Thanks chaps, I appreciate your feedback.

Here's some extra pix I took yesterday with some info

…and another video link.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LIYv-b1eeT8

The ElMod ‘ThinkTank’ system can be used with the original HL or WSN radio modules or standard RC equipment (which is the option I chose). If anyone is interested I heartily recommend downloading the datasheet manuals from their website.

http://www.el-mod.de/manuals.php?osC...62beb0313f3583

The HenLong Panzer III is a small model and as you can see from the photographs it was quite a squeeze to fit everything inside. Sorta reminded me of shoe-horning stuff in the Tamiya Pershing. The Elmod 'ThinkTank' units are quite small though and they can be tucked away in corners and underneath things. Something that can't be done quite so easily with the bigger Tamiya blocks. You do have more cable with the Elmod units though (as each module needs to be connected to another).

As I intended to gut the PzIII right from the beginning I did not bother with getting a 'smoker'. The only things I kept were the gearboxes, lights, on/of switch, turret-turn and gun elevation units. Even though the gearboxes are the HL plastic ones they seem sturdy enough and run very quietly with the Permax long-can motors. I might replace them with metal ones eventually if they start showing any signs of giving out.

I cut out the battery compartment completely and glued the compartment lid in place to strengthen the floor. I also needed to create more room inside by cutting out some of the moulded screw posts holding the hull top and bottom together (you can see this in the close-up pic of the hull underside). I didn't use the screws anyway as I made the hull top just drop in place held with a couple of metal rods glued into the holes where the original screws were. Makes it much easier to swap batteries.

I replaced the airsoft barrel with a Schumo PzIII aluminium one and cut away the airsoft unit, keeping just enough to act as a fixing point for the Tamiya recoil. I was in two minds whether to use the original HL gun elevation unit or make my own (as the HL elevation unit is quite big). In the end I decided to keep it. It’s a bit tight in the turret (especially with the Tamiya recoil unit and Elmod 'mushroom' in there too) but it did all go in with a judicious bit of 'persuasion'.

The tracks, sprockets and idlers are made by ‘Impact’ and really make the model IMO. I removed the HL aerial from the back of the tank and refitted it in its proper place on the right hand side.

And that's about it (in a nutshell).

Anyway here's some pix (If I can figure out how to get them to attach to this post!)...