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Originally Posted by motocrawler

I've had the new Bruder D11 model sitting on the shelf for a while and finally I had enough time to tackle the conversion. I have to say that the level of detail on this model is quite impressive and the plastic is quite beefy...it's almost like Bruder knows these are going to be used for conversions.

I am using Pololu 99:1 geared motor as my drives and at 7.2v it should produce about 200 oz/in torque per motor.
First I made an axle to connect the motor to the drive wheel and hub.

Originally Posted by motocrawler

So I got to working on the blade lift. I decided to use servos tucked into what would be the track tensioner.





I had to make a sliding mount for the servo horn to mount to. This was made with styrene and slides in the angle styrene brackets.

Originally Posted by motocrawler

I didn't like how the tracks had no rollers/bogies so I cut out the faux rollers and made some rollers.