For those who like the bigger scale tanks,and may be thinking about buying one of this size scale to work on.

I will start out with a little info on this 1/12 scale models for those who have seen them for sale and may not know to much about them.They are built by Hailang(from china),I now have three of them.I paid (will round the price off=$80.00 dollars each for 2 of them new,and $20.00 dollars for the Third one from a friend used).The one I will be rebuilding now is the used one,bought it for parts but its in such good shape decided to up-grade it.

If you want one of these to up-grade into a nice tank that will perform just as good as a typical HL tank,they are a good canidate and will fill the bill.But to buy one and expect it to work and run like a HL tank out of the box you will be very dissapointed.The tracks are very stiff,a lot of slop in the road wheels,a gun that moves up and down over a cam-system and very un-accurate to shoot,a lot of binding and crunching noises when you run it,after letting off the controls it will still continue to move for a second or two before it stops,and very eratic controls in general.Over all just a poor tank out of the box.Not worth $80.00 if you was to try and use it stock.I would stay away from them and buy a HL tank.

Now with all that said,they are a good rebuildable 1/12 scale tank foundation to work with.For the money I have not yet seen anything that will compare for the price or the quality of the tank itself.The plastic body is slightly of less quality than a HL tank,a little more brittle but still suitable for a nice tank model.All the roadwheels can be used on an up-grade,and the gun is a good one and can be made to work just like a HL tank gun.

I'm adding a few pictures to start this out.In some ways this is kind of a re-pete of an early-er build on one I did a few months back,but there will be some substantial differences.The first had only two drive motors,this one will have four.It will have all HL components in it,full sound but no smoke unit.I will post several pictures here to start with to show the internal build of the first one i did,and the two color versions I have and a picture of the Panzer and a 1/16 Tiger for size comparrison.

Hope this will be of interest,Any comments welcome.

The green tank is the one allready up-graded,and operates just like a typical HL tank.(has HL tiger tracks,and controls,S&S)
The brown one is what will be this project. BIGMIG