So, What Have You Done Today? (Vol 2 2025)

[ucacjbs 172]

Did a bit of solder surgery and swapped the Tamiya connectors (grrrr) for these Deans connectors with shells on a battery and ESC that are now going into my I-had-to-build-one-sooner-or-later TT02. So much easier to connect/disconnect now. 

Now I’m thinking I probably should’ve gone xt-60 to retain the Tamiya connector’s only good feature, which is a shell that fully shields the conductors against sparking and so on.  But this’ll do.

[Willy iine 18842]

I needed to update the link in my profile page, so just wanted to drop by to say "hi!"   

Hope everyone is doing well.  Please visit me on Instagram if you'd like as I have a bunch of different cars since my last post here (out of attachment memory), and a new RC workshop in my garage dedicated to my outdoor cars.  #pretendRCshop

All the best!  👍

[tamiya3speed 568]

1 hour ago, Willy iine said:

I needed to update the link in my profile page, so just wanted to drop by to say "hi!"   

Hope everyone is doing well.  Please visit me on Instagram if you'd like as I have a bunch of different cars since my last post here (out of attachment memory), and a new RC workshop in my garage dedicated to my outdoor cars.  #pretendRCshop

All the best!  👍

Willy!  Great to see you around!

[Ferruz 13508]

I had a couple outings with the Terra Scorcher, which I haven't driven in a while. One in the nightime and one in the daylight, both with massive gusts of wind blowing snow everywhere.

I quickly carved a random track in the snow. The fun was limited at night because of the low visibility.

It was better in the daylight, so good drifting around a track again, made me miss the Racing by Post very much.

Not much free running at all, as the snow was too soft wherever I didn't remove or compacted it. I will run the TS again soon.

I really like how this buggy drives, and how the mercilessly fluorescent orange pops in the snow 😆

[mtbkym01 4718]

7 hours ago, Willy iine said:

I needed to update the link in my profile page, so just wanted to drop by to say "hi!"   

Hope everyone is doing well.  Please visit me on Instagram if you'd like as I have a bunch of different cars since my last post here (out of attachment memory), and a new RC workshop in my garage dedicated to my outdoor cars.  #pretendRCshop

All the best!  👍

Ah I miss your builds, they are definitely top class, unfortunately I don't have Instagram (or any social media for that matter). Anyway, good to see your still going strong

[Hypoxic 789]

Painted a little more last night. Going to rethink the hands.

[JimBear 1298]

2 hours ago, Hypoxic said:

Painted a little more last night. Going to rethink the hands.

Yeah, the man looks a bit surprised: "Wow, do I have large hands!" Myself, I find it hard to detail large flat areas with little definition, like the hands on that driver.

[JimBear 1298]

I spent the morning watching the birds.

Err... no, not really. Team Chonmage on YT (380 racing stuff) and then I got sucked into the Nuremberg vortex for a bit.

[ImALlama 1586]

Was sitting in my chair reading the toy fair thread this morning, and just as I learned about the new trf104 my F1 shelf collapsed in front of me . Interesting timing but I guess this means I need to add a space when repairing it . Luckily only minor damage to a few F1s (side came off, hoop, wing, couple scratches), my silver can speed run car took the most with the wing breaking apart, it’s been destroyed and glued back together many times though so not a big deal.

[Hypoxic 789]

10 hours ago, JimBear said:

Yeah, the man looks a bit surprised: "Wow, do I have large hands!" Myself, I find it hard to detail large flat areas with little definition, like the hands on that driver.

Yeah, I’m not quite the detail magician that the UK guys are either. Give me a bit to attempt to clean it up a little. 
Too funny…

He’s actually a well known driver with two plastic eyes. He feels his way through the course. Being plastic eyes, they move a bit with the hard terrain. Sometimes he looks surprised, sometimes he looks like he’s been hit with a baseball bat. Sometimes when you speak with him, you think he’s looking at the birds.

[Hypoxic 789]

1 hour ago, ImALlama said:

Was sitting in my chair reading the toy fair thread this morning, and just as I learned about the new trf104 my F1 shelf collapsed in front of me . Interesting timing but I guess this means I need to add a space when repairing it . Luckily only minor damage to a few F1s (side came off, hoop, wing, couple scratches), my silver can speed run car took the most with the wing breaking apart, it’s been destroyed and glued back together many times though so not a big deal.

Ohhh.. I feel for you. I check the shelves of my wooden sailing ships from time to time and have actually found a couple of them ready to let go. Temperature changes with the seasons cause fluctuations. This is what I believe anyway. Others should be warned and check their installations.

[Hypoxic 789]

Ok, a little better!

[rookierabbit 15]

Swapped from JC wild One 2.2s with Option No.1 rubber back to fresh original rims, triple ribs and Wide Stud Spikes, my favourite combo. I love those triple rib fronts on everything, underrated tyre. Frog gets the same combo on NovaFox rims next!

[ImALlama 1586]

8 hours ago, Hypoxic said:

Ohhh.. I feel for you. I check the shelves of my wooden sailing ships from time to time and have actually found a couple of them ready to let go. Temperature changes with the seasons cause fluctuations. This is what I believe anyway. Others should be warned and check their installations.

