Starting Over

[Tamiya1/10]

If you were to start all over again in this wonderful hobby. Would you do anything different or do exactly what you did before?

I would likely focus only on the 3 spd and I don't mean the 1/14 big rigs and still buy the XC Pajero . I am currently all over the place and can't buy any more . Mind you I have gotten into die caste at 1:43 and my focus is the Martini Racing series, Advan only with the red and black strips and Nissan Racing.

[bakaguyjean]

If you were to start all over again in this wonderful hobby. Would you do anything different or do exactly what you did before?

I would likely focus only on the 3 spd and I don't mean the 1/14 big rigs and still buy the XC Pajero . I am currently all over the place and can't buy any more . Mind you I have gotten into die caste at 1:43 and my focus is the Martini Racing series, Advan only with the red and black strips and Nissan Racing.

I would pant everything in Martini colors!!! i was looking at there website the other day and it is Just the best paint scheme ever, It would work on anything.

Check it out for yourself

http://www.martiniracing.com/

[blakeatron]

i would stop before i started - and spend the money on a house or car or private jet...!

[Old Skool]

i would stop before i started - and spend the money on a house or car or private jet...!

I know that's right Maybe all three.

[bakaguyjean]

i would stop before i started - and spend the money on a house or car or private jet...!

I was just thing about selling the house and car to get more Rc cars

[ryanbored]

I would know what i want first, instead of buying it cos "it's shiney" or "i've got 100 spare" then selling it on the bay for peanuts!

[Singapore_959]

I would pant everything in Martini colors!!! i was looking at there website the other day and it is Just the best paint scheme ever, It would work on anything.

Check it out for yourself

http://www.martiniracing.com/

That is one cool website!!

And yes I agree, and have a new Can Am Lola body waiting for this to be done to it!

What would I do different? Nothing! Except KEEP all the cars from childhood (what happened to my FAV, KC, and SA??!) , and have bought a couple of 3 speeds and forgotten about them NIB for about 17 years!

[Tamiya1/10]

I don't mean to revisit my own topic again...but collectors with many many models, I don't think the passion is the same if you have only a few models. The reason I say that is because you only have so much money and your attention is limited to a particlar RC is limited.

I saw new member JT(DIRC) and his fully hop out TA02W Tom Supra. I sense the passion he has put into it not just the amount of money he spend.

My thoughts are up to 10 or 12 RC should be the Max. otherwise once you got several dozens the feeling is not the same any more. Is like too much of anything is not good.

I am sure if you are retired, have lots of time and money than my 10 or 12 could be too little.

I am interest in hearing from members that have been collecting RC for some time or own many many.

[Bluefoot]

My thoughts are up to 10 or 12 RC should be the Max.

Yes, I think you are right - 10 or 12 of each should be enough

I think I have what you would consider many many. Less than half of them are in my TC showroom. I don't have a single focus like "3-speeds", or "SRBs", or "Tractor Trucks", or "Tanks", or "First 100" .... I find them all interesting! I do tend to have short bursts of interest in a particular type which will see my collection increase in that direction, and sometimes (well twice only) I decide I will completely sell off all of a particular type (Hotshot/Boomerang type and Wild One/FAV).

I enjoy working on them - restoring for the shelf and repairing for runners. I find the mechanics of these little machines endlessly interesting in the different ways that each "type" of car/truck applies them.

I also enjoy running them. I run some on grass, some on asphalt, some on rocks, some indoors... so I need different types to cope with the different conditions.

I have been collecting for a good many years - I started by buying second-hand cars to use for parts, and always got the parts cars running as well! That's why I often have more than one of each car.

It's not about spending lots of money - although that does help - for me it's about crafting, fixing, tinkering, improving and playing with my toys. And having a nice-looking collection to show for my efforts.

Also - if I had to stop at 12, I would have finished rebuilding them all by now and have nothing to do but look at them! This is a never-ending disease....

[JT (D1RC)]

If I could start all over again but at the same time (back in the early 90's) I would buy up container loads of those really cool body shells you can't get now and put them into storage till 2007 - and then get very rich selling them at sensible prices! Dumb thing is, you could do this today and store them for 15 years but, well, you just don't?!?!?!? Doh!

I also wish I'd have bought some land when it was very cheap and built my own on-road race track. There are so few good ones about that are available 24x7 to go 'play'!

[qatmix]

I have to admit, I have tried to keep my focus on a narrow few cars as I have really enjoyed hopping up my ta02 to make it special. Ive kept most of my cars in the range of ta01/2 (top force, escort cossies x5, blazing star). I have a few which are runners and some that are just for show, but it means I can swap parts and experiment easier as I enjoy tinkering with them all.

Although the durga might be an exception

The only other thing that I like is to get a bargain, but if I get a car that needs work i go over the top and try restoring it to mint / hopped up fully so its not really a bargain Having this hobby and a paypal account is dangerous

[Mad Ax]

I'm not sure I would do anything different. Maybe less impulse purchases, maybe more thought-out projects before jumping in and buying bits before realising I don't have the skills or time to do what I had in mind. I still suffer the same, tho - I never run tarmac cars, but I still have an urge to buy an F102 NIB chassis on which to mount a musclecar body. It'll never ever get used, I can't paint lexan at this time of year, and I have precious little space for shelf-queens, but I still can't stop thinking about the possibility...

For me the collection is about having a wide variety of different runners - one or two of each different type, maybe - as well as some custom-built shelf projects or runners that I have designed myself, to show how I have taken Tamiya's original idea and remade it better.

Current examples of up-coming custom projects are:

A 2wd truck with a 4-linked rear axle and independant front, just to show it could be done;

A Lunchbox "how it should have been" - 4x4, independent suspension, lexan shell - a budget monster truck that has good performance, rather than a roll-happy bouncy plastic overweight pig that looks fantastic until its first run, whereupon the body gets ruined, the body posts break and the rear suspension gives up;

A Mad Max-style scale truck built with TLT axles;

A clod-based "B&Q Budget" stick crawler.

Fun stuff - just haven't got the time to get them finished (or even started!!) at the mo!!

[Butler]

I am still just starting and focusing one rally car they should go on and off road to a point, with just a swap of wheels and suspension.... Still work in progress, long way of finished.

[ryanbored]

Less impulse buying- nail on the head there!

[Tamiya1/10]

.... I find them all interesting! I do tend to have short bursts of interest in a particular type which will see my collection increase in that direction, and sometimes (well twice only) I decide I will completely sell off all of a particular type (Hotshot/Boomerang type and Wild One/FAV).

- if I had to stop at 12, I would have finished rebuilding them all by now and have nothing to do but look at them! This is a never-ending disease....

My passion was the strongest with my Tom TA02W and the old M chassis where I bought every option available than I got interested in other models and for short bursts and next thing I know I am all over the place.

Some of you may know that I am now into die cast just back in June...at first only Martini, than I decided to get die cast models Tamiya has in RC like the Porsche 959 or the Toyota Rallye than I when for Nissan racings and from that I branch out to Advan the red and black stripe series and I am talking about within 3 months.

I have to stop myself from buying, I would like to buy the F350 or the 1/12 new Porsche and so far I am going cold turkey on RC and I stay true to Martini and Advan.

This is a scary hobby, maybe the same for any hobby