So, What Have You Done Today?

[Re-Bugged]

9 hours ago, SupraChrgd82 said:

Got me an Element Knightrunner and immediately disassembled it.

 

So that’s the ARTR version now then?

[Mad Zero]

8 hours ago, Yoshimitsu said:

@Mad Zero

I'd be keen to know what the surround is like to. 

A good tip I picked up on here was (if there's an indent to work with) Apply a large peice of masking tape along the indent then with a new blade run your scalpel along the indent and remove the tape leaving the surround. 

Make sure it's pressed down, then apply your chosen paint. I have never used an airbrush but I imagine it's ideal for this kind of thing. I just used Tamiya flat black acrylic, several coats to eliminate bleed.

Remove tape, Roberts your Mother's Brother.

I'm sure there are better ways. Folk on here are a mine of info 👌

Thanks (all) yes there is an indent but it changes profile as it goes around. My first attempts were along the lines suggested but due to the nature of the way the indent is moulded tape masking all amounts to cutting a freehand parallel line, imagine Edward Scissorhands as a sign-writer.
I’ve also tried lining tape with liquid mask to give me the negative (rough edges) , liquid mask with the indent wipes out with an ear bud (wobbly freehand) and various combinations of the above to get the king straight lines (I’m happy doing the corners freehand with a brush). 
Don’t worry too much tho it’s just a mediocre model I built over Christmas I’ve largely lost interested in. 

[GeeWings]

2 hours ago, Mad Zero said:

Thanks (all) yes there is an indent but it changes profile as it goes around. My first attempts were along the lines suggested but due to the nature of the way the indent is moulded tape masking all amounts to cutting a freehand parallel line, imagine Edward Scissorhands as a sign-writer.
I’ve also tried lining tape with liquid mask to give me the negative (rough edges) , liquid mask with the indent wipes out with an ear bud (wobbly freehand) and various combinations of the above to get the king straight lines (I’m happy doing the corners freehand with a brush). 
Don’t worry too much tho it’s just a mediocre model I built over Christmas I’ve largely lost interested in. 

Yes, sometimes it seems there is no easy way. Often from the outside there appears a nice crisp line to follow but the lines inside the shell are more complex to follow. Could you use a paint pen and just run it along the edge?

I did see a very impressive solution on Instagram where someone was cutting out the windows, applying wire flex as rubber seal then reapplying the windows. It looked amazing! 

[c64orinoco]

10 hours ago, Willy iine said:

Another special thanks to @FourthProtocol

Now I need to take on my wife’s challenge of making a rolling tool case.. 

Maybe after I build my Egress?  

Makes me think of a segment from the "D-Generation" Australian comedy show from the 90's. It was called 'Sh*tscared' an frequently featured a 'thumbs-up' pose while wearing a crash helmet. Some other Aussies might remember it.

 

[FourthProtocol]

Soooo today I made the hugest mess of my workbench

This build scratches an itch - something not American, European, or Japanese.

[GeeWings]

40 minutes ago, FourthProtocol said:

Soooo today I made the hugest mess of my workbench

This build scratches an itch - something not American, European, or Japanese.

Ooooh, that looks interesting. Would love to see more pictures. 

[Juhunio]

I actually FINISHED something 

Chassis is a TA04-SS bought 2nd hand and rebuilt and restored to box-fresh. 

It came with an uncut and unpainted TT body shell, but no stickers. It's been painted and sat on the shelf for weeks....

The RB livery sticker set is utterly impossible to find, but I did manage to track down a pretty ropey scan which was somehow enough for Nathaneal at MCI to come up with the goods. With what he had to work with, I think he did a pretty amazing job, and I finally got around to applying all 60-odd of them 

  

[Frankster]

15 hours ago, Willy iine said:

Another special thanks to @FourthProtocol

Now I need to take on my wife’s challenge of making a rolling tool case.. 

Maybe after I build my Egress?  

Is that a stock front bumper for the sand scorcher?

[Willy iine]

1 hour ago, Frankster said:

Is that a stock front bumper for the sand scorcher?

