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About urban warrior

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    Schwalbach am Taunus
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    RC Monsters and scale 4x4's, motorcycles, hiking, astronomy

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  1. Hm ... I prepared some chicken with Thai curry, coconut milk and several other ingredients today. My missis loved it.
  2. Well, at least I started my King Yellow 6x6 Tracked project. After several failed attempts with my printer I managed to get the first parts printed for my "Sci-Fi-Body". The idea behind is to have a flip-bed to get access to the battery, instead removing the whole body each time. The flip-bed consists of two parts actually pushed together. Unfortunately I got some clearance issues. Without the flip-bed attached to the lid, it looks much better. Still have to do some work on it. I am still not sure what it will become exactly. First I thought about somekind of ROV or drone front. I put a Wild Willy driver in the front and asked myself if this could be a way to go. There is still a lot of work to do. The recesses in the middle section will be covered with structured plating and the bed will receive some equipment/machinery too. If the hexagon pattern will stay in the bed is unsure as well. And I have to decide which way to go in the front. Cheers Martin
  3. Well ... that's crazy! In 1987 I tinkered with a Bruiser body shell and some Wild Willy wheels ... but never got it done. It's a pity, that these tires aren't available any more. I would also like to get one or the other set. Cheers Martin
  4. 3D printing has become a wide field to work with. "Cheap" printers may be more demanding to the user to get the results they hope for. Printers that give you good results without spending much of the time tinkering with all parameters, won't be "cheap". I started my "3D Printing Career" as many others with a quite cheap bed slinger, a Ender 3 Pro. Getting quite good results in the first year (with some support of a friend who brought me to this printer), one and a half years later the results became increasingly worse. No matter what I tried, the first layer sticked at the beginning and became loose in the ongoing printing process, ruining many prints. At least I gave up with the Ender and, due to some payoff by my former employer, I decided to go a step further. After registering for the Prusa XL which never seem to come, I cancelled my reservation and went for the (at that time) newly introduced Bambulabs X1C (I did not want to wait any longer for a company that - in my eyes - made the preorder process just to get a free credit from potential customers). My main issue is that I am good enough creating things in Fusion, but I hate the hassle to waste time getting a 3D printer on the right track. No matter if it is FDM (where you have to deal with a lot of parameters) or SLA (setting the supports correctly is crucial!). Which often led to setbacks in my printing projects. That was, when the world was nice and beautiful and the sun was shining on me: The result was a model of the asteroid "16 Psyche", divided into four parts, which took me around 2 weeks printing time in total. Just for fun. Printed a "scale" model of Darth Vaders "Executor" with my (at that time) new Elegoo Mars 2 Pro SLA printer. In the movies the ship has a length of 19km (nearly 12 miles). Here I am trying to create my own style of sci-fi-body for my tracked GF-06 chassis. You may notice three pre-stages of the actual part in the background. On one hand it is fun to create your own parts with an additive manufacturing process, but you have to decide which road you are going. Some cost you more effort to get a stable process. And others may cost you more money. Just my two cents. Cheers Martin
  5. Makes me want to own a Tamiya SRB myself ...
  6. Why not painting the gear cover in "Captain America"-Style?😂 I like this build very much. And I envy you for all the nice parts you collected! 👍🏼 The Pumpkin/Lunchbox are real great cars. I Had some of my best RC experiences with a Pumpkin. Can't wait to see the progress. Why didn't you also use an aluminum gear case? Cheers Martin
  7. It's always "the few" who act completely braindead, spoiling the fun for all the others. Drone regulations? Ask me, I live in Germany ... there will be a day where you get a citation when your car jumps too high in the air! The new regulations for flying drones are partly quite restrictive and so enigmatic that especially newbies will have a hard time to understand it. And all that because some "fraggles" found it funny to fly their drones at our airports.
  8. What type of ESC has been included in your Clod kit? My one sported a THW880 Dual RTR, which should pretty much resemble a HW880, only with shorter wiring (maybe the point where they saved 0.5ct).
