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Mine arrived Number 354.

Defintely got to be sticks for me - old school sticks, no steering exponential control here. That was all part of the handling (or lack of) fun Not convinced by the 6v LiFE battery either. Anyone selling hump style packs on eBay yet ?

Yes, an original, thirty year old, Rough Rider Dashboard. Not a Buggy Champ dashboard. If you want the latter you'll still get good money for the former. It's funny you know - I have a Scorcher project on the go and know I can just go and get a brand spanking new radio box for it in a month or twos time. That was always the intention, but now there's a part of me saying "But it's not original".

Heck yes!

eBay or order through your LHS.

Yes it is. http://www.tamiyaclub.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=50985

Hehe, that's nearly triple the RRP I guess some people have more money than sense......

Thanks Blacque Jacque - perfect. Ordered a few meters of each this evening

Hi all, I need to get some decent Sand Scorcher decal scans so that I can get them vectorised and transfered to waterslides (look better under laquer). Anyone have some or know where I can get them ? Many thanks!

Hi-Lift shocks are anodised red. Actually, now I think about it, I've seen quite a few red parts from Tamiya. In general definitely a Kyosho colour though. I'm sure there's a chemical/process reason you can't have any colour you want too.

Can't wait to see those built! I wonder who'll be first into the showrooms with a built example of this re-re ? Mine should arrive next week. It'll stay NIB for about 45 seconds

My money would also be on a "no" given the lack of popularity of them. But as Paul says, hard to rule anything out now.

I need to replace the motor wires on an old SRB but can't find anywhere (in the UK) that stocks it in the right colours or guage. Maplins have right colour, wrong guage. Deans wet noodle only comes in red/black. Any stockists of this ? Thanks.

Thanks for the headsup - ordered mine from Jason. Is the Japanese box different to the USA/Europe box ?

We're talking a few thousand just to break even on the tooling costs. A great time to buy. I'm thinking about a NIB scorcher just in case it doesn't hit the re-re list.

Best. Excuse. Ever.

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=50985

Watch out - $300+ in shipping charges. I'd avoid if I were you....

Thanks for the tips guys. I can't actually see the old mould fill mark (coat of primer has gone on already), but I'll measure from where the hole I filled is.

I think that's just representative of a widening market place. People always shopped around. The difference is they did it by phone, by foot or by recommendation (the latter still happens of course). The internet just makes shopping around a lot easier. 30 years ago you wouldn't have phoned an LHS in Hong Kong and imported. It also has less to do with the value of items than the value of convenience. I used to use my expensive LHS because it was 1 mile away from me and I could cycle over and get what I wanted on the spot on a Saturday. That convenience had (and still has) value to me and for that I'll pay over and above. The shopkeeper is paying expensive rent to be there and for that reason his prices will be higher. That's his risk of being in a bricks and mortar business and he's in business to make money and I don't begrudge him that. His option is to ditch the shop and switch to eBay and work from his garage. That would be my loss. I still think many do. But that doesn't have anything to do with the people that sell them. As long as the box and contents are the same I don't mind buying from the LHS or from a Hong Kong eBay seller. My conscious is not on price, but on convenience. If my LHS stock the Buggy Champ, I'll buy it there. Otherwise I'll be over to eBay and an international seller. The product is the same. Yes, there's a lot to be said for the passionate salesman!

I don't think that's a case of "nowadays". It's always been that way - people are in business for profit at the end of the day. Because it's risky. So if you don't want risk, you get a job and don't start a business. That is the really surprising part. I'm guessing that the intention was to leave this one to the internet channel only (and possibly the local Japanese market?).

Only time that's happened to me was when I used designed-for-lexan paint on a hardshell (I had forgotten the difference between the TS and PS paints). The X range of paints are acryllic though, as I understand it, so should be fine. Are you sure they were X paints and not PS ?

Bump - anyone?

Fantastic! I'm sure we'll see a lot of the old hop-up parts re-re'd. I was tempted to get a Thorpe style ball diff re-re'd myself but had assumed someone else would probably get around to it.

I'm amazed they got it down that low. I wasn't expecting change out of £250.