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- This is an update to a video I did about 4 years ago. If you're thinking about buying your first RC Tank you should watch that video first, and it can be seen here • So you're gonna buy an... Then you can come back for the update.
Hi Gary,
I'm just starting out in the the rc hobby tank world here in the UK and find your videos really helpful and full of useful information.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Great information on the tanks and trucks Gary.... Now I want a transport truck!
Man, thank you! I literally just ordered my FIRST RC Tank TODAY a few hours ago. Wish I had seen your video first. Can you believe that I'm 53 and THIS will be my first real RC purchase. (I don't count the crap back in the 70s/80s when I was a kid).
Which tank did u buy?
Very nice collection. Very informative for this newbie.
Every time I see these RC tanks I always wonder how cool it would be to have scale tanks that shoot live ammunition and can fight other tanks in a controlled field surrounded by a protective sheet of bullet resistant glass.
22.lr gun in dem?
Illegal as H.E. double Hockey sticks.
22 instead of bb's
I thought I was the only one
Ok hear me out .. you make rc tankd out of like sheet metal or cardboard so they can be Mass produced and DESTRUCTIBLE fill them with fireworks in key areas or ammo racks then the gun is loaded with incendiary rounds so if a tank is ammo racked it explodes the fireworks and the tanks would be cheap to make cause it's just motors metal tracks gun barrel and a inside shell out of metal so it doesn't get crushed but Still hqs holes and explodes when hit
still working on it
Absolutely great and informative video gary. I have a Heng Long M1a2 Abrams, professional edition 7.0. I have to say, I love it. I switched the tracks to mato metal with a drive sprocket. Can’t keep the tracks from slipping off, but I think it’s because I drive the tank too hard. Been thinking about getting a sherman, this video helped me a lot to find my next sherman rc tank! Thank you Gary, hope to see more amazing rc content!
Love the video. New to the hobby. Great stuff
Ty for the update, I always wondered with the HL systems, and trying to figure out how to update older tanks. Might sacrifice my latest HL Sherman to finish my all Metal Sherman, mostly for the main gun up n down proper movement.
Nice video Gary, hope you're all right. Greets from Drammen rock city
Ty so much for the video. I have a tiger one and have been wanting to get a second tank, just wasn’t sure what would compliment it. This video helped a great deal and I was leaving toward a American tank but I’m seeing the options on the others wow lots to think about. Anyway, very informational video will look at your others and can’t wait till next one.
what did you end up getting?
Glad I found you videos.
Nice collection 👌 love the Sherman and JP. Pretty great deal for $300 JP.
Awesome informative video, thanks 👍
Thanks for sharing. I’m looking for a full metal RC IR 1/16 king tiger but toro and taigen seem to always sold out.
Nice one buddy, that JS2 is a beaute. The lines on that 3d printed truck are so crisp, it looks great. Are you finding that 3d printing is cost effective? How does it compare cost-wise to regular components
I have an HL T-72 which I’m waiting on the metal transmission for, and I have a Hooben T-55A coming in the male as well
Great Video. Thanks for sharing!👍
wow so many Tanks Great video Bud, new friend here
Found your channel today and subscribed to it today 👍
I have to say I like the recoil! its pretty cool looking! But never mind that! now I know all the tanks I see on the youtube vids! Thanks a lot!
Great video and my henglong Tiger actually has better response than my torro King Tiger. Thanks for the advice
I'm loving the HL 7.0 KV-1 I got a few days ago!
thanks for your 10/10 video. Out of all, which rc tank motherboard is reliable? Would you say Taigen has more motor power than Henglong? Thanks
Love that Jadgpanther
Awesome video i have several WPL. The KM kit is amazing i would highly recommend it instead of the Kit or RTR version
Great video! Love the Rover, where was that from?
My wife and I got a Heng Long Sherman and Tiger I during the pandemic. Have played and maintained them recently. They are a lot of fun.
How do they hold up in the rough environment? I really want to get the regular tiger 1 without the metal but I heard they don’t last well unless I upgrade them.
