Hello
I am posting my first tamiya build, the Alpine A110 on the M-06 chassis. I have been eyeing tamiya kits for a while now but only just pressed the trigger on getting one. Building the kit has been pretty straightforward, just like legos but more advanced. My only gripe with the kit is the included crosshead screws can be a major pain to fully tighten up without stripping. I have tons of hex hardware lying around so I replaced all the regular screws with better ones. I also added shims everywhere I noticed play in the suspension components. The car feels very solid. I built the car with the stock bushings first, the bearing kit is on the way. I used some cheap aliexpress oil shocks I had lying around and a tamiya branded 1060 brushed esc with the kit motor. The servo used is a metal cased low profile servo from aliexpress I had planned for a different project. Now to make things a bit more interesting, I decided to pair the car with a 3s battery. As you might have guessed, it is not the best idea to pair a 2s motor with a 3s lipo, but it got me a staggering 47kmh (29mph) on the stock gearing. The car is so fun to just rip around on the road I cannot understate it. The brakes are a bit too powerful for this car so I ordered a hobbywing 1080 to get better control over them. The 1060 ESC takes the power just fine, but the motor got hot very fast and it got me thinking I should try to make it fast while keeping it brushed, as a challenge if you will.
And so I ordered a hobbywing 555 11T motor, which is slightly longer than the stock one and should provide better heat handling. Have yet to see if it is any faster, as the specifications on motors are a bit confusing.
It came time to paint the body, for which is used 3 light coats of PS16, 2 coats of PS30 and 2 more coats of some generic can of black I had lying around. Me thinking just using PS16 alone won't be dead accurate to the blue used on the real car. I think I got the result I wanted.
Have yet to finish the decal work, just thought it looked so good I had to take pics early. More to come.