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

Tanks fixed. Wallet still stinging a bit.

Aye costs have rocketed and lack of parts/stock everywhere 🙁

I’ve taken to buying at least two of every part I break when I’m ordering spares. But then most of my spare parts are coming all the way from China which probably doesn’t help things.

Well I’ve now got 9 spare suspension arms, a complete lower tank hull, 10 spare road wheels, two sprockets and a battery box.

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

PM me, I’m in Spain, order it to my address and then I can just stick it in a jiffy bag and send it to you.

PM me, I’m in Spain, order it to my address and then I can just stick it in a jiffy bag and send it to you.

Thanks for the kind offer. I work for a German company so I’ll sort something out with a colleague if it happens again.

Careful, you may find yourself inundated with requests from others/raided by the VAT man!

Careful, you may find yourself inundated with requests from others/raided by the VAT man!

I’ll just have to say “sorry, no” in time then 🙂

My wife rules at birthday presents!!

Escaping from Metal Mickey in that last photo, I see.

Anyone on here know much about r/c boats. Trying to get my head around how to connect a working rudder on a boat, (not a kit form, inherited one of my dads projects). Any help greatly appreciated

Anyone on here know much about r/c boats. Trying to get my head around how to connect a working rudder on a boat, (not a kit form, inherited one of my dads projects). Any help greatly appreciated

Doesn’t look too complicated?

https://www.building-model-boats.com/rc-boat-rudder.html

@mogrim, thanks a lot for that link, the last bit about the rudder linkage is the bit I couldn’t get my head around and work out the details (and pictures always helps)

Picked up a mk1 shell to fit my Mf-01x chassis and AliExpress wheels. Painted myself in ps-14 copper 🙂
Minimal decals

@plus-one that looks amazing!

I just finally got my Escort finished as the box was initially missing one of the part spurs. Thankfully it was just the bumper/mirror one so I’ve been able to have some fun with the car up til now. Shop ordered the missing parts for me and I’ve got them fitted. Also added the speed tuned gear set from a TL-01. Adds a nice kick of extra top speed without needing a fancy motor. The original rally block tyres were showing wear already, so I’ve fitted Tamiya 60d road tyres all round on the black wheels I’d already bought. Tempted to remove the prop shaft and see what it’s like rwd. Looking for proper old school rally slides.

@clubby cheers. Ooh new gear set 🙂 I don’t spend enough on bikes/lego as it is I need more rc stuff !! It’s obviously cheaper to buy new shell etc to have new look car 🙂 Rather than lots on another full kit.

I think I’m gonna stick for now*

*subject to change on a whim

Escort looks very good indeed! A suitably 70’s colour…

Bad luck Harry – run over a landmine? 😀

@timbo,

Up and running again. Had an epic battle in the garden yesterday too.

Have been looking at a Challenger 2 and T90. I just need to find space to store them as they are somewhat large.

BTW… timbog you are going to get me into a lot of trouble as I spent my lunch break researching the Berlin Brigade camouflage scheme for the Challenger 2. Previous examples is such behaviour have resulted in a purchase and a bollocking.

Berlin Brigade is a smashing scheme, but would be tricky to reproduce really well I suspect. I’m guessing it was a publicity thing as BB was gone long before Chally 2 came along.

I think I read that the idea was that each vehicle was absolutely identical, thus meaning those pesky Russians would be kept guessing as to how many tanks were actually in Berlin. If there were differences in the schemes between vehicles they would be able to count them.

See also the short-lived Caunter scheme which would also make for some great looking models.

Although I have a couple of old Airfix 1/76 kits in the stash I generally don’t model AFVs or I would deffo be looking at these..!

There’s pictures of one and it looks cool.

It could be done with enough masking tape!

Stop showing pictures of the tanks, the want is big!!! 😁

Picked up one of these from the local RC club group, only £40 virtually unused!

It’s bloody rapid! Only real downside is that it takes a tiny 2S LiPo so runtime is only 10mins, will need more packs I think.

