How many unfinished projects (RC only of course!) do you have to do?

[jonboy1 2943]

Picking up a comment by @Falcon#5 about how many of our own unfinished projects we have due to lack of time, commitments etc.

Let's see who wins

Lets include what they are, how far along, what you plan to do etc...

I'll kick off (ahem):

• Custom FAV - all painted in custom scheme, custom front suspension fitted - driver needs finishing, need an outer front wheel rim and some general touching up and tidying.
• M38 LWB - chassis all built, body repaired and in primer - needs painting and final assembly
• Uber Boomer - Team Works chassis, Winger body, disc wheels, TRF shocks, gorgeous yellow tyres  need to fit motor and radio gear, paint and fit driver, paint insides of wheels
• M-03 Mini - fully ball raced, TRF shocks, custom camber arms, custom wheels - need to fit radio gear and motor and paint new bodyshell 
• Thundershot - box of bits, most of them pretty manky. Need inspiration and lots of work
• Rough Rider - box of bits - clear plan involving lots of vintage upgrades - clear plan, just need time
• Rock Socker - fully ballraced and built stock chassis - now have a box of ally upgrades that need de-colouring and fitting, then a body deciding on. Also needs radio gear.
• Madcap - needs a complete resto to stock with exception of shocks and motor. Currently a box of bit, but clean bits.
• Astute -  completely restored - needs a new body painting. Although plans are afoot.......
• King Blackfoot - bought as a non-runner, still a non-runner.... now has a bit more dust on it though.
• Sand Scorcher re-re - fully built and polished chassis with custom shocks and custom body. Body needs finishing.
• Ford Ranger - completely restored and rebuilt. Needs original windscreen fitting (after waiting 2 years to find one!) and custom interior fitting. Oh, plus a little repair to the body (oops)

I think that's it - no - forgot about the Bell222 helicopter too. 

Right - that's it.

Who's next up?

 

[NWarty 1325]

I have my main super duper project that is 90%+ parts complete for the build. I will not say what it is for fear of some jerkweed buying up the remaining parts. 

- Sauber C12 F103 - I need to paint the replacement Williams FW15 body for it. 

- Tyrrell P34 F103 (ABS body) - Needs new ABS rear wing

[Shodog 1835]

Way too many unfinished projects. I have been traveling for my job for most of the last two years. Living out of hotel rooms doesn’t lend to RC projects very well. However I have been buying parts and cars so when I do have time I’ll have what I need

[dannymulder 766]

Not much only one nib konghead, but that is my winter project, I do not like unfinished projects, I always want al my cars in running condition.

I am always surpriced that people have dozen of projects that are not finished and then they begin on a other project and then al the other projects are untouched for years, I don't get it but maybe thats just me.

I always finished one project and when its done then I go for a other one.

[nowinaminute 2815]

I will answer in the form of a percentage.

98.9

 

[njmlondon 570]

1) Build the chassis for the completed Mountain Rider bodyshell - have all the extra parts I am planning on using so really looking forward to this. I chose to do it in reverse order (body first) because far too many projects of mine end up with completed chassis and unpainted body!)

2) as per above, paint my WW2 body for my GF01

3) as per above, paint and decal Lancia 037 Vintage body for completed ORV chassis

4) as per above, paint and decal a Scorcher body that I have reshaped for my completed SRB chassis

5) as per above paint drivers for Mountain Rider, Scorcher and Lancia. I bought one of Rob's awesome painted Wild Willy's to cheat!

6) probably sell the Dickie Unimog I bought to stick on a CC01 chassis although the release of the CC02 has got me reconsidering

7) work out why my son's GF01 dump truck won't steer and mend it for him

8) fit FPV camera and equipment to my Eflite PT17 plane

Blimey

[Badcrumble 4201]

1 hour ago, dannymulder said:

I always finished one project and when its done then I go for a other one.

That’s how I want to be when I grow up. I’m mid-forties very soon.

[markbt73 5315]

Waaaay to many to count. Lots of little stuff, so I'll only list the big/interesting things:

Subaru Brat "Manhattan Project" tribute - needs detail painting and decals, and I'm still looking for the right sized plastic bottle for the "plutonium"

Scratch-built International Harvester pickup - carved from wood on custom-made chassis - slow going, but I take it out and do a little work now and then...

Scratch-built Monteverdi Safari 4x4 - will probably be built on my ECX Barrage chassis - have materials and drawings, but haven't really started yet

Light table and vacuum former - have the stuff, just need time to build them

Scratch-built Lotus Esprit - to be built on my old retired Associated 10L race car - still in the idea stage

Sell off a whole bunch of other stuff that I have just plain lost interest in, and pick up a couple more vintage restoration projects - it's been a while since I restored an old wreck, and I miss it

...and a couple other ideas I'm keeping quiet about for now, just to see if they turn into anything...

