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1 minute ago, Wandy said:

The kit is due late January but the bodies are coming in late March/early April.

Hmmm maybe I will have to buy a kit after all.

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12 hours ago, Carmine A said:

Thank you so much! Timing couldn't be worse. Besides the Holiday Season.... I REALLY want one of those Bodies. I'm going to miss out, one way or another... I'm pretty excited about this. 

It underscores my FEAR in the Hospital. That, and the LONELINESS of not being allowed any visitors, and my last line of sanity, cute Nurses, are practically in HAZMAT Suits with big Rubber Boots! 😖😭😭😭

Hang on a minute there - you say you have cute nurses in hazmat suits and rubber boots there?? Drop pin me your address asap!!!! :wub:

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On 11/12/2020 at 8:20 PM, Blista said:

A few details from https://tamiyablog.com/

239mm (long) wheelbase.

Pre-painted white.

Separately molded plastic bumper, side mirrors and fog lamps.

Polycarbonate front and rear light cases are compatible with LEDs

This is all excellent news, although the long wheelbase means I will have to alter my own plans.

This means it’s almost exactly 1/10 scale for once. By my calculations it should be 240 mm to be exact so not far out!

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20 hours ago, Busdriver said:

This means it’s almost exactly 1/10 scale for once. By my calculations it should be 240 mm to be exact so not far out!

The only disadvantage to this is that most of the current bunch of aftermarket stickers ie L&L  are based around a body that sits on the 1/10 touring car chassis so will not fit without some judicious trimming!!

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On 11/20/2020 at 2:16 AM, jonboy1 said:

Hang on a minute there - you say you have cute nurses in hazmat suits and rubber boots there?? Drop pin me your address asap!!!! :wub:

Thanks Buddy!! I NEEDED that laugh. 😂😅

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Such exciting news from Tamiya, yeah there's gripes over the wheels and chassis but its fun working out ways to improve it already before a kit has even landed on our shores!

There was mention of alternative decals, I've got a body on order and am going to be looking at creating a few different schemes. If there's interest I'll look into getting some printed up, but I'm sure L&L Models will be on it. 

A long, long time ago I made a Bjorn Waldegard British Airways livery for the old 257mm wheelbase Controlfreax body, I really want to try the red Cossack hair spray livery, the Rothmans one of course and perhaps the Andrews Heat for Hire.

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With the 257mm touring car Escort bodies available, the standard Tamiya m-chassis minilites coupled with larger tyres such as Hornet fronts, or the new high sidewall Racing Truck tyres worked perfectly. See this diagram I made to roughly judge the proportion of the larger Hornet smoothie tyres fitted to m-chassis wheels for a few different wheelbases, you can see for a touring car chassis (I've listed it as TT01 here) the proportions look great:

https://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=96566&id=32151

Its all about the hub to tyre sidewall ratio! The m-chassis wheels and tyres that come with the new Escort kit are going to look a little weird to me, the hub will be too big, and the sidewall too skinny, I really want to create/find/bodge some smaller wheels and larger sidewall tyres. 

What is really needed are some Street Jam style fake sidewall tyres but scaled down for m-chassis cars. I love Tamiya's Alpine, and have had two, but ended up selling them as I just couldn't live with the massive wheels, same with the original Mini and the Fiat 500 Abarth. I totally get why they are made for performance and ease of use over a few different models, but imagine driving the new Escort on proper skinny forest stage tyres, or small and wide tarmac setup, it would be great. 

The amazing 3D printed work of members like donut_V2 is a really exciting step in the right direction. I'm currently looking at 1/16 crawler wheels and tyres, I've got a set of Chinese unbranded tyres from eBay that fit the m-chassis wheels perfectly giving a high sidewall, but the overall size is just too big for the m-chassis cars. 

Other than the aforementioned hen's teeth HPI wheels and tyres, what other options are out there? 

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Looks great , Nice rims :P  . The mini lites < if i spelled it right :lol:

 

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2 hours ago, matman said:

Looks great , Nice rims :P  . The mini lites < if i spelled it right :lol:

 

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Oh please let this be a real photo not some airbrushed special. It looks really good. I have gold minilites waiting and I’m certain there are enough Rothmans stickers out there !! I would like to see a rear view from the same sort of angle

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Hmm, that's actually not bad.  It looks like there's space under the arches to get some wider wheels in, if we can find or make some.

It's been a long time since I looked at 3D printing anything and I didn't have a lot of joy with wheels, but if I could design an M-chassis minilite with a slightly wider offset, I think that would be a good compromise - M-chassis rally blocks and tarmac tyres will fit, and the diameter will be appropriate for the hubs and suspension.  Possibly I could shrink the spoke size and add a fake sidewall.

Something to look at in the new year, maybe...

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2 hours ago, matman said:

Looks great , Nice rims :P  . The mini lites < if i spelled it right :lol:

 

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these will sell like hotcakes

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Wow, that looks much better than I expected. 
I can’t wait to see what people make of these with liveries, mods, detailed interiors etc.

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If this sells as well as I think it will hopefully Mr T might realise the European and UK market is worth listening too for future releases 🤞🏻

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On 11/26/2020 at 10:41 PM, matman said:

Looks great , Nice rims :P  . The mini lites < if i spelled it right :lol:

 

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I absolutely can't WAIT to get mine!!! Almost 2 months ago, I came up with the idea of using a M08 Chassis under the Escort....

I'm sure it wasn't a ground breaking idea - or that I was the very first to come up with it. But I'm entirely MIFFED that I mentioned it on one of RC Kicks Videos - and now he's completely claiming it as his own!! 😠😠 

I realize that this is completely trivial, in light of what I've just been through.  But now I'm really hoping that my Inheritance hurrys up and gets here - so I can at least BEAT Gavin to the Build!!

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6 hours ago, Badcrumble said:

At least you'll be rid of those red hubs by going M08 @Carmine AA. Glad you're feeling better!

ABSOLUTELY! 😁

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I'm not a fan of rckicks's videos but i did watch this one and it was clear that he is unfamiliar with m-chassis cars. 

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On 11/17/2020 at 7:20 AM, yogi-bear said:

haven't pre-ordered, but will get one. I'll wait until there is some local stock down under.

The distributor hasn't even sent out details to LHS's yet :angry:

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Late to this party, but this is a must for me, just need the AUS distributor to let us know when and how much!

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3 minutes ago, mtbkym01 said:

Late to this party, but this is a must for me, just need the AUS distributor to let us know when and how much!

I will try and buy local to support the local hobby shops, otherwise I'll probably get it from RcMart.

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8 minutes ago, yogi-bear said:

I will try and buy local to support the local hobby shops, otherwise I'll probably get it from RcMart.

Same, shipping for kits from RCMart is still pretty high at the moment

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2 minutes ago, mtbkym01 said:

Same, shipping for kits from RCMart is still pretty high at the moment

true, but it was the best option I could find when I ordered the MF-01X Beetle a couple of weeks ago. And they were pretty good when I ordered some GB-01 parts they had, so they will be a consideration.

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15 hours ago, mtbkym01 said:

The distributor hasn't even sent out details to LHS's yet :angry:

You would think if NZ already has a demo/sample kit, Aus would have one too, so you'd think they would know 😐

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3 hours ago, berman said:

You would think if NZ already has a demo/sample kit, Aus would have one too, so you'd think they would know 😐

Unsure, apparently they’ve not had any deliveries for months

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