seen are the, M48 M60 JGSDF Type 74 Vintage M551 Leopards T62 Possibly the M1 Abrams and the Bradley, but I'll find out as time goes on

@@oddball759mm thank you. Maybe I will build the kampfpanzer leopard one

good choice

2 AAs

yes

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