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jtracks wrote:Welcome, I do most of my tank purchases from Artistic Hobbies. They are located in the US. Gene Wilson is the shop owner, very helpful, and will spend time answering questions. He sells Tamiya, Taigen, and Torro tanks.

Joe

Jtracks I just spoke to Gene at artistic hobbies for about a half hour! What a great guy. He had great information. Interesting he preferred plastic tracks for outdoor use.
Thanks for link.

billpe wrote:Depending on what you're running on, metal tracks aren't always the best option. Lots of guys who battle them on grass will use plastic tracks.

I second that, I ditched metal tracks long ago, as they create too much friction when fitted on a heavy tank. It's a lot easier and cheaper to keep the tank plastic, as it will ride over terrain rather than dig into it. I have happily run plastic tanks, with plastic tracks and gearboxes for hours over some really rough stuff, gradients etc with no probs at all. If using plastic gearboxes just take them apart and glue the slipper clutch solid to stop the clicking noise.

My view is that if it isn't broke, don't fix it. Once you start beefing up one part of a tank, more stress is put on the rest of it, so bit by bit you end up buying tracks, sprockets, suspension, road wheels, gearboxes, hulls and motors. A £60 tank becomes a £250 tank that sits on the bench 90% of the year?

Tanks that have tracks with flat pads, eg Bulldog, Leopard will turn a lot easier on grass than those that have cleats eg Tiger, Panther etc.

Using paintball in an HL tank is likely to gum up the works. All of the clubs that battle ditch the standard electrics and fit aftermarket boards that support IR. Eg Tamiya, Clark, IBU2, Elmod. as this gives you realistic sounds as well as a host of other features. Eg battle damage, programmable for number of hits a tank can take before it is dead, and so on.

The HL 2.4ghz is incompatible with aftermarket boards, so it works out cheaper to buy an HL tank without electrics and install aftermarket electrics of your choosing. You can still have airsoft on the IBU2 and Clark boards.

If all that you want to do is play airsoft amongst yourselves then yes, just buy ten standard HL tanks on 2.4ghz, but bear in mind that if you decide to switch to IR then you are going to have to throw away the boards and tx's, and install something else. Going back to my first point about cost, if you keep the tanks plastic then the money that you save on buying metal upgrades will pay for new electrics?

Lots of good info. Thanks. When you mention HL...does that also mean Taigen too?

Get a Tamiya Kit or all metal Taigen Tank, the rest are toy junk... Aloha, I used to live on Oahu for 4 years... I worked at the boat yard at Barbers Point, and lived in Kailua and Sunset Point, North Shore... Still kicking myself for coming back to Mexifornia, lol...

TIGERHESS, You sir are a trouble maker
When I was a boy my dad would take me to the near by city of St Albans, and there was a wonderful toy shop we would go to, in the store was an R/C Tank and I would look and dream knowing that my father and indeed most other father's could never afford it,
And then, May the Chinese Communist angels bless and preserve them, HENG LONG produced R/C Tanks we could all afford, sure they left a lot to be desired but with their failings came people from all over the world who with a common purpose formed R/C Tank Forum's to offer advise on how to improve them, which is where we are today.
My thought is that anything that gets people interested in R/C Tanks, even what some people think are second rate Tanks is a good thing,
By the way HENG LONG have raised their game in recent years and the quality is much improved and yet they are still affordable,
Which R/C Tank would todays dad, who has neither knowledge or interest in them buy for junior? the $140 HENG LONG or the $600 TAIGEN/TORRO or the $1000 TAMIYA?
I am not having a go at you old friend just pointing out the debt I owe to HENG LONG for making my childhood dreams come true. shaun

Shaun first off, I never mentioned what brands I called "Toy Junk", by the way I own a Taigen Walker Bulldog and it only cost $300 US with taxes and she a great little tank... I'm only going to recommend brands that are of quality... Never trash other brands, that's why I said others... Tamiya is the best 1/16th scale out there other than some more custom job's, only reason I bought a Taigen is I wanted to have a tank I could use while I was building my Tamiya Tiger 1... Funny thing as we speck I'm fixing the track pins on my Taigen King Tiger, all brands need a little help... Question is, would you recommend to your friends junk? I think not... So i'm recommending to my Hawaiian friends, two top brands that will last in the "tropical conditions"... Remember I lived there, don't think you have, you might have visited... Aloha Ahiahi, Good Night in Hawaiian...

All tanks have there problems my full option taigen tiger included my next tank will be a heng long not sure which yet but they suit my budget. Do they do special tanks for tropical conditions? Mine handles the hot conditions to the below freezing ones.

Hey EdPanzer, how hot does it get in England? In California we get from the high 80s to 110s, in Hawaii we get high 70s to 90s with lots humidity and tropical rains... So I feel you should have a better tank to handle those conditions... Old saying, "you get want you pay for"

Hi Welcome to the forum ,we already have a member from Hawaii he is called sassgrunt send him a P.M. he has been into tanking for ages hes also a member on other forums . He should be able to help you .He may even want to join you.

regards pete

TigerHess wrote:Hey EdPanzer, how hot does it get in England? In California we get from the high 80s to 110s, in Hawaii we get high 70s to 90s with lots humidity and tropical rains... So I feel you should have a better tank to handle those conditions... Old saying, "you get want you pay for"

In answer to your questions quite hot recently and as for rain this is England!!
Also if the heng Long's can stand the mud and slime of an English winter then there OK in my book as for the tropical rain don't go out in it is my advice