I agree with Dan;s statements. I had and still do have a great deal of fun and a high degree of satisfaction once i have completed an HL to Tamiya conversion. But I go all the way with the conversions. I received a lot of good feed back on the Pershing I just completed. It was said that if I did not tell that it was a conversion no one would have never known it was not a Tamiya tank. The Pershing probably makes the best HL/Tamiya conversion out of all the tanks, as you need not bother with the suspension or tracks at all. I left those completely stock and it runs exceptionally well. Plastic tracks and all. The Pershing tracks are probably HL's best to begin with and so is it's suspension. The only other tank that compares as far as stock set up is the PzIII/Stug.