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  1. 1 hour ago, IoWBasher said:

    Mines coming Monday, could have been tomorrow but I'm working.

    Anyhow it'll be here in time for my Birthday !

    ps, all Time Tunnel ones should be being sent today/tomorrow ;)

     

    Today.   We've managed to box them all up....  they're sending a bigger van than usual...

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  2. On 6/6/2020 at 8:36 AM, •Axle said:

    Saw it, bought it!

    Pleasantly surprised you stock the TFU-01 fan kit for the stock Tamiya ESC 

    Stock is a loose term at present, supply is better.  Stock of almost all spares won't be available again until August at the earliest.

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  3. As you may all know, demand on Tamiya kits is currently through the roof in the UK.

    We have had a very large delivery today and another tomorrow - all are currently booked onto the website.

    It seems supply will be patchy for some weeks, so if you see it and you want it - buy it before someone else does!

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  4. We have a few kits that I can let go at special price for TC members on an "end of tax year sell them before we count them" basis.

    Prices include UK delivery.  Most EU countries we can deliver for around £19.  It's not practical to send to some countries and outside the EU the price is prohibitive.

    What I have available are:

    https://www.timetunnelmodels.com/live/catalog/tamiya-44042-tg10-chassis-factory-engine-version-warehouse-find-from-2004-p-66321.html

    I can do the above 44042 TG10 kits for £185 each.  There are 4 available.  These are very odd having been found in Tamiya's warehouse.  They are very old kits (as far as we can tell) but note that they're chassis kits without engines.  The boxes are all new but all have very minor marks from being stored around 15 years.

    https://www.timetunnelmodels.com/live/catalog/tamiya-58519-toyota-bruiser-custom-without-radio-controlled-model-p-49973.html

    Bruiser is a cancelled customer order - we normally only get it to order.  Can sell for £550.  There is one in stock.
     

    https://www.timetunnelmodels.com/live/catalog/tamiya-47383-isuzu-black-metallic-vauxhall-frontera-sport-cc01-custom-without-p-63368.html

    Three of the Isuzu in stock.  These can go for £165 each (without ESC, can add ESC if required +£12).  
     

    https://www.timetunnelmodels.com/live/catalog/tamiya-47392-tyrrell-1977-monaco-with-painted-body-custom-without-p-64180.html

    Five of the Tyrrell kit available.  Again £165 each (again +£12 for a TBLE02S ESC if needed).
     

    https://www.timetunnelmodels.com/live/catalog/tamiya-47428-tyrrell-wheel-monaco-1977-built-without-electrics-p-65896.html

    Two of this oddball XB with no radio idea Tamiya had too.  £188 each on these.
     

    https://www.timetunnelmodels.com/live/catalog/carisma-ca81068-subaru-brat-ready-trail-truck-requires-batterycharger-p-65051.html

    Two of this Carisma Brat.  Nice cars.  Carsima decided to sell this one without battery and charger, and killed the sales on it as a result.  Can't go wrong at £194 though.
     

    Anyone wanting any, please email me at sales@timetunnelmodels.com and copy/paste the line you want - I will send Paypoo invoices.

     

     


  5. The bodies on these were almost impossible to break.  The plastic was/is really flexible.

     

    They're a strict 200mm nitro body though (even on their electric cars) so look wrong on Tamiya models unless you use long axles or wide wheels.


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    Then uninstall Firefox, and delete the folders it stores on your PC that hold your profile (details on the firefox site).

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  7. The numbers were very short - the importer (hobby co) received far fewer than expected and shops were only sent a fraction of their order.  It was the same delivery that saw Tamiya hold back all but samples of the Comical Grasshopper, which was why that's been booted back to a January release - it isn't really a January release but the numbers that arrived in the UK on Tamiya's initial delivery would mean then sawing kits into three just to supply each shop with something!

    On the Black Avante, I know we only got half, which was just enough to cover orders but then two people dropped out due to the time of year and not having the cash, hence the two kits we had for sale on our website late November.  I put them online, fed them to Google and they were sold within the hour.

    From what I understand, it was a one-off batch and no more are coming, but Tamiya's limited edition stock availability is shrouded in secrecy and things often do reappear later.

    I would say the shops saying "pre-order" didn't have a single order for it, didn't order any and haven't noticed that it's been removed from the trade ordering system.


  8. Interesting this.  We've been told repeatedly that Tamiya's own brushless motors have substantially lower current draw than other brands, and that's why such a cheapo ESC can supposedly cope with such high power motors.

    Certainly, we've had ones that simply won't work with non-Tamiya low turn motors, shutting down after 30 seconds or less but fire up and run without thermal shutdown on their ones.

     


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  10. The spares support on the new site is dire.

    We used the USA site to cross reference which spares fitted which kit (as did the UK importer Hobby Co) - there is no cross reference on the new site which means dealers have no way to be able to tell their customers if part 12345678 that they have in their hand will fit kit XYZ123 that they are enquiring about.

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  11. Devils advocate:

    Tamiya USA are about to launch a new website - sneak images of it came out over the weekend (at least that was the first I saw of it).

    If they are planning direct sales, they'll want to get more of the cake for themselves.

    What better way than ensuring their own website won't be undercut online?

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