Next up, the front arrowhead spaced armour, which is attached to the lower tray of the turret, is cut off with a dremel wheel, using Tamiya's handy panel lines as a guide.

With the mantlet change, the handy mounting spot for the IR LED is also lost. Given the diameter of the 120mm I bought the Tamiya KV-2's sprue for its clip-on IR emitter. The 2A4 mantlet is also wider than the 2A6's and necessitated cutting a notch so that it would clear the gun barrel's pivot. I reckon that the mantlet took up the most time as far as the turret part of the conversion goes.





The Ludwig 2A4 conversion kit is intended for the Heng Long 2A6. The Heng Long turret carries very little components compared to the Tamiya, in addition to the required elevation and recoil gearbox which both have, Tamiya adds a battery, a HV flash unit, the large T-07 MFU as well as receiver. In addition, the angles and positions at the blue lines shown below were different, and required additional cutting and filing of the turret base pan in order to fit.



Along the turret sides where the smoke grenade launcher racks were, they didn't match well, necessitating the grafting of addition thin sheet styrene to extend coverage. Both sides had the same problem.