Tamiya BigWig #4 "Shadow Edition"

[broodenburg]

nice! looking forward to the painted bodies!

[THE H.P FREAK]

HI!... Anyone know of a decal company that does repo decals or custom decals that can do this :

Standard Tamiya BigWig decals :



I want this (Grey-scale) :

[broodenburg]

no I don't, but I think it shouldn't be a problem. But can you stil get decals for the BW? original or re re?

[THE H.P FREAK]

HI!... Yes u can still get originals. Very expensive though. Usually around $100 for a NIP set. All the re-re ones I have seen are garbage.

[THE H.P FREAK]

HI!... I got the YOU-G rear aluminum shock tower glass beaded and painted. It turned out good but I might have it powder coated when I bring in some RC-10 chassis's to be done. Here's a few pics of it mounted. Also got some NIP steering boots.








I also picked up some BigWig bodies from TBG :

[THE H.P FREAK]

HI!... Well got the 3 BigWig bodies cut out tonight and one mounted to the car. Just have to decide now what I'm going to do for paint and decals. I also have a vintage Pro-Track sway bar set-up coming for it.

[broodenburg]

nice work. love the shocktower!

[SFC K]

Very Nice! I just love the motor/exhaust and the body lines on this buggy! Looks sweet! Are you going to mount a driver in the cockpit as well?

[TheSpeedway]

This car looks great.

So many of these older Japanese buggies look like Wells Coyotes. I can recall some that ran that same scoop.

[THE H.P FREAK]

Well I got the BigWig body painted last night with some special flat black paint. Don't know if I like it. Because of painting the body from the inside it still came out gloss black. I'm 50/50 on it right now. I might end up painting the outside of the body like EDOU did on his Black Wolf Top Force project. I like that look better. I picked up a NIP BigWig roof panel and vintage Pro-Track sway bar kit for it. Also swapped out the black dyed MoonCraft wheels for some 2.2 Tamiys one's. I dyed these black as well. Still haven't decided what I'm going to do with decals yet. I might just not go with any. Do u guys think I should leave it as is, or paint the ouside of the body flat black?

[SFC K]

I like the gloss look of it. I think it would look good once you add the roof panel...

[THE H.P FREAK]

HI!... The roof is currently getting powder coated black with two other RC10DS chassis and hardware. The driver is getting painted flat black with some gold accents. Will be using a Avante driver's head with the closed helmet.

[dldiaz]

I also like the body the way it is,
I think it will be especially cool after the powder-coated roof and a cool driver figure.
(flat black on the outside might look too 'prototype', like it's unfinished)

Why did you switch out the Mooncraft wheels? (I dig the Mooncrafts)

Super cool project!

[THE H.P FREAK]

I also like the body the way it is,
I think it will be especially cool after the powder-coated roof and a cool driver figure.
(flat black on the outside might look too 'prototype', like it's unfinished)

Why did you switch out the Mooncraft wheels? (I dig the Mooncrafts)

Super cool project!

HI!... The black mooncrafts I had on it were runners. They were all marked up and scratched. That's why I dyed them black in the 1st place to hide it, but I could still see how messed up they were. I have 3 NIP sets of MoonCraft wheels here but can't take the plunge and dye a set black. The Tamiya wheels on it now are as close as I could get to the MoonCraft look. Remember this Bigwig is going with a lot of after market mods that were available at the time. Hence the rear aluminum shock tower, 2.2 wheels, front sway bar, ESC, ETC....

[THE H.P FREAK]

HI!... O.k I got the PRO-TRACK sway bar installed and painted black. Currently painting the driver. I'm using a regular BigWig driver body but with a Avante head. You'll see why.