No manuals for download

[kontemax]

HI,

I'm surprised that no one is posting the new manuals for new tamiya cars listed in the club.

Max

[Madmat]

I think it may be something to do with the cars coming out of tamiya of recent. Other than the ta05 chassis and re-releases, I cant think of anything new that is different in any extreme way other than the body, it seems like they are just making new bodies and sticking them on the different chassis' and calling it a new model. (Maybe its because they are working on the Re-Re Srb molds so much they are trying to put us off by sticking out these kits to put us off the scent [])

[netsmithUK]

There has not been the same demand for new manuals as most are now available from tamiyas website direct. That said we'll post any we get (as long as they are not just the ones downloaded form the tamiya site)

Chris

[rotor]

Where on the Tamiya site are they ?

Cheers

Chris

[DJTheo]

http://www.tamiyausa.com/articles/feature.php?article-id=115

and

http://www.tamiya.com/english/rc/manuals.htm

Cheers

[rotor]

Excellent, thanks heaps for that

Cheers

Chris

[garvey]

IVE CHECKED MY NEW HORNET MANUAL WITH WHAT I PRESUME IS THE ORIGINAL ON THE SITE AND THERES NO DIFFERENCE REALY.IF ANYTHING I WOULD SAY THE SITES ARE BETTER TO uNDERSTAND (FOR NEWBIES LIKE ME)[]id="navy">

[DJTheo]

Actually there are quite few differences, but if you are happy with it... Btw, better write in small letters as capitals mean in the web shouting.

Cheers

[garvey]

quote:

Originally posted by DJTheo

Actually there are quite few differences, but if you are happy with it... Btw, better write in small letters as capitals mean in the web shouting.

Cheers

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OOooops sorry.......on both accounts.best to never listen to a newbie[8)]

[kontemax]

I don't think the new cars aren't all so interesting. There are some cars very interesting like Neo Shot (never on the market) od the Shlesser buggy (same thing).

I would like to buy a Desert Gator but before would like to know how it is made. Same with the Gravel Hound. Don't like to go in my local hobby shop, open the boxes, watch all items and then decide I don't like the cars.

Max

[jezam]

Anybody found/have manuals for TR-15T? I have searched Tamiya site and cannot find. They list model number 44001 but supply no manuals. Also exploded veiws and parts list would be great. Recently got my hands on complete TR-15T and would like to get running. Any help would be great. Thanks.

[TA-Mark]

Anybody found/have manuals for TR-15T? I have searched Tamiya site and cannot find. They list model number 44001 but supply no manuals. Also exploded veiws and parts list would be great. Recently got my hands on complete TR-15T and would like to get running. Any help would be great. Thanks.

This thread might help. Last active a week or 2 ago, so should be still around. Tamiyabigstuff is the user that has scanned them.

Where do we send the manuals we have scanned that are not listed on the manuals page? #58161 I scanned in for another user.

[terry.sc]

Where do we send the manuals we have scanned that are not listed on the manuals page?

Here ya go Mark.

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=11883

[TA-Mark]

Thanks Terry, I had them close. My scanners don't have a 150dpi option. Seems a weird dot pitch for a web image, or a print image. Usually 72dpi/96dpi for images to be viewed on a screen and 300dpi for a printable image (my printer spits at anything under 300dpi and wants to print it on low draft quality). My image sizes are within required size and I had named them F150-01.jpg, F150-02.jpg etc. 75% compression will remove quite a bit of detail too, I just saved one like that and it looks terrible and a small 70kb file. Default setting for .jpg saving is 10% in Corel and is a nice balance between size and quality.

When I compare them to the images I've downloaded of the manuals I don't have for the kits do I have, I find the number of pixels is 995x700, mine are 1169x806 pixels (10% compression). Filesize the same ~250kb/page.

I'm not unstapling the manual again to rescan so if what I've done isn't good enough don't use it. I hosted it on my website because the email wouldn't let me send this large an attachment. Limit is 10mb but anything over about 2mb hangs and the connection to the mail server times out (BigPond got the BigJoke nickname for a reason ).

[terry.sc]

My scanners don't have a 150dpi option. Seems a weird dot pitch for a web image, or a print image. Usually 72dpi/96dpi for images to be viewed on a screen and 300dpi for a printable image

72/96dpi is used as it creates an image that fits on a 72 or 96dpi screen at full size, so the size of the image is controlled by the monitors dot pitch, not by the number of pixels wide you want the image to be. For images the dpi is irrelevant, the number of pixels in the image is what's important. By asking for 150dpi it ensures that the scanned picture is between 1000 and 1200 pixels wide, scanning at 96dpi gives you a picture less than 800 pixels wide.

75% compression will remove quite a bit of detail too, I just saved one like that and it looks terrible and a small 70kb file. Default setting for .jpg saving is 10% in Corel and is a nice balance between size and quality.

I guess Corel uses a different system for defining jpeg compression quality than other graphics software. Everything else will give you a tiny mess at 10% quality, with an uncompressed image being 100%. I'm guessing that while everything else uses the percentage relative to the original file size, while Corel defines the percentage as how much it removes from the image. It looks like your 10% compression is about right as the 75% is just to make the file size as small as possible for emailing without losing any detail.