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3 hours ago, Tamiyabigstuff said:

Thought the Hertz rent-a-racer cars were red ?

Didn't know they did red! 

After a quick Google, it looks like they did other colours later in the run , but,

"The first Hertz Shelby's were all painted Raven Black with Gold stripes and a GT 350H rocker panel stripe. "

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Pulled the trigger on an orlandoo hunter f150 micro crawler with all the electrics (apart from the receiver) for only $75from rcmart. I'm planning on raiding my stash of 1/35 scale model kits for some suitable AA gun or heavy mg to turn it into a "Technical".

Just hope I don't get stung on customs when it gets here. 

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2 hours ago, Wooders28 said:

Didn't know they did red! 

After a quick Google, it looks like they did other colours later in the run , but,

"The first Hertz Shelby's were all painted Raven Black with Gold stripes and a GT 350H rocker panel stripe. "

Seem to recall an episode of Fast'n'Loud where they did a red Mustang which was originally a Hertz rent-a-racer.

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14 minutes ago, Tamiyabigstuff said:

Seem to recall an episode of Fast'n'Loud where they did a red Mustang which was originally a Hertz rent-a-racer.

They may have done (although it's Fast'n'Loud in TV land, so...🙄).

The first ones were black with gold stripes.

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6 hours ago, Percymon said:

White with two navy stripes down the middle ?

 

There are always a couple white with blue stripes so I tend to not do that one. 

6 hours ago, Wooders28 said:

Didn't know they did red! 

After a quick Google, it looks like they did other colours later in the run , but,

"The first Hertz Shelby's were all painted Raven Black with Gold stripes and a GT 350H rocker panel stripe. "

When I was in Orlando I rented one of the 06 Shelby gt-h mustangs for a day.   It was pretty quick and fun to drive but they had traction control locked on,  so you couldn't do burnouts and smoke the tires bald. 😞

The black would be too hard to see,  but maybe in reverse,  gold with black stripes or should I just use my standard yellow and black?  Easy to see but I kind of wanted something different. 

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Got spoilt rotten today for my 40th birthday! Also found the little M02 at my lhs yesterday for £18, needs some work but it's mostly cleaning and a set of wheels. The Alpine body will be ditched in favour of one of my Mini shells.

 

 

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Nearly finished the Neo Fighter few more stickers to do 

Not overly happy with the body and stuff but its ok for first go 

 

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1 hour ago, i_am_scarecrow said:

Got spoilt rotten today for my 40th birthday! Also found the little M02 at my lhs yesterday for £18, needs some work but it's mostly cleaning and a set of wheels. The Alpine body will be ditched in favour of one of my Mini shells.

 

 

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Spoiled Rotten doesn't even catch the tip of the iceberg. :P I think that is quite a nice birthday surprise and enjoy it.

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Impulse buy.....literally bid and then hoped to be outbid...... really not a bad buy off ebay just dont really need them as I just ought two cars off of @Nobbi1977 ... oh well, Ill clean them and relist them I guess.

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3 hours ago, iluvmud said:

Impulse buy.....literally bid and then hoped to be outbid...... really not a bad buy off ebay just dont really need them as I just ought two cars off of @Nobbi1977 ... oh well, Ill clean them and relist them I guess.

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Just need some bubble wrap and we are good to post. Like busses bargains come In batches 

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Bit of a ' what the postman brought' as well.

Fitted these to my Daytona Thunder

49539 & 49541

I think they match the motor wires pretty well 😀

Apart from a diffuser 53151 I've finished! every hop up (I think).

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Got bored of staring at a really badly painted Scorcher shell so started prepping it for something a bit more interesting military wise (the colour is filler primer not the final finish)...

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Rather embarrassing I spent 2 hours fitting a silver can to a SRB gearcase - yep, 2 hours !

Why ?   I don't know whether Tamiya have slightly changed their Mabuchi silver can motors, but the mounting pin holes at the front of the motor case / the position of the wires on the end bell, are not correctly aligned for the SRB end bell motor cover - the cover holes for the securing screws were out of alignment by about 10'.  Tried a variety of new silver cans, all the same.  Tried an old knackered silver can and it went straight in !.  After some tweaking of the motor wiring tangs/solder i managed finally to get it sorted. Last thing i wanted was a cracked cover due to excess strain.

