discussion 1:16 Tiger Part Work

[Guest]

Link here showing the controls, the cannon even recoils when it fires, how great is that

 

[Guest]

Or how about this one if you're really itching for some armour action, they have Shermans too, you can recreate Kelly's heroes.

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(never realised the heng longs were so cheap, relatively speaking)

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1/16 scale as per the Tamiya, cannon fires plastic BB's and under £60 complete with TX and all bits, aside from the tank comanders headset being of a dodgy size it doesn't look bad, i'm sure for accurate scale the Tamiyas better but this would see you playing nicely until you'd saved enough.

OK, last link, before I convince myself to to buy one

Love the smoke and shot effect

 

[spanner570]

For once on here I am going to get straight to the point:-

Anyone who gets this, or any other stage build thingys are completely off their tree. They are the biggest and most expensive con that has ever been thought up!

It beggers belief that people even begin to contemplate getting involved in these builds.

Great getting a particular issue for an upgrade bit, but a full build, come on!!

Phew, I feel better for that!

Cheers all,

Ron

 

[Guest]

For once on here I am going to get straight to the point:-Anyone who gets this, or any other stage build thingys are completely off their tree. They are the biggest and most expensive con that has ever been thought up!

It beggers belief that people even begin to contemplate getting involved in these builds.

Great getting a particular issue for an upgrade bit, but a full build, come on!!

Phew, I feel better for that!

Cheers all,

Ron

Ron....you took the words from my mouth and have summed it up a treat...thank you my fine and slendid fellow

 

[Guest]

Im with ron straight 2 the point ....well said mate ......john

 

[Guest]

Well, being so far off my tree I don't know which is my tree anymore (they all look the same to me) I went out and bought issue one. For 50p I have a metal 88 mm gun barrel and front mantlet in 1:16 scale and a huge poster of a Tiger to stick on me shed wall. That will do for me lol

 

[Guest]

Ditto that Graham, and for 50p it's worth a look, the little articles in the mag are worth that alone, likewise I have an 88mm cannon to fit to the underside of a 1:48 BF109 or whatever takes my fancy

I'll be donating the poster to my wee boy, the price was worth the 'WOW!' I got when I showed it to him.

Have to say if I wanted an accurate display piece i'd get a nice 1:35 (or whatever the common large-ish scale for armour is) and for a plaything the HengLongs a winner hands down.

 

[Ian M]

Well show me some finnished part works... Red baron.... Bismark..... All seem to die a death after a time.

Having followed the links that M1ks posted for the tamiya and HengLong. I now know what I want.

To me the Heng long looks like a toy. OK cheaper than the Tamiya, but the money needed to get it looking as good as Tamiyas, you might as well just buy the Tamiya one and get on with it!

Ian M

 

[Centurion3RTR]

Just got back from my Dads and he was on about the Tiger, i was talking to him about what you lot thought about it. Told him how long it would take to build and how much it'll cost, lets put it this way, he's keeping the poster and i have a spare barrel and muzzle brake. On a lighter note, the muzzle brake looks good on the Heng Long Tiger lol.

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[Guest]

The major problem with the build a tiger tank part works it has many intricart missing to make this tank the true 1:16 scale as it should, overalll opion a lot more research from hachette would of avoided model builders searching for the parts they do not supply. The web sites are out there but took a long time to find, so you can get the correct parts.

But it is keeping me amused and busy. The turret will soon be finished looking as it should like a late tiger tank in 1943. But if these web sites were not available for the correct upgrade parts then the subscription would have been cancelled a long time ago.