Official Heng Long 1/16 Scale USA Pershing Battle Tank Discussion Thread

[MrChef]

Thanks guys. I thought that tank treads were black with steel bits that would be rusted.

I do not usually rust things much here's a pic of metal tracks on my Panther G.

But during my research for my Tiger I build I've seen several real Tigers with their tracks an orange tan color and I tried to emulate this with this run of Tiger tracks-



You can see the difference between the tracks in use and the spare tracks.

And here is a super close up for the ones I was trying to emulate-

[Scott Larkins]

Thanks for the help guys. I decided to go middle of the road with some dry brushed rust. I’ll wear some of it down once the weather cooperates.

[MrChef]

See that's a great thing about these RC tanks. You can leave em alone and enjoy them out of the box all the way up to modding them and painting and weathering them as if they were a scale model. It's yours, do with it what you like, enjoy it and of course Run it and have fun.

[cmdrcody]

Thanks for the help guys. I decided to go middle of the road with some dry brushed rust. I’ll wear some of it down once the weather cooperates.

One of your tracks is on backwards 🤔

[Scott Larkins]

Thanks. I'll take a look at that tonight.

[keilau]

One of your tracks is on backwards 🤔

Thanks. I'll take a look at that tonight.

On a full scale tank, the track is unidirectional to optimize traction and stability.

On the Heng Long 1:16 scale, I've repeatedly saw the tracks installed in opposite direction. It seems to be done intentionally by the toy manufacturer. Anybody knows how it happened?

[Scott Larkins]

I looked at a picture I took of my tank when I got it and yes, I put the right side track on backwards. Thanks guys.