Wetman
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oh god no not happy with it. Or more accurately I am happy with the ones I have but not at the size of the collection. Theres at least one or two of the Euro tractor units I need to add, the Merc box van, one of the 3 speed hi lifts, a monster truck of some variety, a couple more CC-01s and at least one M chassis shelfer. Eventually would like the Volvo recovery truck as well, but thats way way off at the minute........Unless anyone wants to buy a kidney? I can probably spare two, I`m sure the kids won`t notice theyre gone
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Back when the RAC Lombard rally was a proper tour round Britain not just a quick jaunt round some Welsh country estate
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40 minutes ago, Silver-Can said:
Turnbuckles are really used to connect any part of the car to any other. Typically they're used for steering and top arms front and rear. They can be used in other places too, for example to adjust the rigidity of the top deck of the chassis.
In general terms, their widest application is steering and top arms. The advantages are mostly adjustability and ease of adjustment. As most tamiya kits come with fixed plastic arms, they cannot be adjusted to suit.
Steering arms, for example are mostly a fixed length (be that plastic ala madbull, tl 01b etc or a metal rod with 2 screw on ball connectors at each end eg hotshot). However, as I'm sure you know, even with the most diligent measurements, often the car doesn't run true, so you can either adjust the trim on the tx or take the ball connector off and adjust from there (if the steering arms have them). Having turnbuckles instead allow you to use a little spanner to make those adjustments without the need to remove anything.
Adjustable top arms allow you to adjust the camber of your wheels/tyres with the top of the wheels either pointing 'in' towards the car (negative camber) or 'out' away from the car (positive camber). It is usual for cars to have about 2° of negative camber to allow for the tyres to have maximum contact patch on the running surface for maximum grip.
Hope that helps 👍
Edit: just to add - they are standard on any race orientated kit - I have put them on some of my tamiyas, but not all. More to do with being faffed to do it than anything else. They are useful, but not essential IMO.
It helps. I knew about the madbull and lunchbox plastic arms etc but though the metal rod and ball cups were turnbuckles. I hadn`t realised that proper ones had the nut arrangement
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1 minute ago, Aerobert said:
That's great. Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.
must admit i`m leaning towards the plain black backing. Ive left the clear parts below so I can have a fiddle and see what they look like with the secondary colour for the bumpers and sliders
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Best I can do with the weather the way it is. Left is ps15 backed with black, middle ps15 with white then black and ps15 with smoke then black on the right
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59 minutes ago, Aerobert said:
This is very interesting, as I'm thinking about painting a body shell with PS-15 and it should be as dark as possible. Daylight picture would be great. Thanks.
Did notice the darker backings bring out the metallic better. I'll chuck a better picture up tonight
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Only got a test piece done last night. Left strip is ps15 backed with white then black. Middle is ps15 with black, right hand strip is ps15 backed with smoke then black. Dunno if you can tell on the photo as the light isn't the best. I'll have another look tonight if it's still daylight when I get home
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7 minutes ago, Re-Bugged said:
That would be why then, I’m flat out trying to keep up with this thread and ‘What the Postman brought me’ thread that I hardly get into other sections, especially now ‘Postal racing’ has come along that’s the best part of my day gone....
Deep red and Chrome is a great combo👍🏻
To be honest I looked on Toyota`s website yesterday and theres not much choice of colour for the 1.1 version, red, white, grey, black and blue I think were the 5 choices so some form of red it is then. Possibly ps15 metallic backed with gun metal to get it a deeper colour but we`ll see how it pans out. Need weather to behave itself first thought
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6 minutes ago, Re-Bugged said:
I think yours is the first one ever seen on here. I was being to think no one liked them. It'll be great to see the finished article 👍🏻
6 minutes ago, Re-Bugged said:I think yours is the first one ever seen on here. I was being to think no one liked them. It'll be great to see the finished article 👍🏻
I`ve seen one or two kicking about on the monster/4x4 forum, but not that many. I don`t think mines going box art, more looking at a deep red and chrome bits to look more like the road version
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3 minutes ago, DeadMeat666 said:
Well, @Ferruz and myself for starters, and I'm sure there are more that would come forward if they have the courage
It's all good fun honestly, of course you will do what you please, they are yours after all lol.
Nah the body posts are all part of the look.
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Got the chassis built body cut and masked for the bruiser jnr
Before masking.
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Well not the posty but my motor took me for it.
Just been to MB models on the outskirts of Leeds for it and what a cracking little set up. The track looks good
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44 minutes ago, BuggyGuy said:
@Wetman I always find that the only way to make the Rcmart orders work financially is to get a lot of stuff in one go, and don't bother with things that have good availability in Europe (German and Italian stores have been my goto lately if Tony Tamiya parts is out of stock).
And really do your research as there's nothing more annoying than finding your missing a key part or that you've ordered the wrong bits - as it will be a long wait to sort, and I don't think doing returns is really viable with the shipping costs for typical stuff.
