Wandy
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There is not a single solitary thing that Tamiya would not re-release so long as there was a strong demand for it in the Japanese market.
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as far as Im aware none of the tamiya tractor truck kits come balraced. neither our Merc 1850L or Knight hauler where ballraced tho there where brushings in key areas like the axles and gearbox. to be fair tho u dnt really need bearings unless u are going to be running it really regularly as the loads and run speeds are no where near as high as those of a normal runner/racer.
best wishes
Ryck
Thanks. I think I will just buy a ballrace kit for it to be on the safe side though.
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Finally, I am getting round to building my full option Hauler....but from the looks of things the kit does not come supplied with ballraces?
I've barely looked at the kit components...lazy I know...and had a brief look at the manual and have seen "metal bearings" shown, but these dont seem to be ball bearings.
Do I need to buy a ballrace kit?
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This auction ended earlier today.. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...A:IT&ih=002
Dont think I've ever seen a new built Scorcher or Bruiser go for that amount of money, so with the release of modern day 3-speeds is the Avante now the ultimate Tamiya to have?
Or is it just silly season? This Egress http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...A:IT&ih=002 was nearly as pricey!
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1) I really, really want a Mounty High Lift for Xmas, and no doubt about it my girlfriend would get me one without hestitation, but the problem is I have other things that I really need more...so justifying asking for the Mounty is gonna be a struggle.
2) I have always been spoilt at Christmas, especially as a child, but 1985 still remains one of my favourite, if not the most favourite af all Santa times. It was the year I got my Hotshot after discovering Tamiya in the summer of that year. I swear I counted down the days for six months to Christmas Day. The Hotshot package was not at all cheap back in the day...180 for the full deal from Beatties..and my parents were anything but rich but after much pleading they agreed to buy me it. To this day the Hotshot remains my favourite Tamiya and even if I once more depart from the hobby there will be no way I will part with the Hotshot that I have now. (I sold my original car to help fund my 1986 Chrimbo present...a Bigwig!
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It's not Tamiya as such that we are addicted to, it's Tamiyaclub.
Let's face it, if there was no online club where we could share models, builds, opinions and experiences about Tamiya would we do the ridiculous things we do? I doubt it.
Fact is that most of us got bored of the hobby after a period of time when we got into it the first time around because, lets face it, just buying a kit then building it and running it has only a limited and finite appeal.
This club allows us to indulge in our passions and aspirations, but most of all brings us together as part of a community with a shared interest in a way that was not possible before the advent of the internet.
Long may it continue!
My little contribution: You know your an addict when you buy a kit, then sell it to raise funds...only to regret the sale so you buy the exact same kit back a few months later for more than you paid for it the first time around!
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Well the kit of parts for the body starts at 4000.
add another $5000-10000 for the engines.
Still want one?
Too right I do!....but it will have to wait for that time in the...ahem...near future when I win the lottery.
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And when it all ends in tears.
I know I shouldn't laugh but the commentator prattling on just before the crash gives that clip some comedy value.
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Here is the link to the guy who built the Airbus model..
http://www.michel-concorde.com/index2.html
Apparantly the video I posted was it's test flight. Just look at the attention to detail on the fully finished model.
Thats what you call truly scale modelling!
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Actually I just did a bit of searching...apparantly the Airbus is worth 25,000!!!! Slightly out of my price range.
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We are talking serious money with RC jets. Like helicopters better start off simple with lots of practice on the simulator else one will be looking at crash art.
I don't think Tamiya will get into jets or even the regular prop planes and helicopters like those offered by Kyosho or even submarine which all can get very complex and require lots of cash.
These are quite special toys (a limited niche market) and Tamiya will have to spend a lot to get into the market and is not a huge market since forking out several grand is no chump change for a lot of us.
Just watching these toys in action is good enough for me.
Out of interest, how much do we reckon that Concorde would cost to buy?
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R/C real-life scale JET planes!
http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photogallery/...6_RC_airbus.wmv
http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photogallery/...RC_concorde.wmv
Can you imagine Tamiya, with their ability to produce super realistic models, producing a Concorde or Airbus like these two with working miniature gas turbine jet engines?
