This is a special tank for me, I bought the hooben Elefant back on release, I think in may 2011. It never ran well, one side would always throw tracks on grass, the gearboxes weren't great and the pins always walked out of the tracks after a run. I was fairly new to the hobby and metal tracks were suggested as an Improvement. I bought the asiatam ones, they didn't fit the hooben sprockets, I bought sprockets, the guide horns didn't fit the wheels, I bought new bogies/wheels. You guessed it, these didn't fit anything! I had a go at making them fit, it was a bit of a bodge and stopped the suspension working properly by with some tamiya gearboxes it did run ok(ish). I can't remember the exact circumstances but tank ended up being taken apart and put in a box. Eventually I saw Christian Ludwig did a metal lower hull that would take the hooben body and work with the asiatam suspension. This as purchased and due to issue with me finding a decent way of attaching the bogies, sat doing not much, occasionally listed for sale etc.
Happily nearly a decade later Armoured Models came to the rescue. James designed moints for bogies, fettled the bushes id supplied, fitted and aligned the gears and even designed and printed some bogie parts when the pot metal failed. I got everything back in the post today and couldn't resist trying it out. With a tk40 the controls excellent and it handled my grass with ease, all without throwing a track.
The hooben hull was chopped up to fit on the metal lower. I'm pleased to say everything aligned perfectly. I've used magnets to hold the top on.
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Next I'll get all the elevation, traverse and recoil converted to servo and start installing the electrics.
Again, massive thanks to James Canham for his work on the lower
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but am sure you can blend it back in! Or you going for a completely different scheme? Looking good though 
