So, What Have You Done Today?

[TurnipJF 9192]

Today I made a start on a Morris Minor pickup shell for my GF-01 by cutting and shortening a Kamtec Morris Minor van body:

Eventually it will have a spout and a handle, and will be an entrant into next year's Splendid Teapot Hillclimb.

[Kol__ 3377]

Thanks @Aerobert, appreciate that mate👍🏻 Time to investigate further mods I think.

...and yeah definitely the trucks fault😉... danger is in the very name of it😂

[Nikko85 3454]

2 hours ago, Aerobert said:

Oh no. I'm also sure it was the truck. Hopefully your son will be fine again soon @Kol__.

Regarding the run time of the lipo battery I never watched the clock when running it but I would estimate between 20 and 30 minutes. I'm using the 4000 mAh Gartpot 2S Lipos. They are round hard case batteries and fit the Tamiyas very well. They were quite cheap when I've bought them, around 25€, but I'm not sure if they are still available.

The tires are cheap monster truck tires from eBay. They come with chrome plated plastic rims but they fits the kit wheels perfectly. And they are looking great on this truck, like a Monster Truck.

Here's the link:

https://www.ebay.de/itm/225259623178?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=707-127634-2357-0&ssspo=ji03ozantxy&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=PX2xHBTCTKm&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=MORE

 

And here are two pics of mine when it was not so beaten like it now is:

As you can see on the first picture I also fitted cheap Carson oil shocks.

Lovely, that looks so much better than stock!

[Badcrumble 4204]

1 hour ago, Kol__ said:

Thanks @Aerobert, appreciate that mate👍🏻 Time to investigate further mods I think.

...and yeah definitely the trucks fault😉... danger is in the very name of it😂

Hop-ups are getting scarce for this chassis now but there is a decent thread here about mods

My son loves his Dual Hunter, a great first truck for him. He's had it on 55T motors to slow it down then back up to silver cans as he got more competent. We currently have it stripped down to rebuild and re-shell in the New Year.

Hope you and yours have as much fun with your truck!

[Sogogi 3217]

Was itching to go out and run my hornet. Went out and sent it!

so much fun. Now time to clean lol

[Re-Bugged 10150]

9 hours ago, Willy iine said:

Oh yes 👍🏻 very nice. Great details on the driver gloves too.

I’ve tentatively been looking for Alloy wheels for the Turbo Scorpion, those you have there aren’t 2.2’s are they?? 

[Re-Bugged 10150]

9 hours ago, ThunderDragonCy said:

Ordered a Super Hotshot and a big pile of related things. Winter project will be a hopped up Hotshot 2.

Nice, I find myself looking at Hot Shots more and more lately, looking forward to this build.

[Re-Bugged 10150]

Went out for a single opportunity I had for some Postal Racing.

Lucky I went early as parking can be tight at times…

 

[An_RC_Guy 131]

Well in my anxious waiting for my soon to be delivered TT-02, and with my first college semester now being finished, I've been trying to burn up some time. I did some CAD modeling to make a some somewhat accurate looking 5-spoke Speedline F1 front wheel for my F104W that I can 3d print. I plan on trying to resin print it with an engineering grade resin in hopes that it's durable enough. The current model should work with foam donuts, but I also want to make a set that works with Tamiya rubber tires since I can't find a Tamiya made rubber version of this wheel. I've been wanting to put rubber tires on my F104w to give it a more scale appearance and heard they don't wear down as fast, so hopefully this allows me to do that. Also figured out my F104 is out of commission for the moment since I blew through my front tires while driving on the tennis court. I have the foam, I just need to follow through with cutting my own foam donuts.

 

[Frankster 2033]

10 hours ago, Kol__ said:

Hope you're all well, good to see all the cool stuff you guys have been up to of late😎👍🏻

I picked up a Wild Dagger cheap on eBay earlier this week, hardly been used. Swapped out the plastic bushes in the wheels for bearings and the hexes for alloy ones and took it out for a drive. Just kept the standard MSC in it and it ran fine in vintage style. Used a vintage pistol grip Tamiya Expec transmitter with it as well. First time driving a WT-01 chassis and also first time with a twin motor truck. Certainly not fast by any means, but can get up and over pretty much anything 😂

Being twin motor, it went through the Nimh batteries fairly quickly. Might look at the twin battery chassis upgrade and then upgrading the motors for a brushless setup. Anyone got any experience of modding this chassis?

Funny you picked one up.  I saw one for sale locally and it peaked my interest.   After the Clod era, I was not into RC’s for a while and was not aware of this chassis. Twin motors and potential 4WS is intriguing.  
 

 @Aerobert is that an Extreme Blackfoot body?

[Willy iine 18806]

1 hour ago, Re-Bugged said:

Oh yes 👍🏻 very nice. Great details on the driver gloves too.

