How Many Kits Have You Built And What Are They?

[SteelRat 46]

Ooh.. nice topic.. for me its:

Monster Beetle - 1987

Lunchbox - May 2009

Axial AX10 - July 2009

Plasma Edge - December 2009

Ansmann Mad Rat - February 2010

Re-re Scorcher - March 2010

Super Clodbuster - July 2010

[30cms 7]

Anyone here queueing up the kits as a retirement project?

dang. i am now!

i better stock up . . . .

[skip665 169]

Not as many as I thought - have done many more restoration/rebuild/built from new parts type projects

1990-1992

Lunchbox

Thunder Dragon

Mud Blaster

2007

CC-01 VW Touareg

2008

M04M Eunos

High Lift Hilux

2009

M03 Mini

Globeliner and Flatbed

2010

None so far but a Holiday Buggy is on its way

[kaiser 8]

85 - HORNET (not nib, but from spares)

87 - OPTIMA MID

87- BLACKFOOT

88- JRX2

89-JRXT

94- XX

plus alot of used stuff that i aquired over the years, i had many rc10's but never had one nib.

this list doesn't include the many kits i built for a hobby shop i worked at in the 90's

sold it all in 01.

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05- df-01 dirt thrasher

08- dt-02 sand viper

08- re-re frog

09- m03

10- super clod

[AndyjcClod 389]

Anyone here queueing up the kits as a retirement project?

Lol good point!

I am going to make a separate saving account just so I can occasionally purchase Tamiya kits in my retirement!

[Swarm 242]

All my NIB's are retirement kits well thats the plan anyways.

My dream is in my old age to get a shopping cart and go shopping in my own house elevator music playing as well so I choose a kit to build purley on the music playing kinda like an impulse buy.

But my eldest son visited us the last weekend and saw the kits and said next time I come down I will bring post-its notes stick on labels and write my name on the kits I want ....Maybe I will have to have an early retirement.

I think you will find Retro-rc (Darryn) has the same dream (Maybe not the shopping cart) but the retirement build dream.

Stuart.

[lupogtiboy 454]

Mine won't take long to list!

My first ever was my TA-01 Lancia Delta Integrale, way back when I was sweet 16. And my only other is the SuperClod I bought last year. It feels like I've built more, the amount of times some of them have been rebuilt!

[TA-Mark 195]

I've built a few NIB kits. Not always for myself. I have a bit of a name locally as an RC nut and get bought kits to build or paint. Think I got them all listed.

#58176 TA02 Repsol Escort RS (My 1st Tamiya)

#59129 TA02 Castrol Celica '93 Monte-Carlo (Boxart - Built for a friend)

#58210 TA03F Subaru Impreza WRC '97 (Yellow)

#58297 TA04R Raybrig NSX 2002 (Built for a friend)

#58204 DF01 Blazing Star (Yellow)

#58204 DF01 Blazing Star (Boxart)

#58334 DF02 Rising Storm (Boxart)

#58370 DF03 Dark Impact (Boxart)

#58370 DF03 Dark Impact (Green - Built for friend)

#58221 TL01B Baja Champ (Boxart)

#58346 The Grasshopper (Thanks Stuart)

#58336 The Hornet (Built for a friend)

#58347 Vanessa's Lunchbox

#58324 CC01 VW Race-Touareg (Built for a friend)

#49496 DF03 MS 4WD Offroad Racer (Yellow)

#49475 DT02 MS (Yellow)

#58374 DT02 Sand Viper (Red/White)

#58383 M04L Volkswagen Beetle (Yellow)

#58372 3-Spd Ford F350 High-Lift (Not completed - Needs paint)

#49490 CC01 Mitsubishi Pajero Metaltop (Not completed - Needs paint)

#58161 TA02 Ford F-150 Truck (Not completed - Needs paint)

#58112 TA01 Ford Escort RS (Chassis built)

HPI Cyber 10b Kit (Yellow)

HPI Baja 5B SS Kit (My newest toy)

Thunder Tiger nitro MT (Built for a friend)

GV Models nitro BMW (Built for a friend)

GV Models nitro buggy (Built for a friend)

NIB RTR's: (These get stripped to the last screw and rebuilt as NIB kits)

Losi Micro-T (fully hopped up with alloy)

Losi Micro Desert Truck

HPI Savage25 Limited Edition 3 Spd

HPI Micro RS4 BMW

HPI RS4 MT2 (fully hopped up with alloy - brushless conversion)

HPI RS4 Evo3 (fully hopped up with alloy)

There's been lots of secondhand kits too. They all get the complete strip, clean and rebuild as if they were a new kit.

[john893 9]

NIB's that I have built over the years.

