HL Chally 2 upgrade advice needed
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2017 12:15 am
Hey all just thought I would pose some questions about upgrading my fourth coming HL Challenger 2 in desert camo. I just ordered it and it should be with me next Tuesday. Anyway after looking at loads of You Tube vids I decided that I will be upgrading it more or less straight away. Here is what I am planning.
WEATHERED LOOK
Although it is supposed to be classed as weathered I think it still looks plastic and toyish, plus I have ordered the ultimate edition so it has all the metal tracks, road wheels drive and sprockets, so I think I will be repainting it for the realistic weathered look. I will also be adding camo nets, crew backpacks and things like that.
Next is what I would like some advice on please.
1/16 Equipment
Does anyone know of anywhere that does 1/16 scale equipment packs, prefereably British or near as dammit, I have searched and search and can only find WWII figures and things like barb wire and such.
Electronic Upgrade[/]
I'll want the sounds and recoil to be more realistic so I would upgrade the board if necessary. Again from all the vids I have watch and the following is what I would look to improve
- Sounds, the stock sounds, main gun, Coax, turret motion and engine, are rubbish so would I need to upgrade the board for a better quality one or is it just a matter of getting hold of better sounds?
- Recoil System, again looking at most stock recoil systems on RC tanks they are not realistic, too slow, is there a decent recoil system out on the market that can give a faster recoil?
- Battle IR system, I presume even though my HL CH2 is a BB system I will be able to upgrade it with a IR battle system, this upgrade isn't definite. This will depend on whether any club I join take part is this sort of thing.
- Smoke, If I am correct I can upgrade the smoke generator so that it runs more in line with the engine, I think it is called proportional engine control or something, more advice on this would be nice as I have probably misunderstood this.
- ELECTRONIC UPGRADE - Here is what I was looking at
I was looking at either the Clark boards or Elmod boards, or any other decent equivalent, but need some advice on the differences between each versions, still researching this bit. For example what is the difference between the Clark TK 22 and TK 24? I have visited their site and can only really see a comparison chart saying yes no etc. With the Elmod site there isn't even a chart.
Any advice on some decent speakers would be good as well as I presume the stock ones are low quality tinny sound ones.
HANDSET
On Tank Zone, they recommend upgrading any stock handsets with the Clark TK 22 and Futaba 4YWD, now I am thinking this might be just a sales ploy so some advice on this would be nice. Is and upgrade necessary? What is so special about the Futaba 4YWD handset? Does it comes with some extra functionality?
Anyway, that's all for now. Thanks in advance for any advice you can give and feel free to offer up some other upgrades not mentioned above.
Mick - T9
WEATHERED LOOK
Although it is supposed to be classed as weathered I think it still looks plastic and toyish, plus I have ordered the ultimate edition so it has all the metal tracks, road wheels drive and sprockets, so I think I will be repainting it for the realistic weathered look. I will also be adding camo nets, crew backpacks and things like that.
Next is what I would like some advice on please.
1/16 Equipment
Does anyone know of anywhere that does 1/16 scale equipment packs, prefereably British or near as dammit, I have searched and search and can only find WWII figures and things like barb wire and such.
Electronic Upgrade[/]
I'll want the sounds and recoil to be more realistic so I would upgrade the board if necessary. Again from all the vids I have watch and the following is what I would look to improve
- Sounds, the stock sounds, main gun, Coax, turret motion and engine, are rubbish so would I need to upgrade the board for a better quality one or is it just a matter of getting hold of better sounds?
- Recoil System, again looking at most stock recoil systems on RC tanks they are not realistic, too slow, is there a decent recoil system out on the market that can give a faster recoil?
- Battle IR system, I presume even though my HL CH2 is a BB system I will be able to upgrade it with a IR battle system, this upgrade isn't definite. This will depend on whether any club I join take part is this sort of thing.
- Smoke, If I am correct I can upgrade the smoke generator so that it runs more in line with the engine, I think it is called proportional engine control or something, more advice on this would be nice as I have probably misunderstood this.
- ELECTRONIC UPGRADE - Here is what I was looking at
I was looking at either the Clark boards or Elmod boards, or any other decent equivalent, but need some advice on the differences between each versions, still researching this bit. For example what is the difference between the Clark TK 22 and TK 24? I have visited their site and can only really see a comparison chart saying yes no etc. With the Elmod site there isn't even a chart.
Any advice on some decent speakers would be good as well as I presume the stock ones are low quality tinny sound ones.
HANDSET
On Tank Zone, they recommend upgrading any stock handsets with the Clark TK 22 and Futaba 4YWD, now I am thinking this might be just a sales ploy so some advice on this would be nice. Is and upgrade necessary? What is so special about the Futaba 4YWD handset? Does it comes with some extra functionality?
Anyway, that's all for now. Thanks in advance for any advice you can give and feel free to offer up some other upgrades not mentioned above.
Mick - T9