@@Zaku_Phantom I run them regularly at the park and a dirt lot behind where I live. The plastic tracks flex a lot more than the metal tracks I've noticed on the Heng Long tanks. I was having so many problems with my metal tracks on the Tiger I, so I just bought plastic and I've had no problems since. Obviously the metals look nicer. I bought myself a spare of plastic tracks since they will eventually wear out
Great video. Thanks.
nice collection u has
I cannot stress enough how much better the HL 6.0 system is. I absolutely love the system. The only real complaints i've seen is that the IR functions don't work that well in sunlight and that is easily fixed by taking the sensor apart and putting it in a mushroom shell.
I also went on to buy a Mato King Tiger recently. It has the Clark electronics and stuff, all metal body...I don't love it as much as some others because the Clark system feels just so overly complicated control wise.
I will whole heartedly agree with you about the Shermans being awesome. I have three HL Shermans, one with wading gear, one dressed up like Oddball's from Kelly's Heroes, and one with a Pershing turret like the prototype from '44, but with Super Pershing parts added. By far they are the best runners I have. I would suggest a Sherman for the people just getting into the hobby because they are pretty much trouble free. Never had an issue with one
By the way, your cut the grass comment....Shapeways sells a hedge cutter for the HL Sherman, it likes tearing through grass, hell on dandelions too
You'll never catch me buying anything from shapeways. In my opinion, they're some of the biggest crooks out there. The prices they charge are absolutely ridiculous. I once printed some T-34 wheels for a guy for about 35 cents each, and shapeways wanted $32 each for the same wheels. Thanks, but no thanks.
Just getting into RC tanks. Looking for an IR battle one. Are different brands compatible for IR transmission and receiving? Thanks. What are the brands mentioned in this video? I hear their names but not sure how to spell or find their home webpage.
The different brands are not compatible. Tamiya is the gold standard and they have their own battle system. Heng long tanks (6.0 only) will take and receive hits from a Tamiya and vice versa but they don't have any of the other features like reduced speed for simulated battle damage. The taigen and Torro tanks are a system of their own and are not compatible with anybody else. You can use an aftermarket board to become Tamiya compatible and that's what most guys do with non Tamiya tanks that they want to battle. If you ask me, the best place to get IR tanks right now, if you're not going to buy tamiya, is taigen tanks, also known as the imex model company down in Florida.
Gary, I love your WC51 that you 3D Printed. Way back, I bought two I think they are Franklin Mint die-cast 1/16th Willy's WW-II Jeeps. One of them is in like new condition and the other one was played with and slightly abused. I was looking for a way to RC the used one but I couldn't find a suitable rear end, or front end to steer it. They're quite small, and I'm not sure if they could be RC'ed. Any ideas on that?
Most danbury jeeps I've seen made RC used the drivetrain from a 1/24 Losi crawler.
Any m113 mate?
I dont know what to pick, a durfafly bf109 or the newest henglong tiger
Cool video.
So if I like the looks of the Tiger early version better is there a way to upgrade it with the barrel recoil? I basically want the best tiger 1 early version even if I got to upgrade it from them. Or Would that be Tamiya full option?
Tamiya not airsoft though right
you're living my dream dude lol
A must for the Tiger 1 or 2 is metal running gear and tracks especially if you run it on hard surfaces like concrete
I try to put metal suspension and metal tracks on all my tanks, but I've talked to a lot of guys that are into battling and some of them have told me that for that the plastic tracks can actually be better.
@@garyhoff2178 yeah I wouldn’t know why, I got my Tamiya King Tiger when I was in the Army way back in 1996 was my first RC Tank the lads kept driving it on the parade ground wore the tracks right out
Omg!! Hi from Oakland county!! =)
Good! I subscribed to your channel From Japan
fpv signal seems to be interfierence from the brushed motors. im not sure brushless motors are better for tanksbut they would be better for fpv.
I want to know what tank has the loudest cannon firing sounds. Most of these tanks have poor cannon firing sounds. I hate the noisy engine sounds.
