SOLUTION for HL Abrams Metal Hull

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SOLUTION for HL Abrams Metal Hull

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As you know, there is an Abrams metal hull available for like $700.

The solution is you can buy the Tamiya hull from Tamiya’s website, and just stick the HL top on it!

I mean for around $150 you can have a FULL metal lower...no more arms pulling out of the plastic hull or any of that BS.

The Tamiya metal lower hull is only $43, the arms only $39

A few other bits and pieces...it’ll be $600 less than the current offering

I just ordered it, the suspension arms and most of the other required bits (the family Abrams manual is available for DL on their website)

I will start a build thread when it arrives.

I bought the front axle kit, but that still doesn’t solve the weak suspension arm mounting issue. Metal
Arms with just a single shear screw into plastic sucks quite frankly. This will solve all of those issues

Here is my baby as it sits now

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Re: SOLUTION for HL Abrams Metal Hull

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I have to ask How compatible will the Heng Long Abram's Body be to the Tamiya Abram's Metal Hull ?
And given the difficulty of sourcing Tamiya sprues for a Panzer 4 or a Tiger 1 how easy is it to obtain the Tamiya Abram's parts ?
I think I am about to upset someone :haha:
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Apparently you can source ALL from Tamiya directly from their website
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Just bought a Torro Leopard 2A6 full Metal edition (hull, wheels, everytbing) from eBay.

Will he selling one of the Abrams and 1 of the KTs, possibly both KTs as there is also this new full metal KT out by Torro as well...time to upgrade my 2015 tanks to 2018 tabks
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I'm not sure if this is the Abram metal hull you're talking about. if yes, congratulation! the price is much lower at about $400. at the same time, there also the Challenger2 available at similar price.
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Re: SOLUTION for HL Abrams Metal Hull

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Was there a solution here or just a thought?

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The solution was that you can get all the parts from Tamiya
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Re: SOLUTION for HL Abrams Metal Hull

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Adding nylock nuts to the tops of the screws on the L side of the gearboxes add SIGNIFICANT strength.

Quick, easy mod
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