So, What Have You Done Today?

[Ferruz 13181]

Went for an after work run with the Hornet, after almost a week away from RC... just to find out that all of my batteries are unable to take a full charge  even the Hornet with its 2WD, simple gearbox and light weight was running on half the power, or even less. By now, my top performer battery is a good old Nicad from 1995! Which means it's really time for me to get a couple new ones... I'll put these old ones aside for now, until I feel like taking them apart to salvage the good cells from the dead ones and maybe even try and make some new Frankenstein monster batteries. To be fair, they did take a lot of abuse in the 4 years I've had them, so I guess I can't be too disappointed after all.

[InsaneJim69 1587]

1 hour ago, svenb said:

Finished a L&L models Sapphire Cosworth body.

Not happy with it, decals too transparent,thin and delaminating.

Not a patch on their RS500, but still looks alright from a distance 🙄

 

Spoilt by Tamiya!

Yeah the L and L decals are a joke at best imo for most of what they produce. Still looks good in the picture. 👍

James 

[nel33 870]

20 hours ago, InsaneJim69 said:

Front should line up perfectly. The rear holes will be an inch or so behind where the TT02 mounts are though. So might need either new holes drilled at the rear or possibly TA03F rear body mounts which are ' L ' shaped.

James.

thank you for the reply, i ee what you mean with the L shaped mounts. its likely out of range for the extenstions on the TT02. though i did order an extra set of parts that include  body posts and the extenders. dont know if they will work until i see it visually. id rather not redrill the holes though i havent tried gluing/sealing lexan  holes ever. i do try to keep the tt02 chassis body posts to accept every shell i own if possible. i might need to revisit that habit if the evo7 body holes are out of range for some light body post tinkering. currently using the self tapping screws though i have M3 long screws that might work if i end up having to sway out the rear posts too often.

 

@svenb what yellow did you use for the cowsorth? im trying to aim for a similar yellow that has that light orangish hue.

[Busdriver 6515]

6 hours ago, InsaneJim69 said:

Yeah the L and L decals are a joke at best imo for most of what they produce. Still looks good in the picture. 👍

James 

Had the same issue with the computer vision Metro. There was no white in them !!! Junked them and got a different livery off eBay 

[djmcnz 755]

Started building my Avante, I'll throw up a build thread in due course (although I'm concerned it won't be up to the same standard as some of the awesome build threads we have here).

I also learnt about the differences between the 2011 and Black Special, I didn't realise there were any until I saw the different blister packs. Fortunately I want the original build experience and don't need the Black Special included Hop-Ups so I wasn't bummed out. I assume the BS steering upgrade is just the Egress version and I'll be building one of those soon anyway. Ball diffs, meh, I've built dozens of them and I quite like the standard Avante centre diff.

 

[svenb 4420]

5 hours ago, nel33 said:

 

 

@svenb what yellow did you use for the cowsorth? im trying to aim for a similar yellow that has that light orangish hue.

ps19 camel yellow

Had to paint where the decals went so they still looked yellow!

[Willy iine 18831]

 

14 hours ago, simalarion said:

Those wheels looks like oversized slick F1 tyres :), first thing that struck me was Comical Herbie.

Looks Great

Thanks!  Actually they are for R31House's comical F1 cars they sold 4-5 years ago.  I was really never into Beetles (more a Minicooper guy) until literally a few months ago when something clicked inside of me that suddenly made me gravitate towards these Tamiya Beetles.. so I have no knowledge of Herbie besides seeing the cover of the book long long time ago which I never read nor the movie I never watched.     So in a way this is just my interpretation of what a club racer Bug might look like.. 

12 hours ago, Ferruz said:

Went for an after work run with the Hornet, after almost a week away from RC... just to find out that all of my batteries are unable to take a full charge  even the Hornet with its 2WD, simple gearbox and light weight was running on half the power, or even less. By now, my top performer battery is a good old Nicad from 1995! Which means it's really time for me to get a couple new ones... I'll put these old ones aside for now, until I feel like taking them apart to salvage the good cells from the dead ones and maybe even try and make some new Frankenstein monster batteries. To be fair, they did take a lot of abuse in the 4 years I've had them, so I guess I can't be too disappointed after all.

