I've always liked the Hornet, but it has a lot of limitations. It needs more capability to back up the Anytime Baby! attitude. I've been looking for a good condition runner to experiment on, but then a nicely modified shelfer came my way at a...
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A little more progress. I got a pair of excellent Factory Works shock front shock tower options. The single mount position tower would work, but I decided to use the 2 hole tower. Also opened up the steering horn area, drilled and reinforced...
Ok. I have been a Tamiya collector for a long time. I got my first car, the Grasshopper 2, in 87.
Life and a marriage implosion got in the way a few times but I have always come back.
Here are some pics I took.
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For quite some time I had been stuck at 13 vintage tamiya cars in my collection. 13 is a bad number, I'm superstitious about stuff like that. Well yesterday was fortunate enough to stumble upon number 14. I was at Hobby House in Poughkeepsie New...
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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i have done the trick to flip the steering links to the underside of the servo saver and it has improved its steering by a mile
the one issue i do have though is those thin metal arm things that connect to the front of the chassis (you know the...
I built my first Tamiya Blackfoot reissue and want to share hop-up tips for your build. These are simple, cost-effective improvement suggestions that can improve the performance of your Blackfoot, Monster Beetle, Mud Blaster family line of vehicles....
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i have a vintage Tamiya Blackfoot that i put a brushless system in :? what do i do to stop it from shaking every five seconds .
the front suspension doesn't move on one side properly and how should i fix the steering as the front left wheel turns...
I think every collector has that 1 build you take your time with even if it takes months or sometimes years
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Is there a chrome type paint you can use?
Yes there are some chrome paint out there that looks good but you cannot touch it or clear coat. Once you do it gets tarnished. Great for shelf queen models tho
I picked up a SRB Ranger awhile back, and decided to pull it out and see what it would take to refresh. I just started into a puller project, but it is starting to sink in that that is a LONG TERM project, so still needs normal builds going on.
I...
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Yea, my wallet and Nitro_Hobbies are well acquainted. :D
Don't tell him, but I already have a few items on my Watchlist seeing if he will throw me a deal or two.
I didn't build this rere Lunchbox, but I've been enjoying it enough to want to make some improvements.
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If it stayed stock, I wouldn't see a need for a more powerful motor. That would be phase 2, if warrented by improvements in...
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Lock the diff. On a Lunchbox or hopper, the pros outweigh the cons.
I think that you can download the plans online and print it yourself.
Hello all, long-time lurker here that got back into the hobby recently. Any GH2 Black Edition owners out there? Did you notice that the rear springs for the included CVAs are incredibly light? As in, lighter than the stock GH2 rear springs? So light...
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The original one was my first kit in the 80's. I think the only way to fix the rear suspension is to swap out completely to the Super G shocks which was not really that much of an upgrade to be honest. That's why I never did it.
So I picked up a couple vintage super champ buggies recently and decided to use the best off of both for one nice rebuild. The one in these photos was definitely the better of the two and the one for the bassis of the build. I kept a couple things...
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Looking forward to seeing your tear down and rebuild.
It's just mocked up, nothing is final...but this was the hardest part...rest will be downhill...gonna run the crap out of this thing! Goal is to make it look 100% stone stock
Instead of throwing away these wheels I took off one of my runners that was beat up pretty badly I decided to give them a second chance. I started by stripping the chrome, fixing the cracks with bond, sanded everything down smooth, then hit them...
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Nice job on that looks nearly new.
I have much more enjoyment getting a terrible looking piece to look nice than opening a new in package part.
Thanks man I really appreciate that and I love bringing old forgotten cars and parts back to life!
Is there a difference between the metal uprights that come on the SRB chassis cars vs the ones on the Frog/BRAT besides the included steering ballstuds?
SRB part numbers 19808262/9808262
ORV part numbers 19808036/9808036
Thanks.
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Same part as far as I know, other than the originals were less chunky and more elegant compared to the re re part .
My very first surface RC was the Tamiya Sand Scorcher, ordered from Tower Hobbies catalog around 1979 or 1980. It was built box stock and finished box art except that I replaced French Blue with Orange. Fitted to the...
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Very cool! Need a Beetle family photo when you get them all finished.
