Ray_ve

Typically box art, as I'm not creative enough to do things differently unless it's a really special project.

Spend half a day tidying up the Ray-cave. Got a clear room to make a new mess now.

Long weekend here. Thursday was a holiday day and went to a cultural happening with my wife. Friday wat a mandatory day off from the office and went to a dinosaur park with my young daughter and a friend from her school. Saturday to an electronics parts and stuff market by myself to buy 'essential supplies'. Wife and kid are now going to the city centre for shopping, I think I'll join then in a moment as I need some supplies for the pet hamster and then we can all get some ice-cream. Waiting for postman first to intercept a package... Sunday... Who knows......

I stood up from sitting position, and pulled something in my back so now I can barely walk and stand up. I'm getting old....

Time to update this thread so it can be closed. This project sat for a while, because I could not find replacement cups for the steering ball joints. Tried modelling end 3D printing them, but the printer I had was not precise enough. 2024, I bought a new 3D printer, which was a lot better. So continued with this project. The new 3D printed cups use regular C clips. Easy and readily available. Got my hands on new drive shafts, flange nuts. Glued the front tires and added MCI stickers. Tried to polish the worst scratches from the roof. I later sanded the whole roof and re-polished. Really coming together at last after painting the body and wing. And finished after 7 years.

Got the Marui Samurai finished, so going to take it out for a test drive. Looking much better now compred to how I bought it... Judging from my original post, this was a 7 year on/off project.

The build but never used MF-01X chassis came in. Looks very nicely build, withincluded ball bearings, steering servo, torque tuned motor and a TBLE-02 ESC. Very happy with that. I want to convert it to the medium wheelbase setting and high ground clearance so I need to get an other driveshaft.

If the deal goes through, I may have 'accidently' bought a MF-01X chassis...

More Marui Samurai progress. All electrical done. Installed dogbones. Now I just need to modify one more rear wheel to accept the Hotshot tires, The 3D printer is making adapter rings as we speak. When the rear wheels are on, it is finally complete after all these years!

The last parts I need for the Marui Saumari. Dogbones, reciever and motor wires. Aliexpress also had some nice tin signs!

On my knees, praying that the items I need for the Samurai arrive tomorrow so I can make more progress.

Small Marui Samurai stuff. The roof that came with the car was very grimy and scratched. So sanded it down and polished it so it looks quite a bit better. Put Marui stickers on the Hotshot tires. Bearings came in and found some nice flange nuts so the new in packaging axles are now mounted on the car.

Things really went well with the Marui Samurai today. Searched the big pile of stuff and found the body/wing and a set of brand new wheel axels. Cut and painted the body. Had to open the rear gearbox as the rear diff was binding when I installed the screws for the rear assambly, removed a spacer ring for more play. Installed the cage and body, it's finally starting to look like a car. Now I have to wait for the bearings/dogbones to arrive, but I can do decals and polish the metal roof in the meantime. Edit: I knew everything was going too well... Missing motor leads and a receiver. So ordered those too.

Working on the Marui Samurai after a long time.. Ordered new driveshafts as the old ones are an eyesore, designed and 3D printed new ball cups for the front steering ball-joints. When that is complete, the car should come together nicely. Edit, thought I still had the right bearings but those are the wrong size. So need to order those too. Edit 2: These ball cups use a circlip to keep them in place.

Resisting the urge to buy a Hornet EVO on Amazon, lowest price I've seen in a while 169 euros....