tigertc

Tamiya 1/16 full option tanks use a gadet called a "Multi function unit", which does all the timing of gun recoil and proper strobe flash (not led, more like a disco strobe) they run at about £100.00.
Mark at www.mark-1-tank.co.uk has done lots of stuff with pyrotechnics for gunnery. You can give him a ring too, nice bloke to deal with.
i have never seen pyros for your scale though, someone must do it!

5thelement

wow, those tanks are bloody amazing! very nice although when i seen the prices my heart sank lol couple i looked at cost £3500!

noobee captain

John,

I think you need to talk to George Gourlay (http://www.grmbc.org.uk/). There is a simple and effective method which works for smaller scale and is cheap and safe (compared to the American BB firing mechanisms). It involves a heated wire.

[I have never understood how the Americans manage to hold these weekends where they fire thousands of BB pellets at each other in a society where someone sued Nike when she tripped over her own shoelace and won!]

This weekend is our Start of Season sail and while we traditionally put on a pyrotechnic display we had to stop it last year and will not be doing it this year either. Otherwise you could have come to see it on operation for yourself.

At the flick of a switch there is a flash and smoke, very effective.

James

jankers

Tiger,
thanks, that site looks interesting.

James,
Will take a look at the grmbc site.
Like you, I find the American ways a little baffling. Trouble is they always seem to transfer here sooner or later, pity we couldn't learn to sift the good from the rubish before we import.

J.

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noobee captain

I believe that basically it is a wire with a bit of oil, switch connects it to the battery, it heats up and BANG, there is a flash and smoke.