So Hooben has been known to sell some unicorns in the past. When I saw an actual delivered Cromwell from a tanker in the UK I figure there might be a chance that it exists. So here it is. Of course not without shipping damage as Hooben is also well known for that as well. Metal chassis, plastic everything else, rubber rims and a Hooben MFU with a very solid looking Apple (Some mod version of Heng Long). Lights, MG, Servo and the much loved track recoil and tons of smokes. I will put in an IBU2U with Cromwell sound set when I am done drooling over it.

Zinc gearboxes? Looks like itty-bity Mato speaker. Metal tracks? Metal Idler and sprocket?

Looks like the Heng Long black metal gearbox. Is that Zinc ? Definitely itty-bity speaker. Plastic nylon tracks, metal sprockets and plastic idlers. Lots of 3D printed parts it appears. I will likely keep the integrated battle unit just need to figure out the wiring. It has a count system right now, when it is fully healthy all the LED will lit up, and then one by one they will go off and the tank dies when all of them are out. Kinda cute system but I don't have another Hooben to test it with. Also the MFU allows you to switch to an RC grade radio receiver combo.

Battery compartment is clever, just a cover. You plug in the battery and toss it inside.

I did map out the Hooben wiring someplace... (I think when I first took apart the 1/10th Hetzer. Looks like the same MFU.)

Mike if you have that would be great. I didn’t know the Hezter kept the Hooben apple. It has a IC chip to control the 5 LED and seem to share the POS+ between the IR emitter and the sensor as far as I can tell. I was just going to take the IC completely out and just use the casing and re-wire everything directly.

Got an upgraded turret for my Cromwell   (Painted and Built picture from Carson).

Oh a Charioteer!

My version done ! Ready for battle. 20 pounder = British's 88. Way longer than I expected. Turn out Hooben's green is Tamiya TS-2.

very nice, i'm keeping my Cromwell stock for now (aside different electronics)

Krijn

MikeC wrote:

My version done ! Ready for battle. 20 pounder = British's 88. Way longer than I expected. Turn out Hooben's green is Tamiya TS-2.

Yea that's definitely compensating for something!

Well it is Wojtek compensating for something now ! Although I think he doesn't care for the Charioteer turret and would be more than happy to part with it.

i do like long barrels, i have always had the feeling that them short guns are just not as powerful as same size long barreled guns, also mounting a howitzer on a tank means you just lost short range fire straight ahead as a howitzer is an "steep arch" weapon  and a normal gun is "slight arch" weapon.

i did have the Cromwell with me last weekend but i did not run it, just like the M60 and several others, Hendrik did run a lot of tanks, and not all of them where ours.

have the turret now if your interested

Did you buy it from Wajtek  ?

LOL. Can-Am RC Tank Club, where the tanks and parts just seem to switch owners on occasion.
LOL. Sometimes back to the original owner no less!

I accuried it