The RC Tank channel on how to modify, Paint, and upgrade Heng long, Haya or any 1/16th RC tanks to scale models standards. With simple to follow tutorials that anyone can hopefully follow, if you get stuck drop me a line! I started this because others were asking about commission builds, but my first hobby as a kid was trumpet playing, and now it’s my living. And I don’t want my second hobby going the same way!. I thought if I make tutorial vids then people can copy and improve my nonsense. Thanks all for your time in joining me in my hobby and if you fancy subscribing that would be fab!
Liturally just ordered one, I think in the next six month or so we'll see some add ons and upgrades for this, louder speaker, better smoke unit, maybe metal wheels n tracks
Good luck, it’s a great little tank, a bit speedy but very well put together!. Mines on the back burner while im working on the cent. Thanks for saying hi! And have a great weekend
Do you know of a good temporary glue? A glue I can apply to hold parts on but I can still remove them if I wanted to switch them around without hurting the tank or attached parts?
Hi! Just good old pva will hold stuff in, but can be removed and cleaned off. I wouldn’t use it to put In the era stuff on the turret, it would all just full off. Thanks for watching, and have a great weekend!
Looking for advice from anyone who is knowledgeable, is there a quality difference between Heng long and Tongde? I have a few heng long but want to buy the Tongde M1a2 SEP
Hi The tongde stuff is exactly the same heng long electrics. The plastic is a bit more hard? The details are okay, they look a little soft, but I’m sure they can be modded. I also believe it comes with torsion bar suspension. Have a great weekend, and thanks for watching!
Thanks so much for the video! It was very helpful, especially with the adjustment of the gun elevation. Personally, I think this little fella would have been the perfect tank if they could just slow down the running speed and get the sound to work properly...but hardware wise, it is definitely top notch。
No thank you for watching my tat! And yes, it’s a tad fast…..😂 I’ve been contemplating seeing how many hot wheels it will jump!. But all the servos are great, I wonder if you could change the drive motor in the box?? Thanks shading and have a great week!
I see these are the high quality chains from Mato Toys for the Leopard! . Your rubber pads have already been pre-assembled, but not here I have to improvise which glue to use to stick these rubber pads on! as these were not included with the Leopard (also purchase). I've never done the chain rusting thing before, but the question is, won't the rubber pads come off the chain? An answer to this would be nice of you.👍👍👍👍👍
Hi! No the pad won’t come off with the mig track fluids. The Mato ones fit the Leo and Abrams, the chally 2 ones come with slot in pads, that you have to stick in. Super glue does the job well. Hope it’s going well, and thanks for watching! Have a great week
Hi! Actually yes, it’s cheap and you can learn on it. And sorry for not getting back sooner, the day jobs been nuts, and it has to come first! 🙂 Let me know how you get on. Have a great week!
Great video I pre ordered one and got it a few weeks ago and love it And the bloke who runs Coolbank used to work at heng long and then went out on his own I have been in contact with him and he’s really good to deal with
Hi! If he takes as much time and care with his release I’m really looking forward to what’s to come. Thanks for saying hi, and sorry for not getting back, works nuts! Have a great week!
Culin Hedgerow Cutter. Hopefully you can adjust the slack out of the tracks by dropping a few links. I wonder if their Leo 2A6 has the same design - thinking I could perhaps gut the Coolbank and put it in the Tamiya?
Hi! No the Leo is tongde, sold by cool bank, the Stuart is built by cool bank, fricking confusing!!!! And yes that’s the one, I have sod all knowlage of US 2ww tanks 😂
Once again, I would like to thank you for taking the time to do these videos. I am still inspired to complete my T-90. With the summer heat here, it's sometimes to warm to work on it. Hit 37 C here atm.
Hi! Don’t be silly, thank you for watching my nonsense! And that’s really hard to spray paint in, it drys before it hits the model. Sorry for not getting back, work is still nuts, I’ve done no modelling, the unboxing is soooo much easier to do, I just talk nonsense! 🙂 Have a great week, and in GB it’s flipping strange weather, one minute really hot then it chucks it down for a week! 😂
Just wanted to say that your videos and our brief conversation finally convinced me to get a Leo 2A6 from Toucans eBay store. Went with one that has metal road wheels/idler, metal tracks with rubber pads, and a 360 degree slip ring turret. Have been really impressed with it since it’s arrival on Monday. A completely different experience compared to what I had 15 years ago with HL. Rough plan is to follow some of your videos for the view ports/optics and rough painting/screw hole filling. But I am thinking I might try to make it look like some of the Leo’s that have lots of tree branch’s and some black/colored tarp to break up the silhouette as seen on some of the videos showing Leo’s during training. Or I might try to make a Ukrainian leopard 2 with some Kontakt 1 ERA or try to make the one Leo that had slate armor around the turret that I believe was knocked out near Avdiivka and I believe was on display in Moscow for this years May 9th celebrations (I would of course do the pre-knocked out leo, though I would probably use some of the photos references of the destroyed tank). I did also have one question for you, is there any serious concern I should be having with running all those metal road wheels/tracks on a stock chassis that doesn’t have any internal bracing support? I plan to mainly drive it inside on hardwood flooring/very flat carpet and maybe some light driving outside on concrete/pavement with very minimal off road dirt driving.
