So I just received my Tiger 1 today, crazy fast shipping! I purchased it from the seller on the Bay mentioned in another thread. It is the upgraded version with steel gearboxes, metal tracks, drive wheels a idlers and includes the NEW 2.4G radio system with Leo/Tiger sounds, standalone barrel elevation and a new speaker. It also has a new battery door design with no hardware, just a spring-loaded lock system, which is an awesome feature for me. I'm extremely impressed with the sounds and new electronics! The driving is very smooth and proportional and the sound is 1000X better than all the previous generation Heng Long Tanks. For $129 shipped, you really cannot beat the value. I will be for sure upgrading my Leo!

Thanks for posting the pictures. I was also looking at getting one and now I will after seeing yours.
Jimmy

NICE! I am waiting on my sherman... I am in NJ so it will take a while!

A brief look at your pictures shows that nothing changes,
It still has two spare aerial stowage tubes running parallel with each side of the engine bay when with the exception of the command Tiger 1 that had another tube slung across the rear panel it should only have one,
The cupola is still mounted incorrectly (The Hatch Hinge should be at 20 to 8 on a clockface looking from the front) and the headlights are wrong, (They should be flat faced with a horizontal slit not bulged).
Shaun.

I meant new version as in the electronics, not that they corrected or updated the model.

It's actually a steel gearbox and not the zinc crap? This drastically changes my decision.

Show us some pics of the inside when you decide to tear it apart for the Leo transplant.

The box says zinc now that I look at it, but they don't sound like the zinc GBs in my Leo did and those died really quickly. I think I'm going to keep this tank as-is.

I'm really glad to hear you got this, since I ordered an Abrams from the same place earlier today.

The battery door has always been like that on HL Tigers. I have one of the real early ones, with just one screw in the middle up front, but I see yours is the second gen (or maybe more) and it has two screws at the front, I think for a total of six. Mine has a total of three screws on the bottom, with more along the sides. I got that one about four years ago and now I can't find a new lower in that style so I'll have to put in a henntec (idler woes).

Thanks again for posting.

Oh yeah, I hope you won't keep it exactly as is, since flat black spray paint is cheap and those track really need some.

Oh it won't stay like this for appearance, I just meant that I won't be opening it up and modifying anything since it doesn't need it. I'll definitely be detailing and weathering it a bit and getting some gun blue for the tracks and drive gears/idlers. I drive them outside for natural scaring and dirtiness to help them look like less toys too.

Now I really want to sell my Leos off and get the new version.

I've heard about guys using gun blue on tracks but I always use plain old spray paint and then run them a bit to get natural wear. A quick super spin on concrete seems to work very well. You can see all my tanks at my youtube channel and you can see the tracks look pretty good on all my tanks, even though it's just cheap flat black spray paint. Cheap buzzard that I am I always go for the low cost solution first.

Gary you buy gun blueing one time and keep it in a container and just dip your parts in it super fast and easy

Did you open it up yet and see what wires hook up and if it's much different than the last version 2.4 system?

I haven't. I'm going to say the only difference in wiring will be the elevation and gun unit, since they added up and down function to the transmitter and another button that must be held down while pressing the left stick up to fire the gun.

If you open up the tank please get some photos.
Thanks

Besides the charger that comes with it, what can you use to charge a li-ion? And they look much smaller. This will be my first experience with the new batteries, can you charge them with a NIMH charger? A lipo charger? They don't have balance plugs, do they?

Hi you can only charge them with a lipo type charger with balance plug ports.

Cool, I have a couple of those.

Here's the pics of the inside. The new tanks won't have an on/off switch for the airsoft it seems and the pinout/number of the small PCB is different.

Thanks for the photos...may be a little harder than plug and play to switch over the older 2.4 systems.

I'm thinking I'll swap everything in the turret if I do it.

I blued the tracks with Super Blue, that stuff does not keep and do very many parts. It's pretty much one time use and it's spent.

Some pics of the little bit of weathering I got done this weekend, almost impossible with a 5-month old that doesn't seem to want to take naps at all. I blued the tracks and front drive sprockets, didn't have enough to finish up since I also did my M41 tracks and sprockets too.

Looks good! my new HL Sherman supposed to come in today! we will see if it's the latest version from e-bay.

I'm so tempted to buy two more Tigers for the new electronics. I need to sell off one of my Leopards though first and probably wait til after Christmas if I can. I really want the new sounds in the Leopard! Your Sherman should have the newest electronics, let us know!