[Mad Ax 9310]

Oh, wow...  Where do I even begin with this..?  OK, to start with I guess I have to define 'project', because IMO an RC car is never finished.  There's always a new detail to add or a new shell to paint or a new tweak to the chassis.  But let's limit this to those cars that are currently not complete, i.e. wouldn't even sit on a shelf without a screw being turned, obviously discount the Rainy Day NIBs since these aren't really projects until I open the box, and we'll discount the semi-NIBs too - those are the ones that I bought to use the body or to cannibalise for parts but are still 90% NIB and could be built with minimum fuss.  It's a good job I'm discounting those because I can't even remember how many there are.

In no particular order, as they come to me through a mind-palace style journey through my RC storage area...

• Bruder Flatbed #2.  Bought as a nicely-converted trailer.  Needs complete strip-down and overhaul and rebuild with my custom IR trailer light and leg system, the code for which hasn't even been started yet
• Bruder Flatbed #2 load - bought a scale atlantic yacht to go on it but (again) the scale is way off so I either need to sell it (again) or modify the top deck to make it a different scale
• CC01 #whoknows - found this new-built chassis under a Pajero body last night and can't remember why I've got it.  Might turn it into an RWD rally car with an old Escort body, 3d printed front steering setup and a gyro
• Mod Clod "Full Metal Jacket" - was a runner but has terrible issues the servo mounts, servo savers and servos themselves aren't up to the weight.  Needs new mounts, servos and savers.  Easy but expensive project
• Project Ringpull - Clod-bodied TLT/Axial hybrid thrown together super-quick to carry the rings down the aisle at my wedding.  Never properly finished and needs picking up and finishing with leaf springs and possibly more scale axles (if money permits).  Would be lovely to add a full interior too
• F150 widebody stepside - started this yonks and yonks ago as a learning process for modifying ABS bodies.  Ideally needs starting again from scratch as the M04 chassis got cannibalised for something else and the OG Blackfoot body wasn't in great shape before I started hacking it up and definitely isn't in any better shape now
• Hotshot re-re - fitted Radshape 4-shock brackets but couldn't find a decent shock set to fit.  Then got new Trackstar shocks from Hobbyking but didn't have any ball-ends that fitted.  Think I ordered the ball-ends (or at least found some on Hobbyking) but still need to set it up.  Then find a power system to go in it
• NovaFox - technically this shouldn't be in here because I finished it in the spring and it gets raced.  But back then my compressor wasn't working so I didn't spray the driver figure.  Summer is now almost over, the airbrush is working and the primed driver parts tree is still being moved around my workshop on a weekly basis and I really should stop being lazy and just paint the thing
• Twini - twin-motor 4x4 M01/02 SWB Hybrid - I was amazed not only at how fast this went back in July with two Saturn 20 motors installed, but also how well it handled for such a primitive-looking beast on friction shocks.  That said, a lot of the suspension parts are cracked and the steering assembly is horrible.  This is a prime target for some 3D printed custom steering and suspension parts.  Might even treat it to new oil shocks too
• F150 CC01 scale truck - almost finished this about 5 years ago then shelved it when I realised how much of a pain it was going to be to fabricate an interior.  3D printer might make this a much more enjoyable project to finish.  Started to cut out for a dropped bed too - need to decide whether to finish that properly (which involves hacking the chassis as well) or hide the damage with a bed-mounted toolbox
• Robbe Jeep scaler - again I made loads of progress with this over a Losi Mini Rock Crawler, but shelved it when some more important things came up.  Body is hacked to pieces waiting fabrication of a transmission tunnel to cover the centre transmission, or alternatively for me to get a different chassis (CC02?) and re-form the interior so it actually looks good
• TXT-1 - got 90% of the bits to put this back to near-original condition.  Would be good to have another big monster truck that runs
• WR-01 - this is really just a box of bits.  Not sure if it will ever be a proper WR-01, or a WT-01, or even some crazy hybrid incorporating a Monster Beetle chassis.  Who knows?
• F150 TA02T Tow Truck - this seemed like a great idea at the time.  Iconic RC were running open bashes and nobody ever wanted to marshal, so every time my car got stuck I'd have to walk down the steps to the track and retrieve it myself.  So I figured I could mount a winch-operated towing dolly on the back of my TA02T F150 semi-scale crawler.  Except I never actually did it, and nobody runs bashes any more.  I still want to do it though, because I love that rig
• Buggy Champ - re-re RR wearing a lexan Baja body - got pulled apart after the Revival two years ago and needs to be put back together
• SRB Lightweight - vintage SRB modified for racing, let me down badly at the Revival and needs a ground-up rebuild with a host of new and home-made parts.  Nice project for when I don't have so much on
• Vintage SRB Shelfer - bought as a pile of bits from a mate, got a few NIB re-re bodies so will re-assemble and paint in boxart (for a change)
