moffman

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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?

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

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!

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!

Oh well my tamiya collection is staying the same size for now! nothing there that remotely interests me

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!

I just painted it white (I actually forgot about it tbh) and it’s far easier to put the body on if it’s cut straight down the roll bar acts as a mounting point

You’ll enjoy it trust me but be careful with the rear roll bar washers that stop it from moving they are virtually impossible to put on the wire i could see my roll bar bending so I give up and put rubber o rings on instead and they seem to do the job? Other than that it’s a superb quality kit and an absolute pleasure to build

Yeah tamiya is a bit of a strange entity when it comes to the way they produce their rc vehicles when I was nitro 1/8th buggy racing tamiya produced the NDF-01 chassis of buggies (nitro thunder, force, blaster) and I did buy one and it was a very capable buggy which the chassis was very planted and the engine although very small was brilliantly quick because the whole buggy was very light but it has the usual tamiya quirks! Which most odd it was 1/10th which at the time every manufacturer was producing 1/8th! Even back then I thought 1/10 and everything plastic why?. I took it on my local club track just to see what it was like and it didn’t get past the first jump and the rear shock tower snapped and exhaust pipe split and shredded it’s spur gear but it was an absolute blast in car parks or a bit of loose ground! And then the ndf-01 chassis buggies just faded away

Finally finished off my RC10cc with a period esc and I found an old 7.2v racing pack from modelsport back in the day when it was called otley modelsport

I was having a bit of quiet reading time today while on my break at work and came across an article about the designers of Kyosho in the early years and I didn’t realise that the Kyosho scorpion was designed from an actual racing buggy how cool is that! (learn something new everyday)

I get it (bacon without the after smell) and I just love a packet of frazzles but frazzles rift up on me badly

Finished off my dogfighter today I had a day off took the dog to the vet annual booster and mot (£93 went in at 9.01 back sitting in my car with dog 9.12 with dog wagging his tail say no more!!) anyway did it translucent purple backed with light gun metal then backed all with pearl white the windows I was/did smoke but the paint splattered and looked awful so had to go black I wanted retro and I’m quite pleased with it

Could well be because if you scratch it the bit you scratch peels not like regular plastic but it’s super tough but Im thinking if it was used for stressed parts it would shatter like glass?

I’m not sure mate? it’s not flexible at all and it looks and feels like a very tough resin. But good quality when you look at the box and the picture on it you could easily have the impression it’s a bit of a low quality product but it’s the total opposite!

Absolutely top notch for quality and a total pleasure to build went together seamlessly I’ve gone for the yokomo pro-stock 2 23t brushed motor and hobbywing esc and 2s lipo just the body to paint this week (horrible weather permitting)