I have no idea on these so i thought i would post them up on here. I have recently started gathering parts for a cool old Hotshot build, maybe two, and one of the cars arrived this morning. It has some aged looking front steering hubs in silver...
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Possibly TMS (TRADE MODEL SUPPLIES) I had them on my Hotshot back in the day but I cannot be sure as my memory of exactly what they looked like is hazy :? TMS also did all steel dog bones and a steel hex one piece prop shaft .
OK, so i have had this for quite some time but having contacted Rory's parents who sold the car they have said they are happy for me to post up some pictures of it. Rory was a very very successful racer back in the late 80's and early 90's and won...
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Second from last pic in your first post.......
Awesome car. Pit stop models was my local shop and the owner founded the the club I belonged to. Pit Stop models was located on the Barking Road, Plaistow. E13. 8)
G'day guys I finally got myself a Bigwig. When I saw this for sale, I did some research & found that it seemed to be a bit hit & miss model for Tamiya. i found more negative comments than favourabel ones. But, despite, I could not get over the...
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I did a silly thing and lost the prop shaft out of my rere Bigwig and can't find another, anywhere, except eBay, for $60. :(
Do the alloy re re Hotshot prop shafts fit right in a Bigwig?
Thanks!
Hi all.
Is this a grasshopper 2 or a hornet? The rear shock has prefloat like a hornet, but it came with the larger wheels of a later model buggy.
Cheers for your help
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Judging from the rear body mounts, I'd say its a Hornet with a Grasshopper body. The front wheels appear to be from a fox and have tamiya super gripper tires. The rear tires are standard Hornet tires.
The Euro Truck class is gaining popularity fast at my local racetrack. I picked this up earlier this week and will start racing it this weekend. Pretty cool class. Cheap to get into it too. I already had servo, radio and transponder from other...
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The Euro Truck class is pretty big around here on the oval. I haven't gotten into yet, though. All I know about it, is that winning is all about tire prep.
Hello.
Achieved a dream last November, and got The Bruiser. As a Birthday present from the Wife :D :mrgreen:
In preparation, i searched on builds, and found a couple of good threads online.
Then, after building it, and using it, I wanted to make...
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I always loved/wanted a Bruiser. I'll never forget when I was a kid of about 13-15 yrs old in the mid 80's when my Dad's friend brought his Bruiser over to show us. I feel in love with it soon as I saw it (all I owned at the time was a Hornet &...
Does anyone know if there are any readily available wheels that I can use to convert an Astute to a truck?
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how about tamiya king cab/ monster racer, bush devil 1, blackfoot extreme or super, or non tamiya imex. factory works on ebay also has some 2.2 trucks wheels for the blackfoot it may fit astute.
I was one of the select few who signed up on buying a conversion kit from Full Option (UK) which is run by the very talented David Beeby. The kit was supposed to be a pretty accurate copy of the Egress that Jamie Booth ran in part of the 1990 BRCA...
I would like to buy re-release of Super Champ, but all stocks were gone. Do you guys think that there is a chance to re-re-release in the future? Not understand why other SBRs are continue to produce but Tamiya stops producing this legend product....
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The Buggy Champ (Rough Rider) remained discontinued and last year we saw a new batch. I have a feeling we will see a new batch of Super Champ eventually.. hopefully in 2021
I've been wanting to do one of these for ages , now I'm getting started I've realized i know more of what i don't want than what i do ! :? So this is going free style :D
What its not having is a stock body , waterproof radio box , torsion springs...
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I've still got to wait a few hours before i can put the gold paint on but i think the shape of the rear engine panels is better .
old version
I was just browsing Ebay and i came across a Tamiya Striker that was listed at £550 so i thought i'd have a look expecting to find something with some nice period Mod parts , maybe one of the rare Tamiya Mod motors or a Thorp diff or something but...
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I think the Striker is interesting looking RC , and would like to find a clean used one .. but not at the prices asked now. :roll:
The same seems to be happening with Falcon prices - through the roof.
Hey, I was wondering if someone on here with an FF03 chassis could do me a favor and measure the front overhang, I can't seem to find any dimensions online.
I'm looking at a 257mm wheelbase body, with an 80mm center of front wheel to nose overhang....
Does anyone know if some of the Re-Re parts are interchangeable with the vintage counterpart. In particular, the Fighting Buggy and the Super Champ , and the vintage and re-re of the Sand Scorcher. Particularly the suspension parts.
Does anyone have a scan (or could do me the favor to scan) the fitting instruction sheet that came with some of the rear anti-roll bars kits for the SRB, made by CRP and RCH?
Tom
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Anyone have a rear kit for sale for the RC10 classic, or the dimensions and I will bend one at the local fab shop.
Hi, new to the forum and in need of help please.
