OnTheTrail

Prayers and best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Productive night for me. Also pretty much finished up the Giulia Sprint GTA on an M06 chassis. Just want to clean up the window trim with a heat gun once all the soap water dries over night. May do the panel lines sometime too. Very cool looking car. Especially from the front!

Finally got around to putting a dash in this trail truck. I had the driver and seats for a while but no dash meant you just see the steering wheel (and guy with no lower legs ). I bought a bunch of Killerbody 1/10 cockpit kits real cheap a year or two ago and those kits have dash panels so I borrowed one from there and painted/decaled it up.

That is good to know. While I don't have an XM-01 (yet....?? ), I do have the Fiat 500 and an extra rally cockpit in the shop.

While I've got several 1060s and 1080s, I can't really see a reason for you to use your 1080 in a CC02 for trail driving. If I were you, I'd save the 1080 for a future build/purchase. If you feel you could use the benefit of a drag brake, this can be done by removing the one jumper on the 1060. You can certainly upgrade it to the 1080 but on that rig, I doubt you'd see much of a performance difference.

Got the body painted and wheels painted/glued for my M06 GTA build. Have some magnetic body mounts on the way so hope to have this finished up in the next few days.

I love your excitement for your new Beetle! Hope you really enjoy it. I'm going to make a prediction that you will order your next Tamiya before you officially open up your first one on Christmas day! I've built three MF-01X chassis and like you, the Rally Beetle was my first Tamiya when I got back into RC cars a couple years ago! One thing Tamiya is known for is amazingly well done build manuals. For your second car, I wouldn't shy away from a Tamiya kit if I were you. They're actually pretty easy if you follow the manual step by step. While I agree with others about upgrading to ball bearings, keep in mind on the MF-01X chassis to do a complete bearing upgrade, you pretty much are disassembling most of the chassis. To get bearings into the front and rear gear boxes, you will have to split the sides of the chassis. Enjoy and welcome to the hobby!

@CMshooter Thank you!

Looking to add more detail to a scale interior and I figure I'd ask here first. Does E6000 work on the inside of a Lexan body? Just want to make sure it wouldn't have a reaction with Tamiya PS paints or have an effect on adhesion. Just looking to glue in dash but may need to remove it down the road.

I just measured the height and for what I have, the SS nose is about 3mm taller. No biggie. I bought the part set mainly for the mirrors and as you mentioned I can certainly use the nose for the SS if needed.

I just checked with some calipers and the size of the nose cones appear to be identical. Only difference I just noticed is the SS one has holes for the turn indicators. Edit: Width is the same, height is about 3mm difference with the SS nose being a slight bit taller.

Came up with a way to easily put the SS mirrors on and off easily so I can have them on while on display but take them off when I want to run the body. Anyone who's every tried to put them on with the body clip knows it's not easy. If I ever get them on with the clips, I don't want to take them off but also don't want to risk breaking one (again.....). Simply just drilled out the end and put in a very small screw (has to small enough to fish through the hole in the A-pillar) with a bend in the end. Add a rubber band to cinch them together and all good!

Big thanks to @GreenBar0n! He assisted with finding a part# for compatible SS mirrors. Order from eBay and they showed up real quick. Plus I got an extra SS front body facia and an extra set of wipers (both being primered for future use)

Perfect! Thanks so much.

Anyone happen to have the Tamiya part # for mirror set for the rere Sand Scorcher? Downloaded manuals and did a search here and can't seem to find the part # for the chrome sprue that has the mirrors on it. Thx....

Before my wife was my wife, she bought me my first RC plane radio and kit for Christmas one year. My future in-laws bought me the glow engine. Been into RC for about 35 years and I jokingly reminder her from time to time that this is all her fault!

If you know anyone that does a lot of target shooting or trap shooting, many times they reload their own ammo to save money. The little trays the primers come in can be used to make great RC display stands. They're free, rather thin so you can stack them to make stands only as high as needed to get the wheels off the ground. All I do is glue them together or sometimes screw them together, paint them flat black and glue a layer of some thin non-slip shelf liner or the such. I probably have close to twenty around here for pretty much the cost of some cheap glue and a can of spray paint. I also cut up some cheap felt pads I had laying around to keep the stands from scuffing up the shelves as I slide them around to dust......(if I ever find the time to do that )

Went to my Hobbywing stock and found I'm out of 1080 ESCs. First time getting a "V2". Probably swap this out with a V1 in a rig just to try the Tx adjustable drag brake. Also got some extra bearing to have around.

Mostly, yes. There's a low CG optional chassis made but Traxxas and this car has the lower CG chassis out of the box. The body is real cool looking and pretty scale. Also has Traxxas's new body removal clip system. I was just running my at an outdoor track today.

Not Tamiya but just picked this up from my LHS today. Couple guys trying to get a local track going at an RC field to run these.

Thank you!

Looking for a Tamiya logo for my diorama but it needs to be fairly large. I only need one or two of the logos so I don't feel like spending $10 on a set if the correct size isn't there. I'm not able to find a size description of the MM023 sheet to get an idea on how large the decal is. Thx....

Looks like you need a servo saver to protect your servo saver!

^^This^^ If you like to trail the rig as well as rock crawl, I'd recommend two speed and the locking diffs (just avoid the "High Trail" versions if you want to crawl). I have a decked out Defender and a virtually bone sock 2021 Bronco. Both great performance and only issue was a stock ESC on the Defender (Replaced with a HW1080) but otherwise amazingly tough.

I just saw this recently announced accessory addition for RC4WD. Supposed to be 1/10th scale as is your FMS FJ but we all know not everything in this hobby is correct with their "scale math". I'm going to order one as I'm sure something I have is would be a good fit for this. https://store.rc4wd.com/rc4wd-driver-figure-molded-parts-tree.html