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After not using these RC models for some time, I have decided to sell them as I am sure they can be of better use to someone who wants to drive them. I had fun building them, but don't, drive them much. For sale: Land Cruiser 40: 4WD, all-wheel steering, Tamiya lighting kit, custom Ghost Flames paint job, 4200 mAh NiMH battery and Spektrum receiver all installed and working perfectly. Also for sale: Axial AX10 - Beetle body, 4WD, Novak 55T motor, Novak Rooster Crawler ESC, Hitec HS-645MG steering servo, VF Dig, aluminium shocks, Losi Rock Claws, aluminium wheels, custom Green Skulls paint job, 2000 mAh Lipo and Spektrum receiver. Spektrum DX3R - 2.4GHz 3CH Surface Radio. Box and instructions included. rkcrwlr.com - domain name used for my site is also up for sale Please see my personal blog for more details and full specs: rkcrwlr.com Contact me here if you are interested of leave a comment on my blog. Thanks.

The decals are internal Jackal Gothic Black Flame decals (Jackal #11101). A light dusting of Pactra Spray Paint Pearl Purple (Pactra RC261) was sprayed over the internal decals. This gives the metallic blue flake effect when covered with black. Three coats of Tamiya Black Polycarbonate Spray Paint (Tamiya PS-5) was used to cover everything up. More info on my blog here.

There are 24 bearings supplied with the kit, 20 plastic and 4 metal. None of the supplied bearings have moving parts and just bear the load. The metal ones are not great - solid rings - and you can replace them with better pre-greased friction reducing bearings. 16 are used between the two gearboxes and there are two bearings on each wheel. If you have only 20 replacement bearings and not 24, you could keep a plastic bearing paired up with a new metal one on each wheel - I don't think that it would affect performance too much. I think replacing all the gearbox bearings is a good idea including dumping the supplied metal ones.

There will soon be a factory finished version of the Tamiya CR-01 Land Cruiser. I imaging there will be a whole lot of happy guys in the East building these things and a whole lot of guys in the West buying them and getting bored with them pretty quickly. More info on the Tamiya USA site.

A real crawler doesn't need 90 of twist. That can cause problems itself. Anyway, the Dualhunter is fun. It is quite fast and it can jump over ramps and do drift turns and basically beat up the garden. The diffs make for good running on the grass, but bad off-roading as it gets hung up quite quickly and the wheels just spin. I bought a full set (24) metal bearings (#1150) from Timetunnelmodels and swapped all the plastic bearings in the two gearboxes for metal ones.

Interesting. I was following your progress as I purchased a CR-01 at about the same time as you. I recently bought a Dualhunter for my son and got hooked building it up so I picked up the Land Cruiser. As these things go, I was impatient and did a little searching and researching and within a day or two had bought another crawler, the Axial AX10. Now the CR-01 is my scale model! I am very happy with it. 4-wheel steering and lights make it fun to drive. I tried the CR-01 with a dedicated crawler ESC, the Novak Rooster, but it wasn't very pleasant to drive as the brakes were very sharp and the motor is too fast for the ESC. It actually flipped once when braking on the grass. The Futaba MC230CR ESC which is in now is perfect as it has a bit of coast and has a smooth and gentle brake. The crawler Rooster ESC is perfect in the AX10 crawler with a matched Novak 55T motor.

Tamiya Land Cruiser 40 (CR-01) Motor, chassis, wheels: Standard ESC: Futaba MC230CR Lights: Tamiya RC LED Light Unit (TLU-01) switched with PicoSwitch Servos: Futaba S3001 (Four-wheel steering) Radio: Futaba You can see some more photos on my blog. It was great fun building this. These forums were a help in getting some of the techniques right. I had put together one previous Tamiya model to this - the Dualhunter that I bought for my son a month ago. This was nothing like that though - quite a bit more technical. For first time modellers - from a first time modeller... Don't suck on the toothpick that you use for the thread-lock Sort out all the parts into little trays beforehand. The screws are not all the size they should be and the bags are not all associated with steps in the build process. There are different sized C-clips and ball links - watch out. Ration the grease. See in advance where you will need it. Or get some extra grease and go wild. If the gear case doesn't close, check the pin in the center shaft that should sit in the base of the planetary gear. Take plenty of breaks when building. I didn't and I regret it. Only because it was such fun, I wish the process had lasted longer. Try not to get frustrated with beadlocks - the sadist that invented them will burn for his sins My fingers now ache. I have another model already on the table almost complete. Not a Tamiya, but a Axial AX10. I have been well and truly bitten Now if I can only get that smell of thread-lock out of my workshop