its arrived! challenger 2!

[spongehoobtank82]

It's here! Not technically ment to open it for 2 weeks until my birthday but had to check is working ( even though am going to rip ask the electronics out and put and ibu2 pro in there!) so here are the picks!

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On first looks it looks pretty good, not put all the accessories on yet so can't say about those, clearly the front and rear lights need addressing will have to fabricate new light clusters for the rear atleast ( atleast the lights are in the right place on this one!) and I can see mounting any sort of idler tensioner is going to be a problem as it hangs so far forward, but an sure some dude smarter than me will cone up with a solution for that! The new heng long lipo battery seems incredibly light ( so much so it seems incredibly cheap) but that's getting junked too! When and as upgrades become available or I have made them I will keep you posted, also the heng long 2.4g electronics seem to have improved, you can really creep the tank now! Any questions feel free to ask!

[spongehoobtank82]

Ok could not resist! Here's the inside!

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Loads of room in the inside, alot less clutter to grind away than the Leo so gutting it should be easy! Smoker is mounted on the upper hull so may keep this one till out breaks as its out the way!

[brizo58]

Hi,
Yo mine came this morning to sitting here looking at the brown box . This is my first day out of bed for 8days FLU!!!!!!!!!!!. Still feel like S#}T. Don't think the wife will let me open it!!! It's my Xmas present . I'll see if I can get round her!!!!!!!!. Brian...

[spongehoobtank82]

Brizo just use my excuse ' you need to check it works incase you need to sent it back!) ha ha ha sure a quick peak will make you feel better to!

[Tankbear]

Looks good, but no 360 turret

[scottd1975]

nice tank where did you get it at?

[spongehoobtank82]

That's on the list tankbear, once I have done the servo mod! Amongst other things!

[spongehoobtank82]

Well it was only 130 quid so I guess at that price not 360! But I will be spending alot more than that on this and 360 is an easy enough mod

[spongehoobtank82]

I was thinking about the ibu3 but am not sure I can wait for it to come out! Thought about the rctanks Australia ASP but it looks a little bit to complicated like Clark boards, I like the simplicity of the ibu and its what am used to now, more than meets my needs!

[spongehoobtank82]

And I reckon probably a good 600-700 quid by the time I have finished Kaiser, so will have to get alot of overtime in! But as there are no upgrades really available yet I have time to save!