So, What Have You Done Today?

[StrokerBoy 772]

40 minutes ago, jupitertwo said:

Looks great, you recovered the shell well if this is the one you had problems with?

Yeah it is, thanks.  There's a few glitches if you look closely, photos always flatter them.  The green is a bit thin, you can see the decals through the doors, but it kinda makes it glow a bit which I like. 

[Wooders28 4719]

Ran with Glasgow RC club at ignition festival Glasgow, absolutely brilliant day! 

Track was built by ignition and although tight, was really enjoyable and flowed nicely  (once we'd 'bedded in the track' , ie, broke bits of the track 🙄) 

Ayr RC club ran 'public have a go sessions' which, after a bit of head scratching,we saw it working really well with the epa turned down,2 guys ran their trophy trucks too. It's a fitness work out marshalling! 😕😂

Couple of runs and the car was getting a bit dusty! 

@Jonathon Gillham I ran/run the esc in the same boost and timing as the guy before me had it set, just reduced the drag brake as it was swapping ends when I wanted to roll into a corner. It's made a big difference with the 6.5t reedy motor. I reduced the throttle epa to 45% after a bit of an off today  (and through the barrier where public would have been standing 🙄, resulting in a talking too😔) upped back up to 80% later on as i couldn't make the double though.

More pics and videos :- 

https://m.facebook.com/GlasgowRC

[berman 5315]

Had a late night and a bit of this morning building the chassis for my konghead. Chucked a nip sport tuned and a RR 20 tooth in there straight off the bat 😊 Also a bonus to find out my old dx3c can steer off the third channel and didn't need the Y harness.

[Effigy3 1267]

Helped a buddy from work build his first R/C car ever.  TT-02 Acura NSX.  It was a mostly stock build with bearings being the only option.  I painted up and decaled the body for him since he really wasn't interested in doing that himself.  I get how that part could be intimidating for newbs.  Maybe he'll do the next body.    Considering he's NEVER piloted an R/C car before; I left the body posts full length so they'd act a bit as roll-bars in a bid to help protect the body.

[moffman 5747]

Started my Schumacher cat xls this morning (not the best build I've ever done!) I thought the Tamiya CR-01 chassis tried my patients this one definitely gives that a run for it's money on the loosing my patients front.......it's been put away until I regain a sense of normality!

[Robert5000 928]

3 minutes ago, moffman said:

Started my Schumacher cat xls this morning (not the best build I've ever done!) I thought the Tamiya CR-01 chassis tried my patients this one definitely gives that a run for it's money on the loosing my patients front.......it's been put away until I regain a sense of normality!

Oh come on, you gotta tell us why!

 

[moffman 5747]

40 minutes ago, Robert5000 said:

Oh come on, you gotta tell us why!

 

Need to be an octopus to hold everything in place while you then get another friend who's an octopus to put screws in!,  and those drive shafts it says heat them up to make it easier to put them together!.......yeah right! Did just that with a hair dryer and the first one snaps and I was missing one half of a spring washer!

[Robert5000 928]

That is poetry @moffman Really looking forward to building mine. Will you go boxart?

[moffman 5747]

13 minutes ago, Robert5000 said:

That is poetry @moffman Really looking forward to building mine. Will you go boxart?

Yeah definitely boxart is their any other? But I'm leaving the chassis guard clear (I think) and I've decided to go retro with the motor was going brushless but now decided on unused orion 11turn formula

[moffman 5747]

Sorry for the bad photo's bad lighting!

[78Triumph 2610]

Finished up another section of my backyard "track".  It's tight and technical. 

Untitled by Joe, on Flickr

Untitled by Joe, on Flickr

Untitled by Joe, on Flickr

 

with a set of white cones I can change the layout to include the asphalt and grass into the circuit.

[Effigy3 1267]

The kids and I went to the park to bash our rally cars.  Grabbed a few snaps of the boy's Subby WRC before it got dirty.  Looks sharp right?

[Jason1145 3986]

48 minutes ago, Effigy3 said:

The kids and I went to the park to bash our rally cars.  Grabbed a few snaps of the boys Subby WRC before it got dirty.  Looks sharp right?

Looks real!

[TeaMonster 506]

6 hours ago, Effigy3 said:

The kids and I went to the park to bash our rally cars.  Grabbed a few snaps of the boys Subby WRC before it got dirty.  Looks sharp right?

As above, very realistic photo👍

[Robert5000 928]

14 hours ago, moffman said:

Yeah definitely boxart is their any other? But I'm leaving the chassis guard clear (I think) and I've decided to go retro with the motor was going brushless but now decided on unused orion 11turn formula

 

Yeah but, still -as cool as it looks, it is a german flag on wheels, and surely there must be some other options? Not that I have any inkling as to what that might be just yet.

