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Wow, I know I’ve not been around too much lately, mega busy, but having to go 10 pages in to find my thread shows I’ve been away quite a while, and now my last project is now actually finished:

I present...............The Wild Fox

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(Mind the stickers on the Og Fox, they are quite poor, this MCI Order I got another set to redo that one)

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Nice...looks like a fox but then....it looks like a wild one...good job!

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The Fox theme really suits the WO, even better sat next to one 👍🏻 Liking that a lot.

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Thanks for the comments guys, I’m really happy with this rebuild, feels like it’s worthy of a place now, whereas before it never really grabbed me on my first restore of a pretty ordinary Wild One. And thanks to @KalEl63 for the encouragement and ideas. 

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So to celebrate my 50th Birthday I was greeted by a positive Covid test the morning of, so to say the least it was a quiet one. Part way through my compulsory isolation (7 days enforced), I started to feel a little better so ventured out into my Hobby Room and weighed up which kit to crack open. A few hours over a couple days and here’s what I have:

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Its still quite cold here so the painting will be a while away, but I have started “rectifying” the body in preparation

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And decided on a “popped” sunroof

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My plan for the body is gonna be a little bit different for this one, may end up disastrous or may be cool so we will see…

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Who doesn't love an MB!!!👏🙌

18 minutes ago, mtbkym01 said:

My plan for the body is gonna be a little bit different for this one, may end up disastrous or may be cool so we will see…

Sounds exciting👍 Almost nothing of real value in life is achieved without risk...

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Edit: oh and happy 50th mate and hope the Covid has passed now🙂

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Well wishes
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A slow burn this one, but got some progress done on the body including the Anodised Red body finish

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6 hours ago, mtbkym01 said:

A slow burn this one, but got some progress done on the body including the Anodised Red body finish

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Beautiful colour red that's going to look nice :wub:  you've just spurred me on to get my MB back out of its box! I put a mip diff in it with brushless and 2s lipo........on its maiden voyage it pirouetted on its roof and subsequently went just as fast on its roof all the way down the street kissing the curbs on its final display........morale of the story is don't put a fully tightened mip diff into something that is relatively unstable its only going to go one way!

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7 hours ago, moffman said:

Beautiful colour red that's going to look nice :wub:  you've just spurred me on to get my MB back out of its box! I put a mip diff in it with brushless and 2s lipo........on its maiden voyage it pirouetted on its roof and subsequently went just as fast on its roof all the way down the street kissing the curbs on its final display........morale of the story is don't put a fully tightened mip diff into something that is relatively unstable its only going to go one way!

Oh no! That is one of my biggest fears, especially with these hard body kits. I’ve built this to be a runner, but body damage has me concerned for sure.

This paint needs to harden for 7 days before I can clear coat it, so hopefully I will get to finish the kit next week. Then I’ll need to decide what kit to build next, still have an Egress, Bruiser, CC02 Bronco to name a few waiting to build

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Finished…….

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And how the Anodised Red looks in the sun

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7 hours ago, mtbkym01 said:

Now to consider what will be the next project

Spare MB runner body 😉

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Looks amazing mate!👍👍👍

Oh man if you roll on that gorgeous shell it's gonna be tears all round!🥺

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It may or may not be known that I am a bit of a Ford man, so when this appeared on the shelf at my LHS, I just couldn't resist. (Unfortunately the real one of these isn’t sold in Australia, coz if it was, I would be hard pressed to resist). Had a bit of time this morning, so opened up the CC02 to check out the build manual, in particular the body, this will almost be like building a static model based on all the accessories the body gets, got the Lexan trimmed, then primed and painted the grille and wheels with TS14 as per manual, There are a lot of parts that will require priming and painting with TS29 as well, I will need more primer first though. Its a start at least 

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Half hour spare today so a tiny update….

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(lots of reflection from my skylight)

and tyres on wheels, these feel pretty hard despite looking the business

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On 1/21/2023 at 12:21 AM, mtbkym01 said:

It may or may not be known that I am a bit of a Ford man, so when this appeared on the shelf at my LHS, I just couldn't resist. (Unfortunately the real one of these isn’t sold in Australia, coz if it was, I would be hard pressed to resist). Had a bit of time this morning, so opened up the CC02 to check out the build manual, in particular the body, this will almost be like building a static model based on all the accessories the body gets, got the Lexan trimmed, then primed and painted the grille and wheels with TS14 as per manual, There are a lot of parts that will require priming and painting with TS29 as well, I will need more primer first though. Its a start at least 

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Wonder if tamiya will put this body on the cr01 chassis?

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Had a couple hours this morning, decided to do some chassis building, so bags A and B are complete

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Decided to build it with the gears arranged for low range, to slow down the kit silver can. Hopefully its not too slow

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Finished my other house jobs early, so managed to complete Bag C as well

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A couple of observations so far, It reminds me a little of my CR01 build, and the quality of the plastics feels very high, with the main transmission seeming like a carbon impregnated plastic.

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