Tatrovak

Thanks

Thank you for the support and for the praise of the model, but unfortunately I won't be adding any more photos here because I disassembled this Tatra yesterday.

Thank you very much. The body is empty, inside there is only one transverse wall that separates the rear + - quarter of the interior from the rest. There are several reasons for this, the first is that since the Starkom was only recently introduced into the armament of the Czech Army, its technology is still secret and therefore photos of the interior are unavailable, I only know that in the rear part there is some type of power plant, I assume that it is diesel, in the front part of the hull there will probably be only electronics, the operator's workplace should be only in the driver's cabin, overall the entire Starkom is built so that the crew in operational mode does not have to leave the driver's cabin. Another reason is that I no longer had the parts to make any meaningful interior inside, even if I don't know what the interior should actually be. And last but not least, the model was already very heavy and I wanted to maintain the best possible driving characteristics.

Thank you very much. While you were writing this, I looked at your URAL 4320, great cabin design by the way, and all I found there was a reply from the moderator that hateful and political comments would be deleted, so I assume that has already happened. But it is generally nonsense, many people admire, for example, German technology from World War II and that probably does not make them Nazis. I am also a pacifist, although I like to build military technology from LEGO.

Thank you very much, I used so many motors mainly for propulsion, as I expected the whole model to be heavy, and I was not wrong, it weighs 4.9 kg, which makes it the heaviest model I have ever built.

TLCB, thank you for writing so nicely about my creations, I follow your page and I'm glad that my creations are part of it.

I am also not interested in a lot of topics, which by the way, this forum, unlike military machines, is really overfilled with, but I don't care about it and I don't write it under anyone's posts, everyone can build what they want and I don't know that it would be forbidden to add models of military machines on this forum. I have to say that I am surprised that after all the Soviet and Russian machines that I have added here, someone would write this here under a machine from the armament of one of the NATO countries. The supports serve to stabilize the entire machine to a perfect plane, due to the retractable telescopic masts. (My model does not contain them, I intentionaly used an incomplete piece of Starkom as a template (the one in the first photo) because I can't imitate those telescopic masts from Lego in any way and honestly I wouldn't even have anything to build them from anymore, for the construction of this model, at this stage, I have used up all the parts I have)

I present to you my current creation, It is a mobile jammer on the chassis Tatra 815-7T3RC1 8x8.1R Armoured Double Cab. My model has all four axles driven and steered and also has a mechanically adjustable ground clearance since all Tatra 815-7 are equipped with an air suspension with variable ground clearance and I wanted to give this feature to my 815-7 as well. The drive is provided by 8 PF-L motors. The steering is provided by 2 PF servomotors, one controls the front pair of axles and the other the rear, the steering of these pairs is not mechanically linked to each other because originally I wanted my model to be capable of crab steering but it failed because I could not configure the control in the buwizz application so that it worked as I imagined. One PF M motor controls the pneumatic supports via autoswitch, another two PF M motors control the change of ground clearance, one on the front pair of axles, the other on the rear, they are also not mechanically connected so the ground clearance changes separately in the front and rear. And finally two CADA micromotors control the movements of the RCWS on the roof of the cabin. So my model contains 15 motors which are powered by four Buwizz 2.0 .

Yes, it is a 3D printed part designed by Horcikdesigns, for which I am very grateful, which I mention every time someone asks me about it, because that part is incredibly useful. But to be more precise, it is a combination of the aforementioned 3D printed part to which I also glued 3L litfarm superglue.

This is the latest version of my BTR-90, this time I equipped the turret with a cannon drive, unfortunately it does not fire any projectiles, it only simulates the recoil when firing. The commander's turret is also motorized, but that is just a function in order to occupy all the channels of the buwizz that is in the turret. The turret rotation is provided by a PF M motor, the cannon elevation, firing from the cannon and the commander's turret rotation are provided by three CADA micromotors. I also improved the chassis a little, the most visible change is the lights and the rear part of the hull. Of the changes that can be seen, the one that is not significant at first glance is that I used the wheel configuration I use on my Tatra 813 (Fischer Technik 80 tires with black hot melt adhesive-bonded 43.2x18 LEGO wheels).

