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As you know, there is an Abrams metal hull available for like $700.

The solution is you can buy the Tamiya hull from Tamiya’s website, and just stick the HL top on it!

I mean for around $150 you can have a FULL metal lower...no more arms pulling out of the plastic hull or any of that BS.

The Tamiya metal lower hull is only $43, the arms only $39

A few other bits and pieces...it’ll be $600 less than the current offering

I just ordered it, the suspension arms and most of the other required bits (the family Abrams manual is available for DL on their website)

I will start a build thread when it arrives.

I bought the front axle kit, but that still doesn’t solve the weak suspension arm mounting issue. Metal
Arms with just a single shear screw into plastic sucks quite frankly. This will solve all of those issues

Here is my baby as it sits now

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I have to ask How compatible will the Heng Long Abram's Body be to the Tamiya Abram's Metal Hull ?
And given the difficulty of sourcing Tamiya sprues for a Panzer 4 or a Tiger 1 how easy is it to obtain the Tamiya Abram's parts ?

Apparently you can source ALL from Tamiya directly from their website

Just bought a Torro Leopard 2A6 full Metal edition (hull, wheels, everytbing) from eBay.

Will he selling one of the Abrams and 1 of the KTs, possibly both KTs as there is also this new full metal KT out by Torro as well...time to upgrade my 2015 tanks to 2018 tabks

I'm not sure if this is the Abram metal hull you're talking about. if yes, congratulation! the price is much lower at about $400. at the same time, there also the Challenger2 available at similar price.

Was there a solution here or just a thought?

Barry

The solution was that you can get all the parts from Tamiya

Adding nylock nuts to the tops of the screws on the L side of the gearboxes add SIGNIFICANT strength.

Quick, easy mod