• King Blackfoot - technically shouldn't be here since it actually runs (although the motor needs re-fitting - I borrowed it for another car last month) - but now I have my 3D printer I'm determined to make a new steering setup to fix the horrific bumpsteer
• Drag King - very time-consuming shortened and lowered King Hauler, currently on hold as I need to fix some bugs in the Arduino MFC that powers it, and in need of some 3D printed brackets to make the remote 5th wheel and IR trailer light system work
• Beetle Crawler - slapped together quickly using an Axial transmission (I think) and TLT axles for the UK Recon G6 in May.  Did surprisingly well over a couple of courses for something literally just thrown together out of bits a week before the event, even though the wheel nuts kept coming off.  Not sure whether to keep the much-modified OG Monster Beetle body or fit a nice new Landcruiser 40 body
• Shamana II - custom Manta ray project, named after an ill-fated space fighter once flown by former special forces pilot Major Amzin Geller in my unfinished novel Precious Cargo, actually needs to be built in Top Force spec as a wet-weather alternative to my Top Force Evo, because I hate having to change setups at vintage races
• Blown '57 - started this for a winter build-off an age ago and then for some crazy reason decided I was going to build a full ABS interior and realistic chassis.  Has been in the box ever since.  A great project for when I want to take my time, potentially will be much nicer with 3D printed suspension towers instead of bits I cut up from styrene and glued on at wonky angles
• FF01s - I know I've got a few of these lying around.  1 is on the shelf and likely to stay there, one should be more-or-less set up for vintage racing should the mood take me to enter FWD in next year's Iconic Cup, although it will need a new body as the Integra looks horribly overweight in metalic red, and another is languishing in a box somewhere.  I've got an unpainted OG Primera body which would make a lovely shelfer in street colours but not really sure I want yet another shelf car
• TA03-FS - completely out of the blue I acquired an NIB Corolla WRC body for this in July.  My plan had always been to acquire said body and paint it black like a street-legal car, but having seen the body (and its WRC roof scoop) I'm not sure it will work.  And that's yet another shelf car.  But equally I don't like boxart, although I do have an NIB Castrol Celica body and a TB01 chassis and the two would make a lovely pair on the shelf.  But that's more shelf cars.  OTOH maybe I'll paint it in simple clubman race scheme (two-tone yellow with black diagonal stripe, I think) and decal it up like a car you might have seen on any domestic tin-top race series in the late 90s, and then go uber-sacrilege and race it at the Iconic Cup and probably have a super-rare body smashed to pieces by the end of the season
• CC01 Landcruiser 40 - only putting this here because bought it two weeks ago and I'm still absolutely in love with it.  Looks big compared to other CC01s but the proportions are spot on.  It's got a lovely paint job but has also seen some use, so it won't be a shelf-only car.  Actually it'll be my everyday trail car - something I can take with me any time I fancy going for a walk and don't need a super-capable crawler.  It's got a sport tuned motor which seems all wrong but means I can walk at a sensible pace.  It's only here because technically it isn't finished as it needs a battery retaining clip, and I've spent the last 5 days designing various versions of one with a special clip to hold the LiPo wires out of the way so the body doesn't get distorted
• 4-linked Grasshopper Pickup - TXT-1 body on a grasshopper chassis.  Stupid stupid project that I made to prove a point.  Or, rather, someone else's point.  The vintage gearbox cracked about three days after I'd finished it.  I have another gearbox but it needs quite a lot of modification to assemble the rather pointless 4-link setup.  Maybe good to revisit it for a point-proving exercise, because I love doing stupid things
• Brat / Frog / Whatever - used to be a regular runner up until around 6 years ago, then I borrowed some parts and boxed it away.  Don't even know where it is now, haven't seen it in years.  Ideally I'll build it back up in stock Frog trim and put on a new re-re Scorcher body painted in original Frog livery, then wonder what the badword I'm going to do with it
• Bitsa - been meaning to make one for years.  I have a Monster Beetle gearbox and spaceframe, a WT-01 front suspension setup, and enough bits of plastic to sort of join them together.  I've probably got some random bodies I can put on them too.  Just because

I can't remember any others.  No doubt there are more in the boxes in my storage area but right now they escape me.  I haven't included all the shelf-standard touring cars that I painted up as street-legal cars which I don't consider finished because they don't have lights or interiors yet, but which I'll probably never get around to adding lights or interiors to.  I haven't included any of the big rigs or trailers which are never finished and which will all be getting converted to my Arduino MFC when it's finished.  I haven't included the SCX10 or the Maverick Scout hybrid scale rigs which acquire new scale parts every now and then, nor the RMX 2.0S drift car that needs a proper scale body because the HPI 200mm job just doesn't cut it.  I definitely haven't included the DF03 that has been robbed of so many parts it is barely more than a chassis tub and some screws now, because, well, why would I?  It doesn't really exist any more.

