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Might have modern power plant for the Kingtiger This could solve the lack of low end power for crawling and turning.

Fitted the motor out of a Dewalt impact driver 10.8V. The motor fitted well ,even had the fixing holes and the bearing housing on front same size as the hole in the gearbox . Another plus it has a fan to cool the motor. Test run perfect, original motor on side.

Wardog The KT has lots of space for a big LIPO , if run time is short i had better buy some 5000mah ones.

Very innovative use of that drill motor mate, and even more amazing it was a perfect fit after destroying the drill to try it !
How far from paint are you ?

Hi Herman A long way off painting, its still winter here . Looking at a new airbrush and compressor, old setup is a Revell plastic box set. Have a small one to build and paint first to get some ideas.

Bigger jack made, just need to clean it up . Aber plate a lot bigger than the Tamiya standard jack.

Battery and board trays tidied up and painted.

Next up going to fit a Leopard turret ring, first a practice run on a Tiger 1. Turret first as it looks to be easier than the hull deck . A Tiger 1 deck needs some adjustment , or have they fixed the offset turret ring? If its a disaster i could leave the old turret gearing.

Time for some changes, the old central turret gearing is going. Think i have sorted out cutting the hull for a Leopard ball bearing turret ring.
Along time sorting the ring for centre . If the plastic servo gears strip will change to one with metal gears.
A tie-wrap and servo tape for now .The servo bracket is a hard metal burned out a drill bit, time for some good twist drills.

Turret test one revolution slow 75 sec, fast 15 sec. Now to find out a KTs real time speed of rotation.