I think I'd beg, steal and borrow to own that Concorde. The noise as it flys by just blows me away!
Please Mr Tamiya...get into R/C jet planes. I will pay whatever you ask!
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Hi i have a question , do you guy's know what kind of rc this is and how much would it be worth, i was told that it is a RARE kyosho optima mid with a truck conversion kit
thanks
Yep that's a Mid alright. Fitted with long wheelbase chassis. The 'conversion' seems to be the big wheels and nasty looking fitment plates bodged onto the chassis.
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My argument has always been that the success of the re-re's is more than just nostalgia, those 80's buggies just looked a whole lot meaner than anything Tamiya release these days. Put it this way if Tamiya had a modern buggy that had anything like the good looks of the Hotshot but with modern performance I'd choose it over a Hotshot anyday. As it stands you've got horrible things like the Keen Hawk or Avante II sitting on the shelves as competition. I think that has just as much to do with the re-re's success as the nostalgia factor.
Could not agree more. Infact Tamiya should have a look at that modified Frog on the other thread and realise what they should be producing.
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That Frog is just absolutely stunning. That to me is the route Tamiya should be going down. Re-release the oldies with modern technology yet keeping them looking almost identical to the originals. Realism allied with 21st century technology.
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So these things are the latest example of the occasional madness that occurs in our hobby. JR-RC sold his for 240. For a bodyset. Ludicrous.
And yes I do know that it's all about supply and demand and that people are entitled to spend their money on whatever they wish but it does not make it any less ludicrous.
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All the differences between the bumpers and gearboxes are covered here
Yep, thats when Terry educated me on Hotshot bumper issues all those moons ago.
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3 - The original hot-shot had a 3 piece front bumper, and also an aluminum Hex shaped piece that connected it to the transmission. The latter cars had one piece bumpers, and a brass hex piece.
Not true. The Hotshot always had a two piece bumper, consisting of the underguard and bumper itself. The difference between the early models and the "Mk2" version was that the early bumper/underguard was made of a much softer plastic and that the underguard angled the bumper up at a much greater height. Added to this was the fact that the front gearbox casings were thinner and the metal hex mount was made of a softer metal than the later versions. All of this made the car extremely weak and vulnerable to damage at the front. Tamiya improved all of this by making the bumper and underguard thicker and more stiff, angling the underguard at a lower angle, strengthening the front gearbox casings at the bumper mounting point and then making the hex piece out of a harder metal (Brass, if I remember correctly).
An early bumper/underguard cannot be naturally fitted to a later model because there are lugs on the guard that clash with the hex piece area of the gearbox. To make it fit you have to cut those lugs away.
Tamiya, realising the ineptitude of the early set up, quickly redesigned it and as far as I am aware never made the early design available as spare parts. Certainly, in 3 years of watching, I have never seen them come up on ebay as a NOS set of spares.
It's a pity that the early design was so ineffective because it gave the Hotshot a much more compact and aggressive look....in my opinion of course.
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Sorry but he does, same as me and I agree with everything he has said. Both of us actually ran them on racetracks back then and it is impossible to forget about all the defects, at least they had a go at fixing a lot of them in the rerelease. The problem is a lot of people either haven't actually run one, or got one as an upgrade from a Nikko and thought it was a great performer, so look back at it through rose tinted spectacles.
Yeah but my point is that there is little use in whining at the company if they haven't brought a 20 year old design up to modern standards. At the end of the day if Tamiya had re-released all of these '80s buggies without any improvements then very few people would still complain. The re-releases are surely being aimed at modellers and back yard bashers, not serious racers.
Don't get us wrong, it doesn't mean they are terrible cars. They are still fun to run (as long as you don't expect any precision handling) but if you are used to modern chassis it can be very disappointing. Even my much modified runner Hotshot never gets a run because I much prefer the better performance from my Optima of the same era.I think you just nailed on the head what these re-re's are about....simply fun to run and not much more........having said that I CAN understand Miramar's point about not giving the re-release the other improvements that were incorporated on the Hotshot2, Boomerang, Bigwig etc and would not affect the cosmetics of the car. Makes little sense really.
