Purple. Purple. So Purple.

It has been a year.

One year.

One year since my wonderful wife and I started our biggest task at our house: Renovating the kitchen. It took us six months from ripping the room down to bare studs, rewiring the entire house and putting that mess together to match my wife’s design. My wife knows what she’s doing.

Of course, being a good husband means that you need to know what you are doing, like not building a toy car that you bought on a whim when you should be working on a kitchen, or now, a washroom. With the house nearly complete after two and a half years of back breaking work (yes, we did nearly everything ourselves), the light is at the end of the tunnel.

This past weekend was an interesting one, to say the least. I don’t mean in a good way. Let’s say that there was an unfortunate situation that got in the way of a great weekend that we had been planning. Anyway, as we weren’t too happy, I decided to finally take out the Watanabe Hornet that I bought a year ago and put it together. I was looking for a special occasion, though maybe one a bit better. Needless to say, it would do. My wife and I sat down at the table and put the car together. I had everything ready for it so I was just thrilled that now was the time.

We opened the box and the first thing my wife was “It’s so purple!” She love’s purple. I had a very special set of electronics ready for the car.

All Novak.

A Novak Rooster, brand new.

A Novak Polaris, brand new. My favorite receiver.

The piece de resistance, A Novak NES-1a. Nearly new. I bought this new in around 1995 for my RC10 (hence the decals on it) but was always so scared of harming it. All these years I was waiting for the perfect application for that servo. This was it! The positioning of the Rooster is just so that it clears the driver figure. In fact, it tucks in perfectly under the drivers body. Any closer forward and it hit the little man.

As you all know, I hate MSC’s. I mean I want to smash every one of them I see. The hatred I have for that goes even beyond the hatred that I have for Kim Kardashian smug hideous face.

I’m sorry. That was not called for. No inanimate object deserved that much hatred. Anyway, as much as I hate them, I love how they look in a car. Many of my cars have their MSC’s as pure decoration. My Panda Cyclone and my World Engines Rockbuster both have their cool little unique units, not to mention my original black MSC early Hornet and my rere Hopper. Well, when I saw the cool MSC that came with the Watanabe, I could not pass it up! I am surprised more people haven’t used them. I ran the ESC wires through the holes on the MSC so that it looks like the battery is plugged into the MSC. Just kind of a cool little thing I thought.

I set my wife on the arduous task of building the wheels and tires, all eight of them. She got real good real quick. I built the chassis. Though I have made countless Hornets, I never have actually built a new one. I decided to follow the instruction manual to the letter, just to be different than what I usually do (which normally leads me to disassembling the car 20 times in the process of building the cars as I probably missed a few steps that I didn’t realize since I’m an engineer and always think I know better). Really, one never tires of these cars; they are a joy to build. As I’m sure everyone knows, life can be hectic so sometimes it’s nice to have some lego’s to play with. Oh, and there is one original brass colored screw on the car, just to add some history to it. See if you (Crashcramer most likely, he finds all my flaws  ) can spot it.

I pulled out the body that I made a couple months ago and plopped it onto the purple, pink and orange mass of plastic.

Art.

I love this car. For me, as much as I love the Hornet, this ridiculous thing that Jun Watanabe designed is right up our alley. I have never heard my wife say she “liked” an RC car. She likes my full-size cars so I have never pushed any of my other hobbies on her.

Oh, and It matched our purple kitchen very nicely.

What a ridiculous, insane and ludicrous paint scheme applied to a ridiculous, insane and ludicrous toy car. Nice work big T and Jun.