This is my current (fifth, in the previous video it is the third) version of the BTR-90. Although at first glance it is probably not very noticeable, there are several changes. I will start with the turret, which now has its own Buwizz 2.0 and it powers two PF M motors for driving the turret rotation and cannon elevation, and two CADA micromotors for rotation and elevation of the machine gun on the turret roof. The turret is therefore a separate unit that can work even when it is pulled out of the chassis. I chose this solution because I wanted to build a turret with a remotely controlled machine gun station on the turret roof, which required another buwizz, and if it were placed in the hull, it would be necessary to pull the cables for the motors through the entire chassis (because the place for the third buwizz would only be at the back behind the two that power the chassis), and there was no room for that in the chassis (since I always try to store the cables in the chassis itself so that they don't just lie around in the crew compartment) and this way it is more elegant and, above all, it allows the turret to be very easily dismantled, which is demonstrated in the second video. There are also several changes to the chassis/body, first of all, which is the most important for me, I managed to increase the ground clearance by one hole, at the same time I reduced the height of the chassis by one hole from above, or better said I moved the interior floor one hole lower, which created more space for the turret and in the crew compartment. And now the doors for the landing gear each open separately, each door is controlled by one CADA micromotor. The propellers are no longer driven via a gear coupling from the main engines, but by a PF M motor.

I built my third version of the BTR-90 again with the Berezhok tower from the BMP 2M, later I will add photos and a description of the changes. For now, I am giving here at least this short demonstration of the driving characteristics.

thank you too, I'm really satisfied with the radar mechanism, it works reliably, it's worse with the blinds, unfortunately one of the pneumatic pistons that open the blinds has a leak, so the system basically doesn't work and I have nothing to replace it.

thank you very much, buwizzys can move it as a whole, but that's enough for them, they run out of oil very quickly in this, I would like one more so that one Buwizz only has two drive motors and not three. You said it beautifully, Milan, thank you

I present to you my next creation, the model of the Soviet special wheeled chassis MAZ 543 M. Of all the Soviet automotive technology, the MAZ 543 M is my favorite, and I have built it many times, but only now did I have enough parts to complete the body, the is, by the way, the central command post of the coastal artillery complex A222 Bereg. Just a very brief history, the MAZ 543 was developed at the Minsk Automobile Plant in 1962, initially as a carrier of the 9K72 strategic missile complex. In 1976, the M version came, it was already widely used by various branches of the armed forces of the Soviet Union, and served as a carrier for dozens of types of superstructures (it can be easily recognized by the fact that it has only one cabin on the left side). The A222 Bereg complex was developed at the SKB-2 plant of the Barikady company in 1987. Due to the political instability after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the complex was adopted into service only in 2003. The A222 bereg artillery complex is intended for coastal defense, destruction of naval and landing forces on approaches to the coast, consists of three main parts: 6-8 artillery vehicles (SDZ), one central command post (CVS), 1-2 support vehicles (MOBD ), all parts are on MAZ 543 M chassis The MAZ 543 M chassis has an 8x8 axle configuration, the first two axles are steered, all four are driven, all 8 wheels are equipped with a central inflation system. The D12-525A engine with a volume of 38.9 liters and an output of 525 horsepower is based on the V2 tank engine family. It can be started with compressed air or an electric starter. The engine is connected to a three-stage hydro-converter automatic transmission with a two-stage reduction gearbox, the wheel hubs have embedded planetary reducers. The weight of the chassis is 19 tons, the load capacity is 22.2 tons. My model weighs 5.1 kg, measures 91 holes in length, 27 holes in height (up to the superstructure ceiling) and 23 holes in width (without rear-view mirrors). It is powered by 6 PF L motors, the steering is controlled by one PF servo, one PF M motor in the engine compartment of the chassis drives a pneumatic pump with an autoswitch that controls the superstructure supports. a similar mechanism located in the front part of the superstructure box controls the blinds of the superstructure's engine compartment. One PF M Motor lifts the platform with antenna and observation equipment through the ridge mechanism, one opens the roof and one rotates with the parabola. As for the interior, unfortunately it is empty, one thing is that I probably wouldn't have enough parts to complete the interior in the form I would imagine, but the weight of the model is already quite large and I wanted to keep a bit of driving characteristics .