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Anyone remember this? lol.

Cracking video! What Camera are you using for that? Cheers Nito

I think that looks superb. The colours work really well together and tie in nicely with the wheels etc. Great work, well done for going off piste.

Hi @_oliK , sorry missed your reply there. I’ll probably run it as is and then assess it. I think the first item I’d likely address would be the dampers, maybe using the GPM extended shock towers from the WT01 on front and rear if they fit. I’ve already gone with metal geared servos. I’m not a big fan of ally wishbones and the like so probablynot likely to do much there. cheers Nito

Thanks Alex. It was a great build, I had a lot of fun with it and it came out better than I could have anticipated, particularly from a performance perspective. It’s a cracking runner, very effective, I just haven’t had the opportunity to use it much since completing it!! Looking forward to running it more in the summer and painting my Coke bottle which will take care of all the air visible under the arches! Cheers Nito

Tamico have them; Tamico.de They have Lancia, long damper chassis on its own or Asterion. https://tamico.de/#q%3DXv01%26t%3Dno%26p%3D1%26ci%3DCategory_facet%3D1%3A2RC-Cars%26cats%3D1RC-Cars%26catl%3D2RC-Cars

Thank you

It has a front mounted motor like the TA03F of old, which gave great handling and as you say, realism, I use my old TA03F for drifting around the kitchen! There are three chassis variants of the XV01 from memory, I’d suggest you look into the long damper variant. There is a regular damper and even a truck version the name of which escapes me right now.

Nifty little XV01 vid here, not huge ground clearance but its about as much as you can get while remaining scale, I like the XV01 mudguards that stop muck getting all over the chassis! The XV is like a spiritual successor to the TA03F, always fancied an XV but sadly I wouldn’t have the terrain to use one really.

Depending on your terrain, there is also the XV-01 long damper version which would be a realistic one but Indon’t think it is off road enough, probably only gravel/dusty track.

This is my main issue, all my local terrain is off road so most 1:10 rally style stuff just doesn’t work for me, so I just adapted....to a WT01 rally car lol!! You get the idea, you’ll forego some proportionality but you still retain the rally car detail and character but with a massively useable chassis. With regards to the Wheeler, its best feature is to paint it in full race liveries, member @IBIFTKH has an awesome fleet of them, here is mine... I tried to rallyfy it, but unfortunately I just couldn’t get it to work..,

^ How about a “Super Vajra” lol!!

It’s Auto Air’s Wicked Gold W350 (metallic gold). I was torn with two colour schemes, so I went with the safe and easier option to begin with and still in keeping with the Vajra theme which is Indian Sanskrit for both Thunderbolt and Diamond, and Vajra was always represented as a gold hand held thing... Also “Vajira In Sanskrit it means both thunderbolt and diamond and bears their symbolic properties as an unbreakable weapon that slices through any substance” The other scheme was Pink with some diamante vajazzle tatoos on it, putting the Vaj in Vajra! I actually bought a spare shell for that and was watching some vajazzle tattoo diamantes (following the diamond theme too) on ebay! It’s on the to do backburner at some point!

I think the problem with the Vajra is that the box art colour doesn’t do it justice, I think lighter colours work better with it; Here’s mine, with the same black wheels as yours... Rather than think of it as a cheap Vajra, think of it as a useable one. Minse sits in the cabinet because it is too nice and in reality too fragile to abuse. I did a similar thing with my DT-03 Monster Racer, it pays homage to the original but way more useable in the real world. Good luck with the paint scheme and body positioning, I look forward to seeing how it turns out

You are correct, the Vajra body is thicker, mine was also a pig to cut and is probably what blunted your knife!! I dig the Monsterisation nice choice with the MS spec.

Thank you very much. It is airbrushed on, the alclad seems to work better on lexan than hard shells where it’s harder to achieve quite the same level of lustre on larger areas, yet generally fine for detailing. Good stuff nonetheless and needs to be applied at very low pressures.

I think that looks great in widetrack. I must admit I considered it but am still at early stages with mine. Thanks for putting pics up, at least it shows us what its like. If I find it lacks stability once built I may find myself doing the same! Bodyshell looks great btw. cheers Nito

Lol, you're a far braver man than me!!

That's gutting. I love my Jun Hornet,I have two, the first one I built, loved it, built as a light runner but then I bought a stock Hornet to use so this one is safe in the cabinet. Then last year picked up a NIB one which has been put away. It was part of job lot from a collector of NIB kits. If I had one, which I did at the time, I would take your time and enjoy the build then display it. I've seen some roughly built with bad bodywork, it's such a crime on a limited piece like that not to do it justice on the build. It was the Jun Hornet that really sucked me back into the hobby, it was also my first RC bitd so was a pretty special build all around as it really brought back fond memories.

Probably just to make it an easier/quicker build for the new gen. Most here disassemble it, fit bearings, check grease and re assemble anyway as a matter of course. It's only about 5 screws plus the two on the motor.

Entertaining chassis with plenty of upgrades available and pretty versatile. Enjoy.

The DT03 is €64.99 Euros at Tamico! https://tamico.de/Tamiya-Neo-Fighter-Buggy-DT-03-Bausatz-58587 Though I prefer the Aqroshot DT03-T at 20€ more. https://tamico.de/Tamiya-AQROSHOT-DT-03T-1-10-Bausatz-58610 The DT03 is a great chassis to drive but it wont take a beating like the WT01 can.

I’d go with a WT01. It’s rwd so jumps better than the 4wd variants (I have both) and the 4wd is nose heavy for jumps and a heavier rig, the 2wd is also much cheaper to modify to brushless power. It’s super tough and my go to basher. There’s a vid somewhere at a BMX track, I’ll have to dig it out, in the meantime, some pics... Probably the most versatile chassis, it is symmetrical and can be RWD, 4WD, badword one of mine is switcheable so can even be FWD, they can be 4ws, narrow track or widetrack and most shells will fit with a little trimming. 4WD gearbox chassis 2WD chassis has a dummy casing in lieu of the gearbox; Lots of stockists, try looking at Modelsport in the UK. The WT01 is readily available as the MudBlaster II.

^ That would be cool lol. Just took a pic of my front cab, it’s unfinished, I have a couple of variations, the end one will be smoothed in with miliput.

You can use the front cab of the Bruiser if you make up a rear bulkhead, one of my many ongoing unfinished projects is trying to make up a new shell for the Hilux using an ebay used rear shell which is very different, to a modern front end cab so I can add LED’s etc and use later glass etc. I used some styrofoam and an old bulkhead as a template. I don’t have pics of it as it now stands but it should work pretty well. New project shell on bottom shelf... The plan was to try and have at least one half of the shell be replaceable. As you know, finding the originals is not easy. Hopefully they’ll rere it lol! The drivers cabin is also different and screws in from the side screws on the newer front cab.