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  1. Very interesting @jonboy1 and reading the above I'm tending to agree with quite a few and go for the BBX it very much looks like a good one to build I’ve not built one myself but it’s on my hit list after I thin down my collection! I see the second on the list is the super avante but I’ll be honest (purely just my opinion) I thought it was a bit dull to build and it’s a very annoying to run with the battery situation and those diff nuts are really bad such a cheap part to produce surely tamiya should have known plastic nuts on a stress part is only going to gone way. Just a thought! does it have to be a tamiya because the best rc car I’ve built to date is the newly released yokomo dogfighter but absolutely fund’s permit because it is quite an expensive kit but stunning quality and seamless to build and the Kyosho optima mid (any of the optima range really!) but like I say this is just my opinion!
  2. I’m gonna go with @skom25 you can modify the CVA’s with good results I had the tamiya TT02b aluminium damper set on my db01 but I couldn’t get them exactly how I wanted them to perform so just to see what the difference was I built the standard CVA’s that came with the kit (Durga) and straight out of the box so to speak they transformed the way the buggy performed so I’m on the thinking just because you can get a set of flashy expensive shocks doesn’t mean they are going to perform as well as they may look
  3. About 10 years ago I was scrolling through the online auction site we all love to hate late on a Sunday night and up pops a unbuilt tamiya dyna storm with the original pink dyna turned motor for buy it now £110!!!! Yes £110 and like the Homer Simpson I was I thought that was a good bargain…….doh of course it is so went back to buy it and yes it had gone
  4. Totally agree! I have a maxx which I bought last year basically to get me into the brushless and lipo field and understand how everything works and I was having a blast over my local park always away from everything for a couple of reasons I’m left alone and because of the sheer power and speed it’s safer thus less hassle!! but what did shock me was every now and then other people were over the park with their rc’s and just basically being absolutely reckless without considering the environment they were being reckless in then after watching certain “YouTubers” the penny dropped on the language they were using one particular thing I kept on hearing “take it to the moon” very dangerous like you say you’re gonna notice when a brushless monster truck lands on you at 50mph……not good!
  5. Couldn’t agree more eventually the insults to to many people will stoke a reaction!…….but as I got a insulting PM I best do as he said in the PM and “grow up”
  6. Yep I got abusive PM for accidentally using words and I did reported it never been on the thread since! This used to be a peaceful 100% fun forum and informative but unfortunately it’s going the same way of many others because of a few that take the hobby far to seriously which is a shame!
  7. Nah it’s never bothered me to get an exact match! For me it’s all about the build and how it runs matching up the colour is way down the list of importance! but what did bother me this weekend I got a message from my LHS asking me if I wanted a body parts set for the 60th anniversary mid which at first I thought yeah I might but at £57 without the rear wing I think not………really Kyosho is that justifiable and without the rear wing
  8. Yep used cobalt green from tamiya and it’s not the exact match by a long shot but definitely doesn’t look bad at all in fact as an actual colour I prefer it and I’m definitely not a purist so it does me fine
  9. Oh you can’t call yourself a tamiya collector if you haven’t had a situation like yours @Saito2 i had a very similar experience with my really cheap but not anymore super hot shot and a good percentage of the problem was my inability to look properly I found what I thought was a really good bargain of a super hot shot on eBay (first mistake I suppose) I knew it probably needed the gold wheel because it had original white ones on it but long story short when it arrived I its box which had been used to spray the body so silver paint everywhere and it was wrapped up in a bin bag and the body had been sprayed on the outside and no super shot spiked tyres and no super hot shot alloy roof just standard hot shot roof he/she had replaced the bearings with plastic bearings so to get it back to super hot shot spec cost more than if I’d bought a new one!
  10. Yeah but it’s the way tamiya have fitted what is a really detailed and accurate body on a very good chassis and ended up with something that shouldn’t work but in a bazaar way does the later TA02 version is indeed a more realistic model (take away the front bumper) but give me the weird original any day!
  11. For me it has to be one of my favourite tamiya rc’s which is quite ridiculous because why did tamiya produce such a fantastic looking box art then the model you built was verging on the comical but I’d love to see tamiya release it exactly how it was originally I think it looks ridiculous but brilliant
  12. I would love it especially the turbo rocky but I don’t think it’s on Kyosho’s radar at the moment but like I always say on topics such as this I would love to be proven wrong! But it’s a stand alone buggy with a one off chassis and a weird 4wd system!
