Originally Posted by maillemaker

I'm also new to RC tanks. Last year for Christmas I bought my son a pair of cheap-o IR tanks for like $25. They were fun but toys.

This year I got him a Huan Qi 1:24 scale Tiger with Airsoft. Then I got myself a 1:16 Heng Long Panzer III. Not knowing anything about tanks I discovered both are 27 Mhz tanks and can't play together, and the PIII is an older model with electronics that you cannot change the frequency, which explains why it was only about $70.

I'm not looking for a serious new hobby (I used to build models pretty seriously) so I'm not going to be doing custom paint jobs or weathering or any of that, I just wanted an out-of-the-box toy to run over stuff with in the back yard with my son (who is 7). Plastic bodies and treads and gears are fine with me as long as they are durable.

I just bought a Heng Long Sherman 2.4 Ghz so we can now play tanks together with the PIII and the Sherman.

The first thing I have discovered is that these Airsoft guns are no joke. Way more powerful than I expected. Enough to be painful when you get shot and you could get an eye injury from them. Also there won't be any tank battles with them as I expected. First the BBs go so fast I don't think you'd see a hit. Secondly the guns shoot so strongly they can break the other tank - my son shot my Sherman and it snapped off and blew away the .50 cal machine gun rest on top of the turret. My first "battle damage" lol. I really wanted a tank that could shoot stuff like a real tank but now that I have them I question how fun/useful they will actually be. I think we are going to set up empty soda cans and pretend they are fuel tanks in a bunker or something to shoot at, but we won't be able to have tank fights.

Question on the 2.4 GHz systems: How do you change their channels so that you can play with multiple tanks on 2.4 GHz?

Steve