Hi! Yes there so much better than 10 years ago, night and day!. And no, if you magnetise the hull, you may need braving because the screw bosses have male and female, which when screwed together stops all the twist (well 90%) if you watch my t-72 running vid, your see the hull twist, and that’s just hull magnets. There quite fun ranks now, and sorry for not getting back, works still nuts. Have a great week!
Hi! It’s Banggood or AliExpress [£99.63]COOLBANK M5A1 1/16 2.4G RC Tank Sound Recoil Shooting Simulated Vehicles Models RTR Toys RC Vehicles from Toys Hobbies and Robot on banggood banggood.onelink.me/zMT7/lmychmj8 But the link might not work in Russia. Thanks for watching. And have a great week!
Me and my dad have one each and the gun on ours is set at the same elevation and sometimes the barrel is set in recoil position and needs to be pulled out
Have a fiddle with the servo, and make sure there’s nothing stuck around the barrel going into the mantlet. I’ve not had any issues with the recoil, just the excited barrel position! Thanks for saying hi, and sorry for not getting back sooner, works been nuts. Have a great week.
Great job! I am getting one and want to make it a russain one, like yours with the cheek armor tho. Tutorial, maybe? I would love it! Oh yea, I subscribed btw!
Here’s the full build log, and with a bit of fiddling you can make a turms. ru-vid.com/group/PLDSJg__BxBbdTE_ZkGII7_Rp8NfQ49eh_&si=IZJvhZg1OaKZuBbM Be careful what you wish for, watching all of this can cause a state of catatonic shock Have a great week!
Hi! Thanks! Mr Mengs nuts are very useful, but I’ll leave that there… And I get insomnia, I’m a musician, so late nights a lot. Thanks for watching my tat! And have a great week 🙂
Hi, it’s a bit tricky, I’ve used it on the build.. Full build here if it helps with what the bits look like. ru-vid.com/group/PLDSJg__BxBbdZeSbR5ubR_ba6sgyYgFEe&si=gXEKxTLu8LRh1bXT
I've just gotten my Heng Long M1A2 Abrams, and I am watching as much on the care of and maintenance of the tank. I've learned so much already from watching you and others. Thanks again for all the information you and others have shared.
I just brought one myself now im waiting for the chieftain to come back in stock . Ive got the challenger 2 . Already . I love the chieftain as i used to ride on the back of one and my boots were starting to melt lol debusing and clearing the woods of infantry then hop back on the tank at the other side . Early 1980s showing my age 😂
Hi! That’s very cool, whenever you hear a chieftain it puts the fear of god in you! She screams!. And it’s a great model tank too, it’s accurate dimensionally, which is all you really need. The challys okay, the tracks might need one link taking out. Thanks for saying hi, and sorry for tardy reply, my jobs been nuts! And I’ve not had a chance to do any modelling, just that unboxing, there easy to film! Takes no time. Have a great week!
Hi! Sorry for not getting back, been nuts. It’s just an Amazon table flag I treated with diluted pva, and cut it to the size I wanted. I must do a short tutorial. amzn.eu/d/0ig5Wycl
Hi! Sorry for not getting back, been nuts. It’s just an Amazon table flag I treated with diluted pva, and cut it to the size I wanted. I must do a short tutorial. amzn.eu/d/0ig5Wycl
Hey again! I commented this on an older video but might aswell comment it on a more recent one, i just want to ask where you got your ukranian flag for the tank? I want to get the same type thin cloth scale american flag for my abrams, mega thank you!
