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2nd and 3rd modern tanks arrive

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Heng long/Taigen Leopard 2A6
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A look under the bonnet
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Heng Long Abrams arrived today from Toucan hobby
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The wife was watching when the Abrams arrived today, she collects Charlie Bears and their saying is that
there is always room for one more bear, like I said to her, theres always room for one more tank :thumbup: :wave:
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Ludwig von wigbearer wrote:The wife was watching when the Abrams arrived today, she collects Charlie Bears and their saying is that
there is always room for one more bear, like I said to her, theres always room for one more tank :thumbup: :wave:
Always room for one more tank :thumbup:
So, what do the bears do? At least your dogs are less likely to chew your tanks ;)
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Ludwig von wigbearer wrote:A look under the bonnet
That's an interesting combination of parts, as its a HL TK7.0 but the chassis, gearboxes and speaker all look like taigen parts. Was this "out of the box" from Toucan, or are you building it up from parts - just curious.
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whitecitadel wrote:
Ludwig von wigbearer wrote:A look under the bonnet
That's an interesting combination of parts, as its a HL TK7.0 but the chassis, gearboxes and speaker all look like taigen parts. Was this "out of the box" from Toucan, or are you building it up from parts - just curious.
It looks like one of the Haya hybrids, Taigen/Torro metal chassis with Heng Long top and electronics.
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Son of a gun-ner wrote:
whitecitadel wrote:
Ludwig von wigbearer wrote:A look under the bonnet
That's an interesting combination of parts, as its a HL TK7.0 but the chassis, gearboxes and speaker all look like taigen parts. Was this "out of the box" from Toucan, or are you building it up from parts - just curious.
It looks like one of the Haya hybrids, Taigen/Torro metal chassis with Heng Long top and electronics.
Hi Mick, you are indeed correct, the Leopard is a Haya special, I specified it without a rx/tx for a small
discount, I expected a unpainted base, When it arrived it was painted and with a taigen v1 mfu, so
sold that on. :thumbup: :wave:
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whitecitadel wrote:
Ludwig von wigbearer wrote:A look under the bonnet
That's an interesting combination of parts, as its a HL TK7.0 but the chassis, gearboxes and speaker all look like taigen parts. Was this "out of the box" from Toucan, or are you building it up from parts - just curious.
Hi, the abrams is straight out of the box as it came from toucan, it has steel gears, 360 turret, V7.0 . silly back to front barrel recoil, came in at £250 plus 50 quid shipping and as yet no import fees :thumbup: :wave:
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Ludwig von wigbearer wrote: Hi Mick, you are indeed correct, the Leopard is a Haya special, I specified it without a rx/tx for a small
discount, I expected a unpainted base, When it arrived it was painted and with a taigen v1 mfu, so
sold that on. :thumbup: :wave:
That's interesting that they mix the parts, the Taigen chassis (I bought one for my HL Tiger 1 from forgebear) is much more robust and better engineered than the HL.
Ludwig von wigbearer wrote:
whitecitadel wrote:
Ludwig von wigbearer wrote:A look under the bonnet
Hi, the abrams is straight out of the box as it came from toucan, it has steel gears, 360 turret, V7.0 . silly back to front barrel recoil, came in at £250 plus 50 quid shipping and as yet no import fees :thumbup: :wave:
Was that from eBay or AliExpress? Toucan has quite high postage I noticed, but I guess if there is no import then its good value still. A lot of UK places seem to be out of stock of HL... not that I am already considering a second tank! :D
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