I'm building a tamiya midnight pumpkin, all was going well till I put on the rear wheels and found that when I manually turn one wheel the opposite wheel turns the other direction.
I've revisited the...
Hi, hope everyone's well and hasn't had their lives too[/i disrupted by this Covid carry on.
I bought a re-release Bigwig a few weeks ago.
I had to sell my Turbo Optima Mid SE to pay for a new clutch for my Subaru WRX Type RA.
The Bigwig was to...
I’ve been making good progress on the Scooby during the virus lockdown. The car is basically finished, I’ve just a couple decals to fit onto the wing sideplates and to paint and install the side mirror. I’ll post pics when it’s finished.
Meanwhile,...
Here now the story of my Tamiya Boomerang or how Tamiya influenced my childhood:
Cars were always my favourite toy. When my father bought his first RC car 1989 (Tamiya Thunder Shot for 370 DM ~ 200Us$ at that time), it was apparent, that I need...
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Brilliant interpretation of the boomer, love the air scoop and spotties, great job
Does anybody have a picture of the crp front suspension for the hornet installed? I just bought it for my hornet, and I can;t figure out how to install it.
Last week I came across a very lightly used Tamiya Hornet re-release on Facebook marketplace and decided to contact the seller. The only vintage Tamiya car I’d ever seen before in person was a pal’s Sand Scorcher back in the 90s (which at the time I...
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But if your interested, I payed under US$160 for everything you see in the photos
I say you got a heck of a deal. Tamiya vendors are now selling near msrp and a hornet is going for $130+ here in the states. Nice find!
I just finished restoring my brothers old Futaba FX10, which as I understand it is mechanically a clone of the Tamiya Striker. The guy at the hobby shop said I was being stupid to try to get it running and all the plastic would be brittle, it would...
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TamiyaCowboy, I just sent you a PM. Everyone else thank you for your help.
I happened to be browsing Tamiya's US site and found this:
Bruiser sale.JPG
Horizon has it listed as discontinued while other major online sources are out of stock on this model.
The Mountain Rider appears to be sold out everywhere.
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I've decided to pass on this one but I'm very happy for those who have seized the moment and taken advantage of the Bruiser's price drop.
I wish I could have anticipated that Tamiya was going to drop the price to a level that is more reasonable.
As...
I came across this gem on Craigslist, and got an awesome deal on it, plus it was local pickup😳
Never liked the mono shock design in any tamiya, not a big fan of Asymetric looking things....🙄
So I installed a set of Bigwig shock towers, mounted on...
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The Boomerang is one of the few Tamiya designs I like. That car looks great, but I agree with Lonestar, it needs to lose the bug-eyes on the front shock tower. :lol:
That’s it, I’m gonna cancel my membership to this website😭😭😭😭😭, 😁 I do think...
So I’ve always wanted a shot on the txt. Massive wheels and a lot more scale than a clod etc. There are also many build options so it’s a great platform. Only now are Axial coming up with the MT to match its kind.
This is how it started this...
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Nice progress! Have you checked out www.clodtalk.com ? There's a bunch of information over there that may be useful to you. :wink:
I am look for some of the Plastic spring collars that go on High Cap Dampers, they are not the ones where you have a screw just a simple collar that slides on damper and retains the spring (see pic)
Hope someone can help...
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These are the parts you’ll need “Hop up option 53111 damper spring spacer set”. They were only used on the Evo and Dyna Storm as far as I know. I got lucky on finding this set earlier in the year for my Evo replica.
Found this awesome surprise under the tree on Christmas morning and thought I'd post a thread and pictures to keep folks entertained during our time at home.
Mostly stock, but I added a set of HiCap rere's and bearings to bring it to the glory and...
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Sweet!!! Tell him to grab some bearings and any other goodies he might want, and have a blast! It was a fun build!
I found an old chassis that has been under water for some time. I have an original Wild Willy since the early 1980s, and have had several other Wild Willys I bought over the years. At first, I thought this was a Wild Willy chassis, but after looking...
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Ok... To save you from having to ask. About 3 years ago, we bought some rural property. In the back side of the property there was a big plastic trunk behind the barn. I never got around to looking in it, frankly because there was no telling what...
A few years ago I picked up a basket case Rough Rider for like $10 at the going out of business sale of a long time hobby shop. I bought it because it was cheap and original, and I thought it would be fun to take apart. I had no plans for it.
Fast...
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Thanks for the great compliment! :D
Looks like you're off to a fine start. It will be interesting to see how the project pans out.
I have an original Mud Blaster which has gone through some changes over the years (Trackmaster Turbo Glide, Thorp dog bones, Tekin SC, Trinity Monster Horsepower motor, aluminum oiled...
