kevinb120

Could just get a Fazer rally RTR Impreza, or the gorgeous 240Z.

Being they don't make money on collecting, and the Jun rere is way cheaper than than the regular hornet to boot, I'd kinda sorta say maybe a little. Lego in the other hand has meticulously crafted their product line to capture the vast majority of the 'collector dollars' floating around. Things like the Jun hornet went from bargain clearance pricing when new to gouging from Japanese sellers. Other than the SRBs and maybe the xr311 the original early models will likely be quirky collector items in perpetuity. A lot of the plastic Tamiyas have reached the age that even their usability is somewhat questionable, and the rere's have done as much good as harm keeping the old cars rolling. NIB RC kit collections will always be finite for what they are including their artwork.

Had points to get the entire micro Ninjago City gwp set, but needed something for them to ship with... Still waiting on these wheels to become available so I can fix the MP4

I've switched to their 22kg low profile as my 'standard' non programmable servo over those common red DS ones, they've been excellent at standard speeds, a wee bit cheaper than the 14s. The 14kg is a little faster, I have a couple to put in some Street cars/F1 if normal power levels. No issues with their stuff. Smooth and accurate for the price too.

Yes about ball diffs and shock discussion It's the internal spring 60mm in the back 70 up front. Going to try it myself as a never leaking option that fits all stock brackets and can hold the weight like the fronts can. I have a mip in an ancient scorcher and a Tammy ball diff in a new FB with no play. Have another Tammy ball diff going to put it in the other new scorcher but I hardly doubt it's going to be any different then the FB one as they're all identical with re-res. I do remember I had to carefully tinker with positioning the axles before tightening them down so not sure if that eliminated slop or it was prior to that. What's your opinion on the diff?

My guess would be brilliant blue but you'd have to test

Yes that's the regular clear body and sticker sheet. They did a ton of them XB back in the day. Usually Tamiya calls out clear shells or sticker sheets specifically. Thier info page says white body with spots.

This slog continues. Tape residue removal, a PITA decal set, clear, details, driver... Think I may take on a Brat body next...

I preordered one Maybe I'll get two. They're $50 less than the regular Hornet(when did that go to over $160!?). It keeps saying it comes with a white body with black spots.

On a 959!? I'd probably do a blockhead NSU

I must say I love shoehorning the body back on and picking it up to see a clip on the mat.... That XV01 rear hub, must look into that. Just put steel balls in mine I'm sure I'll break the next thing.

That MSC is fully intact and functional, just a lot of 'silence of the lambs' tucking... An old AM receiver takes up more space than a modern ESC/receiver so there's usually room to, well, 'tuck em'. I have a Frog that even has a fake scrap wire wrapped up around the mast(need to do that on the boomer now that I think about it...). If it were more prominent, could probably use the shell of an old receiver to house the new one. Hmm.. With every kid fully 'wired' out there(heck even some dogs), you're asking for a curb rocket going out with an AM system and an MSC

Here they are with modern photography. The light blue and red are the ones the Tamiya mold follow. Round fender flares, standard bumper, trapazoid wing supports with clean wing(no winglets), periscope roof. The Concourse restored blue one is not 100% correct. The wing was originally identical to the red one(replaced at one point to this one), and the mirrors were gold(same style as these replacements). Possibly even transferred the original wing to the Wolf Team dark blue one? At some point someone changed both(the 'enhanced' mirrors were idiotic) and the pinstripes varied at times. But for color. ALSO NOTE that the original had clear signal lenses (old pic below) but this has later production 'street legal' amber/white. Depends on where it's located because in some countries like Sweden the amber/clear are reversed. Probably couldn't find what would definitely be extremely rare clear ones as they likely fell victim to some regulation somewhere over time. Color off register original pic below but it's the car that matched the model with original wing and mirrors. Note the wing pedestals are black on the red car but blue on the light blue car. The dark blue car was a production 400S which was a short run before the 500 series with the smooth lower roofline but had already taken on the production trapazoid front fenders that blended into the production updated bumper and the rear fenders although similar wrapped under the back of the car. Although this still has the 'blade' wing He had a higher spec motor which later became the 500/5000S powerplant. The unique adjustable wing brackets on only the 3 light blue/red/dark blue Wolf cars changed over time to a swooped back style with the winglets(the 'replacement' one on the light blue Countach is a mishmash of different elements). Unknown if this dark blue is what Walter originally wanted to match the 'smokes boxes and the race cars and they just happened to be building a Bugatti blue one at the time for the other car? Note the production fenders/bumper but still the older mirrors on his. Very few of the first production LP400S had the blade wing, most got winglets on the ends later. Wolf insisted they were adjustable, so you can see the gap on his vs any production LP400S that was a one-piece affair. You had to attach it yourself at first. Production Car early: P400S typical: Although the mirrors were very cheesy bolt-ons so they were mix and match. The vitaloni rubber necked ones that became common through the 5000S(and stuck onto all kinds of kid junk cars in the 1980's) were replaced by various bullets, higher pedestal mirrors, anything really. They didn't work so it didn't matter. Being Japanese spec these were likely tribute-added. Many didn't even come with mirrors at first. Seems most settled on the go-to sculpted bullet mirrors stuck on just about every racing Porsche in the 1970s. There was the home-grown/owner named 'LP500R' in Japan that was owner-modified that gets a lot of model attention but everything was a little different on that one particular car. This was a plain bodied red LP400 all the stickers/paint/wing/flares/wheels were hand made/modified one-off. They give you the stickers but the shell doesn't match And this was Wolf's original white car. First production LP400 with his little roof wing added. I guess you could call Walter Wolf the king of the supercar wing.

The 4th car was the same midnight blue as the cigarettes pack/race cars. The third light blue car was the Bugatti blue, with several variations of the pin strip in and the wing and mirrors were changed by the next owner into some 'aero version'. The 2nd car was the ubiquitous red car(the custom '500' motor was moved to the light blue one(. The first Wolf countach was a white LP400 with only a blade wing stuck on the roof. Which prompted the red one. The red and light blue one were the only ones made with those custom flares, the wing with no end plates(they were adjustable actually)-the wing pedestals were also unique to those two, and the original bumper. The dark blue one had the production flares, wing, and soft integrated bumper/chun spoiler with grafted driving lights that graced posters for infinitum. It was based on the 400S so still had the periscope roof. The black one with mesh wheels was a custom one in Japan that had different fenders and other one off items. The kit body only represents the red and light blue cars.

I have a couple fully authentic restorations that have all their AM equipment, but it's a gutsy move to go out with an MSC and give it a go, especially if it's pretty. I have a few like this boomer that has its msc but has only a dummy top half of the servo and a 1060/flysky gr3 hidden in there (switch behind him gives it away...)