Future Tamiya release: 84377 Aero Avante Metallic Red Special

[Mokei Kagaku]

84377 Aero Avante Metallic Red Special (DF-02 chassis)

Colour variation of 58550 with precut and red plated body and wing. (description not yet fully verified)

No picture available yet, but I reckon it will be inspired by the Mini 4WD Aero Avante Red Special. If so, stickers will most likely be the same as for the regular 58550 Aero Avante, but wheels possibly molded in gold colour instead of gun metal?

http://www.facebook.com/#!/media/set/?set=a.465495180244090.1073741850.208099459316998&type=1

[Mokei Kagaku]

I'm pretty untalented with Photoshop and I didn't spend many minutes on this, so please bear with me, but this is, tongue in cheek, roughly how I reckon the Aero Avante Metallic Red Special might look if it follows the same logic used when the Mini 4WD Aero Avante was turned into the Mini 4WD Aero Avante Red Special. I wish for gold coloured wheels though, just like on the Mini 4WD Red Special.

18701 Aero Avante Mini 4WD => 58550 RC Aero Avante

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94944 Aero Avante Red Special Mini 4WD => 84377 RC Aero Avante Metallic Red Special

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[WhoKnowsWho]

Ooo, this will be pretty pricey I reckon?

[kaylon]

Maybe not..the Standard Blue Aero Avante is only £135, just a little more then a Rising Storm.

I do want a DF-02

K

[Fruitfly01]

Is it confirmed that Tamiya will be using the DF02 chassis? I thought it would have made more sense to use the new TT02B chassis. I still don't like the body though, regardless of colour. Maybe a simple, Avante-esque paint job would look nicer. The new graphics do nothing for Avante shaped bodies in my mind. It's just to complicated to be attractive.

[Mokei Kagaku]

Ooo, this will be pretty pricey I reckon?

Suggested retail price in Japan is supposed to be JPY15.000, so rather moderate like the other DF-02's.

[WhoKnowsWho]

That's not too bad then. And could be driven without fear of breaking it and breaking the bank.

[Mokei Kagaku]

Is it confirmed that Tamiya will be using the DF02 chassis? I thought it would have made more sense to use the new TT02B chassis.

According to a rather credible information source, it will be on the DF02, just like the regular Aero Avante. I reckon it makes sense too as the nose of the Aero Avante body would be in conflict with the front shock tower of the TT-02B.

[Fruitfly01]

Looking at the nose, I'm surprised they even got it over the DF02 front end. But I guess the TT02B does come to a bit of a dead end at the front, although it looks similar to the Rising Storm bodyshell. That one doesn't make it past the front shock tower either. With a small parts change, the Avanteish body could make it past the front shock tower on the TT02B, I would say.

But it's a moot point if it's confirmed for the DF02. At least spares for that chassis will be around even longer now.

[CoolJetta3]

It would be nice but there's no way Tamiya will ante up for gold plated wheels. They'll go the cheap way out and have just black or grey on a non-top shelf vehicle.

[z00ter]

again Tamiya dirtying the avante name ...terrible

[Grastens]

While I am unsure what the point of another colour special is, it seems to be what Tamiya does, and I do not really mind red. I had a fleeting desire for one of these, to run alongside my own Avante, and probably run even harder than the original!

To be fair, this is an Avante for the beginner, and to me a little more pleasing than the Mk. II version on the DF-03.

[z00ter]

This is a buggy for the beginner, not a Avante for the beginner (if they bring the 2001 back and you said that i would agree ) this is a DF-02 with a name stuck on it.

saying that I agree it is a good buggy for the beginner.

but should not be related to the Avante, the Avante family does not have this Ppoor buggy in its family.

it is a blatant attempt to spring off the original and the 2011 Avante which are something else totally. Sales driven naming as far as I am concerned.

wow ,sorry if I sound rude, its just since the first Aero thing,i have hated the idea of Tamiya re using the Avante to sell standard stuff..

[Fruitfly01]

IMO the Beginners' Avante was the Vanquish. Other than that, I more or less agree with Zooter; The Avante name should never have been so liberally applied to this chassis (and DF03), whatever the reasons may have been.

