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A few months ago I picked up a bargain buy off ebay. This HL M26 S&S for a total of £5 (about $7-8) not had much time to do any work on it with other builds etc. So this week I finally started it.

First job replace the stock motors with some decent graupner speed 400 ones. I ran them in for 3 hours at half battery voltage before installing them in the stock plastic gearboxes. Also the tank had the RX13 board so replaced that with a RX18.



Now at some point in it's life the tank had been stood on



Which had crack the turret and damaged the airsoft. So I stripped the turret down replaced the airsoft with one I had spare added the micro switch as the previous one didn't have one and glued the turret back together.

Quick test run and everything is working great.

Apart from trying to make the crack in the turret look like a welded battle repair I've not really figured what I do to this tank yet.

Ian.

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HL/Asiatam Metal Tiger 1
HL/Asiatam Metal KV-1 (1941)
WSM T-34
SU100
HE Abrams
HL Leopard 2A6
HL Jagdpanther

On my Pershing the machine gun LED was just a flashing LED under a plastic gun.



So bought one of these Taigen machine guns (it's for a Tiger)



In the flesh it is actually a lot bigger than it looks on the picture.

Here's it next to the Pershing plastic gun.



Simply cut old one off, drilled hole through for new metal machine gun, some putty to fill hole and quick dab of paint.



Job done. 8)

Also I had previous glued the cracked turret. So decided to add some putty to try make it look like in battle weld lines.





Ian.

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HL/Asiatam Metal Tiger 1
HL/Asiatam Metal KV-1 (1941)
WSM T-34
SU100
HE Abrams
HL Leopard 2A6
HL Jagdpanther

Been a while since done any work on the Pershing.

I found the old style square solder block to the turret wiring to be a pain everytime when wanting to go into the turret. So took a servo lead extension, cut in half then used the plug & socket as a connector to the turret.



Ian.

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HL/Asiatam Metal Tiger 1
HL/Asiatam Metal KV-1 (1941)
WSM T-34
SU100
HE Abrams
HL Leopard 2A6
HL Jagdpanther

Hey there........Tankbear......in regards to your M26 Pershing (1/16 th scale) I Strongly Suggest that You Check out the Tamiya M26 Pershing Fully Optioned Kit (1/16 th Scale) as it is a Well put together Tank. I have one myself and I can tell you from Experience just how good it is and that if you get any Broken Parts ( You can purchase any of the Plastic Sprews) or electrical components such as DMD's and MF's on-line without any problem at all. I am Speaking from experience there to. I find that there plenty of Hobby Suppliers and Outlets ( even direct from Tamiya in Japan) that are Only Willing to Help us out. Anyway mate I hope that this message will help You in the Future.
Thank You John. (tprjohn737)

It looks nice, really interesting to see. Thanks for sharing.

Nice looking job you're doing on your HL M26. Heng Long tanks are excellent for the cost as opposed to the very expensive new Tamiya version. Spare parts are available for HL tanks as well. Your repairs look great as well. Keep Em Rolling Tankbear!!!

Cheers, Roger