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[WillCarter 0]

Hi all, just signed up, great looking site, already spent hours looking through the galleries etc. Basically when I was a kid I had the Escort RS Cosworth with the TA01 chassis, later on I aquired a Celica WRC shell along with a Calibra DTM shell, with this kit I spent many an afternoon racing my Dad's Grasshopper and later Manta Ray around the local car parks. Anyway, as time moved on, my Dad had less time and future house moves and parents divorcing means I no longer have my beloved Tamiya anymore. Fast forward to this week and my Girlfriend asked me if I would like a Nitro RC car for Christmas as I had seen one on holiday I liked (however 700 was a little steep) so after looking around I really couldn't see a design I liked, they all seemed very much the same and nothing like the exciting models I remembered. So I typed in Tamiya to google and low and behold what should pop up after a couple of clicks but Vanessa's Lunchbox, my dream truck when I was a kid. Needless to say, thats my present sorted but now I feel the need for a project, can anyone help? I'm pretty open minded but something on the Frog chassis would be cool. I can't believe I have left it this long to get into the hobby once again and it is so nice to see such a thriving community based around the Tamiya models.

-Will

[spencem875 0]

Welcome m8, join the n00b club

[grizy 12]

Hi Will,

Welcome to the club.

Check the "Sales, Trades and Wanted" for a project - worth putting a wanted post in there.

Best of luck.

Grizy

[KingPin 1]

Hey Will, welcome, please deposit all your hard earned cash....... here!!!

KingPin

[WillCarter 0]

Thanks for the welcomes cash will be deposited in return of a nice new shiny toy to feast my eyes upon.

[Eddystone 1]

Welcome back Will, good to see another person with Tamiya blood in the veins coming back to the hobby. So this Frog based project - what are you after? New or used? Plenty of Frogs about if you fancy a buggy, or how about a Subaru Brat, both cars have been re-released since last you were into the hobby so new versions of both are easy to come by and both are a lot of fun to run. Or do you fancy one of the big wheeled incarnations of the frog chassis - Monster Beetle, Blackfoot, Mudblaster - perhaps get one of each eh like the rest of us!!

Richard

[WillCarter 0]

Hi, yeah I noticed that it had been re-released recently but unfortunately, despite the very well priced kits now available (have they come down since the early 90's?) I can't afford a brand new one this month. Both the Frog and the Brat look the most appealling at the moment, but as you say I wouldn't mind betting that my collection will have stretched to all of the incarnations by this time next year. So yeah, if anyone has an unloved Brat or Frog laying around and wouldn't mind selling on to a new collector... I'm your man.