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Kyosho Ferrari 250 GTO build....body trimming tweaks and other fun

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It's been ages for me since I had the time to get on the TC forums and show some of my work. Additionally I am finding the only hours available to work on R/C projects have been the late hours during weeknights, or some limited time here and there on weekends. Ten years ago, I had a newborn son and a 1.5 yr. old son and had the same situation, lol. I've been trying to get my 11.5 yr. old son and 10 yr. old son in the shop building with me but they are not as interested as I would have hoped. But, on the upside they do still both love Legos and the younger one has interest in building static models so I can't complain. And they both like to drive R/C cars and trucks....so hopefully someday building will be in the mix for them too. 

Tried to get a build thread going her but have had no luck in two days of trying to get pics to upload properly. 

 

Update: Recently re-posted the pics on my Showroom entry instead as I have had too much trouble getting photos to load correctly from my Google albums, and Flickr, etc. Apologize for this post on the forums.

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Some photos of the magnetic body mount setup in the back, and the upside down body posts up front. The posts up front are screwed in with very tiny screws from the top, posts ground down to the proper angle to match the inside curve of the shell, then secured underneath to an aluminum bracket to stiffen them so they do not "walk around" when trying to line them up with the front bumper. The aluminum bracket will eventually be double-side taped to the underneath of the shell for extra stiffness in conjunction with the small self tapping screws holding from above. When the shell is painted I will go back and fill in the heads on these small screws and paint them so they nearly disappear. Bumper was drilled out to accept the posts with adjustable collars in place. Body clips will clip in from underneath.

On the magnet setup, I will JB Weld the magnets in place underneath the aluminum formed sheet, and up above is the metal bracket with posts that drop into the same aluminum part for extra security. I shimmed it by gluing a strip of polystyrene to the underside so that the bracket tips at the same angle as the decklid on the body. The end goal is to double stick tape this metal bracket with short posts to the underneath of the shell. This overall method will prevent the magnet from being the only thing locating the body out back and it will be very secure.Cant wait till this is finished and it looks clean. Its been a long time since I built a project with concealed body mounts, only one other time have I done it. I think that this body deserves the extra mile.

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Sorry, I have been trying for two days in between work hours to get this figured out and I have been completely unsuccessful. Ive researched my Google account and checked setting, etc. It seems I cannot upload image URL's from my Google photos anymore like I did last year. So I have given up. Back to posting my entries exclusively on my Showroom posts. Not what I wanted to do, but it always works there. My apologies.

s.collins

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Try Imgur, it's quick and works well for forums. Would like to see more of your work process here on the forum :)

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