  9. My oldest friend and me doesn't see each other very often the last years. Maybe one or two times a year, but then we're still on the same level as in our glorious past. December last year I said to him: "Remember when we ran our RCs together? Imagine Tamiya is Re-Releasing your Super Sabre again!" Some weeks ago he wrote to me, that he needed some advice regarding some equipment to run a RC car. He planned buying "his old buggy" and build it again. My answer: "Imagine your Super Sabre is still somewhere in my stash. Why not rebuilding it? Save your money for some upgrades on it!" Well I started searching for the model and finally found it. Even by the smell I could tell, that just cleaning it up would become a tedious work to do. And here we are: Today I started cleaning the first bits of it and even though I am not a believer ... Oh my Lord! The grease has turned to somekind of wax (at least the consistency) in the 35 years laying around. I cleaned the teeth of the gears with a cotton swab where I cut a sharp edge into the stick part of it to get between the teeth. Unfortunately one of the C-clips that hold the cups at the gearcase went flying. I never had one of these buggies myself, even though I liked the appearance of the original Hotshot. It always remembered me of an offroad motorcycle with its monoshock system on both axles. During disassembly there was a question that turned up in my head: How do I get rid of these strange bushings and get in some ball bearings instead? Regarding the first amount of work I did I would like to say something: "To all you newcomers in the RC-business who intend building RC cars starting with a kit: NEVER! Never ever "drown" your gears in grease as we did in the late eighties!" Getting it off is such a pain to do. And it doesn't help anything! Every single drop of grease that goes off your gears during running is wasted! It won't come back to the drivetrain. It will stick somewhere in an edge of the gearcase and won't do anything but getting hard with time creating a mess when you going to do some maintenance on your car, just causing disappointment. I wrote something like that from time to time as a comment to some YT videos, when I see folks use ball bearings and lubricating every shaft and seat excessively. That doesn't make any sense at all. Some argued with corrosion protection, but that did not convince me. Putting grease between a shaft/seat and a ball bearing offers the possibility of a slipping shaft inside of a bearing shell what makes the ball bearing needless. And on the "outer drivetrain" it simply attracts even more dirt as you already pick up while driving. OK, just my personal belief. Have a nice Sunday! Cheers Martin
  10. Thank you for this input. I think I have to look this up. I personally found the Juggernaut axles quite cool (Think it still today!). I had the Jugg 2, but ran it only a short time, before the "Mutant-Monster-Craze" at RC-Monstertrucks.com kicked in. From the aspect of tinkering I believe that the CR-01 chassis maybe quite interesting. But in comparison to the quite contemporary Axial AX10 Scorpion it was way to sophisticated and in my eyes quite clumsy in appearance. The AX10 chassis was sleek and reduced to the essentials. I don't know how a CR-01 is driving, though I would surely try one out. "Crawler" has become some sort of a bad word for me ... everything is called crawler today when it has 4x4 and at least 1.9" tires. This terminus is used so inflationary that it is ridiculous! It is quite interesting that we seem to have two waves of "Crawling Eras". One in the early 2000's (around 2005-2007 I guess) and one in the last 4-5 years.
  11. Sounds a bit like Honda Motorcycles: A stable financial basis and from time to time releasing such weird things like the PC800 "Pacific Coast", CN250 "Helix"/"Fusion" or the NM4 "Vultura". Don't ask me from where I know ... at least the first two.
  12. Wow, how did I miss this thread? Interesting discussion! Some wrote about "Tamiya chasing trends", what made me think about my "own observations" through my modelling career. The TXT-1 and the CR-01 were in my eyes attempts of Tamiya, to keep up with a development or maybe get their share, where a lot of other modellers and even small aftermarket companies (and bigger companies too) already broke new grounds with trends. For me personally it was a bit disturbing, that a company who had done quite a lot of pioneer work, was trying to follow others trends. And sometimes not very successfully. I read here about other attempts by Tamiya to cope with the development at the market, what seems to make this strange effect larger than I thought. I came to Tamiya through 1/35 static military modelling, after a long time building models of Airfix, Revell, Monogram, Heller and others. And it took me quite long until I discovered RC, I was 21 and the OG Bruiser hat appeared in the catalogues, which became my first RC in 1986 or 1987. So it took me quite a long time to get a glimpse of the RC "ethics" at Tamiya. You may be right when you say, that you cannot copy or replace the charm of Tamiya kits, but I guess the vast majority of people running RCs aren't so emphatetic to care about that. Performance per buck is what makes 90% of the people tick, I believe. Nonetheless I am enjoying some "deja vu" with a recently bought Midnight Pumpkin and Clod Buster ... heading down memory lane ... back to the late eighties! Trying to make everything right what I made wrong in the past. Cheers Martin
  13. A new transparent gear case ... ... I envy you ...
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