Top-Force Black Special

[bjorklo 1620]

I have for a long time wanted to build a Black Special version of the Top-Force, so here is my interpretation of how I think Tamiya would have made it.  I have gathered enough parts to get started. That said, I allready noticed some parts I must get and mods I must do. I will build the car with parts I got currently and will change parts and do mods to the car when I got the new parts and got time to do the mods I want to do. I was thinking to use this car as a runner, but I can allready say now that that wont happen, I will have to build another one for that purpose. 

The first thing I did was to smell the tires  

I got all my rc stuff tucked away, so the Dynatech will be mounted later

No of the the (e)Bay to find the missing part

 

 

[Percymon 2184]

I'm surprised it's taken you this long - it must be two years ago that i posted the monochrome picture of the Top Force lol !!

 

Watching with interest (as always  )

[bjorklo 1620]

4 minutes ago, Percymon said:

I'm surprised it's taken you this long - it must be two years ago that i posted the monochrome picture of the Top Force lol !!

 

Watching with interest (as always  )

Hehe, that what happens when you sell and buy a new house 😜. 

Please repost the picture in this thread if you still have it. 

[Percymon 2184]

20 minutes ago, bjorklo said:

Hehe, that what happens when you sell and buy a new house 😜. 

Please repost the picture in this thread if you still have it. 

Couldn't find the original , but a very quick rehash ..

[Tizer 606]

Ooohhhh, white arms! The only set of coloured arms I'm still missing

[bjorklo 1620]

6 hours ago, Tizer said:

Ooohhhh, white arms! The only set of coloured arms I'm still missing

Yeah, very hard to get parts. 

[jackdaripper 85]

Brilliant I can't wait to see how it looks 😎

[Madcaper 11]

is your black edition finished?

please show pics ;-)

[ALEXKYRIAK 1046]

Yes pics please

 

[bjorklo 1620]

I wish it was done, but no more progress have been done. I have been waiting on some new parts and been to busy making a new storageroom for all my rc.  As soon i get some progress, pictures will be posted. 

[bjorklo 1620]

Today i got a little time to work on this build. I mainly did the transmission again with some gears more true to the Black Special.

 

why don't Tamiya make em like this? 

 

Rear transmission 

Front transmission 

 

 

I have some pink ball ends but they have faded a bit, compared to the avante bs wheels so I gave them also a bath in the pink dye  

the result (sorry I forgot to take the picture together with the wheel) 

 

this is how far I got today. Progress stopped because I have bought some blue alu parts, that I need to paint black  

 

 

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[waterbok 1282]

Brilliant, just got some decals from MCI for my top forces, now I want orange and sunflower ballends and gears. 

left is his original yellow,middle and right sunflower yellow, which comes closer to the original

[bjorklo 1620]

2 hours ago, waterbok said:

Brilliant, just got some decals from MCI for my top forces, now I want orange and sunflower ballends and gears. 

left is his original yellow,middle and right sunflower yellow, which comes closer to the original

You need to get some rite dye and some white ball ends and get going. 

Picture don't seem to be working? 

[waterbok 1282]

changed the picture link, thanks know about the dye bit, was planning that for the gears for my GF01 transparent gearbox

[bjorklo 1620]

6 hours ago, waterbok said:

changed the picture link, thanks know about the dye bit, was planning that for the gears for my GF01 transparent gearbox

Looking forward to seeing it done  

[TwistedxSlayer 1290]

Watchimg this thread. Liking it 😀

[bjorklo 1620]

A little more done.

So to a question, is there anybody who knows if there is to get rods like these to use on the front arms, instead of the U bent one? 

 

[Rich_8717 114]

I got some with my alloy A-arms but I'm not using them anymore because i kept snapping the lower front gearbox cover even just from normal driving. I've gone back to the U-shape one and it's much better. If you want me to measure them I'll dig them out, I would let you have them if you were in the UK but I don't really have time to sort postage out this month.

[bjorklo 1620]

59 minutes ago, Rich_8717 said:

I got some with my alloy A-arms but I'm not using them anymore because i kept snapping the lower front gearbox cover even just from normal driving. I've gone back to the U-shape one and it's much better. If you want me to measure them I'll dig them out, I would let you have them if you were in the UK but I don't really have time to sort postage out this month.

Ahh, must be because of the distribution of the force due to the U-shape, I can't see any other reason. Or am I wrong? 

Might get back to you in January, so I can buy em from you. 

[Rich_8717 114]

Well its mainly because the alloy a-arms are much stronger and obviously don't give as much as the plastic ones so all the force gets transferred to the lower gearbox casing, compound that with having individual pivots and it just rips the plastic apart. I have now got an alloy gearbox casing as well but have also gone back to the U-shape pivot for the extra support.

There's no need to buy them you can have them for free as I'll never be using them again, but I'd rather not sort it out immediately. I'll dig them out at some point and check back in this thread. I'm looking forward to seeing this one completed.

[bjorklo 1620]

Some more buildsteps done. 

 

[bjorklo 1620]

Some more done today. 

question my rear tires are a bit wobbeling, any other that have experianced it, if so what was the solution? 

[jackdaripper 85]

looks brilliant 

 

[kwkenuf 184]

Looking forward to the end result!

I did not realize gears would take dye like that...  I tried doing a Frog chassis green once and it didn’t work well.  Still have the dye and a new kit on the way.  It’s gears may end up green for kicks!  Thanks for the ideas!

[bjorklo 1620]

3 hours ago, kwkenuf said:

Looking forward to the end result!

I did not realize gears would take dye like that...  I tried doing a Frog chassis green once and it didn’t work well.  Still have the dye and a new kit on the way.  It’s gears may end up green for kicks!  Thanks for the ideas!

Yeah, me too. It's so long between when i get time to work on it. 

To bad the chassis didn't take the dye. I think i read some place that if you have a small amount with aceton togheter in the water i could take dye. If you gonna try that do it on something not that important 😜