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Hi FreakyDude,
I totally support you and I do especially about the Tiger 1 firing ....but I think that at that one single exact point in that ONE video the Tiger does fractionally appear to move and I mean fractionally. Maybe it was on a slope or the perhaps the driver let the clutch out because he was surprised !......ALL the other videos that I have seen show that when the Tiger fires its cannon...massive blast cavitation, smoke etc and recoil on the cannon and the camera moves ....but NOT the tank. I have seen footage on youtube of the man with binoculars standing on the rear deck to observe the enemy.
A large gun or an artillery piece, even an 88mm mounted on is cross shaped platform ' moves' but the Tiger with 56 tons of steel on a superb suspension system that is so well design for stability and strength should not move its tracks. I agree with you totally that the Tamiya and particularly the Heng Long are completly wrong and out of all proportion with their track recoil. The Tiger in the original advert that I thought was a 'new' product from Tamiya is horrible, even the paint job makes it look like a Taigen..but then it is a very old version by Tamiya and maybe they have improved the system on the current version.
I still need to know if there is a switch in the turret rotation system to stop the track recoil when the turret is facing sideways or to the rear....
Alb.

If you advanced the throttle slightly such that you can hear the whine of the electric motors beginning to push against the tank's weight, it cancels out the track jerk. You can trim your radio up a little but you won't get the tank to have the proper idling sound when its stationary.

If you want to watch something interesting, watch a Sherman with the 17 pndr fire. It does move quite a bit.

-Dan