  13. I can only give you my experience on what I’ve done with my one! I’ve used a 14t brushed with 2s lipo because the one thing that the mid suffers from is weight (to much of it) in standard form although the carbon fibre parts does help but the 2s lipo gives it that extra punch it needs and in my back garden it’s no slouch
  14. I’m going to be like all the other comments it has to be the db01 brilliant chassis and can handle brushless no problem and a good base to modify to your personal preference/style of racing Achilles heel is because it’s not a current model parts can be a bit harder to source
  15. I have to agree with @Twinfan on this the evo is more about it’s chassis than putting a faster motor in it and watching it fly (or disintegrate) when Tamiya originally released the top force it was way ahead chassis wise for its price bracket! If you definitely want to go down the route of brushless I wouldn’t go below 10.5T. And definitely change the motor mount for an alloy mount and a steel pinion gear in fact I’d do that anyway even with brushed! The top force is a brilliant buggy simply because of its brilliant chassis
  16. Although I’ve never built a kit car because of the expense rather than the knowledge Back in the early years of my life just before I could actually drive (17 years old) I bought a 1976 triumph stag in BR green with no MOT for £75 and completely stripped it and got it about 80% rebuilt but needed new hard top and re spraying and few electrical issues sorted but swapped it for a 1978 mini with a 1275cc engine in it from a MG midget or Austin allegro never sure which it was really? Again completely stripped it down changed the rear subframe front subframe never rusted because of the constant oil leaks from the engine protected it welded and replaced all the rotting bits and there was a lot re sprayed it put mini light alloys on it with front rally spot lights and ran that for years as a new driver
  17. As much as I have two top-force evo’s and definitely don’t need a regular top force when I look at those two box arts!!!!!……..I’m soooooo tempted………..noooooo
  18. Yeah good old days magazines and actual rc event's! I remember from hpi savage years! The last year I attended I bought a performance exhaust from peko powerhouse and then from there I took my then small children to Cadburys world where they filled themselves up with chocolate and honked up everywhere in the back of my pride and joy focus ST……….oh lovely memories
  19. Schumacher, Mugen Seiki, X-ray, team associated, yokomo, hpi, team losi, etc, I’ve been looking back at old magazines and it looked like a real good event! Now i know a few manufacturers don’t exist anymore but I’m just remembering when the rc car magazines used to do in the march editions (always a month ahead) a Nuremberg special and all the manufacturers had their products on display probably for the like of associated and the Far Eastern manufacturers it was the European distributors that attended, a fair few years back (2004 ish) we had in the uk a few years of a hobby show at the NEC in Birmingham and I attended every year they held it and it was looking very promising especially the final show and they’d split up the different elements of RC like cars in one hall helicopters and aircraft in another rc boats again in another etc etc even trains had their own area but like Everything in the uk at the moment because it wasn’t making massive profits quickly the promoters pulled it to concentrate on music events and the likes personally I think if they had stuck with it because the London toy fair was going because the venue was getting knocked down by developers it could have been a major event for our hobbies?
  20. I know this is going to be a bit controversial but this has to be the most uninspiring Nuremberg toy fair I’ve ever seen other than Kyosho and Tamiya I haven’t seen anything from other prominent manufacturers?
  21. Don’t know if this is news from the Nuremberg toy fair but I thought it was very interesting nonetheless! It’s mugen seiki first dip into the world of 1/10th 2wd buggy racing!. i was heavily into 1/8th nitro buggy racing back in the day and my choice of buggies was the mugen mbx5 then mbx6 and mx6T simply because they were superb racing machines and the quality was on another level, they were expensive but definitely ahead of the rest so if this is anything like their 1/8th buggies which I’m thinking has every chance it is then this is going to be a game changer and definitely give Schumacher and xray a run for their money and for future collectors the first ever 1/10 buggy from a top shelf rc manufacturer
  22. Yeah whatever way you find cheapest for your pocket buying in bulk so to speak does make a lot of sense but just keep the eyes on the optima mid because as sure night follows day the moment the likes of modelsport or tamico have out of stock people will scramble for the smaller hobby shops that still sell them and before you can say “I’ll try to match the colour of the body to the wheels” (which seems to be the thing to do with those) they’re all gone!
  23. This is what happened to the Schumacher cat XLS it was readily available with a few £$€ off here and there for a while then the “out of stock” started to appear the the price rocketed but what you have to remember with these Kyosho 60th anniversary kits is that they are one batch releases probably a big batch but even so what you see is all there is! The cat still had a stock levels at Northampton (Schumacher factory) so my advice would be watch carefully!
  24. Oh well my tamiya collection is staying the same size for now! nothing there that remotely interests me
  25. No actually I’m finding quite the opposite it’s to hard! I’m finding that the ride hight at the front is to high!
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