So I did test battle this tank last month at the San Diego battle. Our field is huge and I quickly learned that the taigen Sherman is way too slow to start out with on the field before it takes a hit. Im still tweeking my IBU power rotation settings to get it to turn better. Real shermans didn't have the super spin, just one track breaking but this tank wont turn after just one hit after it slows down. There is a big difference in performance from these 39:1 ratio gear boxes to the 69:1 mato units in the Jumbo both using the IBU2. It turns and runs fine after several hits. The taigen literally goes dead in the water. Its a combination of less gearing, weaker motors and the IBU settings so Im still playing with the learning curve on this platform set up. I plan more taigen based shermans but have to overcome the learning curve. I plan to swap to Tamiya motors to speed it up but need to buy new pinion gears. I will get around to that.

The other problem I had was my bundle of cables in the turret binding up on the recoil servo mount when the barrel elevated up and down as the turret rotated. The bundle just got in the way and would sometimes get jammed between the recoil and the turret ring.
We had a fun run battle today in San Diego and I did some more testing with this tank and this afternoon I tore it down and came up with the following.

I used the screws on the bottom of the apple base and stretched a wire between them to pull the cable bundle over to that side.


I then fabricated a ring guide to hold the bundle in one spot out of the way and installed the turret on the hull and used a model train power pack to rotate the turret around a lot to make sure there would not be any binding against the Tamiya rotation box. I think I finally have it settled now.


Now on to more body detail work and motor swap performance enhancing etc.