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In the southern part of the UK we’ve had nothing close to winter weather, it’s been one long autumn.
I think I’ve scraped ice off my car windscreen, once maybe twice and that’s only because I had to get up early to take one the kids to some kind of group activity ???

I think I'm going to have to give up on the idea of getting snow pictures this winter

I saw this ad for the 1:35 Zvezda Stalingrad Tractor Factory STZ-5 - the track format is similar enough that it would work on a Kyosho Blizzard chassis ...   

 

or maby a dutch production Veroma Snowtiger?

www.rockcrawler...snowtiger/

It's been a log wait for snow - and when it did arrive (about midnight last night) I wasn't ready for it. I didn't even look out of the window until 10:00 am, by the time I'd got some batteries charged, and fixed one of the rear pod motors that was wired in reverse, the snow had already melted considerably - and although it was still ankle deep in places, it was very wet & soft.

It needed pretty much full power on all sets of tracks to move & continue to make headway, so steering was difficult (not helped by needing to learn how to drive it again) & it dug in and/or got tied up a couple of times. It really needs less (or firmer/drier) snow, and a bigger space to run in. I probably need to increase the throttle end points too, and go for 2S Lipo instead of 7.2v NiMH to give it a bit of a boost too.

Still, I did get some photos of it in snow

more pics:

did'nt you make a video?!?! i want to see it moving!!

i love this project, it looks like a real hagglund on this pics

That's crazy Jonny. Too nice. 

Awesome to see it in the snow!

Have not been outside today, but I think the 5-10cm snow is still fluffy as it has been all the way down to 14 degrees earlier this week.

just came across this on youtube



i am working on a army version for my little nephew. transforming a dicky snowking