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These two die cast beauties. The M-chassis wheel is for scale.

I have to say it, but that looks more comical than the Comical Buggies...

Thank you. Saves me buying some to try👍

BZ comes with a foam dust shield/cover if I remember correctly. That's useful if driving in dusty conditions..

@ChrisRx718 Did you ever get round to trying the alloy servo mounts from your TD2 to see if they would fit?

Any plans to produce any of these parts? I'd like to try racing my Avante also.

Sorry. Just had a look and I must have thrown it out when I had a paint clearout a few months ago. It came with an original Boomerang that I bought several years ago, and I'd never opened the pot. I'm sure it's been binned now.... sorry.

Today, I finished up this little project for my scale garage: More details here:

Although I always 'tinker' with stuff, it's been a little while since I built anything new for my scale garage. Here's a few little things that I've been working on over the past few weeks. First up, I didn't like the black 'parts cart' I had so I stripped it an repainted it red. Not much, but I do prefer it now. Next up, some food! I spotted this from Plaza Japan a while ago. I've never built a plastic model kit before so kept putting it off after looking at all the trees of tiny parts. However, I plucked up the courage last week to make a start. It's a 1:12th scale noodle vending machine. I just liked the look of it, and the scale seemed to fit. Not sure whether I'll leave it looking new or weather it. I'll see what it looks like in some future pics. The main body was fairly simple to assemble once all the parts were removed from the trees. Although the plastic is moulded in a nice cream colour, I primered the pieces and painted them in Tamiya TS-7 Off White. This is the part I wasn't looking forward to. Painting all the aluminium trim. I had thought about just brush painting them 'free hand', but then I remembered that I always get impatient with painting and regret it afterwards. So, I chose to do the right thing and mask it all up. Took ages, but I'm so glad I did it. It's Tamiya TS-17 Aluminium Silver. And, the decals and trim pieces added. Doesn't look much, but it was two hours work! Here's the final result. Not sure if this will be it's permanent home... we'll see. Last project for now was to build a rack for my M-chassis rims. I have a few of them lying around from my M-07, that will now go to my XM-01 build. (which will be coming shortly). 42 pieces of 6mm square pine strips and 6 longer pieces for the lengths. A long job cutting them by hand. I then made a simple wooden jig to ensure each of the three rack lengths were exactly the same. Result! All glued together. Couple of coats of primer and then satin black. Just need to load on all the rims. The last job for now was to make a metal working bench to replace the wooden bench that was there before. I forgot to take pics of this as I went along, but it's all made from styrene. Thanks for popping in and taking a look.

@Grumpy pants I actually bought these dampers: https://www.tamiya.com/english/products/53619/index.html and set them to 55mm length. I went round in circles looking for longer damper shafts and gave in and just bought the longer dampers.

@Dirt-540 I think I may have one. Are you in the UK?

That looks great. The Boomerang was my first ever RC car and has a lot of memories for me. Any reason for the high rear wing? (the more I look at it, the more I like the wing position).

Yes I did, but I must have forgotten to update this thread. I raced it a Batley Buggy Club Vintage Classics a few weeks ago, and it was superb. The weather has turned a little now so I probably won't race it again until the spring.

Decided to keep the Egress. JJ still available.

I thought it was about time I tidied up my M-chassis wheels. Just need to apply some paint tomorrow.