I’ve tentatively been looking for Alloy wheels for the Turbo Scorpion, those you have there aren’t 2.2’s are they?? 

Thanks!  No, those are 1.9, same size as the kit wheels for the Beetle.

[ThunderDragonCy 7881]

5 hours ago, Re-Bugged said:

Nice, I find myself looking at Hot Shots more and more lately, looking forward to this build.

Same. I have always loved how they looked. Any of the series was on my teenage want list. The reality of the truly awful steering on the Boomerwig I did a while back pushed me to sell that. However, managing to get a decent setup on that stock monoshock Thunder Dragon I built got me thinking I could get one driving nicely. And the earlier hotshot cars lend themselves more easily to sorting out the steering. I have an M05 steering set on the way as well. Hopefully it will turn out nice. 

[Aerobert 2145]

4 hours ago, Frankster said:

Funny you picked one up.  I saw one for sale locally and it peaked my interest.   After the Clod era, I was not into RC’s for a while and was not aware of this chassis. Twin motors and potential 4WS is intriguing.  
 

 @Aerobert is that an Extreme Blackfoot body?

It's a JConcepts F-250 body with Traxxas roll bar. 

[Kol__ 3377]

11 hours ago, Badcrumble said:

Hop-ups are getting scarce for this chassis now but there is a decent thread here about mods

 

11 hours ago, Badcrumble said:

My son loves his Dual Hunter, a great first truck for him. He's had it on 55T motors to slow it down then back up to silver cans as he got more competent. We currently have it stripped down to rebuild and re-shell in the New Year.

Hope you and yours have as much fun with your truck!

Thanks BadC, time to start an investigation into a new model, now who doesn't love a bit of that in this hobby 😉👍🏻

[Willy iine 18806]

For me, started the day sanding the SandScorcher mirrors to use on my Kyosho Beetle.. only to realize after I placed an order for another pair that I could've just made these out of styrene..   Not good to make decisions while sleepy airhead + dumb.. 

Anyway, I sprayed them black and once it dries I will mount onto the body and start the chassis today.     

 

Update.. finished the body (for now), moved onto building the chassis.

 

 

Final update for today… will install the electronics tomorrow.   

 

 

Btw, I think I’m going to be one nylon nut short.. 

Edited December 17, 2022 by Willy iine

[Andreas W 1555]

No time for anything RC related today. We got 20 cm of snow, so this day has gone for mounting chains and snowplow on the little grey Fergie. Here it is idling and everything is fine. It is so nice to have such machinery, which requires a minimum of maintainanze and just performs. To clear off the 55 m of driveway is just a joy. 

 

Still I got to do one RC related thing: I bought a nice second hand Terra Scorcher rere. It's for the kids, so they do not wreck my TD, which turned out way too good and is reserved for grownups. 

[Nikko85 3454]

The Jeep got its wheels dirty in the first run in the park since completion. 35T motor. No roll overs and seems very well balanced with the extra weight in the front. Good running over medium grass too, and decently speedy in the concrete. 

Very happy all in all.

[Kol__ 3377]

12 minutes ago, Nikko85 said:

The Jeep got its wheels dirty in the first run in the park since completion. 35T motor. No roll overs and seems very well balanced with the extra weight in the front. Good running over medium grass too, and decently speedy in the concrete. 

Very happy all in all.

Did the attack come from the sides Nikko? Bet you didn't know that the other two were even there😉

[Nikko85 3454]

31 minutes ago, Kol__ said:

Did the attack come from the sides Nikko? Bet you didn't know that the other two were even there😉

I was more worried about the goose which scales up to around t rex size!

[Kol__ 3377]

🦆double post 🙄

[Kol__ 3377]

8 minutes ago, Nikko85 said:

I was more worried about the goose which scales up to around t rex size!

Holy **** mate! ...imagine getting gobbled up by a T-Rex sized goose beak! Quack that!🦆

[JYCM3 236]

On 12/16/2022 at 9:09 AM, Willy iine said:

Here is the body.. 

Willy iine, that looks amazing what Tamiya blue did you use? Or is it Faskolor?
 

 

[JYCM3 236]

Decided to paint the Kyosho 1/8 Ferrari 458 Italia body set
if it look nice then I might get the Inferno GT3 chassis kit and convert it to electric (brushless) That will be my next project.

 

[Willy iine 18806]

1 hour ago, JYCM3 said:

Willy iine, that looks amazing what Tamiya blue did you use? Or is it Faskolor?
 

 

Thanks!   I am running PS59.   

[futureworks 864]

Having built nothing at all this year, I’ve completed a couple of TA04 projects this week. One is a heavily upgraded TA04R (R for Racing Spec I believe) with shortened wheelbase, making this a TA04RS. The other is a TA04-TRF but with a few alu parts swapped from blue to plain and a couple of other slight variations. Next step will be to try out the Fun TA04 2-Speed conversion set I bought last year, which I’ll fit to the TRF 👍