Heng Long Pershing Rebuild

[scalawag]

Been watching this thread avidly Painless. Coming along very nicely there my friend. Great detail as always.

[PainlessWolf]

Good Morning, Paul,
Thank you very much for the watch. The Pershing has offered a lot of learning opportunities viewing the differences and working with them from old tank to new. ;o)
regards,
Painless

[billpe]

It's coming along really nicely. When you're finished, it should be made a sticky as a great guide to bringing your Pershing up to rivet counter standards.

[PainlessWolf]

Billpe, Good Morning,
*chuckles* Heck no. I'm so far from rivet counter country that I can't even be seen with a telescope. I buy books and look at the real tank and buy\build small scale versions to check out paint schemes before trying them out on the build tank but I am by no means a rivet counter. If my tank looks like the real deal once I am done and can be run outside without falling apart, I am satisfied. ;o) You'll never catch me adding details that can't even be seen or used once the build is complete. I'm glad you guys enjoy my work and come by to check on it. That's huge! for me.
regards,
Painless

[ALPHA]

How about a new title Painless....boards first bead counter
Also forgot how sweet those metal suspension arms are


ALPHA

[PainlessWolf]

Good Afternoon Alpha,
I'm good just building it to my level of 'complete', no titles needed. Those arms really are quality castings. If I ever do more to this Pershing, I will get a new lower hull as well and do all of the suspension arms and wheels and tracks in metal. I've had enough of removing 9 year old plastic(nylon?) The lower hull I have now would make for a great dozer\ARV some day. ;o)
regards,
Painless

[ALPHA]

Good Afternoon Alpha,
I'm good just building it to my level of 'complete', no titles needed. Those arms really are quality castings. If I ever do more to this Pershing, I will get a new lower hull as well and do all of the suspension arms and wheels and tracks in metal. I've had enough of removing 9 year old plastic(nylon?) The lower hull I have now would make for a great dozer\ARV some day. ;o)
regards,
Painless

Make a Dozer that can push that rock the Ice Palace was hiding behind... I'm all for it

ALPHA

[PainlessWolf]

Alpha, you mean the 'Crackerbox Palace'? ;o) Last night ran late again. I discovered that the 'new' smoker I had bought over a year ago and had in storage was D.O.A. I had gotten it for the Mato Sherman then decided to save it for an eventual Pershing redo. 'Eventually' came around and BOOM!, no smoker. I spent some time doing an autopsy and discovered that the flywheel which runs the pump was bent onto the shaft freezing it in place. That fried the board no doubt so I'll have to locate one today. Hopefully one close by so shipping will not take forever. Everything else went great! Pictures:

[ALPHA]

That looked like fun.........................not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ALPHA

[PainlessWolf]

Alpha,
Outside of the smoker, it wasn't so bad. One loose solder job on the On\Off switch and drilling a couple of tiedowns to screw into two of the leftover mounting posts for the old RX board left only the metal cable clamp which was a post screw as well. Then it was just a lot of plugging things in and routing through the cable tidys. I'm not going to open it up again until the new smoker from Artistic gets here next week. I got one of those clear jobbies like as came on the 'Palace'. I sent a 'Heads Up' email to Oz Armor as well where I purchased the defective one from. Can't be too mad at them, 'bad HL smokers' are to be expected. While I'm waiting, I'll touch up the Commander and paint assemble the new .50 cal and some detail bits I will be using and reusing.
regards,
Painless

P.S. New brass air soft barrel worked a treat as well. ;o)