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  1. Basically I've spent way too much on the hobby and I'm trying to convince the Mrs to let me buy a new mountain bike, so I'm considering selling my re-re Bigwig, to help the cause. It's in fantastic condition I've only run it twice up and down my tarmac drive, (half discharged the battery once). otherwise just been sat on a shelf. It's fully loaded as follows: MIP ball diffs Stainless Steel Screws Titanium steerer rods + Tamiya low friction balls + cups MCI decals Hobbywing Quicrun 1080 Crawler ESC 8.4V Overlander battery Power HD B5 High Voltage Servo Nicely painted driver Spare body + yellow plastic parts XT60 Connectors Hotshot Aluminium propshaft Standard Bigwig GT tuned motor, with spade terminal paddle connectors for neatness. Acrylic painted tyre writing Complete with all boxes and instructions all in very good condition Spare set of wheels and tyres (so you can run it without ruining the tyre writing) Vintage CRP shock collars It currently has Futaba receiver (R314SB-E) and voltage sensor, so it's like a techno Bigwig that tells you your battery voltages, I'd prefer to leave these and all the other electrics in if possible but may be willing to remove them. I must have spent over £750 on it. This thing is no longer in production and should drive really well for a Bigwig with the strong superfast servo (BEC set to 7.4V on the ESC so it has 20kg torque and 0.66s response) and the ball diffs giving it great turning ability and the weighty 8.4V power lets you really get it power sliding sideways through the corners and being nicely finished it would also make a very nice shelf queen. I'm not desperate to sell, just if someone really likes it and makes me an offer I can't refuse, I'd let it go. If you're interested please feel free to drop me a private message, not interested in letting this go on the cheap. Thanks for looking. Was going to tidy the wiring up a little bit more but haven't got around to it yet.
  2. I didn't, I just put the receiver right next to the servo.
  3. In the kit. I spent a while painting him with a metallic red helmet and shading on the overalls. I also added a piece of plastic for the visor.
  4. I more or less finished a Tomahawk, it's got almost every upgrade on it (the ones it doesn't have I'm just waiting to come back into stock (HG Shocks)), and I still have the tyres to paint. It's running Le Mans 240S ESC and 19.5T motor, Power HD R12 Servo and a Futaba antenna less receiver R314SB-E. (Not a Tamiya, sorry.)
  5. Looks good to me, I like that the drivers overalls matches the wing.
  6. I think that probably depends on the paintjob, you would likely pay more for a stunning custom paint scheme. I think box art is probably more fitting when it's a real scale car that you're replicating, but for made up buggies with made up colour schemes then anything goes really. @Ferruz That Hornet in particular, is wicked!
  7. I understand some people like the look of box art buggies for various reasons and the colour schemes generally look good as they've had some thought put in to them. However, when someone posts their completed buggy, if I've seen one before and it's box art, I might look at it for up to 3 seconds, if it's not box art then I'll look at it for up to 3 minutes and if it's really cool I'll save the images on my PC for inspiration.
  8. I widened mine there and it sort of clicks under a groove in the blue shock tower, the body does seem to fit very tight on the front body pin.
  9. Nice! The lights are a very cool addition.
  10. I'm using the re-re Hotshot silver alloy shaft and steel drive cups on my Bigwig, it looks nice and works well. I tried the slightly longer TT-02 blue alloy one as well (with the Hotshot drive cups), but the light anodised blue somewhat clashes with the yellow and dark blue plastics (in my opinion) so I stuck with the Hotshot one. The other thing is if your running an 8.4V Nimh battery (which you should in a Bigwig) the stiffer chunkier alloy prop shafts make it a bit tight getting the battery in and out, especially with the TT-02 one.
  11. I mixed it up using the Proline airbrush colours, I think it was 1 drop of orange to 50 drops of yellow. The glossy lexan makes the yellows look slightly different, but I think they're very close. Yellow paint is generally quite tricky as well because you need a lot of thin coats to get good even colour coverage. Tamiya probably do a rattle can yellow that is similar. I hope it turns out well, you'll have to show us when you get it done.
  12. Go for it, the more yellow Bigwigs the better! I agree the yellow moon craft might not stand out very well on the white wing like I have done, it might look better agaisnt blue, black or maybe even orange or red to match the stripes on the side stickers. Although having said that the white wing does go well with the white wheels.
  13. Well I think the Bigwig looks great in yellow, then again I may be slightly biased. This is mine. (Thanks for the shout out @DaveBuildsRC).
  14. I replaced the oil in them (they weren't full) and they seemed a bit better, I think I was hoping they'd wear in. If they don't I'll definitely try having another look at them to see if that's the issue.
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