jarndice wrote:quitcherbitchen wrote:Just so I understand what is going on. The Turret on the HL is in the wrong place?
For many years Heng Long and Taigen have insisted that they are not connected in any way and yet both company's Tiger 1s duplicate the radio aerial stowage on both sides of the engine bay whereas Tamiya get it right and yes both Heng Long and Taigen have the Tiger 1 turret in exactly the same wrong position and yet again Tamiya get it right and then there is the Panzer 4,
Both Heng Long and Taigen have the engine bay silhouette wrong to exactly the same degree and Tamiya has it right,
Does anyone still think this is all coincidence.
Taigen/Torro appear to be using modified Heng Long moulds.
As indeed when the Taigen branded tanks first appeared, they were in fact Heng Long tanks with a Taigen/Torro sticker on the transmitter and tank.
They appear to have reverse engineered the RX18 into their V1, V2 and current V3 boards, and their tanks are comprised of Heng Long and Asiatam parts.
The metal chassis' and track are from Asiatam, as are the recoil units.
Torro has jumped from one to the next, from the WSN/Trumpeter which they appear to have bought out the Trumpeter part, to the Heng Long/Asiatam hybrids that they are now selling.