I use a spreadsheet per model to help make sure I'm ordering the right bits now from the right places!
Cheers for that. Any particular Italion stores? Or Italian even
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8 hours ago, jupitertwo said:
Red card through the door yesterday, missed international delivery.
odd, neither my long delayed parcels nor my two tracked deliveries are showing as out for delivery...
RCMart delivery of the above. Forgot I’d ordered them till I opened the box, still trying to work out what the three are for.
Inserts I think are for the M07, but then @Fabia130vRS pointed out I have 55mm tires.
Servo horn I think is for an xv01 build, inspired by @Nicadraus ‘s choices.
Shocks, well, I’m not sure. I think they might be for my Porsche 911 rally build, maybe?All in all, perhaps on the lines of @DeadMeat666’s 188 deliveries, it’s time for a reduction on the Rc orders
and also a fresh project tracking mechanism.
Silly question but how easy is an order from RCMart to the UK? How long is delivery and do you get stung for charges when it comes? and more importantly is it much of a saving?
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14 minutes ago, ChrisRx718 said:
Typed-up a build thread for my Kyosho Outlaw Rampage Pro kit, hopefully it gets approved as I did at least use Tamiya paint...
Here's a sneak preview of my latest progress. I can't decide whether to go full-on sponsorship decals or leave it as it is, what do you think?
Pass. It`s something that always has me in two minds. You`ve spent all that time doing a decent job on the paint do you really want to hide, but then again does it look realistic without a few well chosen decals
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Pass. Got my pay on Friday with back pay from our pay rise from April, so a bit of spare cash this weekend so have spent the weekend between callouts trawling the Tamico website. I would ideally like to do a Brat or a Blackfoot for a basher and then start saving for a pickup to join the 4x4 collection, perhaps a Hilux CC-01
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On 9/4/2020 at 10:16 PM, Xeostar said:
I love these, great stance and cheap as you like.
They don't get much love and nobody really seems to talk about them but I think they're a hidden gem.
https://tamico.de/Tamiya-Nissan-Titan-Racing-Truck-2WD-DT-02-Bausatz-58511
Reminiscent of the tl01 based Stadium Raider. It weren't a bad basher from what I remember
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I'm tempted to have a dabble with the CC - 02 but the limited range of bodies are a bit of a put off. What else will fit?
I'll admit I haven't read the full thread so if it's been mentioned my apologies
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4 hours ago, MadInventor said:
I only ever use Royal mail now for sending stuff. Even if they are more expensive than other couriers at least they deliver to the door. From the posts here it sounds like MyHermes just throw the parcels out of a B17 from 25000ft and hope they get somewhere near the target........
What a ridiculous post, as if Herpes would waste money on a B17!!!!. Its a Sopwith Camel they usually use
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I keep coming back to this thread and pics. That is an amazing colour
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I'll drop it 80 if anyone's bothered
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On 10/6/2020 at 2:57 PM, Mad Ax said:
Well, what a year it's been.
Back when it was all kicking off in France and Spain, I found myself almost paralysed by terror. I had no idea how I would survive a lockdown. I'm what one might call a "reluctant family man" - I had my ideas of what I wanted my life to be about, but then marriage and parenthood happened, and I couldn't cope. I worked hard and found a strategy to get through, and that involved taking time out. Once a month I have a weekend away from family, on my own, doing whatever I want - be that RC stuff, watching motorsport or just camping in my van and enjoying the great outdoors. So when I was told I would have to stay home, indefinitely, surrounded by my family and with no chance of escape, I honestly thought I was going to break under the strain. How could the world take away the only thing that kept me sane?
But the truth was totally different. I bonded with my family in a way I had never done before. I'm not saying it was easy - for several days straight I didn't sleep with worry, I spent a long time on heavy sleeping tablets and barely had the wherewithal to do my job, cook a dinner and go straight to bed. But I adjusted to the new routine, made time for video calls with family and friends and (once restrictions allowed) I went out for a lot of walks, both alone and with my daughter. I got back into cycling and also had the time to give my RC collection the attention it deserves.
My wife and I both worked during lockdown (we've not really had much holiday all year). It was tough trying to do a full-time job as well as keep my 3-year-old entertained - by the end of lockdown she had picked up an American accent from watching Disney films back-to-back all day, but she's been a little angel and took it all in her stride. Her vocabulary has expanded massively, she's developed a terrific imagination from watching so many films, and it hasn't impacted her physical fitness at all - during the summer I've taken her on lots of walks and despite being a late walker (she was nearly 2 before she started walking) she can keep on going for as long as I can. Seriously, a few months of watching films and entertaining herself has done her no harm at all.