I ran the hell out of the Ghettoday buggy until the wheels came off literally as it was my fun car I like to bash and pop wheelies with but when the esc burnt out from running thru puddles it was put in the basement for about 2 years now so I...
Hello. New R/C guy here.
Totally late to the game. I always wanted a LUNCHBOX as a kid. Finally bought one. Sadly, I cannot get it to work. Anyone have insight on what to do to get it to work correctly?
Thank you!
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UPDATE:
Thank you.
The problem was that the brass gear on the motor was rubbing against the housing.
Fixed the problem and now the truck is FIRE!
If anyone knows me, I am a huge Tamiya King Cab and Tyco Bandit fanatic. I really love the yellow King Cab that was featured in the 1990 Radio Control Car Action Magazine, so this is just a little tribute truck I created with a Bandit. Im really...
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That really is a great job and collection! :o You can tell how much love and attention went into doing it all.
I bought a copy of that 'More Radio Control Action Cars' book during a book fair at my school. I'm thinking very early '90s...
So I'm playing around with a boomerang at the moment and have never been happy with the crappy battery pin set up.
Had some 4mm od carbon tube and decided to see how I could improve it.
Realized pretty quickly a small lathe would of been perferred...
Was talking with J-sou about SRB hop ups, and the lack of pics and information on the web.
What is out there is scattered about, thought it would be cool to have a spot for them here.
Would also be neat to see pics of SRB's from back in the day in...
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they needed to team up with AC/DC on that release!
I've mentioned this a couple times in other threads but, my brother had been storing my childhood Blackfoot for the last 20 years or so and I just found out he had it about a year ago. Got it back from him last Thanksgiving and went over it to...
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I have never driven an RC car before but I found this car on a rubbish bin outside the local fish and chip shop. It is missing the transmitter but the car is in good condition.
I want to restore it and I am looking for advice. The aim is to keep...
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I have added a modern esc but kept all of the bits from the old manual speed controller.
The new esc has an undocumented bec which has allowed me to simplify the wiring.
I made a deck over the battery compartment for the receiver to attach to....
I love to restore more than building new out the box. Its just something about bringing old forgotten RC'S back to life so when I came across someone who had this old blackfoot body and Sees Aluminum wheels with a vintage Sassy Chassis thats been...
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That came out spectacular ! Well worth your effort.
Absolutely not! This is my shelf queen Hornet. Still no electronics or body, but the chassis is all finished now. Its come a long way from when I got it. Future plans are a Novak Explorer Sport esc, Novak Polaris reciever, and a candy apple red...
Going to throw together a little build thread for my Hilux. I went looking through my emails, and I purchased this rig around July 2006. I ended up buying two Hiluxes, and putting the better parts into one build, and selling it off for close to what...
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So, this little gem showed up today. Seems like just a little piece of bent zinc steel, but hard to come by, and super weird to find on its own. This is the rear hold down bracket for the transistorized ESC box. The boxes are few and far between,...
My next build is going to be the Wild One. I'm not really a fan of the pre painted body, neither the stickers forcing fake sponsors, so I'll do at my own sauce. This morning, I gather all the parts together in the...
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Yes that chrome plated is indeed not so nice as it goes away too easily. And I also suspect the thickness of the plating is not always the same, as XLR8 pointed out some issues with the differential...
Ultimately, and taking into consideration min...
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So, the Falcon was my first car. Does anyone know if a rerelease of this might happen? I was once told that Tamiya lost many of the molds...
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I see one on eBay for $900 for sale but of course can't look for kits that have actually sold. I think the re-re is actually going to happen, but after thinking on it some, I think I'm going to keep it. Building & shelving it - don't see much reason...
This is our new chassis set for the Fox and Nova Fox. It took us a while to come up with this design. We use a similar interlocking setup as our Hotshot. We have two sets of servo mount holes, you can leave it offset or center it up. We designed it...
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The Fox is one Tamiya I never owned but this makes me want one for a runner. Nice job!
Same here...always liked the car...but this is just Perfection at its finest
Does anyone have a resource for a list of parts that Cross Racing made for the M-02? I have a Carbon fiber chassis kit that I bought sealed. I did eventually build it and did not keep the paperwork. I've never run that chassis. I can post pictures...
