ORIGINAL: RWTDGhost
To answer your question Tom, I have bought 3 HL tanks, none of which has had any problems yet. I have 2 tamiya's now, (older 1/16 porche KT and a Full Functon tiger one) and as far as 500 dollers extra townards a tamiya goes, I DO NOT get my moneys worth of proformence over a Heng Long. While I agree that a Tamiya is a better built model, I do not agree that it commands that kind of mark up in price... To me its a just a rip of.
RWTDGhost
glad that you think tamiya is a better built tank, sorry that is rip of to you. you are extremly lucky because none of your HL broke down.
as for the performance, i do not know how you tested your tanks, if you really want to compare the performance, please visit Virginia indoor battle field, you will tell the difference.
plus, rc tank hobby is not only about driving this thing, education is part of the fun too. mechanically, you will learn how the torsion bar work and structure of a tank. historically, the true details and true scale demension give you better idea of wwii legend. true light and sound effect give you true felling of the wwwii battle field.
and be fair, why can not tamiya make money while they paid lot of money and effort to do the research? HL just copied tamiya's and they had no overhead for reseach. if we keep encouraging such manufacture, there would be no good model any more.
good luck, tom