So, What Have You Done Today?

[Kowalski86 4964]

3 hours ago, Jason1145 said:

The only thing wrong with this first photo is the single beer… I mean… you need a couple when trying to fit a steering servo and linkages on an M-05!

 

Could be worse, it could be replacing the battery on this:

 

[Sogogi 3363]

Went to a track and had fun.

GF-01 impressed me. Local offroad track is more suitable for larger 10th scale or 8th scale cars.. GF-01 handled jumps well and it is the only car that didn’t break.

 

[GeeWings 2861]

21 hours ago, Willy iine said:

So besides putting together 2 super mini CVA's today (yes, I thought they were a pack of 4, but they come pack of 2 so had to order another pack.. lol), 

I’ve been there too! I’m glad it’s not just me that makes these mistakes! 

22 minutes ago, Sogogi said:

That looks fun! I really need to get down to one of the local tracks soon.

[Willy iine 18843]

4 minutes ago, GeeWings said:

I’ve been there too! I’m glad it’s not just me that makes these mistakes! 

 

What's really dumb is I've bought many of these in the past and still not learned they are $20 for 2 packs.   Perhaps it's the price that throws me off.. those are hardly worth $10 a pop.    They don't even include the clear o-rings.

[GeeWings 2861]

 

On 8/18/2023 at 6:12 PM, bavee said:

 

So glad I bit the bullet and accepted the challenge in the end. But men, painting lexan bodies is so exhausting for me. Took me 4 whole evenings to achieve this result... Pfff...

I’ve only had to do basic masking for lexan but even that has been very patience testing. It looks like your efforts have certainly paid off though, great work.

[GeeWings 2861]

3 minutes ago, Willy iine said:

What's really dumb is I've bought many of these in the past and still not learned they are $20 for 2 packs.   Perhaps it's the price that throws me off.. those are hardly worth $10 a pop.    They don't even include the clear o-rings.

At least it’s a cheap mistake to make! I certainly wish they were that cheap here. 

[Willy iine 18843]

Yeah, I honestly do not enjoy painting polycarbonate bodies either, @bavee. good job!   

[Willy iine 18843]

3 minutes ago, GeeWings said:

At least it’s a cheap mistake to make! I certainly wish they were that cheap here. 

Yeah, I'm just buying these from Amazon as they seemed to have the best prices from time to time and easy to just hit 'buy again' as I want to make sure I don't accidentally get the standard mini CVA's..  I've done that too.   

[Sogogi 3363]

Eeeeeek

 

[Sogogi 3363]

I kinda like it?

[bavee 1200]

9 hours ago, Sogogi said:

Eeeeeek

Ouch. Happened on a jump? What motor and battery were you running?

[Sgt.Speirs 1622]

@Sogogi: Time to order the TRF201 Gearbox for the King Cap / Monster Racer 😜

@topic: Prepared, but there is still work for today.

[simalarion 2552]

13 hours ago, ImALlama said:

Decided to finally start building my P34 I purchased long ago. I got to the electronics step and can’t remember if I ever bought any for it, so I guess it’s time to dig through the parts bin or go shopping 

Wow Tamiya really built one unique chassi mostly in carbon (it looks like) just for this model?. Wanted to build one as it is a piece off unique and special F1 history, even if it was just a brief moment 

[toyolien 6634]

2 hours ago, Sgt.Speirs said:

@Sogogi: Time to order the TRF201 Gearbox for the King Cap / Monster Racer 😜

@topic: Prepared, but there is still work for today.

Why 4 holes on the front of the left hand body?

[Sgt.Speirs 1622]

1 hour ago, toyolien said:

Why 4 holes on the front of the left hand body?

You have not yet seen the six holes on the rear window 😜

This Skyline R32 body will be my runner body which will fit on my TA03F, FF01 and TRF417V5.

[toyolien 6634]

Oh I see. I thought it was some sort of extra support mounts or something..

[Sogogi 3363]

8 hours ago, bavee said:

Ouch. Happened on a jump? What motor and battery were you running?

That is correct! Black can sport tuned with 3000mah nimh…

[bavee 1200]

15 minutes ago, Sogogi said:

That is correct! Black can sport tuned with 3000mah nimh…

That hurts. Seems to prove that when you want to jump your King Cab you need @Sgt.Speirs TRF201 Transmission Conversion for Nissan King Cab or @Muso31 diff housings or gear diff.

[ChrisRx718 4730]

Not terribly impressed with the quality of ProLine stuff, but happy with the outcome:

 

 

[Beena 253]

Took my new TT-02BR out for a spin in the dust for the first time.  Really enjoyed it 😁

 

[ImALlama 1675]

10 hours ago, simalarion said:

Tamiya really built one unique chassi mostly in carbon (it looks like) just for this model?.

Chassis is FRP and it actually is the same as their f103 cars except has a plate for the front suspension and the large bumper piece, smaller front tires too, which wasn’t as exciting as I was expecting. I thought it’d be way more special and complicated .

 

car on left is actually a f104 with f103 front arms, front of the chassis is same on 103/104

10 hours ago, simalarion said:

Wanted to build one as it is a piece off unique and special F1 history, even if it was just a brief moment 

Same reason here, and now I have two 

[ImALlama 1675]

So I stopped building the P34 yesterday and when I started today I learned that except for tires and electronics I actually was done. Not sure how I didn’t realize that yesterday. So I put the tires on started painting the body and now it’s off to order some electronics. 

Also, last year I had crashed my silvercan speed run P34, tore off the front end and destroyed the wing . I finished the repairs today and got it ready for more speed runs. Of course like any other time I mess up a body and it needs to be repainted, I gave it the Willy treatment 

[Willy iine 18843]

@ImALlama nIce work.  Love the Willy theme.    

 

For me, haven't done anything RC yet today, but do plan on driving my Mini-Z 4x4 next door in the pretend pylon test course in a bit.     This morning I took my 1:1 Golf-R out for another relaxing weekend drive, detailed the car after the drive, then worked on taking apart the hard drives on my Macs and old PowerBooks.  I am now ready to recycle them.  

 

[Nikko85 4396]

Took the Landrover to a farm

Great little 4x4.

 

[Sogogi 3363]

7 hours ago, ChrisRx718 said:

Not terribly impressed with the quality of ProLine stuff, but happy with the outcome:

 

 

Are those proline wheels? I think it may look good on my cc-02