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Ferrari 458 Challenge - TT02 #58560

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Looking convincing.... :)
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WOW! it really is a Ferrari! :)
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A few tip ties and now it's out the front for a blast up and down the street :)
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Well the car goes nicely on 2s. I found I could drift it fairly handy although there was a little sheen of due on the road. The straight line top speed was not staggering, however I have the feeling that with a good driver on a circuit the performance would be great as the 4wd acceleration is very rapid. For giggles we tried it on 3s and it was almost uncontrollable. Very fast and torque steering under acceleration when it was already belting along at a fair pace. The motor also got very hot very quickly so I think you would have to drive like a little old lady on 3s or something would blow. I'm too heavy handed for that so I think I'll keep it on 2 and just enjoy it as it is.

I hoped to get to some decorating this weekend but my son and I had so much fun driving our cars that got put on the backburner.... for now.

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So you connected the standard 105BK ESC with Tamiya Plugs onto a Lipo battery ??? Lipo battery with Tamiya plugs or connector cable into Tamiya ??

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Sorry I did not show that part. I cut off the Tamiya connector and then soldered on Deans so that it would work with my Lipos. I mostly have Deans connectors but some batteries with EC5 for very high amp setups.

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This thread makes we wanna build one! Keep up the good work :)

Thanks! I hope to do some bodywork this weekend. That's if I can stop myself from picking up the TX. Tamiyas are just too fun to drive even when they are only half finished!

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Tamiya doesn't supply Hitec compatible servo horns. Since the Hitec spline count is different fron Acoms and Futaba, it will slip under heavy load or after wear.

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Ok so the update after the weekend.... Time to get cracking on the polycarbonate! :)

This is my first ever polycarb paint job so I went in with a lot of trepidation, but following the instructions closely

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The lexan scissors I had seem great in a straight line but struggle a bit with corners. I also needed to build up some experience with them so some of the issue may have been me! I did find however that anywhere there was a 90 degree lip molded in to the body, it was easier to cut after trimming off the lip. This allows more flex which makes it easier to get around corners with the scissors.

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Yay it fits!

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Was this cut by scissors or in a shark attack!! :o

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Dremel to the rescue

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Mostly saved...

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And then it's time for a wash and dry

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In Tamiya's instructions they say to let the body air dry. I tried this but it dried with little spots everywhere. So I rewashed it, then dried it lightly with fresh paper towel and then let it air dry.

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Around about this time a buddy of mine called by to start work on his TT01 911 GT3....

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But the GT3 is a whole different build thread so on with the show...

The next step was to cutout the window masks - the first bit of A LOT of cutting by the way..

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And with a tin of Roses and a clean workspace to hand, lets begin!

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Tamiya's instructions say to mask out the entire car shell, just to paint a couple of parts on the front and back in black. That's a huge amount of work so I took a dodgy shortcut and just hand brushed them with acrylic black instead.

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After an hour to dry it was time to lay on some colour. The kit calls for a bright red (note to myself to update this later), however unfortunately I could only get PS55? Metallic Red at my LHS. I like metallics so I decided I would go with it.

The first couple of coats were quite light and the car looked pink! but after a couple more and some hairdrier action, it really came in to it's own

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The Tamiya PS paint is very good, dried for recoating in just a few minutes and misted on very nicely.

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The instructions then call for 'smoke' on the windows, my LHS did not have Tamiya smoke paint but they had Humbrol. The Humbrol went on very nicely although it does charge out a good bit quicker than the Tamiya PS spray so I landed up maybe putting on a little too much and blacking the windows almost completely. Learning experience I guess.

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I cut down the body posts and it's looking promising but it's getting time for the final unveiling (i.e. taking off the overspray plastic)

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Hey Presto!

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I was really happy with the way the colour turned out :)

A little photo shoot

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And then it was time to wrap it up as we had started at 6pm and gone through until 2.30am!

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The next day I started on the stickers. This is not an easy job on this model. On my friends GT3 the stickers are precut so it's peel and fit. On the TT02 it's hand cut every sticker by hand. I found that a dish of water was very useful to be able to wet the stickers and this gives you just the smallest bit of time to align or refit the stickers prior to them locking in to place.

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I think the grouch cup is angy because 'his' colour red is not as pretty next to the metallic :)

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Well after several hours I still have more stickers to go, I also put some paint coats on the lighting kit parts:

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Back to the 458...

This is the Tamiya TLU01 lighting kit

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The light fittings get taped to the inside of the car with double sided tape

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The LED is a simple fitment, then fit a locking piece

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Repeat 4 times and then it's ready for fitting front and rear:

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The TLU module is attached to the inside of the body using double sided tape

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Thoughtfully Tamiya supply some cable management clips that make a neat job of it

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And the finished product looks pretty good!

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Looks like I need to work on the headlight alignment though as one beam is going well but another is not shooting out quite right and is too high. Still the lights work really well at night time and the car looks super zooming up and down the street in the dark. Easilly controllable to a long distance with the white at the front and red at the back.

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Looks sweet! Love the colour choice although my preference would have been to leave the racing graphics off and leave it looking street. Still a fantastic build matey.

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Looks sweet! Love the colour choice although my preference would have been to leave the racing graphics off and leave it looking street. Still a fantastic build matey.

cheers!

Funny thing is that as I was putting the stickers on I thought the same thing myself. I guess I could buy another shell and go for it again LOL

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nice build. the tt-02 chassis looks a lot better than the tt-01 I just built. I was also disappointed with the lack of oil filled dampers as I had a drift spec tt-01 a few years back and they were in the kit.

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