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Small video taken on my sloppy garden track. Uphill or downhill, turns are always a challenge in this environment, and so far, the Javelin excels at it and is the easier ride by far...

https://youtu.be/ytPtM_hGYPw

This morning, I finally started the Turbo Optima build. The Turbo Optima was one of my teenager dreams, same as the Javelin. I ordered the Turbo Optima a few months back when it came back in the inventory. And few days later, I also ordered the Javelin, just because I wanted to build the Javelin fir...

Initially, I was thinking: “that’s over for today”… But after the lunch, envy came back! Metal parts bag C As usual I started by laying down all the parts of the bag https://i.imgur.com/5wThbF2.jpg The first thing is to prepare the Front under guard and to put it in place on the chassis. That finall...

Hi everyone, I got some indication that my builds are highly detailed, and mentioned to someone I could eventually post about some other cars I build, and I'll start with the Super Hotshot. I build this in April-May this year. I will do one specific post for each parts bag, and then one with the bod...

Parts Bag B Did some activities between meetings or at the end of the days, when I had 5 to 10 minutes to do some paint job. Really small paint activities, actually, but that is what takes the more time. At the end of the week, I had a decent driver figure, I tried to assort with the gold wheels (le...

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 ...

Nichimo Spirit FF Yes it is! Here is some pics of the box. https://i.imgur.com/3gkLWvv.jpg https://i.imgur.com/BL23SmJ.jpg https://i.imgur.com/c89tj7O.jpg And for the car, it is quite broken. But all the pieces are there, even for the broken chassis or the bumper. There is a lot of work. I will pro...

Today, I ordered online prints for some of the Marui parts I need for the project. I think I found a way to get the prints in Nylon PA12 quite cheap. The initial price of each parts was about 15 euro (taxes not included) each or 13 each if there is more parts. I read somewhere that the print was act...

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...

After the dinner, yesterday evening, I started by adding some details with masking tape. https://i.imgur.com/pFFlDNf.jpg And prepared the driver body with liquid mask https://i.imgur.com/aoCTeaF.jpg First thing first I did this morning was to prime the helmet (no pictures) Then used a photocopy of t...