Sorry to hear about your batteries, Ferruz!   But seems you got a good life out of them!   Usually Nicd sport packs die in like 5-7 years time for me as I can't tray discharge like the side by sides we use to use in the 90's touring car days.  At least with NiMH as long as I don't  discharge too far it will last much longer as they tend to stay balanced longer atleast while the individual cells are holding a sufficient charge.

 

For me today mostly house chores.. starting with washing our white fence in the backyard.. not looking forward to that..got a bunch of things to do today.   Hope to drive my ClubBug a couple times during breaks.  

[simalarion 2552]

Only painting figure left and i will let my daughter at six do part off that as i see Tamiya made that part easy. Starting to get good on those decals with needle, hair-dryer and tape, this time i did not need needle (for air bubles). The blitz does not fo it justice ofc but then you know i aint trying to hide something. I did not use sandpaper on lexan body egde either but i Did not plan to be so picky on this one ad it is for my daughter to play with (i am not saying im as good as you guys ofc, just saying i can see prrsonal progress). Next kit for me will be Subaru Impreza

[Grumpy pants 5539]

Got the 1st car load of boxes out of the storage unit we have had since January this year, which is pretty exciting to me anyway.

Last in was my sons Lego and my Tamiya 💥

Quite a few runs to do over the next 10 days during the notice period, but it’s all good 😊

[nel33 870]

7 hours ago, svenb said:

ps19 camel yellow

Had to paint where the decals went so they still looked yellow!

Thanks, Which backing color did you use? I'm torn between translucent yellow +white or something with ps19.

[svenb 4420]

52 minutes ago, nel33 said:

Thanks, Which backing color did you use? I'm torn between translucent yellow +white or something with ps19.

White, camel isn't my favourite colour in fact any yellow gives me problems!!

[nel33 870]

Just now, svenb said:

White, camel isn't my favourite colour in fact any yellow gives me problems!!

thanks, apparently ps19 isnt very easy to use. its gonna be my first  body shell that will use yellow.

[svenb 4420]

3 minutes ago, nel33 said:

thanks, apparently ps19 isnt very easy to use. its gonna be my first  body shell that will use yellow.

Not easy to get an even coverage.

I used two tins of ps6 on my Daytona Thunder because of patches and the yellow on a Opel V8 coupe was a mare to match up to the decals,had to mix ps19 and white to match.

[Ferruz 13181]

After what feels like ages getting along on hex nuts -two on each side, to be tightened every run or two- I have finally sorted out some proper locknuts for my gold pan RC10. It was about time, though I won't lie it took two trips to Home Depot to find the right ones no matter the research  (no biggie, since I go there often for work anyway).

Of all the possible assortment, the right ones for me were obviously the fugliest and cheapest looking, so I decided to give them a couple coats of metallic gold to better match the colours of the car. No sealant applied yet, since it's stored away somewhere, but I'll get around to it eventually. Felt good to open the toolbox and tinker around, but man I really can't wait to have my place back and restore a semblance of normality. The lack of a proper work space -and even more, having 60% of my RC stuff stored away in three different places- is really starting to take a toll on how I perceive the hobby 

...maybe I'll reward myself with a new kit once this is finally over -and the finances are a bit replenished- 

[InsaneJim69 1587]

Added a TB Evo foam bumper to my TM E4JS. Dressed my son in his bargain £1 Vision costume and half way through making a Demogorgon ( from The Stranger Things)  mask for my 8 year old . Will finish it tomorrow, amazing what can be down with left over cardboard, a glue gun and some paint 😂😂👍. 

James.

[Busdriver 6515]

11 minutes ago, InsaneJim69 said:

Added a TB Evo foam bumper to my TM E4JS. Dressed my son in his bargain £1 Vision costume and half way through making a Demogorgon ( from The Stranger Things)  mask for my 8 year old . Will finish it tomorrow, amazing what can be down with left over cardboard, a glue gun and some paint 😂😂👍. 