1991-1995

1 LunchBox

2 Hornet

3 Blackfoot

4 Mud Blaster - built for my buddy

5 ClodBuster

6 Hi-Lux Monster Racer

7 RC10

Took a little break and then go back into RC because of Ebay, didn't build much back than as I was collecting and was not sure what to do with all the NIB's? Then Tamiya started doing the re-re's and I started building again.

1999-Current

8 Lightning x3

9 Cobra

10 Midnight Pumpkin

11 Hummer

12 RC10T3

13 Super Shot

14 Mud Blaster

15 Wild Willy 2 Metallic

16 Hornet re-re

17 Brat re-re

18 LunchBox re-re

19 Frog re-re

20 Toyota Hi-Lift

21 Hotshot re-re

Others I've restored or built out of parts

Brat

Frog - (took a long time when I was 13 tracking down all these parts... kind of why the Frog is special to me)

Fox

Falcon

RC10T

Can't wait to get to the next one, either a Grasshopper or Buggy Champ re-re or a convereted HotShot re-re to HotShot II to complete my Shot collection.

[sosidge 624]

Even though this is TAMIYACLUB, I am still surprised at just how many people have a 100% Tamiya history, and how few have a wide selection of chassis (most of us racers I suspect).

Tamiya really does have a unique position in RC.

[skinned 134]

in order:

brat

sand scorcher

hornet

pajero-#58044

grasshopper

rc10

bolink bandito

toyota gr.b.

rc10b2

brat re-re

BC re-re

SS re-re

[highflyer 73]

Looks like you must be due for another Clod Buster Robert!!!

Haha, spot on James. Looking back, I have bought a Clod chassis truck in each decade so far (80's, 90's, and 00's),been thinking of getting another Clod or Super Clod (for a project), just have not pulled the trigger (yet).... Maybe a birthday or christmas present in the near future.

[pikachoo-75 3]

Oops! didnt quite read the topic correctly!

My previous list includes made from parts etc...

My NIB list...

Terra Scorcher

Schumacher ProCat

Super Astute

Schumacher Nitro10 (tho i think it was RTR? but stripped that hunk of cr4p millions of times trying to get it to work properly!)

Nitro Racer (Kyosho)

Buggy Champ

M04l Beetle

my first r/c was a GrasshopperII but my Dad made it in secret so it would be fully ready for xmas morn!(tho i kept it pristine after each run)

Not alot in the grand scheme of things..but ive made many a scratch build/new from parts stuff

[berman 5315]

But my eldest son visited us the last weekend and saw the kits and said next time I come down I will bring post-its notes stick on labels and write my name on the kits I want ....Maybe I will have to have an early retirement.

Did you slap him and say "Nothing with adhesive goes anywhere near my kits son, do you want to be excluded from the will?!"

Haha, spot on James. Looking back, I have bought a Clod chassis truck in each decade so far (80's, 90's, and 00's),been thinking of getting another Clod or Super Clod (for a project), just have not pulled the trigger (yet).... Maybe a birthday or christmas present in the near future.

Build a replica of your old Bully pull truck Rob, you know you want to, I know you want to, dont fight the urge...

Hmmm, my list is quite dismal

I started out in '87 with Tamiya's, but didn't build an NIB until:

'92ish Lunchbox

'99 TL01 Evo 4

'09 Lunchbox re-re

'09 M03 Mini

'10 Knight Hauler FOK

'10 Semi trailer

'10 TXT-1

'10 Subaru Brat re-re

Disappointing... I hope to make up for it soon

[Sayer 742]

TLT-1

Re re Boomerang

M03

Cup racer

*quietly slinks off*

[MAD RACER 566]

I also got thinking today whether this thread might pull out someone who may have built one or 2 kits but had amassed dozens of kits on the "To Do List" with the intention of building in the distant future... I'm guessing there are a few people who aren't thinking of investment by hanging onto NIB's or enjoy just looking at NIB's but rather saving it up to build as a nostalgic trip down memory lane years from now... Anyone here queueing up the kits as a retirement project?

I have over 40 vintage rc buggies now and just bought another shelf to display them. ( Statrted 2 yrs ago) All are on display in my Hobby room.

I would like to think that i can play with all my buggys when i retire. Maybe start a rc savings account before i retire. If my partner gets hold of my wages again i will see nothing like i did for 2 yrs when she did have all my wages .

I want all my collection to be finshed (restored and running). A double lock up shed will be built by than i hope.

That will be at least 50 runners. Should keep me happy i say.

[highflyer 73]

Even though this is TAMIYACLUB, I am still surprised at just how many people have a 100% Tamiya history, and how few have a wide selection of chassis (most of us racers I suspect).

Tamiya really does have a unique position in RC.

Good point about us racers. My list shows what was bought/built for racing and for bashing (and pulling )...

Build a replica of your old Bully pull truck Rob, you know you want to, I know you want to, dont fight the urge...

Wow, you are a mind reader (get out of my brain ). That would be the only Clod project I would do, a puller replica