Re: Heng Long Scale Issues

Mezzerik · Post by **Mezzerik** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:47 am

yea henglong isn't know to make their tanks the right scale...the bulldog is also to wide. Haha oh well thats what we get for a tankonly costing Â£60 or there about.

Post by **wibblywobbly** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 12:57 pm

Bear in mind that HL blatantly copied the Tiger mould, so if HL have got it wrong...so have Tamiya?

Mezzerik · Post by **Mezzerik** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 5:33 pm

Well, it certainly isn't as good quality

Post by **Matdragon** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 5:54 pm

well its all down to what you can afford really, if you can only afford a heng long, they are a good enough quality to use, and when a part breaks you dont get as fustrated as you would if the same happened to a tamiya, as hl parts are much easier to get hold of!

cheers,

Matt

Mackem · Post by **Mackem** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:23 pm

Tamiya don't make a 1:16 PzIII, Stug III or an M41, and even if they did I wouldn't pay Â£500 to get one!

Crispy · Post by **Crispy** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 9:00 pm

You get what you pay for. When the Tamy Tiger 1 came out I paid Â£600 for the new full option kit and probably spent another Â£200 on RC, batts & paints. Â£800 all in but it was the best RC tank i've ever owned and i really wish i hadnt sold it. At the time they were selling the static Tamy tiger kit for about Â£200.

Within 1 year of selling the Tamyia Tiger I bought a pre S&S HL Tiger 1 for Â£60 on ebay and i still think thats pretty damn good. Especially when you think the HL tiger is maybe 70-80% of what you get with the Tamiya Tiger but its only 10% of the price. Obviously its the control and sound that really sells the Tamiya kits.

It seems HL established themelves with the earlier models and now they're starting to fill out the market with more accurate kits like the Stug3. Cant wait until to do a Sherman.

BREL · Post by **BREL** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 9:03 pm

personally I thing Heng long have only the one size gear boxes and this is the reason they are the same width

Post by **Woz** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 4:03 pm

HL started out making "Toys" and getting the scale right wasn't such a high priority. But they've since realised that modellers are buying their stuff and scale is a higer issue.

HL are moving from the toy market to the model market so you can expect newer HL's to be more accurate.

tiger205 · Post by **tiger205** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 6:13 pm

i dont think HL scale matters to much, atleast to start with, for all of HL's faults they have made it possible for people to get into this hobby of ours, who would not of been able too if it was only tamiya on the market, plus you can modify them which for me is great fun, and if you spend the time, and money, you can have a HL as good if not better than a tamiya, this of course is only my opinion

Tony

Mackem · Post by **Mackem** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:20 am

Hi Tony,

Got to agree with you there, HL have certainly opened up this hobby to a wider audience.
Scale wise, the PzIII, StugIII, and PzIV are pretty near spot on.

John

PS: Did I tell you I got a FULL METAL PzIV for Â£49.95