James.

Love it

[nel33 870]

53 minutes ago, svenb said:

Not easy to get an even coverage.

I used two tins of ps6 on my Daytona Thunder because of patches and the yellow on a Opel V8 coupe was a mare to match up to the decals,had to mix ps19 and white to match.

thanks, i love how much confidence you are inspiring for me on using tamiya yellow PS paints... still dead set on a yellow evo7 so i will push through that.

[svenb 4420]

14 minutes ago, nel33 said:

thanks, i love how much confidence you are inspiring for me on using tamiya yellow PS paints... still dead set on a yellow evo7 so i will push through that.

Don't let me put you off 😅

[nel33 870]

13 minutes ago, svenb said:

Don't let me put you off 😅

im getting a yellow lancer  come purgatory or highwater.

[Willy iine 18831]

Nothing exciting today as I’ve been doing house chores most of the day in prep for winter, but I’m done now (well, for today)  and after cleaning up my RC shop, decided to install turnbuckles on my latest GF01 as the ball joints cups were scratched up from the many removal I had to do with my plastic jaw long nose during initial set up.  

The chassis was tweaked for some reason, but drives perfectly now… with fresh ball cups.   

Going to go drive my ClubBug now.  

[alvinlwh 7386]

4 hours ago, InsaneJim69 said:

 

You need to do a panel line wash to bring out the details on that mask/helmet. 

[alvinlwh 7386]

Went to the Halloween parade. 

And then onto the important stuff once the kids had gone to sleep. Further inspection, cleaning, repair and tweaking to my badly trashed and neglected TT-01 (R).

This car had been taken to the beach and did not get a proper clean down until now. The 22mm screws holding the top of the rear left hub had been rusted solid and in the process of taking it out, I damaged the head so I replaced them with 2 of the 3x22mm Low Friction Shafts 54395 I actually got for the Holiday Buggy. I just ordered another set as well as I counted the HB needle 6, so all should turn out well. The axle also rusted to the bearings and barely turns so those are also cleaned up. I think the rust is what caused the drive cup to crack and the dog bone had been twisted 90 degrees. So got to get some metal drive cups and universals on my next order from PJ. 

Replaced the Core Racing 23x2T with a Absima Eco-Trust 18T. Leaving the heatsink out for the moment until I get the thermal pads. 

The hot glue from the rear diff were cleaned out and replaced with diff putty. 

Replaced the oil in the rear CVA's with #600 blue from the #400 yellow. 

What I forgotten to do when putting the electronics back together is to install a high torque servo saver. Next time then... 

[alvinlwh 7386]

Took the car out for a midnight run to try out the new motor. Not sure what happened but there was no reverse so took the car back in to check the ESC setting. Switch it off and it went beyond full power! Luckily I had it in my hands if not it will be a runaway! Quickly pulled the battery. Confirmed it is turned off and tried connecting the battery again, spark and beyond full power again. 

Disconnect the motor and plugged the battery in again, ESC started smoking! Few days ago I said this will be my "go-to" in the future, perhaps not! Luckily I took it in when I noticed it is not reversing. 

EDIT: Took the thing apart, is a 60A/320A ESC supposed to have so little in it??? Bearing in mind that there is probably nothing under that heat sink at all. Seems like a lot of empty air in the box. 

[nel33 870]

dropped by LHS, did a visual check on the 3 yellow PS paints in stock. bought a few small token items that will be useful: sandpapre grit sponge 1500, 3200 grit and HPD insta-cure blue bottle (super thin). i really dont like the conventional plastic cement i used back in the day for static models. hopefully i do better with this one. i think this glue is also a decent choice for gluing rims??

[alvinlwh 7386]

1 hour ago, nel33 said:

 HPD insta-cure blue bottle (super thin). i really dont like the conventional plastic cement i used back in the day for static models. hopefully i do better with this one. i think this glue is also a decent choice for gluing rims??

That is just CA or super glue right? Totally different thing from cement and you definitely do not use cement for gluing tyres. CA is the one normally used.