So, What Have You Done Today?

[martinjpayne 304]

I know it's not a Tamiya, but just finishing prepping this little Kamtec 1300 Stock Car for racing tomorrow night...

Going to be my first club race in more than 35 years! Wish me luck. 😁

[martinjpayne 304]

Double post, please delete!

[toyolien 6541]

21 minutes ago, martinjpayne said:

I know it's not a Tamiya, but just finishing prepping this little Kamtec 1300 Stock Car for racing tomorrow night...

Going to be my first club race in more than 35 years! Wish me luck. 😁

Looks fab. What chassis is it?

[martinjpayne 304]

[magnumcyclonex 130]

Managed to get the final colors on to the M-06 L Volkswagon Type 2 Van.

In order of paint colors, I used:

PS-32 Corsa Gray

PS-1 White

PS-48 Semi Gloss Silver Anodized Aluminum

PS-41 Bright Silver

PS-31 Smoke (top 8 roof windows - only a hint so it's hard to see from the photos)

I kept the two front headlights and two rear taillights clear. Since I'm not going to do the wheels like box art, and simply keep them silver as provided, my next step is to do the entirety of the front and rear bumpers in silver, or metallic silver.

Overall, as of now, I'm quite pleased with the result. All that masking for the silver lines paid off, and the VW logo is very distinctive.

[RennsportEd 314]

I picked up the 3d model for the body I’m working on. 😁

[rookierabbit 15]

Converted my Blockhead Wild One to M3 turnbuckle/5mm ball steering setup, much more precise and uses the original uprights. Combo of aftermarket turnbuckles and the 5mm ball connector set for F103, also meant I could slam the servo mounts and get the lengths a bit closer by playing with turnbuckle O/A length. Next I would like to shim the front trailing arms and the stub axles, which should get pretty much all remaining 'slop' out of the front end...until the kingpins wear their pivot holes out anyway.

[mtbkym01 4778]

@yogi-bear tried to send you a PM but it’s saying you cant receive messages?

[yogi-bear 2756]

5 minutes ago, mtbkym01 said:

@yogi-bear tried to send you a PM but it’s saying you cant receive messages?

odd, maybe my inbox is full, let me check

[yogi-bear 2756]

11 minutes ago, mtbkym01 said:

@yogi-bear tried to send you a PM but it’s saying you cant receive messages?

fixed!

[mtbkym01 4778]

15 minutes ago, yogi-bear said:

fixed!

Cheers mate, sent

[Kol__ 3928]

13 hours ago, martinjpayne said:

Double post, please delete!

I think that sexy little Golf is worthy of a double post Martin!!😉

Good luck with the race!👍

[CMshooter 149]

"Local" shop had one of these in stock and we just got our bonus at work, so I did the only reasonable thing and clocked out early.

Got the Fazer, a pair of swing shafts, and sway bars.  JACKPOT, I thought I got it all in one stop.  Got home and tore open the box, put oil in the shocks, front cvs in it, but figured I would hold off on the sway bar until I at least test drove it.  Cut off factory plug only to find out I am out of the esc side of EC3 connectors.  **** it.  

 

[Torhaantje 484]

Breath in, breath out.......

[egalsim 254]

 

[Ferruz 13542]

Holiday party at work yesterday, brutally hangover today... just enuff focus left for some rc tinkering 🫠

I bought this wheel/tire set since it was unusually cheap (12 dollars), with the idea of playong around with the looks and stance of my Lancia Delta. 

I thought the black and chrome colors could potentially look good, matching the front grille. I also remember seeing a few 1:1 Deltas back in the day that had them.

Painting the locknuts sure added some extra realism! 

Very pleased with the result 🙂 now I can look at it while I veg out on the couch.

[JimBear 1302]

@Ferruz - looks good on there - now you only need to do a street version too.

[Andreas W 3016]

I have broken in and fitted the 380ST in the Grasshornet. I also finally fitted the Ampro battery door and axle retainer, so no more fishing string mod here. 

 

The response in the fast little 380ST is impressive. On a 8,4V NiMh it almost feels like a normal silvercan. I have only tested it on the bench, though. Charging a good NiMh now to go out for a test. 

 

Edit: I have now tested it on hard, partially icy snow and it's good fun. A decent upgrade from the normal 380 I ran last year, but not the top end of a silvercan -but also hard to say given the limited grip. I think this will be fun. 

[Kowalski86 4780]

I did some work on a bodyshell that I got from @Frog Jumper, old school look for an old school design, complete with a driver and a giant antenna.

 

[Pylon80 4229]

Back to the track today and tons of fun with other drivers of similar skills driving similar buggies 😀

[mtbkym01 4778]

Made an order direct from TTP for the first time. Have used his ebay store before, but this is the first direct purchase. Not sure how his freight to Aus is so much cheaper than anyone else’s?

[River19 218]

Raced the Schumacher L1R and then came home to my new Horney EVO kit waiting for me........nice !!!

I'll start that over the holidays.

[chris.alex 1804]

The "Asterion" body of my XV01 has received a small facelift: black window frames, chrome taillight surrounds and a few extra stickers. 

This was a simple and straightforward job compared to painting the tiny Unimog. 🙂 Here you can follow what is happening with my Mini-Mog:

1/32 Unimog build thread

[Ferruz 13542]

10 hours ago, Pylon80 said:

Back to the track today and tons of fun with other drivers of similar skills driving similar buggies 😀

Bud this sounds like RC heaven 👍🙂

[Ferruz 13542]

Yesterday I added some bits of orange bling to my Snow Scorcher. A few cheap M3 anodized locknuts make a good visual upgrade, while being very much inexpensive. It worked well on my red and black themed Group C chassis build last year, so I thought why not doing the same on other cars.

The nuts

Before

And after

Done🔶️🔷️🔶️