Right this is the model I'm going to try and make radio controlled:
It's a Britains John Deere 6930. It's one of their bigger models so I thought it would be easier to put all the radio equipment in (also, I know they do a radio controlled version already - but buying that would be cheating and I want to get it to do more!). The tractor is 1:16 scale - this means that the real one is 16 times bigger. If you lined 16 of these up they'd be the same length as the real one!
To give you an idea of how big this one is I've put it next to a 2litre drinks bottle:
The last 2 pictures show how the front suspension works - it's very simple as the front wheels are on a bar which hangs off the bottom of the front of the tractor, but I'll show that in more detail later. You can also see the 'hitch' at the back - this is what all the attachments fix to. The one already here is rubbish, and is something I'll have to completely make from scratch if I want to be able to operate it like the ones in the videos:
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