No that is an eBay front bumper.  (okay that sounds bad)   LOL

 

@Juhunio  And all this time I thought you were just stocking up your RC store.  

 

[InsaneJim69]

Nothing R/C , but I did pick up my new car 😁😁 😍. It's actually stunning with the optional body styling pack on it. It's pitch black outside so hopefully get some good photos of it tomorrow. It also happened to come with a few optional extras that I never knew it had specced 🤔👍

James 

[BuggyDad]

19 hours ago, Frankster said:

These are generic from AliExpress. Yeah racing has same set at a higher price. I also picked up a set @alvinlwh showed but the post and magnets end up in the rear windshield glass area.  

This is another generic one I picked up from AliExpress.  Takes a while to arrive. 
 

Thanks. I did a search for the previous image with the double articulated ones and have ordered the same. I see what you mean about lead times though - April... 

[Tamiyastef]

I went to Brussels today to pick up my signed copy of the Optima House artbook and meet Ryo aka optimaforever. Very talented and kind RC guy. If you love looking in RC catalogues I can recommend this artbook 100%. The picture of the turbo Optima on the beach alone is worth buying the whole book, it's better than the one on the grass in the 1987 Kyosho catalogue IMHO. 

[alvinlwh]

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[BuggyDad]

1 hour ago, alvinlwh said:

Took the regeared 3R M4 out for a test drive today after the disaster last week. 

App said I should get 17mph.

But GPS speedo recorded 22+mph. Thinking it was a mistake, I reset it and tried again and still the same. 

I wonder... 

And while it is not quite a disaster compared to last week, "only" 20mph winds today, but while driving into the wind at 20+mph, a 35mph gust ripped the body right off (last week was a 50+mph gust). This time, it actually blew the shell away from me towards a live road, luckily I managed to catch up with it. 

Turns out it was the paint that ripped out, the glue and magnets actually still stayed on the mounts. 

On speed, how odd. I collected no data but when I moved from 17t to 19t on my buggy I didn't think it was much faster with the motor I have, which suggested to me that under the higher gearing I didn't have the power to overcome things like wind and rolling resistance to get to top rpm, at least not quickly, while under lower gearing I perhaps did.

That's bad luck on the body mounts. Not that lovely orange NSU shell? Gives pause for thought on magnetic mounts and perhaps finding ways to ask less of the paint - stick magnet to a larger piece of lexan which you then glue over a larger paint area?  Certainly it makes magnetic mounts look like a bad idea to me on an off road lexan shell, which is something I was half considering. 

[Tamiyastef]

I'm waiting on delivery of magnetic body mounts to put a lexan shell on my M-05. Now I'm not so sure anymore...

[Willy iine]

1 minute ago, Tamiyastef said:

I'm waiting on delivery of magnetic body mounts to put a lexan shell on my M-05. Now I'm not so sure anymor...

Magnets are fantastic for concourse cars with no pre-drilled holes.  

[Tamiyastef]

8 minutes ago, Willy iine said:

Magnets are fantastic for concourse cars with no pre-drilled holes.  

But not ideal for drivers cars?

[BuggyDad]

On a driver, I guess you want to be sure the bond between the magnets is considerably less than that between the shell magnet and the shell itself, so they let go as they should. How you go about working that out is another matter...

I might try them on my Kamtec white shell though, where this wouldn't really matter, and the bond wouldn't rely on paint. 

[Willy iine]

40 minutes ago, Tamiyastef said:

But not ideal for drivers cars?

If you don't crash chances are you'll be fine, so I'd use it if the bodies did not come pre-drilled.   But if you're racing your car then I'd probably just use clips.

[alvinlwh]

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[SupraChrgd82]

Put ‘er back together some

[Frankster]

14 hours ago, Willy iine said:

No that is an eBay front bumper.  (okay that sounds bad)   LOL

 

@Juhunio  And all this time I thought you were just stocking up your RC store.  

 

@Willy iine Can you share a link of screenshot?