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Any cheap brushless esc/motor combo on ebay will work. Stayed sensored if u can, they are smoother....if u really want decent stuff go name brand, HobbyWing stuff is excellent. I prolly wouldnt get more than a 10.5 for that, if u want the balldiff...
So I saw a Vintage Truck for cheap on the Bay, and even though it had no body, I knew immediately from the picture that it was a Hilux Monster Racer/King Cab l and I had to jump on it.
When the package arrived, it was dirty, had Clodbuster shocks,...
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Ah, I didn't know he did that. Now I'm curious if it actually needs to be done or not. I think you can get away with not doing it but the only way to know for sure is to just run it with the o-rings and see if the dogbones fall out or not. I mean...
Early Brat has been lurking in my attic for a couple of years and lockdown here in the UK has given me an excuse to drag it out. This is my first ORV having been a Kyosho Scorpion/Beetle kid. The car is very original and likely quite low...
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Looking like a good survivor and an excellent base for restoration . One of my friends had a Brat back in the 80's and one thing it suffered from was the rear hex drive shafts (dog bones ) rounding off , no matter what he did or how well lubed and...
Does anyone know of a modification or replacement part for the shock tower that is still available for the dt-02? We've been through two recently even after adding the brace across the top, and the 3racing alloy/fiber replacement is no longer...
Hey guys. I am an old skool RC guy. Still have my Wild Willy I build back in 1982. Been restored a couple times. I elaborate on it's history a little in the Welcome area if you want to read it. He's been through a lot over the past 36 years. Here he...
Tamiya's rereleased their SRB diff with a new part number 54897. From the pictures it looks to be identical to the 84113 diff. At least the crazy prices these things fetch will stop....... for a while. :D
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Thanks for letting us know. Sounds like nothing was changed. When I saw the new part number I hoped that it was going to be a new design. A diff with a bent through bolt like MIP or Thorp would have been great.
I have a couple new Tamiya kits that include this motor and was wondering if they require any kind of break-in procedure -- the manual doesn't mention it.
I'd like to run the cars in box-stock configuration and want the best possible performance...
I finally got round to picking up an old rough rider to start a project , although its got a lot of very early parts its in a used condition and never going to be a shelf queen , this is ideal as what I'm planning is kind of a scale look runner ....
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As I get older I trust my memory less and less :lol: no halm no foul on the thread size.
Daughter is 4 now and I want to get the Brat going for her. It's the re-re. Still have the unpainted lexan body. Might go hot pink. Anyway......IIRC, when I stashed it away, there were some missing steering parts/linkages. Namely the servo...
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I've got a Blackfoot carcass out in the garage. I stumbled upon it while looking for something else. I might just see if the steering rods (ends) fit the ballstuds on the Brat knuckles.
Like I said before, I will offer it up again, just let me...
And it appears to be very durable as well.
Your driving skills are better than mine. I seriously doubt that I could keep it going straight - that's a lot of speed in a very short distance.
Anyway, very cool!!! Thanks for posting the videos. :D
hey guys.. I can not seem to view or post in the For Sale area. I assume it is a restriction to newbies. What are the criteria for me to be able to use that part of the forum?
I was a bit heartbroken when I had to sell my mint Hi-Lux build last year. Link here:
Well, finding this shrink wrapped truck definitely makes up for it!
It's pretty crazy that a 30 year old truck like this is still sealed in the box. This thing...
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Thanks guys!
I have not been able to get myself to open this kit. I am considering selling it, because I don't know if I can talk myself into building it. The fact that it's still shrinkwrapped makes it very difficult for me to open.
Here’s the Tamiya Blackfoot that I got for Christmas from my wife and kids :D and as much as I’ve always liked the box art version of it, I felt like there’s always room for improvement...
I never liked the roll/light bar, I always felt like the...
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With a little trimming you can use df03 knuckles and cut the drive cups of some axles to get hex fit front wheels on these.
Had this given to me a few years ago, so decided it was time to give it some life, by restoring/rebuilding it. It’s what some would refer to as a Mk 1, but Tamiya never really had a specific change in their kits, rather they just made rolling...
This is a 1/12 Racemaster that originally came with the Rothmans Porsche body. I had a vision of somehow mounting a lunchbox van body on it but never did because, even though the wheelbase was perfect, it was going to take alot of work to make it...
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I haven't yet experimented with genuine MEK.
Anyway, you might find some useful information here
I have the release of the Ford Baja F150 and the Super Hotshot 2012 - the truck is built, but the Hotshot is going through the build process.
On my truck, I lost full time 4 wheel drive when the spline on the cup ground down in the rear...
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Plastic. The metal idler gear that comes (or came, don't know how it is on reissues) with the buggy versions has the tendency to disintegrate when used with hotter motors, and the metal particles will eat up the other gears.
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