The summer was fab. In the UK we were blessed with an unusually good summer, right from the start of lockdown. I remember taking time out and sitting on a lounger under a thick blanket back in March, when the weather was bright but cold. Throughout April and May we had lunch on the lawn most days. Two years ago that lawn was a building site, knee deep in mud and shoulder-high in nettles and brambles. We had some contractors in to sort it out a while ago, if we hadn't had that done we'd have been housebound during lockdown, and that would have been harder. We don't have a particularly big garden but at least it's big enough to sit on the grass and eat sandwiches.
RC-wise, it's been a good year. During lockdown we initiated a new day off strategy, where my wife gets every Saturday to do what she wants and I get every Sunday. Saturdays I would take my daughter for a walk or cycle ride, play some games and cuddle up on the sofa to watch films, sometimes I'd build an NIB on the sofa, and Sundays I would spend the whole day up in the workshop wrenching on RC projects. I got so much done I had to start my Projects thread to keep track of it all. As I got more into a routine I was able to spend some of my Sundays working on music as well, which is a great confidence booster as long as it's productive (and not staring at a keyboard with absolutely no idea how to progress, which is normal when I'm stressed out).
In the end, the late summer turned out great. I did lots of racing, and I really enjoyed it. In the past I've been a bit meh about racing - I go for a bit, hit a plateau after a few weeks, then get bored. I figured I don't really like indoor / evening racing. I prefer to be outdoors, and I prefer day events. I've done modern FWD at Cotswold, vintage touring at Stafford and West London, and of course the Iconic Revival at BMR. All events have been superbly organised, well set out for social distancing and even the weather has been kind. A lot of outdoor clubs are continuing to run through the winter due to problems getting indoors again, so I'm planning to do the TORC at Stafford or FWD at Cotswold for as long as it's allowed - although looking at how things are progressing (or regressing) in England right now, I'm struggling to see how we'll get to the end of the season before more restrictions come in.
So we could well be going back to that old routine of working all week and a day in the workshop on Sunday. If racing is cancelled but travel is still allowed, I can throw on my heated gear and ride my motorcycle to the coast. And if not, I can throw some logs on the burner and work my way through some of these projects.
My biggest struggle right now is staying stocked up on the parts I'll need. Some parts I just can't get (especially stuff from the US - there seems to be no stock anywhere), I'm getting through hardware (like screws, metal sheet and extrusions) and other consumables (like paint and masking tape) at a rate I've never seen, some of my projects need a cash injection (ESCs, radios, servos, winches, beadlock wheels), and a lot of it needs me to sit down in front of the screen and work on CAD and fight with the 3D printer, which isn't really my idea of a day off. So I'm trying hard to keep things flowing and not get too bottlenecked without completely blowing the bank. So my last couple of weekend days have been a bit frustrating, and I really need to list the stuff I need and prioritise over the next few months so I don't end up out of cash and stuck with a dozen stalled projects.
Add to this - the wife has decided she wants to live closer to the sea, so we've got the house on the market. If it sells, we then have the hassle of finding somewhere to live. The place we want to move to is currently under strict lockdown, so we might not even be able to go house hunting there. Or maybe we can, and we find somewhere, but we move into an area that gives us way less freedom than we have here. The whole thing feels like it's on shaky ground, but hey, I like it here, so if it falls through I won't be upset. I said to the wife, I'm not prepared to move if it means making compromises - if we have to compromise, it's not worth it. It should be about improving our quality of life, not reducing it.
Anyway, winter beckons and life goes on, work is OK and I've probably got a few days holiday I can use to get a bit of a break from it, as I don't feel I've had much time off this year (I had to burn a lot of leave allowance to do childcare in the last lockdown so we couldn't afford even a staycation this year). So I'll just keep plodding on and doing what feels like the right thing at the right time, making the most of getting out and racing while I can and parking myself inside to work on my projects if I can't.
That is a brilliant result from an enforced situation
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On 10/6/2020 at 10:35 AM, yogi-bear said:
interesting to read how different people have been affected.
For my self, most of my normal work went away completely for about 3 to 4 months. I work in the film industry and it was completely shutdown. I was however pretty lucky to pick up bits of extra work with one of my few no film work clients and I'd saved some money for a rainy day. So in the end financially it wasn't too bad and ended up being kinda like a weird holiday. Luckily also that I don't know anyone directly affected. I put that down in part to our State government actually doing a proper job of handling this pandemic.
So I was hoping to get some extra projects done, and I did to a degree, but not as much as I'd hoped. We are in a rental too, while the bank decided to do nothing with our building application, on teardown/rebuild but thankfully we were able to go to a different bank. That has probably been the biggest downside for our family this year, wasting time trying to finance a rebuild of a home that should have been relatively easy. Film work has now come roaring back, so I am busier than ever, especially since the orange blob (sorry to get political, but I do not like that man), did a crap job. So a number of productions have also headed to the bottom of the world and film production in Australia now looks to be very busy for a few more years. This of course means I have little time for RC, but I'm still collecting for that rainy day when I will have more time.
It is. Hoping those that have been phsyically affected and mentally affected are doing ok
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I`m with Lee on the self build part.