ORIGINAL: city hunter
no offense but I dont get you guys with the whole tamiya electronics Drove a tiger and wasnt impressed what so ever. Granted I could give a rats ass about the sounds. I was expecting this amazing machine bcause all you tamiya fools hype em up so much, there isnt much to hype up imo. Frankly, I doubt I will ver buy a tamiya, if I gotta build it to begin with I might as well customize it.
I think there is too much of this brand name tamiya bs going on on this forum. a tank si a tank. Everytime someone asks about which hl tank they should buym, you get a bunch fo guys who must have deep poclets saying get a tamiya. I have 3 hl tanks with no freaken mods. Had a few issues, but now lets see..1200 dollars worth of issues?
The fact is you pay for the name. The engineering is better, but 900 for a kit? come on....These gears dont cost jack and shiot to make... It;'s much cheaper to sell a kit in pieces than to pay someone to assemble it and others to paint it. Tamiya has always been pretty spendy though.
I'm always surprised with the remarks that surface whenever a thread even tangentially touches the Tamiya vs HL ( and the like)
subject. I've been in the rc armor hobby a pretty long time. My oldest Tamiya model, the original $99 Sherman is what, 35 years
old ? And it still is running like a champ. I also have a number of HL/Matorro models. They are ok enjoyable models but the quality and extensive engineering found in a Tamiya just isn't there, there no other way to say it. As I have both types of models I feel that is a accurate statement.
As Sevo well said, everyone is entitled to their opinion just don't refer to people who recognize Tamiya's value as fools. That appellation only serves to paint a unflattering image of the writer; simply revel in your models in silence is the better course.
The Leo II is an advanced model for the 1/16 range. It has many features and a unique transmission not found in other Tamiya
kits. Among 1/16 models it may be expensive but isn't the most expensive tank model by a very wide margin.
If you base your purchase decision on the Tamiya line you can't choose badly with any of them, I find the Pershing annoying to
fit everything into but that's just me. The King Tiger as well as the Leo II are huge so few space issues there. The one thing you can be certain of with all the Tamiya line is consistent quality. With Heng Long and the others like it you are at the whim of variables such as whether or not it was National Glue Day in China when your example was assembled. Based on the tools you mentioned the original poster doesn't appear to be ready to tear a Heng Long apart to customize it.
Whatever you buy just go out and enjoy it.
Jerry