Box stock except bearings
Oil shocks on order
Torque Tuned motor
TBLE 02 ESC
Repurposed radio gear from a Red Cat Scout
3S lipo from RC plane (only 10C, ~13 years old :lol:)
This is my Vintage racer for an upcoming event in a couple of weeks, I don't think I could have picked a worse race car, lol. I only picked the Hotshot because it was cheap and I needed something to fill in a second class. I hate silver can racing...
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:lol: That's awesome, I'll definitely take them and add them to my 80's racer kit if you don't want them.
That's not a proper charge lead though is it? One of the wires should be a resistance wire.
In admiration of 1300GT's 4wd SRB, I'm starting on my own attempt at building a similar car. I figured out a B4 slipper gearbox setup in this thread -
Now I'm mocking things up for the chassis. 2 3D printed replica MIP gearboxes, 3D Printed front...
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Its virtually impossible to eliminate bump steer on a trailing arm 4wd car as the steering wants to be in front of the gearbox , whole thing is looking really good .
Hi Everyone. I am picking up this project again after 7 years (one could argue it's been in progress for 17 years but that's another story!). This build has been through a lot of changes over the years but I think I am now close to a solid final (?)...
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jwscab thanks for the note...I have tried all the connection combos and no luck. Frustrated because I dont have any other equipment with G style old connectors.... so it's hard to isolate each component. I'll try some adapters just to test and see...
Hi, I´m new in the forum. Could someone help me in telling me, where to buy MIP IRS, CRP parts (80s stuff) second hand in good conditions or any member of the forum has these parts to sell?
Thanks
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Hi. Welcome. Are there specific parts you're looking for? There's a lot of RC models on RC10TALK.
edit: I guess i should work on my reading skills a bit.
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I'd like to present my new Spaceframe Chassis for the Hotshot series.
It's a very old project, started in 2019, but actually I always had this in mind since the Hotshot was released in 1985...
I love the Hotshot but its bathtub chassis...
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Mate amazing skills, i wish i could 3D to your level, or even a fraction of it.
Well done, really enjoy your optima house work
Thanks a lot! I recommend to try Fusion360, it's free for personal version. It's really not that complicated.
So, I stumbled into this MIP 4X in a lot that I picked up yesterday, not having any idea what it was, outside of being cool. I am just starting to break it down now to get a jist of what is there and not there, and get nylon soaking. I am going to...
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Bad in that one of the rear trailing arm mounts ended up with a broken screw in it, and all the nice and easy fixes did not work. :roll: What is left of the screw is now beneath the aluminum face, and of course any drill bit wants to bend / wander...
Well I have to say for $248 shipped for the HG tamiya bruiser version iam very impressed! I changed it to a mountaineer never like that bed cap. I added the rc4wd IMG_9928.jpeg hex wheel conversion and 4 traxxas front Bigfoot wheels/tires with cool...
I picked this old thing up at a swap meet, does anyone know what exactly these are and what the scoop is?
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This thread reminds me of the Fox my younger brother had. After suffering his second Tamiya chassis failure I talked him into ordering the basic Hot Trick Fox kit. I think I had some of their parts on my frog at that point. The HT chassis proved...
I wanted to start a thread for Tamiya Egress enthusiasts. This is easily my favorite buggy of all time from Tamiya. Whoever designed this mean-looking buggy hit a homerun. It looks so fast and awesome right out of the box.
This is my all-out 2022...
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I’ve not been here much lately, but thought I’d share my latest build. It’s a 2013 released kit, that I sourced some reproduction BF8/9 parts, and blue rod ends to replicate the original release. Other than these, and blue wheel nuts :roll: , the...
I built a Sand Scorcher (2010 re-release) for a vintage class race on a clay track, with the following modifications:
- Kamtec lexan body & black ABS mechanism box
- 12 mm hex adapters for modern wheels
- Softer DIY 2 mm brass torsion bars
- Tamiya...
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I've been trying to think how to start this thread for a few weeks , the Sand Rover was my first RC car, I've got very mixed feelings about it, it got me started in this great hobby, it supplied the radio gear that I used in every car...
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A few final pictures to shamelessly boost my BOTM score to one vote :lol:
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