Took me a little while to look into this, but there doesn't seem to be much difference in the volume of Cannon sound from one tank to the other. I like the IBU control board and if you upgrade to the TPA amp it gives you two different sound channels and a volume switch for each Channel. 1 channel is just engine, and the other has all your secondary sounds, like machine gun and Cannon and turret rotation noise. I use remote volume switches so I can turn the engine sounds completely off if I want to. I did that so that I would be able to turn the volume down from the transmitter so I would be able to listen to How the tank is running, to see if anything sounds bad.
Hi Gary, do you happen to own the Abrams or the Leopard RC Tanks?
I did an HL Abrams a while back and went fairly nuts on it, metal everything, special armored glass, tri-color NATO paint, etc, etc. There are videos around here somewhere.
Hi Gary ,enjoyed watching your review. I'm interested in getting into the hobby of rc tanks and have many questions. I'm specifically looking for a Sherman as my first tank. Is there any way to call to pick your brain on which one to get? Thanks for you time.
I would advise that you join the RC tank Forum at RCU Universe. Those guys will be able to answer all your questions. I'm a member there myself and my screen name at RCU is Crius.
Hey great info thank you.. did you order the upgraded heng long tank on Ebay?
Yes, the JP came from ebay
@@garyhoff2178 thank you I bought a Tiger1 with upgrades..my first tank!
nice video bro
Thanks, Brett. If you weren't' so far away I'd bring the JP and the 6.0 T-90 down to do some tests against a few of your first-rate Tamiya tanks. I think I've read that the Tammy will hit the HL at longer ranges. I'd call that an advantage! If you ever get your hands on a 6.0 or 6.1 you'll have to let us know your thoughts.
Would you do a video going over the 3d printed truck? It looks awesome!
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I've done a bunch, here's one of the drivetrain tests, I think after that I covered headlights and then tail lights, but not much after that, you'll have to look around for the rest, start with the end of the videos made three years ago. If I ever finish building the truck I'll have more videos.
th-cam.com/video/VSaaRsV_Ews/w-d-xo.html
Damn is the first one you showed really that loud or is it the camera can you adjust the volume?
Unfortunately, sound doesn't really transfer that well in videos. Sometimes it appears louder than it actually is and sometimes it appears more quiet. I still haven't figured it out, but I make sure to tell people, or at least I try to tell people in my videos that the way it sounds in person may be different than the way something sounds on a video. Hope that helps.
nice video, thanks
will the new Heng Long 2.4 tanks work with OpenTX (Radiomaster TX16S)?
thanks again
Unfortunately, the Heng long radio system doesn't work with any other system. The newer taigen models have a provision to use your own transmitter but they're the only ones I know of that do that.
@@garyhoff2178 thanks for explaining, I will look into those ones
Hi Gary,
I have an old tauchpanzer HL like you, is it possible to upgrade this tank to a 2.4mhz system? Great content!
Yes, that's exactly what I did with mine. I'm using the latest 2.4 set up from taigen, which is available at a fairly reasonable price from the Imex Model Company in Florida. It's an easy swap, and unless you have a very, very old tank it should be strictly plug-and-play, no soldering required. I have videos here about that swap if you look around.
I still have my M1A2. Haven't had it out in a couple of years now.
You know anyone in Virginia looking for one??
Are you the same person
Im really confused
@@Xynorip What is your confusion???
@@williamsaloka9043 they both have the same pfp
Hey my dad has a heng long tiger 1,is rather old,maybe near 10 years old,could modern henglong electronics be put on it?
You sure can. There are also several good aftermarket Boards out that could be installed in there, depending on what you want to do with the tank.
good!
Actually I would like an M-60A3 as for 6 years I drove or loaded on M-60 and M-80A3 MBTs.
Hi, I was wondering if any of these rc's would do ok driving off road or doing a little crawling?
Yes, they're made to go off road, just be cautious about water, unless you waterproof your electronics first.
