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I always thought they were the same as Horizon. Horizon also sell in eBay under the name "Horizon Hobbies" but the listings and prices and pictures are often exactly the same as Liquid RC.
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Last night I did something similar to @Rinskie. I finally tried to mark a "full size", wide and fast layout and took my M-05 for a few stints. This had been on my mind for a little while. I wanted to see how my go-to postal weapon would do on the fast sweepers and long straights. I used foam tires which I prefer for winter (the temperature has plummeted to an impressive 13degC 🤣). Also I'm now using a 21.5t motor with the 3racing high speed gear set. Well... The little hot hatch is fast! Being set-up for postal it has almost too much steering but it's a lot of fun. I will be installing a thin anti-roll bar at the front just to tinker a bit. Here's a "find Waldo" picture of the 1/12 scale Golf on a full size basketball court: @rccartips1 the track layout is inspired from one of your videos 😉 (the race that got your daughter a ticket to Japan 👍).
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Is plasticard same as styrene sheets ('evergreen' etc)? If so which thickness do you use? I always wanted to make a body out of styrene. Imagine something like a DeLorean... would be so cool! 😀 I think there was a tutorial on Tamiyabase half a million years ago for a project along those lines, possibly with plans published by Tamiya even... 🧐 But I can't find it now.
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A stock TT-02 consistently seems to require 0.7mm of shims to get rid of the play, but without causing the bearings to bind. Your can use the 5mm shim set (53587) for this. It's uncertain whether it really makes a difference in handling but it is very satisfying to shim the play out! Edit: congratulations on the body, not a small job to apply the gazoo livery stickers. The black over spray actually looks like scale damage It's not taking anything away from the final result. Bravo!
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I tend to go with the same shopping sequence as others, however only this year I discovered that Amazon has a lot of stuff and their prices are varying to such extremes that if you add to your list and patiently wait for the right time you should get things almost half price, and free shipping. Just as an example from today: I purchased these dampers a few times in LHS (in Japan) and on eBay but I never paid less than 23$. Similarly Tamiya bodysets routinely go for 35$ free shipping and are always much more expensive than that everywhere else (as a minimum there will be shipping to pay unless you place a very large order at other retail sources). Then there's the Tamiya kits which will grotesquely drop by a hundred dollars overnight and go back to normal 3 days later 😲 which is how I jumped the gun on an XV-02 this year.
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Now I'm REALLY looking forward to that! 😀 Thanks for the detailed explanations! Right, that doesn't help with my 3 speed itch from last year. At all
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So @ImALlama did you end up having to shift the 3 speed on the course or do you just motor along the track in the same gear? Very cool at any rate.
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The F201 is a very cool car to enter in the RBP. But everybody wants you see your 3-speed truck
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Everybody got their Ammo can?
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What happened? 🧐 I have built a few of these diffs so far (they are compatible with the TT-02...) and while they are not a 2min job I agree, they are actually a significant improvement over older designs. In particular Tamiya designed a small recess in the case so we can comfortably insert the pin into the outdrive. And I must say, your car is looking incredible with all this blue!
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I no longer have an XV-01. Yes the belts made it very quiet! I think the human brain struggles to figure out why it feels so nice when it's quiet so we rely on words like "smooth". It's not like shaft driven cars are jittery as they roll and belt driven cars are smooth I think the noise plays a big part in it.
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Absolutely. I always thought the TT-02 was not that bad in itself but the noise coming from using 2 bevel gears was unavoidable and makes it sound cheap and can be downright unpleasant. The M-05 (with new gears that is...) in comparison "feels" smoother and much higher grade while it might not really perform significantly better in practice. Then all the F1's and pan cars are so whisper quiet that you can't help think they are just, well, better. I can't wait to see how the XV-02 feels, having absolutely no valid technical reason not to sound any different than the TT-02 😉
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Not on everyone's Google Play apparently...
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I think the app is the basic kit but a proper looking icon is available as a hop-up.
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@Gebbly thank you for the heads up and just in case I forced stopped the app and uninstalled. Nobody seems to know about it and the icon looks wonky enough that it must be some sort of scam to access who knows what in my phone. We do live in a wonderful time and age don't we... 🙄