its arrived! challenger 2!

[DNAR]

As far as I Know he is making a chally 2 metal chassis but that would be a excellent thing to do for everyone Tankbear .

Nice to see the stealth activity begining how exciting never feel guilty gentlemen just do not get caught

Oops remember to tape the box back up DNAR

Yep did it already Kaiser. Man I was sweating like a pig trying to find a hiding place!!!!!LOL.

Carson told me that the metal chassis is still a consideration as fundings for the tooling is very expensive. He told me that he will do a CNC approach on the chassis like what he did for the Tamiya Leopard 2. I will message him and let you guys know. Hopefully he will have to go by the full metal chassis.

The suspension is a bit soft for me, the real suspension is hydropneumatic so hopefully we will have an uprated springs especially with a heavier chassis.

[spongehoobtank82]

To be fair I have been running my leopard for 6 months with the Mato tracks and never needed to adjust the tension, so will see how this goes with out adjustment

[HERMAN BIX]

I have to give it up..................really nice, nice looking bloody MBT gents
If the recent Abrams and current Leo builds are anything to go by, backed with the passion of patriotic pride, these are going to be 'Ben-Hur' epics

So..............who is going to do one with the Union Jack roof deco eh ??

Go on fellas, hook in and show us all what you have been busting to do now they are here

[DNAR]

To be fair I have been running my leopard for 6 months with the Mato tracks and never needed to adjust the tension, so will see how this goes with out adjustment

Thats good to hear sponge, hopefully we can run it ok.

[Tankbear]

As regards to the gearbox from DKLM. I have the one from the full metal Leopard 2 chassis and Carson told me that IBU board might not handle it. Maybe Tankbear can shed a light on this. Scallywag told me the cut out is at around 15A but I have no IBU board to try it on. So Tankbear can you verify once you have your 550 GB from Carson.

Funny he told me the oppersite when I asked about the details of the motors, said runs fine on normal heng long electronics. The IBU2 can handle 540 motors so until I test them I won’t know for 100%. I also got the full metal Leo2 chassis, wheels and tracks so can also test in a heavy tank. Hopefully that all arrive today or tomorrow so can find out soon.

Ian.

[DNAR]

Thats good to hear tankbear.

Just chatted with Carson.
No plans for metal chassis as yet due to expensive tooling.
CAD parts for wheels are ready. Chassis will be CNC. He will update his site by next week so guys stay tune.

[Tankbear]

I'm thinking the 550 motors should be easy change to brushless should the need itch.

[spongehoobtank82]

Once I started adding weight to the Leo the suspension was way to soft and was causing the track to go slack and override the sprocket, so I had to move all the suspension springs round a hole, will do the same with this once I have started the mods, also if you look closely at the heng long Leo on a flat surface the front road wheel is actually off the ground slightly and helps keep the track under tension, but maybe its just mine! I will try and find a pic, hoping the challenger is the same!

[spongehoobtank82]

Scalawag your the man at modern tanks! I have just realised my first problem, there's a rubber gaiter at the base of the barrel, if I want servo recoil am going to have to find something to simulate this!

[Tankbear]

You mean it wont be ready for 8pm tonight