So, What Have You Done Today?

[Effigy3 1267]

In addition to helping my son replace the front kick plate on his SCT I wired up a 7.5T 550 motor I bought for like $20 last Black Friday.

[matman 1499]

Now this cabinet is not mine & they were going to take it . But

it's still here , So i am going to use it . Till they take it  .

Why not , Will put in different cars ( vintage tamiya ) Maybe

today some time . Just throw theses in for now , As i needed

the room to put a bed in that room i had all my RC stuff . 

Got a rc weekend coming up & hoped to get a track done as well .

Got a dingo i hope to help ( dingo is a digger Name , Not the one that takes babies )  .

 

[TeaMonster 506]

Finished the chassis in my KR, electrics and body to go

[Nitomor 2122]

That looks a lovely chassis Tea Monster. The Schumacher was ruling everything back in my day.

[TeaMonster 506]

37 minutes ago, Nitomor said:

That looks a lovely chassis Tea Monster. The Schumacher was ruling everything back in my day.

Cheers mate,

I really enjoy building these kits, I have this one and a SV2 which needs the body completing as well. Kit box and instruction manual are very well laid out with the components bagged up in the corresponding step number of the manual. Once I complete a few outstanding builds I think I will look at getting a 4wd. I also like to see how different manufacturers do things

[Dojo Dave 889]

Yesterday I got itchy fingers and had to do something RC, so I took the TT01 Bling chassis out from under my Silver pick up the 53 and put the GT3 shell on it (Red alloy with PS15 Pretty sexy), Its a slightly different fit as the other tt01 chassis is was on has been shortened its all done now and I may switch it back, but then I lengthened the other TT01 chassis to put the Pick up on. Futile really but I felt like I did something.

I want to take some Road cars to the track with my boys and I'm trying to figure out which shells will take the most abuse (rather which ones I'm willing to sacrifice). The Ford Gt is My eldest shell so that's a gimme, Ill probably give the little guy the Parma shell I just finished as it is pretty basic and fairly cheap $$$ wise but robust enough to bash.

[Nobbi1977 1793]

Added a free sticker job to the £1 paint job. Found the shell rubs on the front CVA with balls on so might need to step screw it

 

[Nitomor 2122]

Great minds and all that, Mud Blaster II decals, I did the same with my experimental Mad Bull shell...

[Nobbi1977 1793]

2 minutes ago, Nitomor said:

Great minds and all that, Mud Blaster II decals, I did the same with my experimental Mad Bull shell...

Just goes to show there are no new ideas in life :-)

[Nitomor 2122]

Lol!

[matman 1499]

Stripped down my losi T five .

 

Have rebuilt front & rear Gearbox's , That including redoing bearings ( removing rubber seal & cleaning repacking with grease etc ) . 

 

Hope pic's work , as i see they are dropping off ? not sure if it's 

photobucket or the new forum . 

As the link code worked the other day & it's the same i have always used ... IMG code ?. 

[Nitomor 2122]

I can see them!

[Theibault 1535]

A little more progress. 

[jupitertwo 1484]

Took my nearly complete Tomahawk out for a spin in the garden

 

Awesome buggy, but discovered two things:

1) I've got too much throw on the steering servo, getting some ridiculous angle one way.

2) 17.5 brushless with a 2s lipo is borderline too much (wheelies are not what I expected)

3) If (2) then I really really really need to glue those rear tires on

 

[mr crispy 2293]

Thought I'd go over the scuffs and scrapes on my daughter Lunchbox but rather than just clean it up I'd use oil paints to get a rust effect.

Before pics, the usual knocks and scrapes on a hard shell.

After a few mins with the artists oils. 

The cracked windscreen looks more at home now! 

 

Much easier than trying to colour match the old paint and it looks pretty effective to me. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[TeaMonster 506]

3 minutes ago, mr crispy said:

Thought I'd go over the scuffs and scrapes on my daughter Lunchbox but rather than just clean it up I'd use oil paints to get a rust effect.

Before pics, the usual knocks and scrapes on a hard shell.

After a few mins with the artists oils. 

The cracked windscreen looks more at home now! 

 

Much easier than trying to colour match the old paint and it looks pretty effective to me. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looks excellent, as you said it's much better than trying match the colour

[Nitomor 2122]

Fantastic idea Mr Crispy, looks awesome!

[Nobbi1977 1793]

Fantastic. Would be worth a how to thread on its own

[kaylon 235]

I built a monster beetle.... one more of my childhood RC ticked off the wish list...

[Rb4276 803]

Finished my TRF 201 body for bashing. I don't want to ruin my zahhak body since you can't get them anymore. I also went to the local shop and picked up jconcepts dirt web tires front and rear

[Theibault 1535]

One running Tomahawk. Now I just need to figure out what color to paint the body. Never tried Tamiya PS-33 Cherry Red. Anyone have thoughts on that color?

[Effigy3 1267]

3 hours ago, Rb4276 said:

Finished my TRF 201 body for bashing. I don't want to ruin my zahhak body since you can't get them anymore. I also went to the local shop and picked up jconcepts dirt web tires front and rear

Great choice for a basher body.  The 201 body is wicked thick and should hold up better than something like a Sand Viper body.

[Rb4276 803]

15 minutes ago, Effigy3 said:

Great choice for a basher body.  The 201 body is wicked thick and should hold up better than something like a Sand Viper body.

Thanks it is a nice body and def. thicker. I know I'm in the extreme minority but I love the zahhak body. People bash it everywhere lol

[jupitertwo 1484]

15 hours ago, Theibault said:

One running Tomahawk. Now I just need to figure out what color to paint the body. Never tried Tamiya PS-33 Cherry Red. Anyone have thoughts on that color?

I seem to have a can of it myself, so I might have been thinking on the same lines 

I sprayed a bit on some plastic, and you can see the comparison with what I painted mine, which is PS-2

 

It'd certainly be bright

[jupitertwo 1484]

Started on my Optima, I couldn't resist the chain