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With AMain showing them in-stock I ordered mine today as well as another Grasshopper II. $249 for both with the 10% off coupon they're running for Black Friday! I fully intend to make a Grasshopper II EVO! This is going to be fantastic.

A few weeks ago I found myself on eBay looking for an RC10T. My buddy had one when I was a kid and I've always wanted one of my own. But Christ on a bike the prices on them have skyrocketed. I was getting discouraged. Then I started clicking on other models. T2s and T3s. I found someone selling what they thought was just an RTR roller for peanuts.. I got to looking real hard at it and lo and behold it was a Factory Team truck... So I snatched that up, got a new body from JConcepts and managed to find some wheels and tires on eBay - grabbed a whole set of new-in-bag Road Hawg IIs! Didn't thin those existed anymore! Yeah, yeah. What's this got to do with Tamiya? Well, mix a little RC10T3 with a little Tamiya 58161.. I'm very happy with the results!

That's awesome! I need more tanks. I have a Tiger I and an M26 and an M4A1 that I converted into an M4A3(76)W VVSS. I really wish someone would do an M18 or an M24. In both of the popular tank games on the market the M18 is hugely popular. If someone were to do one in 1/16th I'd be all over it. I'd sell a lung for that.

I just used 54753s. And they're great. But if I recall even those were hard to source. The vendor I found shipped them out of Hungary.

Today I finished my Stadium Blitzer rebuild. This was a buddy's in the early 90s. He said he built it, ran it a few times, chased his bulldog around with it and then threw it in a closet where it was until about 3 months ago when he dug it out and said he was just going to toss it out. I told him he was crazy and that I'd take it. This is what it looked like then. And after a lot of cleaning and replacing some parts that were beyond saving, as well as a new body from Bluegroove and decals from MCI. I'm happy with the results!

I've been working on this for a few evenings now. I decided I needed something to test my patience and drive me borderline-insane, so I built an Orlandoo OH32X02. Not really Tamiya, but kinda' Tamiya? I used the decal set from 58161 rescaled to 1/28th scale to fit a 1/32nd scale truck and they were the perfect size! My only gripe is that I used a masking tape I'd never used before and there was some pretty significant bleedthrough. But if you look past that, this little rig came out great!

That's a great-looking room. I need more shelf space.

As long as your other hobbies don't include vintage exotic European sports cars or full-scale general aviation it can't be too bad! Haha.

While I'm waiting for TBG to get their shipment of poly and start taking orders again, I decided to play around with this surface TX I found advertised on RCGroups. I generally drive with one hand anyway and this is very comfortable in both my left and right hand. I haven't driven with it yet, but ergonomically it seems pretty nice. And it has tons of mixing options. For $30 it seems pretty nice! I may give it to my nephew when I give him his Grasshopper 2 kit for his birthday. He'll get a kick out of it. I also added another piece to my "Discontinued balsa EFlite ARFs" collection. Good times all around.

Today I received a Stadium Blitzer! This was built back in the mid-90s by a coworker. He said he drove it a handful of times and his bulldog chased it and he got a huge kick out of that, then it went in a closet where he stumbled across it a couple months ago and was going to throw it out. Haha. Besides the body, it's in great shape! Still has the mechanical speed controller, which is always cool. And a dust cover for the MSC! I've never seen the dust cover before.. Already got a repop body and decals on the way!

"It's done!", I said. "I'm not adding lights!", I said. I lied to myself. I found an old 3Racing light kit I had laying around and some spare Tamiya TLU LEDs. Trimmed out the light buckets and threw on some paint and I think it came out pretty good if not a little bit excessively bright. Will look good on lit indoor carpet tracks though! Idle headlights. For well-lit idling. Driving headlights. For well-lit driving. Idle tail lights. For a well-lit butt while idling. Brake lights. So some a-hole doesn't run into you when you slam on your brakes. Reverse lights. For well-lit reversing.

Yes, yes I do. I bought this in the summer of 2001, I believe. My buddy had just gotten the TA02 Humvee and I got this to run with him. It's got a new body since then, but I do still have the old body too. Haha. Not quite as nice as the replacement body but it brings back memories.

My Super Hornet was missing the headlights when I got it. Today, I resolved that issue. And then some.

Yup! delSol's the 3rd gen. Mine's a 97 Si. I also have an 85 CRX Si.

I "finished" the M05 CR-X. Again. Until the next time I do something to it. And here I told myself this car was going to stay simple. Pictures of a 1st gen CRX taken on the deck lid of a 3rd gen CRX. Haha.