Well I will say that I have my work cut out for me..... But It's going to be fun. I put small charge in the battery and was very surprised how noisy the gear boxes are.They are the HL zinc gears and they are garbage. I am stripping everything out and its all heading to the garbage. I also did find the stock HL ESC and sound also just as bad as the gears.

From an N scale train perspective... I can understand why having a plastic upper hull is important. Being able to model upper hull damage or making large changes would be next to impossible with a metal upper. But looking at the HL lower.... well it has to be full metal.

There needs to be some sort of standards set in place with 1/16 tanks. Maybe they would see more people getting involved if these electronics and IR systems worked together instead of against one another??

Just my two cents.