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The Tenderfoot’s red Tomahawk

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The Tenderfoot’s red Tomahawk or Hot Tricks inspired Tomahawk.

This journey all started when my friend “Walfre” introduced me to his Hot Tricks Ultima 2 years ago. It looks rather neat with all those red parts on his Ultima, and that inspired me to build this Tomahawk.

As you know, Hot Tricks never made any parts for the Tomahawk or the Scorpion for that matter. This mean’s I have to anodize the parts my selves or rather let someone do it for you. So 1½ years ago I asked around at different companies what it would cost to get it done. The price tag was between $225 and $300… Then I thought about Pergu2000 and ordered 2 aluminum wings, one red and one natural. After that I contacted him asking if he was willing to anodize my parts, but that conversion got lost in cyberspace so project was put on hold because of the “Blueprint Scorpion”.

Around Christmas time I went through all my project ide’s and it all started all over again. But this time I was in luck, a fellow member on the Swedish forum RSB Sebastian was able to help me. For $30 I got all my parts anodized, and then I saw “Kyosho Scorpion kid’s” red Tomahawk. My first reaction was “he has stolen my ide’”, but that’s of cause is not true. There was only two persons that know about this project ide’ of mine and they would never tell anybody I think.

So this is a straight “put parts together project” as many of my projects are. The only thing I have to figure out is the paint scheme; I’m leaning towards white, red and black scheme. So like to have your input with suggestion’s how to lay it out…
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Wow that is going to turn out killer. I like your idea for black in the body but i would incorporated some red. I think a black widow scheme would be killer

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JEEZ all you guy's are coping my ASSAULT with the red chassis :evil: :roll: :lol: just kidding. My assault is powder coated red and not anodized you should leave some bits polished aluminum they look great against the red

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Awesome Lars
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Don't belittle your project by citing Hot Trick as your inspiriation. :wink: If HT made a kit for the Tomahawk or Scorpion they would've replaced the chassis rails with a flat sheet of red fiberglass and a giant one piece aluminum front end, and the stock aluminum arms with weaker thin aluminum ones..maybe even a-arms. All they would've kept was the stock transmission :lol:


Your build is bound to be 100x better than what Hot trick could've done to a Tomahawk. :mrgreen:

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That will be killer looking. 8)


I try not to look at these threads on these cars as I was given two scorpions as a kid and Im embarrassed to say what I did to them. Almost cry to think what I "had" :oops: Would love to have 1 again......
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Thanks for all nice comments’ guys! And I love when give me new ides’ :D
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Wow! That's going to be...well, red! :lol: I'll be interested to see what you do with this one, look's fun!
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Did some more assembly to see how Kyosho Tomahawk will look :D and I even have a “Tomahawk” motor :mrgreen:
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Hcp22 wrote:Thanks for all nice comments’ guys! And I love when give me new ides’ :D
I hate new ideas....they're too expensive. :lol:

You got me thinking about how to build a Hot Trick Scorpion but I just can't afford two Hot Trick Trailing arm kits. :wink:

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Awwwwhhh! The car looks fantastic so far Lars :D Good to know about Sebastian and his skills too 8)
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Phin wrote:
Hcp22 wrote:Thanks for all nice comments’ guys! And I love when give me new ides’ :D
I hate new ideas....they're too expensive. :lol:

You got me thinking about how to build a Hot Trick Scorpion but I just can't afford two Hot Trick Trailing arm kits. :wink:
I don’t think money is the biggest problem, finding them would be the real problem! :shock:
Beside that I got the impression that you thought that Tot Tricks was crappy parts :wink:
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j0pp3 wrote:Awwwwhhh! The car looks fantastic so far Lars :D Good to know about Sebastian and his skills too 8)
Thanks Joppe, and I like that sound “Awwwwhhh” :mrgreen:
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Lars you really do know how to build so many very special cars. Your work is inspirational.

Thanks for sharing this project with your friends. :mrgreen:
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Hcp22 wrote:
Phin wrote:...
Beside that I got the impression that you thought that Tot Tricks was crappy parts :wink:
They are, but crap is still useful for cultivating a nice looking tomato. :mrgreen:

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