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Monster Beetle Resto Project Help Please!

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Leethal Driver Mentor

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Oh yes, saw those beauties on the front page. Seem to be suffering the common beetle problem of missing headlights just like the rest of us!! Missed a mint beetle on the bay yesterday with spotlights and radio gear by a quid - went for 41; was planning to rob the lights and shiny wheels and sell it on bu there you go. Curse my daughter for wanting to go swimming!!! Ah well, hoping my manual turns up tomorrow then I can start putting my baby back together.

Welcome to the MB resto gang...

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Oh yes, saw those beauties on the front page. Seem to be suffering the common beetle problem of missing headlights just like the rest of us!! Missed a mint beetle on the bay yesterday with spotlights and radio gear by a quid - went for 41; was planning to rob the lights and shiny wheels and sell it on bu there you go. Curse my daughter for wanting to go swimming!!! Ah well, hoping my manual turns up tomorrow then I can start putting my baby back together.

Welcome to the MB resto gang...

yeah saw it,was so tempted to do that too.saw the spots on there own go for 20 last week on the bay.

28yoKid Rising Star

28yoKid

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Oh yes, saw those beauties on the front page. Seem to be suffering the common beetle problem of missing headlights just like the rest of us!! Missed a mint beetle on the bay yesterday with spotlights and radio gear by a quid - went for 41; was planning to rob the lights and shiny wheels and sell it on bu there you go. Curse my daughter for wanting to go swimming!!! Ah well, hoping my manual turns up tomorrow then I can start putting my baby back together.

Welcome to the MB resto gang...

Manual here

http://s195302033.onlinehome.us/CX/Man/TamVeh114.pdf

Get building! :blink:

Leethal Driver Mentor

Leethal Driver

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Original manual arrived (thks TC member Michael, can't remember your handle). Where the devil are the team CRP bearings!!! Body seems to have stopped stripping itself of paint so looks like I'll be buying another couple of litres of Dot 4 and soaking the shell for a week or so...how did you get yours done so quick Kid?!

bfst24 Proficient

bfst24

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Original manual arrived (thks TC member Michael, can't remember your handle). Where the devil are the team CRP bearings!!! Body seems to have stopped stripping itself of paint so looks like I'll be buying another couple of litres of Dot 4 and soaking the shell for a week or so...how did you get yours done so quick Kid?!

my body is stripped now.wow this thing was painted white,then yellow,then primered then red.

i wiped the paint of every hour or so,kept doing this for about 4-6 hours.now totally stripped.

Leethal Driver Mentor

Leethal Driver

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Yeah saw it on the front page, looks sweet. Paint job works really well, especially with the chrome rims - started putting ideas in my head now!! Chassis back together, waiting for some electrics from ebay but shell taking longer than expected to strip. Going to give it some attention over the weekend though, drop a pic on the weekend.

kontemax Newbie Copy

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Hi,

I'm restoring my MB too.

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.a...64169&id=24

I just finished to strip the body. It needed months and months of work cause four or five layers of paint. No brake oil of owen cleaner worked on it.

I used at the ent some cutter blades to eliminate all the paint.

Now I'm glueing the front nose cone to the body, then will fill the line and will prime the body.

I'll go for original TS-8 Italian Red and Nib TC repro decals.

I also own another perfect NIB body but I decided to restore the one of the car.

Gold plated NIB rims are on the way to my mailbox and NIB tires are in the box.

It will be a perfect shelf queen.

Max

Lonestar Proficient

Lonestar

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Sounds like the place to show MB resto pics so here's mine...

this is an endurance project that has lasted about 18 mths... body has been stripped twice because I was unhappy with the result, thanks Shodog for all the continuous advice if you read this (hope things are turning out ok for you now). I can now say I am satisfied with the mirror finish (LOTS of elbow grease for that one) and Albert is running happier than ever.

Features a bunch of non-stock parts

- Fiberglass front shock tower (CRP???)

- AE shocks + Losi springs

- Full thorp tranny (yay)

- CRP rear shock mounts

- Bearings - period ones :)

- Dynamite period tires

- CRP bumper

- Proper KP Servo saver (with a mighty JR 8411 servo <_< )

- Custom steering rods

and then ome personal adaptations, like the driver mount, some smartly placed bits of plastic here and there and so on so forth.

Still missing license plates and wipers - the latters I glued on yesterday, the former will happen very soon :mellow:

enjoy the pics,

Paul

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and a group shot :unsure:

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bfst24 Proficient

bfst24

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very nice.

18 months,wow.

**** now you got me thinking of making a hopped up one from the spares.

once you start with these mb's,it never ends.

are your front tyres on the wrong way round?

any more pics with the body off?

Lance Rookie

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Lonestar that is looking sweet, what colour did you spray the shell, i've been looking for the original TS 8(Italian red) but it's all been recalled :lol:

Leethal Driver Mentor

Leethal Driver

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That shiny shell is the nuts. Not sure I could ever have something like that though, I'd have it flipped and scratched to bits in no time.

Bit worried mine's gonna be a pale effort in comparison, good job it's gonna be a runner!

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Blacque Jacque

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That's a beautiful job on the shell Paul :lol:

As for the CRP bumper, I have several of them & I found them to be weak & break easily B) , cutting the side spars out will only make it worse. If it will spend it's life on the shelf, or just gently trundling round that's fine, but don't expect it to offer any significant protection. The original Tamiya part is much better in that respect.

Lonestar Proficient

Lonestar

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Hi guys

thanks for the kind words.

The wetlook finish is pretty cool once you get it right indeed... very rewarding. The 18mths took that long because I always have 20 different projects in parallel too :D ! That is TS-8 indeed, I know there are some issues in the UK about sourcing tamiya sprays, but around here it's isn't any more painful than usual (which it is, btw... you just have to order them quite a bit in advance).

The front tires are in the right direction;you get more front bite off-throttle that way, similarly you get more rear on-throttle bite with the rears like that... it's all theory of course, as in the end the MB handles pretty poorly no matter what!

BlacqueJacque - This bumper has been there for ages... and it draws questions, which is cool ;) I don't run that baby very often anyway, and when I do I try not to hit stuff. I ran it saturday btw, and rolled it twice, but then again, it's a runner, so it's meant to "live" !!! No guts, no glory, as an old motto used to say ;)

Paul

kontemax Newbie Copy

kontemax

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Hi people, I need some nits to complete my resto project.

I need the front L shaped bars for the spot lights and the Steering servo metal brace. Both parts are in the pressed parts bag.

Don't care if they are separate or used.

Also I need a front lamp, used, new, broken as you want.

Thanks

Max

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