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Painting the avante interior
nicherotors

The futuristic jet cockpit really adds some magic and thought I'd share some of the extra details added....
11/14/2020 5:39:32 AM

Painting the holiday buggy interior
nicherotors

Not being a fan of my brush painting skills I tried to do as much as possible with the rattle cans....
10/27/2020 7:36:15 PM

Adjusting the wild willy 2 body mounts
nicherotors

Rather than snip the top of the body mounts off I thought it tidier to lower the height of the posts by cutting a section out from the middl...
5/7/2020 1:39:50 PM

Detailing the wild willy 2 grill
nicherotors

We all know a key difference between the current Wild Willy 2 and the original M38 is the grill but to make detailing easier, and given the ...
5/4/2020 4:39:59 PM

Painting wild willy.
netsmithUK

Got to start by saying this is not my advice. I've just reworked the tutorial that one of members, the talented Fabrizio wrote for us many y...
9/30/2019 2:55:40 PM

Detailing blitzer beetle
Tamiya Guy 79

Hi Guy's
Its that time of the week again where we grab a few minutes at the weekend to tinker with our Tamiyas.
I thought I'd share...
3/16/2019 10:31:58 AM

Cc01 cut brick / bash plate for homebrew
Mad Ax

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I know this has pretty much been done to death, and this probably isn't the best CC01 bash plate guide out there, in fact it...
10/31/2018 7:28:49 AM

Mfc switches in fuel tank, part 2
Mad Ax

A belated update to this little project - I finished the fuel tank MFC switch house. Full details in this topic:

https://www.tamiy...
8/25/2018 7:14:27 AM

3d printed tpu tyres
pininy

Always wanted to make my own Tires design, finally with my 3D printer.

After tested TPU running not bad, but i think TPE 80A would...
8/13/2018 2:07:58 PM

Mfc switches in fuel tank, part 1
Mad Ax

This is something I'd been meaning to do for a while but haven't had the time thanks to work, family and other RC events needing work done. ...
8/8/2018 8:44:37 PM

Rear left offset solution
pininy

I have a few 787B body shells and recently bought one runner, my only runner. Found the left rear is too inwards... so drafted a 10mm offset...
8/8/2018 6:04:34 AM

Thundershot with 53200 one way unit
MadInventor

Detail of how I fitted a Tamiya 53200 one way unit into my Thundershot...
4/11/2018 5:57:12 PM

Yellow cva dampers dyed black
thetamiyakid

Wth the rerelease of the Top Force came the opportunity to replace some damaged rear dampers on an Avante 2001.

With the rears all ...
1/9/2018 11:41:38 PM

Yellow shocks made to work
Aurigarius

Every Tamiya modeler knows these yellow shocks, which featured in a lot of older Tamiya offroaders. I never liked them too much because they...
9/18/2017 2:12:44 PM

Wildly different
woomagic

I had a Wild One when I was young and had the usual problems with the gearbox. When it was rereleased I really wanted one again but as I fi...
6/12/2017 7:17:52 AM

Body shop time
scollins

So I picked up this tattered lexan Kyosho nostalgic Cobra shell from eBay for a very reasonable price. It was hit really hard and torn up pr...
3/21/2017 12:42:35 AM

Custom build .... ' aluminium mirror '
always_want_one

the original are soooo rare and tooooooo expensive!!! so i build my own ;-)
......between listen this real nice music ;-)

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3/16/2017 11:01:34 PM

How to build m05/06 oil filled gear diff from tamiya parts
ruebiracer

For the M05 and M06 there are luckily many aftermarket gear diffs available from 3-racing, Spec-R, Top Racing and now also Yeah Racing. Only...
3/7/2017 8:19:49 PM

Painting lights - the easy way
TWINSET

Read about this on a few sites, finally tried it a while ago - works great!

Red and orange sharpies - no masking tape, no overspray...
2/18/2017 11:27:14 PM

Dually rear wheels on m-06s chassis
JennyMo

The following is a summary of the key steps in mounting dual rear wheels to the M-06 RWD chassis - in this instance, the Lowride Pumpkin ...
2/3/2017 5:17:34 PM

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