Which cheap Tamiya?

@perchypanther – well, um, it was for him. I mean is, yes definitely, is. Hmmm.

That Tamiya Durga looks good….

I had…
1. Tamiya Hornet
2. Tamiya Madcap
3. Kyosho Lazer ZX
4. Schumacher Cougar
5. Associated RC10 team.
6. Schumacher Wildcat

Hornet was ace as a first rc car, my rich mates around the corner had the egress and their batteries would last about 5mins where as I’d be pootling round for about 25mins. I imagine with todays batteries you can probably get an hour runtime!

Saying all that, my nephew has just got a cheap rtr stadium truck and it’s better than all the above (save the rc10) I’ll try and dig the make out, I was really impressed with it.

@stumpy01 – think you’re right, just read a review on RC Racer and the Neo Fighter with a bearing kit sounds like the one to go for. Plus it comes with a set of Frog graphics! Cheap too, win.

I know the monster trucks might be better for the kids but I don’t care. My boy can start a thread in 35 years about his Dad is a **** because he never got the Tamiya Lunchbox he really wanted!

How so?

‘Cos you can hear the servo!

Before my retro mtb obsession I had a retro Tamiya R/C obsession. Buggies collected during the 00’s included Egress, Avante, Astute, Thunder Shot, Fire Dragon, Mud Blaster, Stadium Racer, Avante 2001, Boomerang, Bigwig, Terra Scorcher and Lunch Box. Great fun but expensive now people know what others will pay.

2. Tamiya Madcap

Did you ever manage to get the **** thing to corner properly at full lick without having to let off the power? Cos I bloody didn’t.

Did you ever manage to get the **** thing to corner properly at full lick without having to let off the power? Cos I bloody didn’t.

Nope, the madcap was the worse car I ever had, crappy handling combined with crappy transmission losses meant it was slow and drained the battery too quick as well…

The one I’d recommend now is the Helion Volition absolutely incredible value for money and a really good chassis design.

That’s reassuring then, that it wasn’t something I’d done. I did get the transmission some bit like though, after multiple rebuilds of that drop-out clutch mechanism thing. It had to be absolutely spot on, otherwise it either locked the rear axle so you couldn’t turn if it was too tight, or sat there slipping the clutch if it was too loose. Sod of a thing.

i asked and did exactly the same a good few years back, cutting to the chase i bought a tamiya mad bull… and it is brilliant.

i was worried that an electric car would be sluggish and slow, like the completes i had biought the boy previously, but wven with the stock motor its crazy fun fast. an upgrade motor, unnecessary, would be really fun.

i’ve asked about nitro a few times, i like the idea of it because the one negative of the tamiya is that the run time is not that great so multiple batteries are a must, but the general consensus is that its a faff unless you enjoy constant maintenance.

buildwise the tamiya was great, i did it with whisky on boxing day afternoon, and my boy loved painting the car shell and applying stickers. i would buy one again definitely.

I had (all Tamiya):

Grasshopper
Wild One
Rough Rider
And some on-road Formula 1 style car, but I can’t remember what the model was.

… and I’ve just realised it’s my birthday next month 😀

s’ a Capri Ghia, innit!

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A different paint job and You could be as cool as this guy…

I had a Tamya XR311, followed by a Rough Rider. The Rough Rider was awesome!

Thread resurrection, but a quick question: Which currently available Tamiya is the most fun to build? I don’t want to get something that only takes a couple of hours…

And bonus photo:

43 (with a 540 motor), 45, 91 with a different shell (escort cossie) and 92 8)

I’ve got this one:

http://www.modelsport.co.uk/tamiya-mini-cooper-94-monte-carlo-m-05-/rc-car-products/39016

Would love a Michelin Pilot Escort Cossie as above, my first Scalextric car and one of the reasons I got into rallying, that car was the dogs wotsits when I was a kid, also, a guy my mum went to school with, and who I now deal with a lot through work co-drove Malcolm Wilson to British Rally Championship victory in one.

This thread has a lot to answer for, it lead me off down a rabbit hole of reminiscence and childhood want that has led to eBay purchasing 🙂

I had a manta ray (cheap ready to run version) as a kit and always wanted the kit but didn’t get it

Love the scale cars but wanted some off road ability and fancied something to do skids so I have an xv-01 rally car on the way
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/252097648607

Planning to swap the Mitsubishi evo body for something more interesting and do a rebuild just to experience building it and check its put together ok

I fancy a drift spec RC, do tamiya do one?

Have had an eye on this kit as I also like the micro kits: http://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/191684067572

Also, has anyone here any experience of HPI Baja? Love the idea of running a ‘nitro’ on regular unleaded.

This thread has forced me into buying a second-hand Blackfoot Extreme off eBay, in really good nick complete and ready to run. For the kids of course. When they’re older 🙂

Zombie thread! Turns out that what my boy really wants for Christmas is a new scooter. So as I bought a Neo fighter a couple of months back I built it myself this week. Worked out lovely didn’t it? Too fast for him anyway, should have got him a rock crawler. Why didn’t anyone suggest that?

Got the car with oil shocks, bearing kit, 540 motor, Carson wheel controller, decent fast charger, 2x 3300mah batteries and two tins of tamiya paint for £150 which seems pretty good. Took it to Burgess Hill bmx track this afternoon on my way home from work, handles really well but I’m still amazed it’s in one piece. Just got to paint it now!

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Zombie thread! Turns out that what my boy really wants for Christmas is a new scooter. So as I bought a Neo fighter a couple of months back I built it myself this week. Worked out lovely didn’t it? Too fast for him anyway, should have got him a rock crawler. Why didn’t anyone suggest that?

Got the car with oil shocks, bearing kit, 540 motor, Carson wheel controller, decent fast charger, 2x 3300mah batteries and two tins of tamiya paint for £150 which seems pretty good. Took it to Burgess Hill bmx track this afternoon on my way home from work, handles really well but I’m still amazed it’s in one piece. Just got to paint it now!

That’s a good price!
I bought the Neo Fighter at the tail end of last week (after debating about it for ages). It is currently sat at home waiting to be built up over Christmas. Can’t wait to get going on it.
Went for white & fluo pink for the paint and bought the bearing kit to fit while building it too. God knows where I’m actually gonna use the thing!