New build - Unboxing Hooben T55

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Marc780
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New build - Unboxing Hooben T55

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I paid $360 shipped from DKLM RC for this kit. It is not so much a kit, it is a pile of parts that you engineer & fabricate yourself as you build it. The instructions" are a parts list, plus a few images and hints as to wiring up the turret motors and so on. After that you are very much on your own.

I also got the metal hull plate from DKLM, the metal tracks, which are a bit more finely made then Heng Long or Mato tracks, the R/C set, a Heng long wiring set, and a few other things but it's just the tip of the iceberg.
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One thing I like about the kit is the wheels. They come with rubber tires, and have bearings + bushings to go on the metal axles... but not even a diagram to show how they go! Anyway here are some images of the parts as they arrive in the box, mostly I took these photos for "inventory" and to aid me in reboxing, since some of this model is getting "out-sourced" to others to do. After considering everything I decided that'd be the smart thing, since I know what I should do and where I'd reach the hair-pulling phase; I want this model to be as good as it can be. I'm starting to thing i should have just spent the money and bought a ready-made RTR from ebay... since on the present course it is almost certainly going to cost me the same ultimately. This model will probably reach the $1000 mark with ease - as much as I paid for my first car 40 years ago

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Pile of parts did I say? The plastic tracks come as individual links and a bag of pins. It took me 4 hours to put them together
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The instructions are 5 pages, 3 of which are parts lists. Turret instructions
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Lights - includes headlights and searchlights, one of my favorite features of this kit
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Motors include a metal hull plate to mount them on.
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I also bought a small kit to make a belt of machine gun ammo .. still scratching my head how this goes together
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Upper and lower hull pieces with the metal hull plate
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Screens for engine grilles and cloth gun mantlet cover
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Re: New build - Unboxing Hooben T55

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Good luck! If you get stuck check out my build for tips.
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Re: New build - Unboxing Hooben T55

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Re: New build - Unboxing Hooben T55

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Ad Lav wrote:Good luck! If you get stuck check out my build for tips.
Already turned the pages into Pdf's! The kit's a jig-saw puzzle with several pieces missing after all
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