Hi! Sorry I thought it got back, it’s just from Amazon, a table flag amzn.eu/d/0hDT5rkZ But I’d check sizes, I cut my Ukrainian flag down, you can’t do that without losing a few states! 🙂
@@mrtankalotrctankschannel ah ok thank you very much, I really thought you found someone who makes them that small/ made it yourself, looks really good, can't wait for my Abrams to arrive this Thursday!! What should be the first mod I do to it? It's my first ever RC tank and it's the pro version
Hi! Sorry for not getting back, been nuts. It’s just an Amazon table flag I treated with diluted pva, and cut it to the size I wanted. I must do a short tutorial. Thanks for watching amzn.eu/d/0ig5Wycl
Great video as always 👍 keep up the reviews. Just a Shame they are overpriced horse poo, with cheap henglong inards and a diet clark board . Looking forward to the next video 😊
Hi Ben! Thanks 🙂 I’ve got a little thing popping up soon.. if you know what I mean, but I have to beg to disagree. I really don’t have anything to do with Haya, no freebies, because how would you know I wasn’t bigging up stuff and lying. The Chieftain got me back into rc tank modelling, for the reason its dimension are accurate. Most of the heng long, taigen, torro, Mato 2ww stuff is all wrong, wrong turret shape, wrong hight of road wheels, wrong dimensions (tongde Bradley for instance). Haya doesn’t do that, so as a base it’s easy to work on. The innards are heng long, but so is all there other much bigger brands with massive corporate whack, and massive unit sales. The more units you sell the cheaper you can make a product. Haya a little company in wales, with limited runs on the vehicles they make, so more expensive, and the tooling for one tank design is I think in the hundred thousand mark, even being made in China (god knows how much over here!) and you need to recoup that cost and make a profit or what’s the point, the company would go bust. The Clark board is the cheaper one, but to the install the better ones it’s even more expensive product. The bonus I guess is you can easily swop it out for the better one? I hate the fact Clarke can’t be arsed to change his boards to the new standardised heng long stuff, I hate that you have to retrograde to fit them, and it was the only company Haya could find that did what they needed(that’s why the cent was held up for so long, it’s on the rctankwarfare forum) The RTR tanks are expensive, if they were factory built, but there as far as I know all hand build by Haya in wales from the base tank, and converted in house by andrew and the other chap from the conversion kits. Takes a week of time to build it, even at minimum wage for maybe say 20 hours its £270.00 and the paint and materials. You could get the kit and stick it on a cheap tongde, with too small road wheels, and funky bazooka plate hights. I’ve run my chieftain a lot, and never had a problem, I might try and fit bearings to the road wheels, but the arms seem to be holding up. I also like to support a British based company, we don’t have enough of those 🙂 And again I have no affiliation with Haya, if they release something shocking I’ll say, but so far I’m happy with my purchases. Hope your really well, and I love the work you did on the tongde cent, I was thinking about getting one and comparing them, just looking for a cheaper 2nd hand one. Thanks for watching Ben, do you own a haya? You could compare them. Have a great week!
@mrtankalotrctankschannel thank you so much for a wonderful reply and with so much detail. I am looking forward to seeing the future projects 😀 Firstly I must apologise I didn't mean to imply you were sponsored content or anything I know you do all the work behind your projects and videos, it's a major part of why your videos are so good. I have been fortunate to cut several of the haya centurions to pieces for other projects. The bit that I was most impressed with was the bearings on the wheels and final drive it made it very smooth. I am glad you got back into the hobby as we have these great videos and I would like a cheiftain myself to complete my british mbt family tree but I can't justify haya's price when I am essentially going to strip it and rebuild it even the kit versions are eye Watering expensive. I do completely understand about costs for small business and especially when they have to develop a product they have to turn a profit. I think in my limited and humble opinion, they just are not worth it unless you really want that tank such as the cheiftain or the new spud especially when it has common components with other manufacturers and overseas development and production even if some is done in Wales. If we look at at other small manufacturers producing tanks currently alot are coming with very similar features to haya for half the price but including metal tracks, gearboxes, roadwheels etc and the built in boards (rebranded henglong boards) have servo elevation and recoil just like the clark boards. On a side note (adhd brain) the after market gimmel.kit does fit haya and tongde very well 👌 Anyway back to the main feature. The awesome thing about the hobby is there are four centurions to choose from but only 1 cheiftain.... I am sorry if this went sideways 😅 really enjoyed a positive discussion with a good chap. Really liked the t72 by the way and hope to see your next project soon. Are you going to get one of the spuds ?
You’re right, even the Tamiya stuff is far too fast. There slowly working on it with the heng long stuff, the Tamiya tiger to get it down needs reducers or very expensive gearboxes. On the elmod you can completely control the touque and top speed, and IBU, don’t no about Clarke. Hope your really well! 🙂
My god you’re a better man than me!, my little boy after his great Ormond street appointment makes us go to the imperial war museum (the old bedlam asylum) in Lambeth for lunch. He saw it and said could I build it with him. Never again, Christ almighty how fiddly are they!!! 😂
@@mrtankalotrctankschannel I doubt if i could see it any more! I find 1/16 much easier to paint!🤣 Been to the Imperial war museum about 40 times! it was much better in the 1970's, they had so much stuff on display, now its massively less, and more interactive. I remember one room with a huge glass cabinet, they had every single pickelhaube of every single regt of German army in ww1...been back about 3 times since 2000 but its just not the same now. You need to take him to the Tank musuem here in dorset, they have much bigger tanks for him to make....easier for you too🤣🤣🤣
Again, you never fail to outdo yourself on each build that you complete. Beautiful work, engineering, and attention to detail on every build. Again, thank you again for another great video series!
Hi! Thanks so much, and thank you for all the support, the build went on a bit, but hopefully there might be useful stuff in it. Thanks for watching and have a great week, sorry for not getting back sooner, summer terms nuts! 🤦♂️
Amazing build! I love the effort you put into the production of your videos. Can't wait to see what you do with the cent! (Also crazy led adder checking in ;) )
No, but the ‘arm’ should connect to the ir light and move it with the gun elevation. The heng long part is just a dummy, so might look that way, real life massive clearance. Thanks for sticking with the channel, and sorry for not getting back, the summer term is nuts, and I’m very not even managed to get into the model room for the last 2 years weeks. Have a great one!
@@mrtankalotrctankschannel All good. I'm sure you have things in the real world to get on with. I had assumed it was a issue with the kit, since there was clearance in the real ones I've seen.