Alright, thanks for the tip
i just got into RC tanks i have a henglong tauchpanzer (BB version) and i really don't like the decals or the tan colour that it came in is there any better way then to strip it of all electronics and paint it? i wanted to do the German Panzergrau (RAL 7021) but i don't want to screw up the electronics on it as then it would become useless and i'm out a tank..any ideas?
That was one of my first tanks and it's still a favorite. I did a 7 part series on upgrading this tank that starts here th-cam.com/video/MxjhaKa45zo/w-d-xo.html
and this covers most of the mechanical upgrades. I have the brass gears, which are now OOP, but the "5:1" gears work well for this tank, and give a much better scale speed than the "3:1" boxes. Go ahead and paint it any way you want to, you won't hurt the electronics (or anything else) by painting it whatever color you choose. Mine will eventually get a better paint job, and if you're looking for decals, look for Peddinghaus or try ebay for tamiya decals in 1/16 scale.
@@garyhoff2178 thanks but I have so many parts to remove so I'll pay close attention to your videos for sure
New sub i am a fellow rc tanker
The Heng Long Sherman, shown in this video, has Tamiya Tiger/Panther sound effects. Every sound sample coming out of it was stolen from Tamiya, and is completely incorrect for a Sherman..
So what kind of tank should I get because I got this Abraham off of amazon for about $60 but I don’t count it’s gonna last long, I don’t know were to find any metal tanks with metal tracks and better gearboxes than plastic
Sorry I missed this, my favorite source for metal tanks is here www.taigentanks.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIxdODhYLB4QIVgv_jBx3zJAQ3EAAYASAAEgJOvvD_BwE
Hi, I'm new to rc tanking and have the taigen tiger1 infared version with V3 electronics. I am trying to find out if any other tank brands are compatible for infared battling. Thanks for your videos, myself and others have gotten interested in this because of you. The only problem is getting people to spend $500+ on a tank. Looking forward to hearing back from you.
Frank
Unfortunately, Taigen only works with Taigen, no other brands.
@@garyhoff2178 thank you for getting back to me. That's a bummer for sure. Do you infared battle or airsoft? I'm under the assumption that airsoft isn't a great way to keep score and make it a fair game.
How do I get a club ready tank? That sounds like way too much fun, I need to see if anyone does this in my area
Bro, can Henglong IR battle with Taigen? I installed a servo in my Taigen Tiger 1 for elevation. The airsoft is very week, hardly worth it, maybe I can mod it.
not as far as I know
THIN-SKINNED VEHICLES- Anyone make an M8 Weasel or other scout/armored cars? How 'bout an ONTOS or STRIDSWAGEN, fuel tanker trucks, radio and command vehicles, tank recovery vehicles, BRADLEY FV, WW1 vehicles including Brit and German tanks ? For sophisticated combat battles, how 'bout znti-tan, mines, rocket launchers like the NEBELWERFER, or functional firing artillery ? Sorry for the plethora of questions. Again. Great Post
I just bought a Chinese made 1/16 tiger from tank household because it was the only tank the store had, it has infrared and an airsoft cannon for 125.00 did I mess up? I googled the brand but couldn't get any info, any info would be appreciated
What's the brand on the tank? It sounds like an all plastic Heng Long tiger at that price, a decent little tank with lots of room for improvements and upgrades. That's actually one of the first tanks I ever bought, and I still have it.
@@garyhoff2178 all I know is says household tiger 101 on the box, thank you for replying so fast
i recently got a heng long m26 Pershing and it says that its IR compatible but yet when i received it the female adapter for the IR sensor wasnt there can you please tell me how that can happen and how to fix that?
If you still need help with this, I have yet to see an M26 in IR unless it has 6.0 or better electronics. What happens if you push the left stick full forward and hold it? If it whines for a second and then you see track recoil it's probably an airsoft tank. I would ask this at the RCU Tank Forum if I were you.
