Tamiya and other R/C vehicles (not just for Christmas)

@sandboy …. we’d happily find a home for your tank! Would fit nicely between the Tamiya stuff and the boat. My lad at 14 is in love with anything radio controlled at the moment.

I’m liking HTS’ hand painted decals on the Russian tank, I bet they’re brilliant fun.

Excellent paintwork on the Escort again Merak, very authentic.

I finished cutting out the 2CV shell at the weekend and started masking it, will get some paint on it this week. I’ll have to alter the chassis before fitting it as it’s in SWB mode for the Renault shell. Wonder if the handling will be any different as a LWB chassis? It was already pretty stable.

@jefwachowchow

Thanks for the advice. Will try that. Was your steering working fine when that happened?

@benp

The steering appeared to energise (twitch) when switched on as normal but no power to the motor at all which is what sent me on the wrong path. Honestly cant remember of the steering worked other than that. Probably not to be honest.
Its just a real quick way to remove the steering servo from the equation to unplug from the receiver (I typed ESC last time. Its been a while since I did it).

Any of you lovely people in the market for a once used Celica G.rb?

Argh!

The replacement radio won’t pair with the tank. Massive, MASSIVE ball-bags.

In other news the new tank came with a much better method of getting the smoke oil into the smoker so I topped them both up and they now generate enormous clouds of the stuff, but one at a time as I ONLY HAVE ONE WORKING RADIO!

I seem to have ordered one of those MK2 Escorts. This is getting as bad as bikes in my garage.

^Tell me about it! Almost wish I’d never seen this thread! Now have a Tamiya quattro TT-02 (painted art car style),an FTX 1:10 Land Rover crawler and a Killer Body Delta Integrale painted yellow waiting to go on a TT-02D drift chassis that I’m building up.

The cutting and masking of the deux chevaux rallye has finally finished! Onto paint – wish me luck everyone. I found masking it up only moderately annoying this time, I’m clearly getting used to it. Unlike the Unimog I actually took my time, we’ll see how it looks when it’s done.

I’m fancying black for the roof and wings – and either bright yellow or Unimog orange for the currently masked bits. Any thoughts? The box shows a white body and green wings which I don’t fancy at all. And I have the yellow and orange paint from the other two bodies 🙂

2cv by Chrispoffer Lawrence[/url], on Flickr

Ninja masking skills there.Black and orange for me.👍

IN STOCK!!!

https://howesmodels.co.uk/product/heng-long-116th-bristish-challenger-2-rc-tank-smoke-and-sound-version-with-2-4ghz-radio/

730mm long. That is chuffing massive!

Get it. 😀

You’ll have enough firepower to invade Radcliffe.

Another vote for buying another tank HTS – looks like a bargain at that price.

Loving the blue Escort Merak, the future owner’s going to be very chuffed.

2CV update. Had the orange paint warmed up and ready to go but….

2cvfr by Chrispoffer Lawrence[/url], on Flickr

2cv side by Chrispoffer Lawrence[/url], on Flickr

2cvside2 by Chrispoffer Lawrence[/url], on Flickr

I casually mentioned the colour choice to Mrs C and she said it had to be yellow as it was more waspy. 🙂 . Couldn’t argue….

I’m really pleased with how it’s come out. Still not perfect but I’ve learnt so much since I did Unimog. Will look better again with the accessories and stickers on it. And a few battle scars too!

Love that 2cv. Usually it annoys me when rc cars roll over in fast corners but for a 2CV that’s highly scale I suppose

That tank looks awesome. Must resist though

Help needed!

A little sister/crawler accident has resulted in the steering not working on no.1’s RC crawler. The controller/ESC/servo all work as the trim buttons adjust the steering but the steering wheel doesn’t make the wheels turn.

I can buy spares for all three but by the time I do I’m £20 off a complete new car.

Any ideas I could try before I guess at which of the 3 to try first?

https://www.scaleart-unimog.de/en
Just when I think it is subsided
Another want. So cool.
I feel another crawler coming on🤓

Help needed!

A little sister/crawler accident has resulted in the steering not working on no.1’s RC crawler. The controller/ESC/servo all work as the trim buttons adjust the steering but the steering wheel doesn’t make the wheels turn.

I can buy spares for all three but by the time I do I’m £20 off a complete new car.

Any ideas I could try before I guess at which of the 3 to try first?

I’m not sure what crawler you have but you should be able to swap the plugs for the ESC and steering servo on the receiver. You can then test the steering on the throttle trigger and the ESC on the steering wheel.

Northwind
Full Member
Love that 2cv. Usually it annoys me when rc cars roll over in fast corners but for a 2CV that’s highly scale I suppose

The M05-RA chassis is really low, as is the weight – even when the suspension’s set at the highest level (as here). When I had it setup with the Renault 5 shell it was very untippy, unlike the Unimog which rolls over as soon as you try and turn. Hoping it’ll be even more stable with the 2CV shell on it as I’ve had to change the chassis configuration from SWB to LWB. Probably have a go over on the scoot park this weekend when my son’s with me again – we’ll report back 🙂

Anyone know of any decent bashing or speedrun spots over Preston way?

