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Re: Heng feng jagd tiger
Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2017 11:50 pm
by c.rainford73
Son of a gun-ner wrote:Well, after having a porche tiger for some time and never counting the wheel sets, but knowing they overlapped, then reading the porche jagdtiger had eight wheel sets, and the henschel had nine sets, I got excited thinking I had a longer tank, then I saw this and realised, I now have a few (all different) KT's all with the same wheel sets
Yes sorry to hear that Mick. That's why the maestro of Rc tank dissection Mr Herman Bix had to cut his (tank of course) and extend it to make it longer. When you see his build thread it was remarkable how nice it came out
Re: Heng feng jagd tiger
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2017 12:01 am
by c.rainford73
Let me rephrase that. The early versions of the Jagdtiger had the Porsche suspension system the later ones had the Henschel suspension. Different road wheels all together. The king tigers all had the Henschel road wheels I believe?
I thought you were referring the the Heng Feng Matorro jagdtiger that has a shorter deck than the Torro Taigen version.
Re: Heng feng jagd tiger
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2017 12:56 am
by c.rainford73
Son of a gun-ner wrote:Thanks Carl.
Yes, I knew they only made a few porche jagd tigers at the start.
Sorry, wasn't clear enough, I thought the porche jagd tigers were the same wheels as porche KT's, and the henschel jagd tiger was a whole wheel longer standard, but now I see from the two wheel configurations, the eight and nine wheel versions take up the same chassis length.
Hope that makes sense.
Mick.
Mick do you plan on running the stock electronics in this one or upgrading to newer ones?
Re: Heng feng jagd tiger
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2017 11:31 am
by jackalope
Oh Mick you've never let me down, it's ok, I know you try your best.
Just no more leaving me out again!
Re: Heng feng jagd tiger
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2017 12:40 pm
by 43rdRecceReg
Here's the link to Herman's lengthy, but amusing and informative thread on the Jagdtiger, Mick..
viewtopic.php?f=23&t=20170&hilit=matorro+king+tiger
Re: Heng feng jagd tiger
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2017 8:08 pm
by jackalope
Do you plan to make yours as correct as Herman did? LOTS of fantastic info on his build!
Re: Heng feng jagd tiger
Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2017 5:02 am
by jackalope
LOL! Oh I understand how that is! I've enough to keep me busy for years! If I don't sell it all off and hang up my hat.
Re: Heng feng jagd tiger
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2017 12:59 pm
by jackalope
Periscope. I think it wiggled so it's less likely to break off.
Re: Heng feng jagd tiger
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2017 1:42 pm
by jackalope
Nothing to do with the BB's that I'm aware of. Not unless the Heng Fang system is different then the Taigen Jadgtiger.
Re: Heng feng jagd tiger
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2017 1:57 pm
by jackalope
No worries Mick. Highlights include. 6 man crew, 128mm gun, 2 piece ammo, largest gun fielded in WWII, none ever lost due to enemy tanks, 3 Jadgtigers took out a whole column of Sherman's and all their support vehicles and then drove away. Bad ass tank destroyer!
