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Here is my build of a 1/16 Heng Long Walker Bulldog. It was bought from Modelzone for around £25 as it was an ex-display model. If you have seen my other posts you might notice from the photo there isn't as much room in the hull as the Tiger but this came already equipped with a RX18 controller board, sound and a smoke unit. I like to strip down the tanks to find out what make them tick and to see if I can improve them also it makes them a lot easier to paint. At first sight it may look a bit complicated with all the electrics so here is a brief tour. The tank comes with a pair of drive gears, left and right with each having it own drive motor. The pipework between the drive gears is the smoke generator. The green circuit board behind the drive motor is the receiver. To the left of the photo with the white plugs is the RX18 controller board, which is the brains of the tank and the black box which you can just see below the RX18 is the speaker. The lime green cogged wheel at the top of the photo is the turret ring. To the right of the turret ring is the turret drive motor and the white box in the centre of the turret ring is the gun elevation motor and BB gun assembly. Here is a photo of the turret. I removed the tools and plastic hand grabs as the weren't the best quality and I made some replacements from copper wire and super glued to the turret. To line them up I taped ice lolly inside the hand grabs which worked quite well. As you can see I got the filler out as well. I also removed the jerry cans from the sides of the rear turret bin so it made it easier to fill. From the photo below you will notice that the rear periscope hasn't got a cover. So this is how I got round this problem. I brought a spare upper hull and turret from ebay for £12 which had both periscope covers so I used the rear one as a pattern to make my own. The reason being is when I get more time I have another Walker Bulldog to do and the spares come in handy. The material I used was from an old CD ROM I stripped down. I cut it out. bent it and filed it down. And fitted. Next was the 50 cal. As you can see from the photo the ammo box is no where near the feed tray of the gun. The gun comes away without too much effort. The ammo box glued in place. I made a cocking handle from copper wire and a cocktail stick. I removed and filed rubbed down the tools on the rear bin and from the spare turret I had I added two more jerry cans. I decided to change the style of the 50 cal cocking handle which I thought looks better. I also made an exhaust pipe from copper wire and a piece of net curtain spring from Ikea! The copper wire was used to keep its shape. Also from Ikea I bought some net curtain to make a cam net. I cut and folded a small piece of curtain and inserted a piece of copper wire into it to again hold its shape. The straps are cut from a coke can. The net curtain is then painted with watered down PVA to stiffen and left over night to dry. Now for the fun stuff. As an ex-squaddy I can remember when the lads would add extra mods to their vehicles so I thought I would. Here is a turret basket I made for brass. This was my first attempt at bending brass tubing and I am quite pleased how it turned out. I didn't like the tool tray so I took the tools off. I braided some thin copper wire, cut it and soldered it. To fit the turret basket I marked and drilled some holes. Then I glued it in place. Here I tidied up the wiring layout of the upper hull.