If COVID taught me anything, it's when you are looking at something that's in stock, you probably should get it before it's out of stock for a year (or more). Thus, I picked up the Heng Long Pershing (7.0) and it arrived just the other day.
As SoCalBobS noticed on his T-90, this Pershing also has the XT60 connector now which is nice, but of course the extra batteries I have all use the Tamiya connector. I see adapters in my future. The on/off switch is under the driver hatch which is nice, and the tank was also ready to accept the same bearings as the Abrams and Leopard. The instruction book it came with also noted this and had an image of the bearing installation. The suspension arms are plastic, and I don't believe there is really a way to adjust track tension but so far that has not been an issue.
There's a lot of nice detail on this tank, and it looks great. I will probably use some of the Sherman ammo box decals as there were not enough on the decal sheet for all of the ammo boxes on the skirts. I'm not sure I'll be using the fuel decals on the wooden boxes... Being a 7.0, there are only 2 engine sounds available. One seems to be the Sherman's radial, and the other... I'm not sure what it is, but it sounds either supercharged or turbocharged and is not a radial. The smoke unit produces plenty of smoke so far, that's for sure! I did add 2 oz of lead weight near the front, and may add more. We'll see. This tank definitely seems slower than the Sherman, but it could also be that I'm too used to flying planes and don't move the sticks much.
Now... we don't just do IR but we also shoot airsoft paintballs for fun, and that's the one thing I need to look at. The cannon shoots maybe 2 feet on this guy. Something must not be right since even the Sherman with the short barrel shoots further with more energy. So I will be opening it up again to see what might be going on with the airsoft unit.
Photos to come soon.
Clay
As SoCalBobS noticed on his T-90, this Pershing also has the XT60 connector now which is nice, but of course the extra batteries I have all use the Tamiya connector. I see adapters in my future. The on/off switch is under the driver hatch which is nice, and the tank was also ready to accept the same bearings as the Abrams and Leopard. The instruction book it came with also noted this and had an image of the bearing installation. The suspension arms are plastic, and I don't believe there is really a way to adjust track tension but so far that has not been an issue.
There's a lot of nice detail on this tank, and it looks great. I will probably use some of the Sherman ammo box decals as there were not enough on the decal sheet for all of the ammo boxes on the skirts. I'm not sure I'll be using the fuel decals on the wooden boxes... Being a 7.0, there are only 2 engine sounds available. One seems to be the Sherman's radial, and the other... I'm not sure what it is, but it sounds either supercharged or turbocharged and is not a radial. The smoke unit produces plenty of smoke so far, that's for sure! I did add 2 oz of lead weight near the front, and may add more. We'll see. This tank definitely seems slower than the Sherman, but it could also be that I'm too used to flying planes and don't move the sticks much.
Now... we don't just do IR but we also shoot airsoft paintballs for fun, and that's the one thing I need to look at. The cannon shoots maybe 2 feet on this guy. Something must not be right since even the Sherman with the short barrel shoots further with more energy. So I will be opening it up again to see what might be going on with the airsoft unit.
Photos to come soon.
Clay
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