Been an even longer while! The poor old Tiger (and it's fully functioning new counterpart, which I didn't end up stripping for parts) have been sitting idle on a shelf for over a year now. The project Tiger had a brief outing in the snow and on the frozen pond last winter (Tigers are ****e in deep snow, now I know why the Germans lost against the Russians! Maybe.)

Just recently I've been into rock crawlers, I bought myself an Axial SCX10 Honcho kit which I'm still in the process of building, have to say it's a very nice kit and far better engineered than the Heng Long Tiger, but that is also reflected in the price. Anyway, having fun with the SCX10 encouraged me to look again at the Tiger - I got it out for a test run but very quickly the gears started slipping *sigh* Maybe it was from all that snow, even though I have the slipper clutch gears fitted (that's one thing that I did steal off the other tank), it's the main drive gear that's slipping over the drive shaft. The only way I can see to prevent this is to buy the metal gear set. This tank also still needs a replacement turret turning gearbox, airsoft cannon replacement (it half-fires bb pellets, they either roll out of the end of the barrel or manage about two feet), loader's hatch and complete cupola. I might just buy some parts from eBleh and fix the tank up properly this time. I just recently sold the other good working tank as it was annoying me, just sitting there doing nothing. Had I known my project tank was in such bad shape I probably would have gone ahead and stripped the new one for parts then sold the rest. Such is life!

Still, I'm pleased with the electronics and other modifications I made to the tank. It'll be worth throwing a bit of money at to have it all fixed up and working as it should, even just for my own sense of accomplishment if nothing else.