I found one of these for sale are they worth grabbing and bringing up to code ?
IE , scale looks and movement ?
Does theplastic degrade as it's about 20 years old ?
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1/9 21 st Century toys Abrams
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Re: 1/9 21 st Century toys Abrams
They are pretty fragile and no spare parts unless you find them on like Ebay. Personally...I'm not a fan of the odd scale.
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Re: 1/9 21 st Century toys Abrams
It could be used as a starting point to rebuild something in a larger scale, but I would recommend being gentle with it if left "as is". I picked up two on clearance back when they were new, and even then the plastic was brittle. I accidentally snapped the barrel off one of them.
Re: 1/9 21 st Century toys Abrams
I had one years back and it was awful in terms of brittle plastic, to the point it would break running on anything other than a smooth wooden floor. The suspension (if you could call it that) was inaccurate with bogies each having two running wheels, like a panzer IV, apart from the first wheel with broke off the hull equally as much as the front idler did. The tracks were not strong either and the electrics were stop go and so sudden on start that they just broke things in the drivetrain after a while.
It would need the whole lower hull reenforced and the suspension redone before you really did anything else. Mine also had a broken barrel along with a crack in the turret tha resulted from the slightest of knocks.
So, not one I would recommend personally.
It would need the whole lower hull reenforced and the suspension redone before you really did anything else. Mine also had a broken barrel along with a crack in the turret tha resulted from the slightest of knocks.
So, not one I would recommend personally.