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Had a but of a play on the 3D CAD after trick or treating last night. Got to a concept for some 10 deg caster front c hubs for my thunder Dragon. Surprisingly complex shape! The idea has been sloshing around in my head for a while, since reading about Jamie Booths Manta Ray and him making caster uprights to make it less "twitch city". All the tamiya 4wd race buggies have 10 or 12 deg caster block options. Thought it would be cool to try out. Going to wait on finishing off a couple of other things before ordering on shapeways to make the most of the shipping cost. Have it mind to do some more 10 deg c hubs for my DF01 and some 3 deg toe in rear hubs for my thunder Dragon.

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Ordered yet more parts for my SRB builds - seemed like a good idea to use up some of my spares, but its turning into and expensive exercise with all the other parts needed !

Picked up some paint from Halfords for the Fighting Buggy body (Peugeot Poseidan Blue) and one of the colours for the Scorcher shell (Rover Kingfisher)

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On ‎2017‎-‎10‎-‎31 at 12:24 PM, iluvmud said:

Impulse buy.....literally bid and then hoped to be outbid...... really not a bad buy off ebay just dont really need them as I just ought two cars off of @Nobbi1977 ... oh well, Ill clean them and relist them I guess.

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@iluvmudor anyone my 8yr nephew has been asking for spiky front tires for his grasshopper 2 2017. What tires and rims are pictured?

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On 31/10/2017 at 2:00 PM, i_am_scarecrow said:

Got spoilt rotten today for my 40th birthday! Also found the little M02 at my lhs yesterday for £18, needs some work but it's mostly cleaning and a set of wheels. The Alpine body will be ditched in favour of one of my Mini shells

If that Alpine shell is heading for the bin, any chance of sending it my way instead? Drop me a PM and let me know what you want for it?

 

I have a mate with a pristine M-06 Alpine that he hardly ever drives for fear of ruining the shell. A pre-worn runner shell might be just the thing to persuade him to bring it to our next meetup. I'd like to see how it performs against my M-03 Suzuki Swift.

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1 hour ago, DaveBuildsRC said:

@iluvmudor anyone my 8yr nephew has been asking for spiky front tires for his grasshopper 2 2017. What tires and rims are pictured?

hey bud, these are stock super hornet wheels/tires. I believe they all used the same tires that were used on the manta ray and theyre easy to come by.

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Had a pretty good day, first of all spent a bit of time gluing & sanding this lot ready for priming,

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Then a few coats of primer on the Bear Hawk so it can all be flattened back before painting,

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Then attempted to re-profile the front wings on the poor abused original Scorcher shell I recently won online (the whole shell had already been majorly hacked, I wouldn't have done this otherwise),

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Quite a productive day considering I was hooning these round Goodwood all morning!

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Managed to shorten my old TA06 chassis club racer to fit a jagermeister Zakspeed Capri body on it😁.

But what colour do I paint it? Already got one in the correct orange🍊 lime green?

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Completed up to step 9 for my f104 v2 pro. Will be starting step 15 on Friday as motor has not arrived. Took some pics for my build thread too.

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Fitted my brushless motor tonight, the esc is *******ing huge just squeezed on OK. 

Had a little go in the dark up and down the road. Its flippin' quick!

Wish I had gone for higher kv though but this will do

 

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4 hours ago, DaveBuildsRC said:

Completed up to step 9 for my f104 v2 pro. Will be starting step 15 on Friday as motor has not arrived. Took some pics for my build thread too.

Cool I'm keen to see a build thread having just built an F1,  always good to see the different models and how I could have done it better!

Swapped the endbells over and sent the faulty motor back as well, now have to decide whether to run 21.5T stock touring it F1 or F1 and 13.5T super stock next meet, first time out racing super stock will be a big ask...but its just toy cars right so what can go wrong?

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Finally added my last set of axles with rings to hold my universals on the front of my tt02b and my dt03t. One of pins on each car came loose and bent a little so enough was enough

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