[z00ter]

100% corrected the Vanquish indeed.

[HornetRacer 1971]

I like it.....and will buy it

I know it isn't cutting edge stuff.....and won't set new records......but people slag off the Rising Fighter.....and I happen to think it is a superb buggy!

I have read this one will have red-copper wheels......ohhhhh.....they sound gorgeous!!!

[GregM]

Tamiya 84377 1/10 RC Aero Avante Metallic Red Special (DF-02 Chassis)

Red plated body and wing, pre-cut wing, red copper-plated semi-gloss wheels, DF-02 model chassis.

Source: http://tamiyablog.com/2014/03/tamiya-84377-110-rc-aero-avante-metallic-red-special-df-02-chassis/

[kyosho1]

The pic is out at TamiyaBlog.

Nice bronze plated rims.

[GregM]

The pic is out at TamiyaBlog.

Nice bronze plated rims.

Thanks! Here it is:

1/10 RC Car Aero Avante Red Metallic

84377 Price: 15,000 yen + tax Item

★ RC buggy ” Aero Avante special version of “. ★ body of pre-cut, red wing plated with the depth. ★ chassis DF-02 the same as the Aero Avante. ★ dedicated sticker has been affixed to the package of Aero Avante.

Source: http://tamiyablog.com/2014/03/tamiya-lets-go-to-the-hobby-shop-2014-campaign-special-item-releases/

[kaylon]

That looks pretty nice to me.. love the wheels...

[kontemax]

I don't agree.

Vanquish was not the beginner Avante but the poor man Avante due all plastic parts but it was difficult to assemble exactly like the rich sister.

Max

IMO the Beginners' Avante was the Vanquish. Other than that, I more or less agree with Zooter; The Avante name should never have been so liberally applied to this chassis (and DF03), whatever the reasons may have been.

[kontemax]

This is a lost occasion to make a nice variation of the Avante with some good taste.

Without these horrible side wings and some better graphic design on the stickers this car could be nice.

I like the wheels.

Max

Thanks! Here it is:




Source: http://tamiyablog.com/2014/03/tamiya-lets-go-to-the-hobby-shop-2014-campaign-special-item-releases/

[Grastens]

IMO the Beginners' Avante was the Vanquish.

On the same thread as kontemax: the Vanquish could hardly be called any more beginner-friendly than the Avante, but I suppose if you look at the Avante, the Vanquish looks easier to build and maintain. Still, for a complete rookie, not a good car.

However, if we are talking current beginners to this hobby, this would be the Aero Avante, now that the Mk.II has left. And we can see that this would be much easier for a neophyte to build up and run.

The new Metallic Red special does not have a whole lot of flair, but the effect of the wheels is nice.

[Fruitfly01]

I never said the car was beginner friendly, but it was certainly aimed at the beginner level of the market when compared to it's FRP/Carbon fibre counterparts, and I'm sure plenty of first timers built these things. I really don't see why a beginner couldn't build one. I'm a seasoned builder and to me the Boomerang is plenty fiddly for a 4WD. It has way too many parts for what it does. The vanquish may have more parts, but I would imagine it's no more fiddly or difficult to assemble than a Boomer. It's a different, less conventional design, but was just a sign of the times and the way Tamiya were going back then, and is quite similar to what they are doing now with in line motor and prop shaft configurations found on their modern 4WD buggies. I bet plenty of people have put the bevel diffs in back to front on a DF02 chassis then wondered why the car won't budge.

And to call the Vanquish a poor mans' Avante just smacks of snobbery.

[kontemax]

It is not snobbery. The model skill needed for the Egress and for the Vanquish is the same because the number of parts and the model structure is the same. The difference between an Egress and a Vanquish is the material of some parts like screws, chassis, dampers, bearings etc etc.

This made the Vanquish cheaper than a Egress and this is the reason why the Vanquish exists. The Vanquish is a cheaper version of the Avante line, made for people that could not effort the price of an Egress. It's not snobbery, it's the truth.

And Vanquish has been my second Tamiya model after the Boomerang, because I was not enough rich to buy the Egress.

Max

And to call the Vanquish a poor mans' Avante just smacks of snobbery.