Stop showing pictures of the tanks, the want is big!!! 😁

Timbog posted a picture of his Challenger 2 on the Airfix thread and put me in an n+1 dilemma.

Suck it up Buttercup.

Another Escort.

On a beer induced whim, ordered a Traxxas 2wd slash and the low centre or gravity kit. Also ordered a new controller to use between my two cars.

So I’ll have the FTX Outlaw for proper off-road stuff and the slash for tarmac/gravel and track if there’s one near by (calderdale).

Nephew and niece had a go on the cars and tanks yesterday.

Cosmetic damage to the T34.

Grasshopper body shell pretty much destroyed.

Won’t be doing that again.

@Harry_the_Spider
😬

I’m way too uptight about stuff to do that so fair play. I’ve got a 3 year old and we had our first RC experience with an SCX-24 at the weekend.

It’s an excellent thing wish I had bought one ages ago, an RC car I’ll actually use! Fun was short lived battery chucked it after the first run. Modelsport have sent a replacement battery. 🤞

Already started modding.🤦 Got some brass wheel weights on the way too.

We had fun making a course for it..

In other news I’m building an homage to a real supercharged BMW engined hill climb special atm.

Looks good from this side, still got the other side and some bits to do.

I’ve almost finished building this LC Racing EMB-T up now. Just got to paint the shell, put a few drop of thread lock on the motor mount screws and sort some issues out with mismatched connectors on the esc. After that it should be good to go and will hopefully prove to be a nice step up from my XLF F16.

Nephew and niece had a go on the cars and tanks yesterday.

Cosmetic damage to the T34.

Grasshopper body shell pretty much destroyed.

Won’t be doing that again.

lol that’s what they’re for, we’re adults playing with RC cars!!!

Get a crappy shell for when they’re around, and sorted. If it gets a bit more smashed up?

They’re not being allowed near them again. Ever.

I tell my own kids not to drive under a fence and they don’t drive under a fence.

They’re not being allowed near them again. Ever.

I tell my own kids not to drive under a fence and they don’t drive under a fence.

A fair point, and they’re your cars so you get to decide.

Just ordered another tank.

https://www.wickedimports.co.uk/product-page/heng-long-challenger-2-radio-remote-controlled-rc-tank-1-16-uk-2-4g-smoke-sound

Once the buyer’s remorse passes I will feel better. I’ll give it an hour or two.

🙂

Pete, we’ll have to have another “RC Gathering”, but it will need to be somewhere that I can park right next to as these tanks aren’t particularly easy to carry around. Alternatively we could do it in the woods behind my house as we could just drive them out of the garden gate.

Yay well done Harry we’ll have a squadron soon 😁

Getting a bit silly now. Buyer Remorse is refusing to go away.

It is a bit of a slippery slope. As well as painting and weathering mine, I bought the version with metal tracks, road wheels, idlers and drive sprockets. I’ve since added an upgraded gearbox, a slipring so that the turret rotates the full 360 degrees, and output shaft bearings. All in all I must be getting close to the price of a Tamiya tank now I think.

I leave mine as stock apart from a bit of weathering.

Me and my lad have had huge amounts of fun with them so far. However, the Challenger is pretty massive and may chew up the narrower bits of the garden.

The T90 looks pretty cool. Just sayin’.

Pete, we’ll have to have another “RC Gathering”, but it will need to be somewhere that I can park right next to as these tanks aren’t particularly easy to carry around. Alternatively we could do it in the woods behind my house as we could just drive them out of the garden gate.

Could be good for a bit of crawler action?

Challenger 2 has arrived.

OMG. What a piece of kit!

😯

Have you ever thought I would like an actual Tamiya buggy that I could drive? Well the wait is over-

https://www.jadlamracingmodels.com/the-little-car-company-presents-tamiya-wild-one-max-kit-8-10-scale-fully-driveable-tamiya-rc-car/