I hope that's been an entertaining read...

[nowinaminute 2815]

2 hours ago, dannymulder said:

I always finished one project and when its done then I go for a other one.

You don't happen to be a member of the Jedi order?

Self restraint I could only dream of. 

[dannymulder 766]

16 minutes ago, nowinaminute said:

You don't happen to be a member of the Jedi order?

Self restraint I could only dream of. 

yes I am , the problem is I go nuts and get nervous when I have a lot of projects and unfinished cars, I hate it if my cars are not in perfect condition, maybe I am a little nuts.

 if I had that many projects as Mad ax I never sleep again.

[nowinaminute 2815]

1 hour ago, dannymulder said:

maybe I am a little nuts.

No. You are the only sane one.

There is nothing sane about forgetting which projects half of the parts you own are even for!

[nowinaminute 2815]

6 minutes ago, nowinaminute said:

There is nothing sane about forgetting which projects half of the parts you own are even for!

Or buying a vintage model, spending hours cleaning the years of dust off of it, leaving it on a shelf and then being confused when you pick it up again only to discover it has years of dust on it "but I only cleaned it....ohhhhhh"

[Saito2 6686]

Super Sabre - body and paint

Hot Shot 2 - body and paint

Madcap - body and paint

2nd Super Astute - finish as a runner - why won't anybody just buy this?

Super G -  paint

Clod Buster - paint

Bruiser - paint

4 RC10s to flat out restore

USA-1 - body and paint

original Blackfoot - paint

Sassy Chassis Clod project - paint

Bennett Clod project - body and paint

Super Champ runner - work in progress

Hey, I just realized something, I hate body and paint work! Also, I have to offload a bunch of stuff. I've got a TRF201, a Clodzilla 4 chassis, a Stadium Thunder, a Golden Arrow and maybe a Big Boss to get sold.

 

 

[Mad Ax 9310]

I must confess, I would probably be much happier, and a much more fulfilled human being, if I got rid of some of my projects and just focused on making the ones I've got good.

On the other hand, I've now completely run out of space, so my mission plan really does need to be "finish projects and then consider moving some on or driving them until they're skip material"

But you can never have too many NIBs...

[nowinaminute 2815]

1 minute ago, Mad Ax said:

I must confess, I would probably be much happier, and a much more fulfilled human being, if I got rid of some of my projects and just focused on making the ones I've got good.

 

The really bad part is knowing deep down that I probably have more project hours waiting there than I have left to live and I'm "only" 36.

[markbt73 5315]

18 minutes ago, nowinaminute said:

The really bad part is knowing deep down that I probably have more project hours waiting there than I have left to live and I'm "only" 36.

It helps if, instead of thinking "I have too many goals I'll never reach," you think of it as "I have enough tasks to keep me busy forever."

[Saito2 6686]

14 minutes ago, markbt73 said:

"I have enough tasks to keep me busy forever."

That's a great way of looking at it. Every time I look at the mountain a stuff I have to do, I remember, its a hobby. It doesn't have a deadline like work. Its there to keep me entertained and occupied. I'll never be bored with nothing to do or no goals to reach. I'll stop when I'm dead.

[Juggular 4964]

Thank you for starting the thread.  I've been meaning to figure out what needs to be done, and this is a good opportunity.  

Mad Ax made me feel so much better, so thank you.   

1) Konghead long arm project + shell. (To mix colors, I'd have to dust out my airbrush)   

2) NSU Prinz TT shell 

3) Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint shell 

4) Honda S800 shell + M05 chassis

5) Bronco shell for lengthened TLT-1

6) Boomerang restoration + shell

7) Sand Scorcher shell + Frog chassis + Frog shell

8) Building 1 Wild One chassis and shell and 1 FAV out of loose parts collected for 19 years.  

9) Blazing Star shell to replace Manta Ray shell.  

10) Lexan Blackfoot shell

11) Put on stickers for Mitsubishi Pajero (80's version)

12) Midnight Pumpkin shell

13) Lunchbox shell 

14) I am probably forgetting a few.  

