Jay-Em

On buying 4 broken Heng-long tanks for little money, I sat down ,and pondered what I could do with it ,apart from fixing the burnt-out electronics.
(a base perk of Heng-Long tanks, especially those with the older RX13 board)

One of the tanks was a Pershing with a seriously broken barrel, and a lot of missing parts.
Normally I am a scale-guy, but this asked for something completely different. I had just watched the last resident-evil movie and it struck me that some kind of post-apocalyptic zombie&monster killing tank with all sorts of useless sci-fi-atom-punk , techy-looking bits&bobs would be cool.

Thusly the ideas floating about in my demented brain, took the shape of a bloody, gory, armoured re-take on resident evil (sort of..).


Base is A Heng-long snow leopard with a new RX18 board, pc blower to cool the controller and a steel gearbox with the slow turning high-torque black back motors.
It's slow, but it somehow fits the theme. I had to add 2 links on each chain, because, strangely enough, the whole axle moved about 0,5cm to the rear after adding bearings to the track-wheels, and made the tracks far too tight.
All electronics are in working-order now. I ditched the abysmal HL smoker and used the free socket to power the cooling fan for the RX18. It has been running flawless since.
I was quite amazed at what could be achieved with about $60 of new electronics and a bearing-set for the drive-wheels. I didn't adapt the bogeys. They squeek&clatter!and I love it!!

The body is base-coated with tamiya grey primer, "stone-red" from revell and humbrol 113. then I used the "wet salt method" to lay-in the basic rust and sprayed all of it with revell 89 (desert sand) Used a tooth-brush to rub off the salt crystals and started dry brushing all of it with a 50/50 mix of flat white and desert sand. rust-streaks are 80 to 1 thinned orange-brown(revell 85)
The blood and gore splatter is done with Tamiya clear-red, with some clear green around the zombie-face for that "extra-yuck"-effect

The figures are a resident evil jill (I believe) and some marvel figure I found in the 2 dollar bin. Hat, helmet and the cyborg bobs&bits are made with something called "Apoxie" a 2 component epoxy that doesn't smell, can be worked on after hardening, and is bloody strong. The gutted zombie on the front is also from resident evil. The monster-hand- an head is from some McFarlane figure.

It's absolutely not scale, since the figures are about 1/12 to 1/14, but the end-result wasn't half bad, given the state it was in.

Enjoy the pics!

Scrooem

sweet!!! very inventive! will look good rolling around the mound with the other battle tanks!

Panther F

He he ... awesome man!


- Jeff

Jay-Em

Thnks Guys! It was just some brain-fart I had. The state of the Pershing was quite terrible tbh. It looked as if some cat gave birth in it, and then was set on fire..I got it straight from a retailer, who had gotten it back from an angry customer... how on earth does one burn the printboards to a black crisp???

Still, Heng-Long tanks are a very VERY nice base for some customizing. Cheap, and fairly reliable with the new-generation electronics (The 40ghz and RX18-kind)

Panther F

Even my wife liked this!! Said it would be the tank she would drive.


- Jeff

pattoncommander

cool. shows what you can put together with scrap parts. Dig the sexy crew. Didn't I see this on a TC program [:-]

Jay-Em

On the risk of sounding somewhat dense: What is "TC" ? A bit like "scrapheap challenge" , but for tanks?

pattoncommander

oops [X(] not dense...typo....should have been TV, Fernsehen, Flimmerkiste...boob tube. [&:] Too accustumed to typing Tank
Commander=TC. Lots of recent futuristic Sci Fi movies have had similar battle buggies, mostly up armored cars etc.

torpedochief

That has to be the most awesome "What if" tank on these pages. That is a great build. Just a crazy thought, but I am sending a few of those pictures to some folks I am working with on OF ICE AND STEEL.

What a great graphic novel idea!

Don

Jay-Em

Tbh. I had sort of a story floating in the back of my mind, where, in a dry, cold -hence the Mad-Bomber- post-apocalyptic world, overrun by zombies, a cyborg and her pal found a tank-museum, and chose a pershing ww2 tank for it's relative simplicity, but superior armor, added a APU from a plane downed near-by, to generate power for a couple of electric motors,( hence the giant exhaust in the back) installed to drive the wheels, because the original e ngine ran on fuel no longer availabe, and a turbine runs on most fluids.

Cyborg&pal then set-up an agency to try and control (=cull) the zombie problem with improvised tech, scavenged from all over the place.

Bla bla bla.... you know? Standard, kitchy, tech post apo- fair. Iam still looking or a cheap a**. Stug 3 to convert in the same way. I like it's clunky looks. With a lot of faux rivets, a big smoke stack etc. it could be a great post-apocalyptic steam-punk tank too..

I have to admit that in most cases wher I made weird stuff, i did go by a semi-logical story-line in my builds. It gives stuff some coherence imho. Tanks and such, can be as crazy as you want,but the better sci-fi, always has a (fake) scientific, and/or logical explanation behind it.

Roboticus_Prime

I have no idea how I missed this in all my Pershing searches.... But this thing is AWESOME!

fury69

lol love it....

Jay-Em

thnx!

it was some time ago, but Your thread in rctankwarfare, made me take a look at it again, and by now it has all-metal running gear, a 3d gen HL 2.4 ghz controller, new speaker, ànd a last-gen smoker filled with baby-oil.. It belches smoke like nothing else!! Time for a IBU 2 with Abrams sounds, and a proper jet-engine lookalike exhaust. Flexible drain-pipes in a small diameter could work..hmm... *pondering*

I have some more ideas floating around in my head. Make the main gun look like a rail-gun with LED-strips that are triggered in sequence, while retaining the airsoft toy-gun. I'll have to dig-up some electronic kits to get that LED sequence going, but it shóuld be do-able.

Roboticus_Prime

Can we get a new video of her running around?