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Old 11-04-2021, 11:09 PM
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Greetings to all. I received an order to build a fully finished model on the Taigen chassis. I will try to display the whole process in this topic
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Old 11-05-2021, 03:42 PM
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Thanks for sharing Artem!
Old 11-14-2021, 01:47 AM
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The first point will be the installation and configuration of the gearbox. Now the chassis is completely disassembled, so I installed a gearbox in the chassis from the SU-152.
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Old 11-18-2021, 10:24 PM
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Have a Juckenberg resin upper and turret if it would help your build? If so message me.

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Old 11-18-2021, 11:25 PM
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Originally Posted by TheBennyB
Have a Juckenberg resin upper and turret if it would help your build? If so message me.
Thank you for the offer. Please don't take offense at me, but I see the only use for this kit is a trash can. I make this tank for the customer only from RedArmy parts









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Old 11-21-2021, 08:06 AM
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I started working on the chassis. The first item is a complete disassembly and defect. Immediately replace 2 balancers and 4 torsion holders. After that, I lubricate all the screws of the brackets with loctite







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Nice!
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Very nice and moves/sounds great. Did you make the gearboxes? If you do are they for sale and for which tanks?
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Very nice and moves/sounds great. Did you make the gearboxes? If you do are they for sale and for which tanks?

Now I have made for the KV-1 taigen and for the IS-2 Tamiya. For which model are you interested?
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Actually I'm interested in both! Lol. I plan (now that you offer for the Taigen KV-1) to do a Taigen KV- lower hull with your gearboxes and a upper SU-152 if possible and then later get your gearboxes for a Tamiya IS-2. I hope. 😁 At one point I had a El Mod SU-152 with Tamiya lower hull...



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From what I've seen it's actually easier to build an SU-152 on a Taigen metal hull than a Tamiya lower. The rear of the SU is lower than that of a standard KV-1 so it can interfere with the way the Tamiya hull is built if you angle the engine deck like it should be.
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The details went to the painting. There will be number 33 on the turret
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I got the chassis from painting. Started the assembly. Be sure to lubricate all elements of the chassis. I put my gearboxes, the supports of the output shaft. After that, I checked the driving characteristics
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Before sending it to the customer, I conducted testing. The result in the photo((. Taigen forgot about the quality


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As a resume . The quality of Taigen has become even lower. Replaced three balancers, two sloth tensioners, three torsion bars. It took three months to make the model, I used early wheels, tracks from JS-2 taigen, driving wheels HengLong. The turret has a recoil and lifting on the servo, IR battle system. Rc module - DK TANK












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Old 01-20-2022, 10:59 AM
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We discontinued the KV series tanks here in the US due to that same issue. The factory was unable to provide a long term fix and as such I personally made the call to discontinue them here. This doesn't stop other vendors from ordering even if there is a known issue so unfortunately I can't help there I know I'm far away but if you need a few (or a bunch) let me know through the site and I'll do what I can about sending a few over. Luckily all the tanks that use torsion bars use the same ones: T1/ST/KV/Panther/KT and if you order some for any of those tanks it should fit the KV.
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Originally Posted by Imex-Erik
We discontinued the KV series tanks here in the US due to that same issue. The factory was unable to provide a long term fix and as such I personally made the call to discontinue them here. This doesn't stop other vendors from ordering even if there is a known issue so unfortunately I can't help there I know I'm far away but if you need a few (or a bunch) let me know through the site and I'll do what I can about sending a few over. Luckily all the tanks that use torsion bars use the same ones: T1/ST/KV/Panther/KT and if you order some for any of those tanks it should fit the KV.
Thanks. I still have a stock of parts for kv in the workshop
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Looks great!

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