Originally Posted by
fuchstraumer
I'm honestly curious how they make it affordable at this price point and with this set of features. it seems the metal hull is the style that Heng Long is using for their "metal hull" tanks you can get through folks like toucan-hobby: CNC machined side hull plates and then those are joined together with what practically feels like a sheet metal lower tub. I'm not sure how I feel about that design - it doesn't really create the weight I'd hope for and doesn't seem as rigid as I'd ideally like. hopefully the torsion bar system is better than what HL is using for their metal hull tanks too, because the HL system is absolutely junk and has left me with a T-90 I just can't even use lol. still haven't figured out what to really do about that.
I have the HL metal hull on my T-72 and love it, but mine also has metal tracks, metal wheels, metal idlers, and metal sprockets. It definitely isn't light and mine has been the best handling tank in my collection so far. I'm running it with the TK-6.0 electronics at the moment. I did have to add a few washers to the front idlers to get them to line up exactly, but that was no big deal. If it isn't as rigid as you like you can always add bracing to it, but I haven't seen a need for that on mine. And yes I am derailing my own thread...
