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My first attempt at painting and decaling a body finished up today. Used tamyia fluorescent yellow and pink I think brilliant blue all backed with white. Custom colored mciracing decals. Not sure what to do on the wing. Not real happy with it and none of my decals look big enough. For now it stays b...

Got it running pretty good....50mph range. WARNING!(Sensitive ears don't watch video)
Dude laughing in Video is "theytookmythumb"

https://youtu.be/x3QT6pKu3ls

Also, the longer bone needed for CV's in buggies is nearly impossible to find these days so I have gone back to running standard dog bones in my runner buggies. What about the Custom Works CVD bones for buggies? I am running them on a stock team car they seem absolutely fine. They also have slightl...

And as I do like to run my cars sometimes in the evening on my Garden track, I like my cars to have lights. I did not want to fix the light buckets on the body shell for the front, so I designed a part for this. And I did the same for the rear, in two version (the second one get a license plate (30*...

Hi Doug, I'm really impressed by your work! Replacing parts by printed part designed to work better is definitely a way to go. On my Marui Hunter, I choose to add up reinforcement rather than replace things, but keeping the chassis the way it is while the weakness point are mainly the chassis is mak...

Impressive after sales service from Kyosho: received a Chronopost today (it's the 24h postal service here) from Kyosho Europe with replacement parts. I did contact them on Sunday evening with no expectations, while modeling parts into Tinkercad as a plan B. Not all the brands have an after sales ser...

I had only 3 cars in the eighties. One was the Marui Hunter, my first car, and the two others were Kyoshos. One was a Chevy 4x4 which came mostly assembled. It was mostly metal, and it was rock solid. And the second one was a kit, a joy to build: It was a Fantom EP 4WD 1/12 and once built I understo...

Here are the masking sheets from the kit of the Turbo Optima https://i.imgur.com/WQAfWHH.jpg It puzzles me. They are supposed to be applied before cutting the body shell as per the instruction manual. I'm not really sure what I'll do. Usually I do the cutting of the body before applying masking, and...

Well, based upon your very detailed description, I think this car is going to look spectacular. For what it's worth, I went total box art with my TO and completely ignored the painting guide included with the instructions. I don't think I even used the included paint masks. Taking some advise from ...

The Blitzer family uses two different diameter bodies as well. And those red diaphragms can be hard to find.

Regular AE springs will fit the fronts. The slightly larger Losi springs will fit the rears or Traxxas Ultra springs can be adapted.

Hmm, well I bet it didn't make the bean counters happy. If they had their way, front and rear wheels and tires would also be the same. :roll: Speaking of tires, I was very pleased to discover that Tamiya has gone old school on this kit; tires are friction fit - no glue needed. ... and, they don't r...

You can always mask and paint it on the outside. It probably won't be as glossy as the rest of the body (more matte black) but since it's an accent color, that might actually look better than gloss black. I don't think it looks too bad, it just needs something to break it up. I might come back late...

Got the grill inserts done.

I found some thin black decals leftover from a different body. I cut some 2mm wide strips and placed them in the inserts.

Short of a closeup, I think they turned out well.

Time to call it done. The motor was connected this morning. And this afternoon, I took care of the finition and the stickers. Some of the stickers are coming from the kit, and some have been prepared by myself (either because what is within the kit are not white, either because I wanted something el...

My vintage rc habits have been put on hold all summer as I got more involved with the drag racing side of the hobby. I decided to combine the two, and this is the result.