Most likely what caused it, it can be surprising how much a home can move from temp changes, especially if different parts have different foundations so they don’t move together. 

[Elbowloh 1483]

Driver for TD2 done 

 

 

[kevinb120 461]

Today I shopped some more.  Got the entire Fighting buggy together and what I thought was a stiff chassis got rubbery with weight.  Had the Kingfly on the radar(as this is going to be a 'shelf runner', as perfect as I can get the body with ball diff/RC4WD springers/Sport Tuned, etc).  THEN I decided to finally just get the Kingfly two days into CNY, ugh.  So.... Not much else to do with it taking up the desk...

Randomly bought a vintage Boomer body set with decals and chassis to stash the other day.  Sometimes I just wallow around 'WHAT can I get for under $100'...   Then looked for random vintage Boomers for a cheap basket case, then immediately found a really sweet one right of the bat from Japan.  NEW PROJECT!  Full vintage resto with vintage radio.  

Really nice barely a few scuffs on the underbody and a broken knuckle.  Not cheap but sure cheaper than finding one that needs 50 things and an MSC and non rusty springs and tires yada yada(and not get tripped up waiting on a body I guess...).

 

They multiply like rabbits at times...  And so THAT begins.  Still far enough away from Valantine's day to stop asking for forgiveness every other day...

 

 

 

I mean this just rolled in yesterday...  On top of a bunch of other stuff.  May need to pick up a little light blue box for the Mrs...

 

[Torhaantje 475]

Finished the front and rear wing on my Comical GPL DT03. They are ready for paint.

Hmmmm......don't know if the driver will fit the car,  though.......

Rick

[kevinb120 461]

Nice legs!   Man I hope you can make that work!

[ucacjbs 172]

Painted my first shell - with assistance of a hairdryer. 
 

HPI Ford Focus - largely bought since it was in the store and $30, so not the end of the world if I goofed it up. Some bleed but not so bad for a first effort. Black lines in the orange stripe are my marks on the outside of the film where I measured for masking. 
 

I did wreck the wing by  inverting the cut lines somehow and trimming the part I was meant to keep into separate pieces 😳🤣. 2nd goof was not having thinners to hand to clear up the bleed. 

Edited January 29 by ucacjbs

[ImALlama 1586]

14 minutes ago, ucacjbs said:

Painted my first shell - with assistance of a hairdryer. 
 

HPI Ford Focus - largely bought since it was in the store and $30, so not the end of the world if I goofed it up. Some bleed but not so bad for a first effort. Black lines in the orange stripe are my marks on the outside of the film where I measured for masking. 
 

I did wreck the wing by  inverting the cut lines somehow and trimming the part I was meant to keep into separate pieces 😳🤣. 2nd goof was not having thinners to hand to clear up the bleed. 

Looks great! seems only bleed I’m noticing get covered by stickers anyway so not even anything to be worried about. Way better than my first try… and many of my much later tries . 

[Hypoxic 789]

Some work on my Blockhead Wild One today but I either lost, or am missing one wheel bearing. Production has come to a grinding stop. 
It’s just aggravating.

[ImALlama 1586]

Today I repaired my broken F1s, did some work on the 3speed race truck, which I should probably create a build thread for, and built my TA04. Remembered seeing an article in a magazine back when it came out and always wanted one, 20+ years later finally got it .

Ended up building the shocks using left over shafts and internals from my TRF ones in my recent TC01 build, and my brushless motor I had doesn’t seem to fit so have to decide if I want to order a new motor, or a brushed esc for it. Either way won’t be running in this weather so I got some time to figure it out.

[ucacjbs 172]

3 minutes ago, Hypoxic said:

Some work on my Blockhead Wild One today but I either lost, or am missing one wheel bearing. Production has come to a grinding stop. 
It’s just aggravating.

The most frustrating thing. 
 

@ImALlama - thank you! I spent quite a while masking. Used Tamiya 6mm tape for the color boundaries and cheapo multipack masking tape elsewhere. Did my best to secure the edges. And yes, pretty sure that the window surround sticker will cover the bleed near the windshield. The messy bit at the front will be covered by one of the grill stickers. 

[Juhunio 7107]

Finished another complex stickering job that I've been avoiding for about 18 months!

About 130 stickers all together, which took me about 14 hours I think. I know where the mistakes are, but I don't know how I could have made it any better. Good enough, I reckon!

It's sitting on an (almost) fully hopped-up FF03-R, and completes another one of my daft bits-a-builds projects

 

[svenb 4590]

2 minutes ago, Juhunio said:

Finished another complex stickering job that I've been avoiding for about 18 months!

About 130 stickers all together, which took me about 14 hours I think. I know where the mistakes are, but I don't know how I could have made it any better. Good enough, I reckon!

It's sitting on an (almost) fully hopped-up FF03-R, and completes another one of my daft bits-a-builds projects

 

You did well around the front wheel arch's.

I ended up buying some more decals for that area which I was lucky enough to find on eBay