JimBear

I vaguely remember this from the swedish magazine Allt om Hobby - might have been an ad or possibly a review (not sure which) but I remember thinking that it was really cool (and that I of course wanted one, pipedream, but still ...) Should have been around that time, 1980-81.

Tamico info says that it has an "updated slipper clutch" (whatever that means).

If they could rre-elease the XR311, why not this one? Beautiful, nonetheless!

I am keeping my fingers crossed that I can get my fingers out eventually ... and who knows, at 260 euros, 50 more than the Dirtmaster, it may be the better deal overall, if they don't skimp on the details. I think the Dirtmaster has to come down a bit now, under 200 euros.

Let's see if they provide oil for the shocks, and do a better job on marking the sprues and getting it into the manual this time. It looks cool, but for me who don't any racing, I think I'd spend a bit more and get a Legendary series buggy (however long some of those will be available? - that product line is getting a bit crowded now).

@Man1c M0nk3y - tyre foams ... DustyFingersRC mentions Schumacher U6541 tyre foams in his Lunch Box upgrades video. I am keeping them in mind for a future build. Gotta love that colour on the GF-01!

Not my cup of tea, but well, onwards and upwards it is. I happened to see that on they've apparently released a peppermint green cage for the Javelin (KO-OTB247GR), apropos milking-the-cow theme.

Silly is Wild Willy country, really!

Looks great! What size are these tyres? I was sort of thinking they might go well with a Wild Willy 2 too.

Thank you very much, @silvertriple - it looks a bit bigger (the Hilux is 1/10 size while the Lunch Box is 1/12 so that makes sense).

I looked at the selection he's selling, and I mean he could just start with one or two 1/10 (or 1/12) classic onroad bodies with say 257 mm wheelbase - just to gauge interest. How big is the Hi-Lux (wheelbase, etc)? Edit: I saw now that it says 210 mm wheelbase, so it could perhaps fit an MF-01x with some nice rims/tyres.

If you do it on canvas ... just to give an example: we have one 70x70 cm print of a flower on the wall. It's a part of a scan from a print, itself from a part of 24x36 mm film negative ... Compared to what you get from a camera or phone todsy, it's nothing. Doing glossy prints in poster sizes is going to need more photo quality, but at home (unless you happen to live in a castle) print sizes and viewing distances gives you options even with todays' low-end euipment.

If I wasn't sold on the Kyosho Turbo Scorpion already, it would make me buy two (if I had the money).

@Badcrumble - me being the resident village idjit, I did just assume that any sort of Y-cable would do ... perhaps not, then! I had no idea, so I just bought a Yeah Racing Servo Y-cable, like this one: https://tamico.de/Yeah-Racing-Servo-Y-Kabel-blau-150-mm-JR-Futaba-Plug I ended up as you, ordered another TX (7-channel).

Double post

I've been trying to get rid of the CR-01 sitting on the bench getting dusty, by setting the electronics today. It's moving around, like an old crab (get can't the two servos to play together correctly - baah!). Half success. Sort of.

Now, since Oog seems to have disappeared at the moment, I am trying to sort the electronics alone. Everything is sort of okay this far, except for one thing: with a Y-cable, using a 2-channel TX, I can only get it to crab (somewhat badly too) across the floor. No matter how I set the cables (the two servo cables into the ends of the Y-cable) can I get the front to steer left, and the rear to steer right. Tried every which may with the cables. No luck. On the verge of just trying FWS, just to get the thing running. The two ideas I can come up with is: 1. it doesn't work with 2 channels using the Y-cable or 2. I have placed one servo wrong, somehow upside down or whatever.

The Lunch Box tyres (#9805213) perhaps, they don't have the spikes, so won't look worn in the same way. The Blackfoot ones would work too.

T-rex patent trolling aside ... I am not sure if what the postman left by the door are the "real deal", these says Schumacher (part number U3940). But they do look nice and sturdy.

I guess it works thataway ... "See, nobody wanted it, honey - so I'll just have to build it, then".

The slot car (Carrera) is the one pictured above. I've been digging around but as yet no larger scale Sachs decals (got lost in bluerace24.com for a good while). But who knows - maybe someone with a bit better search-fu than me can find one. There is as @Gebbly writes a few other static models with different decals, though.

Yes, according to the manual:

@svenb - what car is it? A Capri perhaps? First off, I was thinking Opel, but, well, no. I am thinking the windshield decal (Sachs Sporting) is going to be iffy (low contrast) but many of the other text pieces should be easier (higher contrast).

Bump again.

Now that's what I call a Project! Very Tamiya.