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deangaffney

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  1. Hi folks, going for a retro look on lexan Brat body using PS42 Corsa grey (which is blueish I believe). I want a flat colour finish. Should I be going for a good few coats of the base colour then white or siver backer? Cheers!
  2. Be interested to hear the conclusion of this one.
  3. Ah yes, inspecting ebay closely I have deduced that if it's for sale at less than £15 it's not a proper one.
  4. Here's a recent vid about using an acrylic conformal coating on the internal board in a receiver. Worried to hear that the 1060 esc isn't as waterproof as claimed though.
  5. Hi all! Long time no see. Nice to see that Photobucket are still hosting my photots on this thread. Anyways I broke one of the lower front arms whilst running the cars in the forest with the kids earlier this year. Seems like I have three options: wait for old stock parts on fleabay; donor car (becoming rare, more expensive and on guarantee of condition) or buy 3D printed replacements from Ampro/Shapeways in the US. The 3D parts look amazing and the do the shock towers and front uprights too. I wonder if it's worth me spending £70 sterling on a full front rebuild in nylon? Great video about the parts here:
  6. Had to fork out for some brand-new C parts on the tree but other wise she runs nicely with the spring spacers in the front shocks. Then I found a really fine tipped paint pen!
  7. Fantastic work, I don't think members have given you enough credit for this. Are you in the UK?
  8. Just re-added some of the photos to this thread. I've recently fitted an old servo and RX to this Baja Falcon and installed a basic ESC. She runs but need to put some spacers in with the spring cos all a bit saggy and ruins the toe-in on the front. Also need to think about how I can waterproof the RX, epoxy all over the PCB?
  9. @percymon still got it? Just saw a handful of front suspension parts go on eBay for over £20.
  10. Inspired by Tynhead and others on these forums so thank you to them.
  11. Wasn't impressed with massively hesistant reverse on Sniper RV20 I bought last year so maybe I'll try the XT-20 for the Baja Falcon
  12. Don't know about the brace fitting a Blitzer, seems unlikely though. Maybe talk to CRP guys direct, they have been helpful to me in the past. Anyway. Got a few stickers for the Baja Falcon. They're white backed so not quite as nice as the Canadian repro set I got for the Kyosho Beetle, they are on a transparent backing but you do have the cut them out yourself. Anyway, it's supposed to be a runner so no big deal.
  13. Really enjoying your project, thanks for sharing. Dan K London
  14. @Mongoose1983, I wasn't sure, thanks for clearing that up. Stickers have arrived today, going to be careful and sparing with them, they're Baja Bug themed so should look good especially on the headlamps. Here she is with last years project, a Kyosho Beetle built from the remains of my childhood Scorpion. http://www.rc10talk....hp?f=30&t=33700
  15. Body had a partial polish the other evening, note that the paint is coming away by the running boards but I'm not concerned, it's part of the look. Note the body mounts poking thru the new holes on the roof.
  16. You can see the rear body mounts here, holes have been drilled in the shock towers to take the bolts. This was done the Escort shell before I had the car.
  17. Here's the front body mount (super cheapo plastic bits but it does the job) and you can see where I had to file down the chassis to get the middle bolt for the chassic brace in. Yeah front SRB wheels look a little small on this setup but it's just part of the initial look. Really please the Frog bumper fits so neatly.
  18. Here are the CRP adaptors fitted, the bolts where a little tight through the SRB rims but they do fit. Also took the opportunity to fit ball races to the trailing arms in favour of plain plastic bearings.
  19. If anyone cares to read this far into the the thread you shall be rewarded with the news that I own a proper camera and love natural light so the next few photos will be a real breath of fresh air. First up, the CRP front brace which comes predrilled to take the old Frog style front bumper. The Frog bumper was a new part. The experience amongst you will notice something worrying in this photo. Donor car probably in order as second hand parts are priced wrongly on eBay.
  20. Here she is the with the adaptors for the rear SRB type rear wheels. The rear rims are also second hand but in A1 condition so look great I think. Also spent some time polishing the body including windows inside and out. You'll also notice she has no motor fitted at the moment. NOTE: The Motorola Moto G is a great android phone for the money, it real makes a mockery of the £500 handsets but the camera is not good, I really miss my iPhone 4s camera but that belonged to work.
  21. The next step was to refit the body mount kit which came with the car back in 1989 and was still knocking around inside the cheap green plastic tool box I used when I was 14. The rear mounts are exactly where they were for the Escort, the front mount is on a fairly flimsy bit of perspec but again the perspex came with the car back in the day so reusing it all! There is already a hole in the front of the body shell but I'll have to make two new holes in the roof later.
  22. When my Scorpion broke in around 1989 I bought a Falcon with an Escort body off a local kid. The kid was uglier than me and that's all I recall about it. The Falcon had some unpainted Wild One type rims with Schumacher Road tyres fitted but was other wise bog standard. Eventually in went into the attic at Mum & Dad's until I was forced to reclaim it around a year or so ago. At the same time I found the Scorpion http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=33700 In the winter it's nice to have an indoor hobby and I try to get the kids to take a bit of interest in the mechnical elements. I try to buy as much second hand for the cars as poss but picked up some CRP bits for the Falcon, a chassic brace and some rear hub converters. Basically I always fancied a Sand Scorcher (yawn) but never going to fork out for one now so I found a second hand baja style beetle body on eBay and with the help of the original Escort body mount kit (which was still in the toolbox from 1989) and set about fitting the body to the Falcon. Inspiration came from this forum in the main especially in terms of fitting SRB rims all round, at least whilst I'm building it. The fairly horrid gold and brown paintwork is staying because a) I'm not buy brake fluid just to strip it and it not that bad a paint job so we'll call it partial rat-look. below you can see the rims that came with the car and Escort shell back in 89, on the front are some second hand SRB rims.
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