Thanks for sharing your experience, Pcomm. Nice photos by the way.

What you share is what I've read a lot of times and what I experience myself. Some upgrades are definitelly needed. For example my king tiger track tensioner does not work very good even with plastic tracks... About the hull flex, I have not experienced it yet (or at least I have no noticed it) but a lot of people talks about it, so yeah, a gearbox brace might be needed too.

Of course I have also seen the oposite opinion. "I built my tanks 25 years ago and never had a problem" but usually when I met those people, they never want to run outside home (not even over carpet!) or even I have seen people that wont move the turret or barrel because they dont want to break it. Of course that people did not have any problem in 25 years using the tank like that.

Unfortunatelly I have no tank club in thousands of kilometers around, but I love to drive the tanks with my sons in the garden and I need some reliability.


Uh, I almost forgot it, I saw you installed the impact idler in your sherman. Well, I need that too. My sherman idler wheel is worn, I must say, Ausf, that the tamiya kits are not that extremelly well designed... I still cant believe that the sherman idler wheel is the only one that comes with the plain plastic wheel over the metal axle. So after some time runing, the wheel wears. Happened to many people and unfortunatelly happened to me too.