@@garyhoff2178 ok thanks ill check it out
haha awesome, someone else from detroit
Of cool I like tanks
Can you provide links for tanks or IR system?
www.taigentanks.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIxdODhYLB4QIVgv_jBx3zJAQ3EAAYASAAEgJOvvD_BwE
Excuse me i have a question: if I order an RC tank for example a Sherman the tank Is assembled or I gonna assemble It?
Most tanks are ready to run, the Tamiya Sherman is a kit that you have to build yourself. The tanks from Taigen Tanks are completely ready to run and all you need are the AA batteries for the transmitter.
@@garyhoff2178 and the tank of Forces of valor are already assembled?
@@garyhoff2178 and the LIUCHANG?
can someone please provide a link to the premium Abrams tank with 5.1? or a link to a list of current tanks
For the Heng long Abrams your best bet is probably eBay, for all other tanks I would go through Imex/Taigen Tanks in Florida
Would you say that the plastic tracks and parts are ok can they travel on grass and concrete ok
Plastic tracks are fine, they'll run on both concrete and grass, I just like the metal tracks because they give a more realistic appearance.
i still have my Sherman M4A3 tank
You know what would be cool if it blew real smoke weed so when your operating the tank you can get high inhaling the smoke from the turret.
Awesome man. I just built a BRUSHLESS rc tank, 1/8 thick steel, bb gun proof lol. are any of these brushless?
No, not brushless from the factory
if you downloaded the WC-51 from a website can you please post a link?
Sorry, I made the WC-51 myself on a 3D printer.
Gary are you on Facebook.i just found your TH-cam channel. I live in Toledo iam in rc and models full-time if you need anything I paint and weather tanks and can paint any thing look me up. Awesome videos keep up the excellent work
When i see the tanks like jagdpantger and kv1 and panther and a tiger 2 in a lazada costumer: I WANT BUY IT.
🙏🙏🙏🙏very good
Hey buddy, I forgot to mention. Underneath the turret where the bb gun mechanism is. There's wires that go to the motor and yellow wires that trigger the recoil function. If you remove those wire it will fire them without recoil function
Disconnecting the trigger switch will stop the recoil, but you also lose the sound effect. If the tank is new enough you can disable the recoil on the mfu or the TX, depending on brand, and if it's older you can get rid of the recoil with an anti recoil device like the one from RCTA.
@@garyhoff2178 ok, cool. I was just making sure. I figured a man that owns 6 tanks would probably know already but when you mentioned that the Sherman was stuck with the recoil because it's the older generation before 6.0, I thought I'd mention it
COOL
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You have an interesting video and a great vehicle collection there. Take a look at us - you will see them all again! Thank you for showing me! Many greetings from Munich, Bavaria, Germany Uli
Hi,maybe a little late,but I just got a old TK01 Heng Long tank that I wish to upgrade. I'm new to tanks but very old in rc ,so I have a few 2.4ghz radio.Can you give me some imput.
Something like this is good to start with
www.taigentanks.com/collections/taigen-tank-parts/products/taigen-v3-2-4ghz-motherboard-sound-card-choose-sounds
You can use your own 2.4 tx/rx with this (tanks are best with both sticks self centering so aircraft gear may require mods), or you can go with aftermarket boards like the IBU and Clark. Right now is a good time to buy IBUs from the UK if you're in the U.S. as the dollar is very strong against the pound right now. Your first questions should be, how fancy do I want to get? and How much do I want to spend? You can get away fairly cheap with the $50 kit and see how much you like tanks, then if you want to go aftermarket it starts around $100 to $150 and from there the sky's the limit. Be warned it can be very addictive.
Got the update done at last! Better late than never! Lol.
What's the biggest battery you've placed into one of your tanks, i hear that one can run these tank's with a 5000ah for one hour. I have been collecting these tanks over 15 years. Past experience; the oil burner tends to stop working, every time one turns the tank upside down to remove the battery the bb loader is thrown out of whack bb's start getting stuck prior to firing, the suspension went out of whack on my Panzer, then its the 7 minute (battery run) to short of a time for real enjoyment. After a while i noticed that an all metal upgrade was the way to go. Yet the firing system stayed the same they should upgrade it. Thx, for the great vid just subscribed.