Off to visit a mate on Friday afternoon and don’t really know the area that well.

Let me know if you fancy joining us!

I’m not sure what crawler you have but you should be able to swap the plugs for the ESC and steering servo on the receiver. You can then test the steering on the throttle trigger and the ESC on the steering wheel.

Good idea but… Its an FTX Outback mini 2.0 and the Servo to ESC is 5wire and the ESC to motor is 2wire.

I’m pretty certain its not the controller so a new servo vs new servo and ESC is only £8 difference, i can live with that.

lairdburkart
Free Member
https://www.scaleart-unimog.de/en
Just when I think it is subsided
Another want. So cool.
I feel another crawler coming on🤓

It looks superb – until you get down to the price…. you could probably buy a well used actual Unimog for not much more 😀

Ouch!

Wonder why they didn’t put the price at the top?

Oooof.

Makes the Axial version look good value. 🙂

In other news… my replacement radio has arrived so war can break out now in the back garden!

Big Up for Howes Models. Customer service has been spot on. Spent a wedge with them over the last year and they are now my default shop for wasting money.

I’m about to take the plunge. My son really wants an RC vehicle, so I bought him a 1/10 crawler for his upcoming birthday. It’s an FTX Ravine (sold as a Danchee Ridgerock here in the US), basically the cheapest hobbyist grade crawler I could find, but it has easily available replacement parts and should be good for us I think. We’ve got lots of desert rocks to try it out on, so I think it should be good fun.

Been looking at this for ages I’m ready to push the button 🙂

Before I do anyone know of better deal/kit ?

https://www.modelsport.co.uk/index.php?basket=1

That link just goes to the shopping basket, which is empty. Can you direct link to the item’s page?

Now I won’t have any advice anyway, but maybe others will!

Ah ok it’s this

https://www.modelsport.co.uk/tamiya-escort-mk-ii-rally-mf-01x/rc-car-products/1334538

Power bundle 2 £248

That’s the bundle I bought with my first Tamiya last year. Battery charges in a couple of hours and last a decent length of time. Controller is basic but works fine and is nice and light. Only downside is the controller can only store one receiver at a time, so if/when you buy another car you’ll need another controller. If you want to race two you’ll need separate controllers anyway.
My second build I bought a controller that can switch between 10 cars and came with two receivers. Now on third build (that escort) and didn’t need any extra radio gear.

As for the build, it’s a nice car. I’m about 1/2 way through and really enjoying it. Make sure you buy the bearing kit. Much better speed and battery life with them. Much easier to fit during build process than strip down and rebuild. Maybe also consider oil dampers as well. Kit comes with friction dampers and can be a bit bouncy.
Also, body comes painted but you’ll still need black acrylic paint for the detail parts. Paint code can be found in online manual.
Be sure to get everything you need in one go. Lots of the extras are only a couple of quid but double that in postage.

+1 for an aftermarket bearing kit. You can get an actual bearing set for about a tenner on eBay if you search the chassis model, much better than the plastic bushes that Tamiya ship as standard. As Clubby says, so easy to fit as you’re building rather than after you’ve built it. Tamiya even put the alternative part numbers on the instruction sheets so you can’t really get it wrong.

The bundle kit looks perfect to get you started, I got a similar one with my Unimog. I ended up buying an extra high capacity battery too (which I knew I’d use as I planned to get another kit anyway) and the servo that my kit came with was made out of cheese so only managed a couple of snowy runs before self destructing.

Enjoy!

We need to sort out another “Get Together” when restrictions allow.

Cheers fellas. Aye I see bearing kit and shocks already as upgrades 🙂 Can see it getting expensive 😉

See bearing kits are £24 on that page I linked too I’ll look at eBay for cheaper alternatives

There must be an Escort tax! 🙂

This is the cheapest set I spotted – https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tamiya-MF-01X-Bearing-Set-Tamiya-Escort-Rally-Beetle-Jimny/254851115137?hash=item3b564f6881:g:EHUAAOSwby9gFngi

You recommend the metal seal bearings over rubber ones ?

I went for rubber. More drag but better sealed against dirt if going to be rallied. Had metal on my first build but replaced the wheel bearings pretty quickly with rubber as you could feel the grittiness. Left the drivetrain ones as they are pretty well tucked away. Will eventually replace when needed.
The ones above are the kit I bought and arrived quickly.
24 bearings in it, 4 pretty small peculiar sized ones for the driveshaft. £15 isn’t bad.

Nice one those bearings looked like metal sealed ones in link. I think rubber sealed ones will be best

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/114430026350

This is the seller I used. Choice of rubber or metal seals. Delivered quickly.

Nice one cheers. Ok last question I promise! Well today anyway 😉 where’d you get your oil dampers ?