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beautiful collection mate

thats hot. love it

yep a javellin would be awesome. Ill take one of those no probs Im curious to know why they wouldn't do a progress or a gallop though. I say this because (and i don't know for sure) but what was the scorpion based on , or the beetle or the towahawk.... weren't they all one offs, so couldnt the gallo...

How long is a piece of string question but...... Does anyone know what cars kyosho will be re releasing in the near future. I just bought the re re optima and i would love to get a gallop mk2 and a progress. I release only kyosho would know lol but maybe someone has some news out here i do know abou...

two unfortunately are shredded

cheers mate
yeh i like it

Just won this bad boy on ebay.
fantastic condition
just need tyres, (hmm where the hell will i get those impossible to find things)
maybe a new windscreen
then paint it up and decal it

pretty happy with the find
excellent chassis and original controller and servo

ok cheers ill check it out

tool some aditional pics as requested average camera really brightens things up a bit much... i can confirm that the rims are no painted they are in fact silver the shocks for the front are original (they are light gold not bright gold/// crapy camera the shocks for the rear are not the gold bronze ...

really stoked for u mate
another melbournian here
one of my dream cars
if u decide u need to sell to fund the kidney translplant please let me know
cheers

thanks for the welcome guys
plan to stick around long so cant imagine why i shouldnt be able to soon enough get to the for sale section
looking forward to hearing peoples thoughts on this resto
cheers all

welcome to the board. Nice looking optima mid. just an opinion and have read lots of threads about bodies that Marwan is better quality for the price. Have heard alot of good things about Marwan bodies. I'm sure someone else will chime in about Marwan though. I have not had any on hand myself to co...

Nice MID. If You want to bring it back to original, You´ll need new tires (Marwan) and strip the rims back to factory white (seems like they´re painted after being used) And then, You might wanna address the shocks - looks like someone borrowed the originals, front looks like Duratrax (very orange)...

Nice MID. If You want to bring it back to original, You´ll need new tires (Marwan) and strip the rims back to factory white (seems like they´re painted after being used) And then, You might wanna address the shocks - looks like someone borrowed the originals, front looks like Duratrax (very orange)...

Hi all first post I just bought a kyosho mid optima in excellent condition, with box, instructions, controller, everything. I would like to restore it to mint condition and by doing so i need to get a new body and wing and decals if original is not an option i was wondering if i could get an opinion...