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[Meter rat]

Hello and welcome from Argyle and Bute. Nice pictures of my favourite tank.

[Smithy75]

Cheers. Awesome aren't they.

[Meter rat]

Cheers. Awesome aren't they.

No. A bloody pain in posterior.

[Herr Dr. Professor]

Thank you for the photos. I was hemming and hawing about using any of the stock HengLong transfers on my Challenger 2. They look better than I expected, so I will reconsider. I plan to make my Challenger look like it had some fun in the mud, for it is otherwise so "stock" that I want to practice more. Besides I have lots of photos of a muddy mess Challenger in otherwise excellent condition.

[Smithy75]

I don't mind the transfers really. Water slide are a pain in the ass to do. Lol. Plus I'm not really into weathering or making stuff look accurate. I think for the money they are proper good value. I was thinking of painting the tracks to make them look a bit less plasticcy but I'll see. I might also put some new gearboxes in at some point. I've already put support bearings in as they simply push straight in after removing the track and sprocket.

[Herr Dr. Professor]

Thank you! I thought those supports/bearings might just pop in place. Hmm... let me see if I can find some from a U.S. source.

As for transfers: for a long time dry transfers were the preferred method for model railroading. Dry transfers are generally disliked here on RCTW. Nonetheless, I have found dry transfers done right to look like paint and never to cause the "silvering" of even the best decals (Of course, there are various combinations of techniques for minimizing or avoiding silvering.) The HengLong/Taigen/Torro dry transfers work well, but can be inaccurate. Regardless, I believe the ones for the Challenge 2 you show (the same ones I got in 2013) are mostly true to a specific prototype. ( I might have started a long thread of corrective discussion.)

[michaelwhittmann]

Greetings from NJ, USA.

Nice Challenger. Very pretty.

[PainlessWolf]

Welcome to the Forum, Smithy75. We appreciate you taking the time to drop some pics in of your tank. We like to chat and kick the virtual road wheels around here. I used to keep folders on my PC and mod pics downloaded from my camera and later, my old phone using Paint on Windows. Now, my current Phone handles all that, resizing and such. Much Simpler to use and quicker as well. Still. always a good idea to keep a record on your computer as well. I still do, just not for use in uploading to the Forum.
regards,
Painless

[TIGER76]

welcome aboard Smithy75 enjoy