The rest are small things like: replacing dog bones on DT03, putting on new belts for DB01, etc, that could be done in couple of hours.  

hmm... listing 12 shells seems like I don't like painting shells.  Which doesn't seem true.  What prevented was the curved scissors going AWOL.  I've been looking for them for months and I finally found them.  Before it gets cold, I should get crackin'.  

 

[Wooders28 4722]

Depends what is classed as, finished? 🙄

I've the Optima Mid, it runs and drives after doing the multi plate slipper, bearings ,driveshafts, body etc, but, needs setting up (right oil and springs for the application), and I wouldn't mind nailing on a carbon chassis, fitting a brushless servo....

The Ultima, same, 'just' needs setting up.

Boomerang, been a great work horse for the , have a go, sessions at clubs open days/exhibitions, but wouldn't mind brushless and 4s (mainly as it said it can't be done...😏)

2x lunchbox for 4 bar rear and double wishbone front. 

Bullhead for its V8 engine inc light and sound via the 3rd channel (just ordered a turnigy switch)

Orange Blossom 2 /hornet puller

Set the KF2se up for wet weather racing, give me an options when the weather isn't favourable.

Schumacher Fusion needs a new plug and fuel, then setting up..

DF03 Dark Impact, really needs a strip down,clean and general check over. Its been hit with high KV motors and multi cell Lipos over the last 10 yrs and not even uttered a wimper (apart from replacing many broken parts).

DT03, really liking this chassis atm, and my only real grab and go for bashing, if it's beach, dirt or street. Ripe for 7700kv ,3s lipo, GPS meter and a dry empty road (68mph + target....)

WT03, not really turned out the car a thoight it would be, needs more time spend on it, set up I think more than anything, or converting back to monster truck status.

Novafox , may bung a cheap brushless in that, 3s on the 15t firebolt is making it a bit burny.

[TurnipJF 9192]

Only one project here - duplicating my RWD 4WS M-03 teapot racer chassis for my wife. 

Everything else is either finished and on the shelf ready to run, or only in the ideas stage with no physical parts yet. 

[mtbkym01 4008]

I've had quite a productive year getting into my long term projects, as can be seen in my projects thread, still left in my queue (in no particular order):

- Tamiya Rough Rider Early Vintage - nearly finished

- Tamiya Sand Scorcher - never run, needs the body to be restored and the chassis to be stripped and rebuilt

- Tamiya Top Force original - Resto

- Tamiya Firedragon original - Resto

- Tamiya Big Wig original - Resto

- Tamiya SuperShot - Need to swap out the chassis for the original (no hatch)

- Tamiya TA06 - thinking off fitting a Yokomo Toyota Crown body on it that I have

- Kyosho Pegasus - Resto

- Kyosho Optima/Javelin original - Turning an original Optima into a Javelin

- Yokomo MX4 - Resto

- A couple Kyosho Nitro somethings - Resto

- Venom Creeper 2.2 class comp crawler - need to replace gearset inside transmission (out of production, finally tracked down a gearset, scared to use them without copying them some how)

I think thats all thats left in resto/rebuilds, then I have the following NIB's that may or may not get built as some time:

- Tamiya Clodbuster - non bow tie

- Tamiya Fox - stay NIB

- Tamiya Blackfoot ReRe

- Tamiya Monster Beetle ReRe

- Tamiya Egress ReRe

- Tamiya Porsche 40th Anniversary x 2 - 1 to build

- Tamiya Bruiser ReRe

- Tamiya Fighting Buggy (Superchamp) - undecided

- Associated RC10 Classic - stay NIB

- Kyosho Scorpion ReRe - stay NIB

- Kyosho Tomahawk - undecided

- Kyosho Optima ReRe - undecided

I think that is everything that I have waiting on something to happen with them

 

 

Edited September 13, 2019 by mtbkym01
Added TA06 & Egress

[speedy_w_beans 4272]

I have a few in process; they're getting progressively harder to finish as new project ideas come to mind:

• Heavy Dump Truck
• MAN TGS Racing Truck
• M05/TT02 speed run cars
• EVO 6 body
• M4 body

There are another half dozen in planning/daydreaming stage at the moment.

[scoobybooster 248]

To be honest, i don't know what i actually have , as i started storing boxes also at my partents home and in the Company i work. Think it must be around 40 or 50 cars. Problem is: When a phase of willpower comes over me and I want to make a model to finish it, I often don't know where I stowed it. So I let it stay again.
 

[berman 5315]

If I had time to list all my unfinished projects I'd have time to start one... 

I don't even have time to read Mad Ax's posts!