[moffman 5747]

3 hours ago, Robert5000 said:

Yeah but, still -as cool as it looks, it is a german flag on wheels, and surely there must be some other options? Not that I have any inkling as to what that might be just yet.

Now you put a cat amongst the pigeons? Never give that a thought about German flag! And I bought the paint!

[TeaMonster 506]

1 hour ago, moffman said:

Now you put a cat amongst the pigeons? Never give that a thought about German flag! And I bought the paint!

First thing my wife said when I took the overspray film off🙄

[Robert5000 928]

1 hour ago, TeaMonster said:

First thing my wife said when I took the overspray film off🙄

Not just me then, which means I really have to try to come up with something on my own. 

[moffman 5747]

1 hour ago, TeaMonster said:

First thing my wife said when I took the overspray film off🙄

I painted my sand Scorcher body yellow/red and (even if I say so myself) I made a cracking job of it and as I sat and admired my work "the wife" casually walked passed and casually said "that looks like the noddy car"!!!.....what do they know

[TeaMonster 506]

27 minutes ago, moffman said:

I painted my sand Scorcher body yellow/red and (even if I say so myself) I made a cracking job of it and as I sat and admired my work "the wife" casually walked passed and casually said "that looks like the noddy car"!!!.....what do they know

I know how that feels, the hours of masking, getting the paint to look just right and the standing back to admire a job well done, to have it taken away with one "wife" comment😂

[i_am_scarecrow 912]

Had a bit of a tidy up in the rc cupboard today, I can actually see what I've built and whats still to do now.

I've also recently got into the Mardave stuff too, I do love a national hot rod and Kamtec's shells are brilliant! This will never be raced but it will be quite detailed when it's finished.

 

[Buggyjam 144]

Finally finished my lunchbox. It's stock box art so won't put a pic up. Nice to have a box art one

[Jonathon Gillham 4605]

I need one transponder so somehow that turned into orders from both rcmart and amainhobbies, as I ended up getting new spur and pinions for my Lazer as there is room to go to a lower FDR for a bit more speed, but i couldn't get both from the same place. So that meant justifying a small order by adding more pinions for the Novafox, Boomerang and a mates TT02B and 3 sets of tyres for the TT02B's. Its not so bad, I told my wife the transponders are NZ $150 to $180 if bought locally, so really US $200 is a bargain for all that, so really I saved money...

[Robert5000 928]

10 hours ago, moffman said:

I painted my sand Scorcher body yellow/red and (even if I say so myself) I made a cracking job of it and as I sat and admired my work "the wife" casually walked passed and casually said "that looks like the noddy car"!!!.....what do they know

 

10 hours ago, TeaMonster said:

I know how that feels, the hours of masking, getting the paint to look just right and the standing back to admire a job well done, to have it taken away with one "wife" comment😂

As Her is a designer I asked about suggestions for the xls to avoid the german flag on wheels. Precisely, about as smart as putting a rabid wolf in a sheep's pen.
I now have an infinite amount of colour schemes that admittedly looks good but are miles and miles beyond me and a couple of rattle cans. So I know now that for the first time in the history of mankind she'll take an interest in anything rc-related and promptly axe my effort as I didn't follow her advice. Yay me! 

[Wooders28 4719]

As I posted a few days ago, I spent 3 days at the Glasgow ignition festival , 2 days 'working' on the Glasgow model car club stand, talking rc to the public, putting on demo runs on the great wee track that was built for us, and marshalling public have a go sessions.

One day getting to see all the drift competitions and the group B rally car's do there thing, getting driven by the rally greats! What more can you ask for from a weekend  (weather, yes we could have had better weather, drift boys didn't seem to mind though!) 

Some things I've learnt.

3 days of abuse and the track was literally falling apart, if it wasn't for sand bags and duct tape! 🙄

99.9% of the public didn't realise how quick rc car's can go, and we had turned the wick down! 

The public didn't do as much damage to the car's as we had feared, with the EPA turned down, we were using our own car's by the end, just to try and give everyone track time!

The KF2 is a brilliant car, once set up.

Brushless servos are absolutely necessary when you've a quick car around a tight track.

Fitting a metal servo horn to a brushless servo is not wise. After getting impatient, I took to the track with one of the public still on, and met them going the wrong way up the straight, new servo gears required....😔

The RB5 understeers like mad, and with only a stock servo, took what felt like a day to turn into a corner.