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....and don't forget Miramars review of the kit here http://www.tamiyablog.com/
Miramar just doesn't like the poor old Hotshot!
It seems Tamiya can't win here. They get pilloried in some quarters for bringing out re-releases that are near identical to the original (Hotshot) - including some of the old faults - and then from other quarters they get criticised for reviving an old classic, albeit with radically improved, and therefore different, design (Avante Mk2).
I think they've got it spot on with the Hotshot....they have improved everything they possibly could without changing the looks/design of the car. If things like bump steer, suspension slop and weak points have not been improved it will be because they can't do it without making the buggy look very different to the original....and at the end of the day I would say 99% of the members of this club will want the cars re-released in the exact form of 20 years ago - warts 'n all - over a radically changed, yet improved, design and look.
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Hi, first post on the board.
Just finished building my 2007 Hotshot (I had it delivered to my place last Friday night). The build was straightforward enough, though I took my time with it. I never had the original hotshot when I was a kid, so can't comment on the differences between this one and the original though.
Looking forward to taking it to the local park at the weekend for some drivin fun
quick question though - is the rear suspension supposed to be pretty stiff (in relation to the front)?
Thanks
Yes the rear suspension was stiffer than the front thanks to the nature of the linkage connecting the rear in-line monoshock to the top wishbones. It did not need to be very stiff to be stiffer than the front though as that area of the car was notorious for suspension slop and wobble. Apparantly the upper rear wishbones on the re-release are stiffer and thicker than the originals so this may be another reason why you are noticing stiffness at the rear of the car. I was wondering if Tamiya would have improved the performance of the front suspension but by the sounds of what you are saying it seems they haven't!
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They are being honest, as a race car it was rubbish back then as well. Those of us who actually raced them at the time basically chucked everything away apart from the gearboxes and wishbones just to get them competitive on the track against the 2wds. It's amazing that Kyosho produced the Optima at the same time, that was so much more advanced compared with the Hotshot.
Well yeah, all of us who were around in the 1980's know that it was extremely flawed but if a youngster with no knowledge of the car's history was interested in buying one I doubt they would be swayed by a marketing policy of saying "It's garbage compared to a modern car!" All they have to say is that this is a slightly updated 20 year old design aimed at having fun at your local dirt track or park.
Isn't the whole point of running these old cars to show how much things have moved on?Nah, we all know how much things have moved on. I would say we run them for the scale appearance and the nostalgia of our childhood memories.
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It says this on Tamiya website:
Tamiya designers have given the Hotshot a makeover, replacing older, harder to assemble parts with modern equivalents but still keeping true to the spirit of the original Hotshot. While the front/rear double wishbone suspensions and adjustable mono-shock oil dampers remain the same, the drivetrain features modern dog bone type propeller shafts for enhanced reliability. The oil dampers have also been changed to the more modern diaphragm type.
( http://www.tamiya.com/english/products/583...tshot/index.htm )
Quoting the Tamiya website here...."Take this updated Hotshot out for a spin and compare it to today's R/C buggies to experience how far this hobby has developed! "..
Not the greatest marketing tactic I ever saw. Basically they are saying it's rubbish!
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Original Avante, simple
No chance of that happening. The trait seems to be one of re-releasing the '80s cars that were all plastic and sold in droves. Over engineered, expensive flops of the time are highly unlikely to see a re-release, no matter how beautifull they are/were.
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That Frog is just absolutely stunning. That to me is the route Tamiya should be going down. Re-release the oldies with modern technology yet keeping them looking almost identical to the originals. Realism allied with 21st century technology. 
"full Option" Knight Hauler On Ebay.
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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=270212323309
Very reluctant sale.
It is, of course, the kit with all of the bells and whistles included as standard. ONLY available in Japan, but here for you to buy in the UK right now.