My biggest battery is an 8000 mah 6s lipo that I use in my 1/6 scale tank. My biggest in 1/16 is 5000mah and yes, it will run the average tank for well over an hour.
9:06 for the Jadpanther
i want theese giant ones
I’m watching this video as research to build an RC scale zero turn mower. The one I want to build needs digital proportional speed for both L & R side drives plus it will need other channels to operate other things.
Would love a torro jagdtiger. but the price...WOW?
Imex/Taigen
Not sure why it won't let me edit the above, but I started to say that Imex/Taigen has the kit for $429, which is actually a pretty good price compared to something like a Tamiya which, if you can find one, is well over $1,000 right now. It's definitely not a poor man's hobby, but if you want to make yourself feel better about spending so much money on a 1/16th scale tank, just take a look at the 1/6 offerings from armortek. They have a jagdtiger kit but by the time you get it fully assembled and painted you'll have anywhere between 8 and $10,000 in it.
Hi I had had to play part of this vid 3 or 4 times to make sure I was not hearing things I was stunned when you said Tamiya was the gold standard as I have never heard someone say something good about Tamiya its always been known as the gold standard of crap cheap and nasty in the UK when did it change I thought the only thing they could make was paint they were never any good or even capable of making hobby grade models just RC toy cars.
So this isnt gta v ?
Why there is no Balkenkreuz painted on your German tanks ? They could look much better with it ...
The tanks without markings are yet to be painted. The markings go on last. Patience, Grasshopper.
I want the taigen m4 sherman but I'm not about to blow 500 dollars lmao
Just an FYI, Tamiya had IR battle systems 20 years ago. Absolutely shameful how the Chinese straight up copied the Tamiya Sherman, King Tiger and Tiger 1 all those years ago. My collection is mostly Tamiya 1/16 and Bandai 1/15 scale tanks. The only tank i've ever owned by Heng Long was their original airsoft Tiger 1 and i have to say it was absolutely horrible. The control board inside looked like it had been soldered by a blind 5 year old, Lasted about a week before the electronics gave up and the smoke unit didnt work from the get go. The one good thing was that it only cost £50 back in 2005. Not going to risk any more money on Henh Long no matter how many bells and whistles they throw in. Tamiya or nothing, absolutely worth saving up for.
Great post; very informative for someone like me who does RC video filming ! Do any of the tanks drive via FPV and provide full duplex telemetry back to a C.I.C. video recording, HUD w/ GPS, passive night vision, motor temp, battery charge, collision avoidance, secondary weapon ( MG ) firing and hit / damage recording. etc ? Do you know of anyone who has built a sit-in simu,simulator that has stick and pedal controls that operate driving a d weapons systems linked to a remote transmitter? How do these fair in water obstacles like the Sherman's with floatation skirts that they used in the landing at Normandy in '44 ? Does anyone make a scale figurine wielding a bazooka or panzerfurst that can fire on one of these vehicles ? Do you know about BAZOOKA CHARLIE ( en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Carpenter_(lieutenant_colonel) ) ? Would he be allowed to "play" in club combats if his bazookas really fired ? Does anyone make a KV-1, Centurion or Sherman Firefly ? Thank you
Pls someone tell me where to buy these
For brand-new ready-to-run tanks I would suggest taigen tanks down in Florida. EBay is also a good place to find these tanks, and if you are looking for Tamiya kits, the go-to on those is the aaf tank Museum in Virginia. You can get to Taigen tanks through the link here on my page.
I really want a panzer III
Same.
@@pawskiepanzerfox8394 but there sooo expensive especially brick mania Legos ww2-ww1
@@Vasilyevich29 where I live they cost about a thousand PHP.
@@pawskiepanzerfox8394 ya and 100-200 up to a Thousand 💵
Bro lives in Detroit
Need a panther ausf g and king tiger
Got both. What you see here is a small sample of the collection, and you should see the 1/6 scale stuff.