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

Tanks!!!!!! 😀

@plus-one I splurged on a nice set (but overpriced) of alloy Tamiya ones on eBay. I think Modelsport has Tamiya CVAs due in about the same time as your kit. So much incoming stock is for back orders first I didn’t want to wait as I already had the car kit.
Yeah Racing alloy ones on eBay get decent reviews if not quite as nice as the Tamiya ones. Around £25 a set. Think it’s the 55mm ones you need. Lots of info on the Tamiyaclub website. Forum is free to join, but prepare to lose hours down that rabbit hole!

Those tanks are outstanding!!! 10/10.

Nice one cheers. I foresee an overspend coming on !!

Few shots of my trx4 out for a wee spin while kids were in cubs…

That looks ace !

Bio degradable BBs arrived today for the tanks.

OMG!

https://youtube.com/shorts/UDtmbBq5E1Q?feature=share

Oh, that’s delightful 🙂.

Just to let you know, Avenham Park in Preston is quite good fun..
APART FROM THE FESTERING BAGS OF DOGSHIT THROWN OFF THE MAIN PATHS INTO All NICEST BITS OF SINGLETRACK AND RC BASH SPOTS. Even the responsible dog owners were complaining.

Turned a potentially lovely afternoon into a bit of a nightmare.
Found some great places (BMX jumps over the bridge, on the right, for example, and the singletrack off to the left by the stream) that had literally hundreds of them strewn around.
You couldn’t let kids play anywhere in the park away from the paved paths.
The whole place stinks.
Shame, it could be a fantastic public space.

Bah.

This is turning into another expensive hobby. Just bought a X6 controller and full brushless set up for my truggy, more efficient and more range. Maybe a touch more speeds…

double bubble

https://photos.app.goo.gl/mTL4GoX8vB1qJjK96

Well, shit.

I reckon i have spent more money on my little colt and the maverick ion than they both cost me originally.
The perils of letting a 5 year old pay i guess, but the cost is worth it.
Have told him once he can control them well i will get a 1:10 crawler so we can build obstacle courses round the garden

Slightly offtopic but Tamiya have partnered up with a company to produce a slightly
larger version of one of their buggies.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/mTL4GoX8vB1qJjK96

Well, shit.

Whoops

And now I want a road-legal Wild One!

Bought some flexible 1.6mm polycarbonate sheet and I’ll try and make a bubble canopy for my Mad Bull “convertible”.

I’ve got a spare body shell too that I’m going to paint up in some sort of splinter camouflage scheme. Don’t know whether to go for a Swedish green/brown/black or a Russian blue/blue/grey.

well Merak, that is amazing.

I have the original build of this having used and abuse it as a teenager… I dug it out my parents garage a while back and it looks very sorry for itself now! I might be forced to actually buy a new bodyshell and spruce it up!

So I ‘ve had a go at tidying up my broken Mad Bull body shell.

I got a 15x15cm piece of 1.6mm flexible plastic off eBay for a couple of quid with a view to making a bubble canopy. I also took the opportunity to clean up the paintwork.

I’m quite pleased with the result, however the canopy is too clean to show up in photos! Don’t know how well it will cope with the next roll over though.

I’ve also started on painting the spare shell. It’ll be a Hi-Viz / dazzles camo mash-up.

Orange and yellow on and masked. 3 greys to follow.

Next project has arrived 🙂

Oooh. Fancied one of those but went for a MF01x Escort instead.

Nice builds everyone. Very nice.
That scale art mog is daft money, agreed.
Got hold of some scrap 4mm alloy sheet built a low CG crawler chassis with it. So transplanted the Mauler axles and gear box into it and Tamiya BlackFoot hard body. I got lucky and it works well. Build inspired by the axial 1/24th scale C10 .Just got body detail and a big grill/bumper to make. Will treat it to some axial axles maybe soon.
Will be able to go out for a crawler session with the kids soon. And might be able to follow theirs now.
Another rainy afternoon in the shed🥸

Really really enjoyed building my first ever rc car(at 48) yes silly I know. Totally hooked after first build session.

I forsee more rc cars in my future 🙂

New bodyshell painted. Need to lacquer it and add some decals out of my Airfix box. Going for a “Space Marines” sort of vibe.

Couldn’t sleep, so I finished it.

Got to apply some Helicopter Tape before we run it though.

Well done @plus-one. I made an arse of my decals as Tamiya’s “instructions” for these are indecipherable. That and their position on the sheet bears no resemblance to where they go on the car. Consequently I have a nice understated white escort with black Phat Bodies wheels, instead of the baby blue ones. Actually looks really good. Only thing missing is the body accessories, mine were missing from the box. Contacted them but still waiting for follow up response after the initial “we’ll look into it”. So I’m missing the mirrors, bumpers, but most annoyingly the inside light buckets to fit the leds I’ve waiting.

Cheers @clubby it was a ball ache doing the decals. Far from perfect but I really took my time. Learning curve I’ll get better at them. I’d like to see pic of your escort 🙂

@clubby

I have a set of decals for this, if you’d like them for a tenner posted give me a shout.👍

Do you sell any shells @merak ? I’d love a different one to fit my MF-01-x

So converted my wl.toys 124019 to brushless 4500kv. Still running a 2s. Its frighteningly fast, easy 45ph (seen same set up doing 50s with foam tyres) and a lot of fun on the estate grassy bit.

Excuse the cameraman, he is only 4

i like the madbull repaint

i`ve put plastic windows in mine – mainly to keep the crud out.

Quick linky to my thread about an open weekend at my local RC flying club if anyone is interested. All ages, abilities etc welcome

Anyone interested learning to fly RC planes or wants to fly at a decent field

How cool would it be to do a Binky shell? Could be a real challenge though with the pearl stuff.

Not an Escort shocker. I’ve shoehorned an HPI body onto a Tamiya 2cv M05 chassis hence the jaunty mounting posts. I would have trimmed them but I need them for the 2cv.

It’s a leap of faith for mounting/drilling..

It was an experiment. The HPI is a three piece body which was a pain in the arse to be honest. The lexan is as tough as old boots compared to Tamiya. The decals were hateful brittle things that although pre-cut didn’t like heat or repositioning.

It’s for sale like all the rest, I’m going to do a Cossack Escort next..

Hooked already !! Got a hornet too 🙂 Heading to beach with it tomorrow 🙂

Innit?

Day off today after a particularly shitty week.
Took the Lunchbox down to the park and came home smiling again.

I think, after a few years of pissing about with these things, that slow and stupid is actually more fun than fast and furious.

Sold some old film camera gear so have shelf space…….

……quite fancy a Wild Willy..😀

Arses. Snapped an axle on a tank after a particularly heavy afternoon of skirmishing.

Best start looking for spares 🙁

The Brexit farce rears its ugly head. Again.

The spare part that I need costs €2.95, but it is only available via HengLong.de in Germany. However, they won’t accept my order because of the Brexit VAT situation unless I spend €130. I don’t really need 44 spare suspension arms, so they have cancelled the order and refunded me.

The only UK solution was to buy a complete lower tank hull complete with 10 road wheels and 10 suspension arms, which are plastic rather than metal. So I’ve gone with that.

£34 to buy something that I only want a tiny piece of, that would have previously cost less than a fiver. Did they put that on the side of the bus? No they did not.

On a more serious note getting spares for anything from Europe is going to be a pain.

Also, that Hornet looks absolutely mint.