<span style="font-size: larger; "><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Sorry, but it is a bunch of added after market parts that make the Tamiya Panther G any good, and heck all the other Tamiya WWII kits are kind of like that too for tank club games.
That dirty little secret is now out.
Them Tamiya rc tank engineering boys seem to stop just short of making anything really good...and that is why Daryl Turner got invented! LOL.
Like who cares about slope defense, the KV did pretty pretty good clobbering those Nat–Zee panzers on the Russian Stepps. LOL.
Just stay away from little 1/16 scale hills, Panther G. Fight smarter.
But do tell me how does the KV work in your Danville football tank games or how does it fight the 90 mph scale speed Pz3 and Stugs buzzing around in those free for alls you guys like to video. LOL.
Importantly, does poor barrel depression make it any less of a wide receiver tank? LOL.</span></span><span style="font-size: larger; "><span style="font-family: Arial; ">
</span></span><span style="font-size: larger; "><span style="font-family: Arial; ">I buy kits from Karen and Danville does look like fun, but build one tank for that
event rule book, and build the rest to be really cool, I say!</span></span>
<span style="font-size: larger; "><span style="font-family: Arial; ">I ain't offering 2 cents of stuff to you cause you know it all and good for you and or you are now a sales rep for Tamiya Panther G kits.
Which is it? LOL.
I do imagine Tamiya has a big warehouse full of those Panther G dogs they can not give away.
LOL.
But 7wt is not interested in playing with the 10 or 20 or 4000 something guys at Danville.
He wants to build a ONE cool Tamiya tank.
And I am just sharing what I know to be true from sitting down and building the tanks discussed and I have a pretty good idea now of what it takes.</span></span><span style="font-size: larger; "><span style="font-family: Arial; ">
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Bad in the Panther G case means build & run your Panther G stock. It is for sure a rc tank clunker.
And Panther G
good means:
If you wantthe Panther Gbuilt without any rc setup compromise and to run really really good, it needs:
</span></span><div><span style="font-size: larger; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><font style="font-family: Verdana; ">•</font><font style="font-family: Verdana; ">Daryl Turner metal gear box mount brace.
•Daryl Turnermetal elevation arm.
•</font><font style="font-family: Verdana; ">Daryl Turner metal barrel sleeve.</font>
</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: larger; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><font style="font-family: Verdana; ">• Tamiya Blue Gears or glued black clutch gears for reliable performance.
• Impact sealed road wheel bearings.
• Impact metal tracks.
• Impact metal drive sprockets.
• Impact glacis plate sprocket guides.</font></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: larger; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><font style="font-family: Verdana; ">• Photo etched engine vent screens.
And that is just the basics, and that is still a bunch of money to make a doggie kit into a good kitty runner.
And you left out the other critical point, Tamiya messed with a lot of guys who bought Panthers with their attitude that Tamiya made a possible deliberate mistake and now you new kit owners got to buya bunch of aftermarket parts to make the Panther G a good runner, whether you want to buy parts or not. Tamiya wrote, well you guys will buy those parts anyway and just blew off the issues. LOL. Clever dudes.
And every Panther G builder will swear to that, paying
extra for a
good rc setup.
And I did just that, spent the money, bought the parts, made my Panther G a great runner
and 3 years later sold it last summer, to a very nice Danville tanker that you may know, for $1350.00 plus shipping.
And maybe you guys can team up,
I even put the flash back in the barrel, so it hangs out of the barrel like a cat's tongue; Danville style. LOL.
And I sold my greatly improved and modified Tamiya KV-1 for $1450.00+ to the same tanker a couple of weeks ago.
By the way, sling the Tamiya LED clip on device under the KV barrel and you got all the KV main gun depression you'll ever need.
Simple! LOL.
Happy Holidays,
John
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