HengLong Panzer III RC Tank w/ Metal Chassis & Tracks & OPEN PANZER Electronics

Description

This is the Heng Long Panzer III 1/16 scale RC tank, although there is not much of the original plastic model remaining as much of it has been upgraded.
The hull has opening metal turret hatches and cupola, photo-etched brass grills, scale metal antenna, metal headlights (with LEDs), metal hull and turret machine gun barrels (both with functional LEDs), metal tow-cables, and a custom rear storage rack with metal fuel and water cans and other handmade accessories. The barrel has been changed out to a scale "
5cm KwK 39 L/60" making this an "Ausf L" variant of the Panzer III.
The barrel recoils and can be elevated and lowered through an Asiatam mechanical recoil unit. The barrel also has a flash LED installed. This tank does not have airsoft!
The chassis is the Asiatam metal lower featuring metal road, idler and drive wheels, and of course metal tracks. The gearboxes are the (no longer available) Asiatam low profile brass "5:1" gearboxes, with Graupner Speed 400 motors. I also installed ball bearing drive shaft supports from Tank-Modellbau. In short, there is a lot of metal on the tank, it weighs close to 10 pounds. It will be shipped in two boxes (chassis and hull separately).
Electronics include:
- Open Panzer TCB ("Tank Control Board")
- Dimension Engineering Sabertooth 2x5 ESCs for the drive motors
- Taigen PZIII sound card and speaker
- Taigen pump-type smoker
- FrSky X4R 16-channel SBus receiver (compatible with any X-series FrSky transmitter or transmitter module).
- Gens Ace 7.4V (2S) 4600mAh Shorty LiPo hard case battery
Obviously the model drives, the turret rotates, the barrel elevates and recoils, it has sound and smoke, and as mentioned before, the headlights, cannon flash LED, and both hull and turret machine gun lights are all functional. A bottle of Taigen smoker fluid is included with the sale.
The Open Panzer TCB will need to be configured to your own specific transmitter using the free OP Config software:
http://openpanzer.org/downloads
If you do not have an FrSky transmitter or you wish to use a different radio system, please note that the TCB will only accept receivers that can output PPM, SBus, or iBus, so keep that in mind as you make your selection. There is a wealth of information about the Open Panzer project on their wiki:
https://openpanzer.org/wiki
I do not recommend purchasing this as your first tank! But if you are an experienced RC tanker, and especially if you already have experience or are familiar with the Open Panzer board, then it could be a good choice.