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Made an under chassis guard like the one I did for my other Samurai , its 2mm Kydex.

Chassis was a little rough so i thought i had a licence to paint it , this is in part inspired by Boromac's build and video on YouTube and in part by the pictures of the prototypes that went to the 85 worlds . https://i.imgur.com/P7G9btJl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/tuzxTx8l.jpg https://i.imgur.com/vHJb...

https://i.imgur.com/EFDwoWBl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/IRm7L1yl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/JB7E2Bsl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/qdkTNpAl.jpg Not sure what to do about the wing ? might make one out of 1mm white Kydex ? The roof is 1mm white Kydex in these shots and replaces the 3d printed one from earlier so...

I thought Tamiya had something in it that induces cracks without the need for anything else.

:lol: I'd like to add to this thread that if anyone's ever looking for the Lunch Box font, it's called Neon Lights. https://fonts2u.com/neon-lights.font?ptext=Lunch+Box https://www.dafont.com/neon-lights.font?text=Lunch+Box&psize=l I noticed the 'C' is a little bit different though. Nothing a gr...

Very nearly there , I have some silver alloy rear shocks coming but otherwise its all done , well I may dye a few red plastic bits black and .....
The Ronin and the Samurai together .

Yeah, I don't like that proximity of the motor protector and contacts, either. The position of the motor leads doesn't seem conducive to easy shrink-wrapping. Here's an idea though, you could brush on some coats of Plasti-Dip over the exposed contacts' solder joints. It'll come out gloss black and l...

There is a product "liquid electrical tape " just for this purpose , I often use it either alone or inside shrink wrap to make truly water tight joints , commonly known as LET .

Since the weather continues to be garbage, I decided to go ahead and build this one. While none of it was hard, several things were more aggravating than I thought. 20210708_190851.jpg Put the optional gearing (8.3:1) in the transmission and paired it up with some vintage Kyosho power, a 34° Super S...

Got it all wired up. - This car doesn't have much room for a traditional antenna wire, so I had to wrap a good bit around a spool (Traxxas 1926) and attach it to the side of the receiver. - The tub has an opening in the bottom to pass the motor leads through, keeps it clean. - The car is setup to ha...

The original Kyosho adds show the inner cover being black, even though the manual says nothing about it. So I gave it a couple coats of Duratrax basic black and sealed everything away. Kind of a shame to cover all that up. Screenshot_20210709-183508_Gallery.jpg And with the body sitting on it. 20210...

If you want a runner then the Manta Ray is a better choice as parts are easy to find and it's quite a solid car for running , the Hunter is a harder car to find parts for and not so robust , all the Marui cars have a well deserved reputation for being a bit fragile .

What Dadio said. Parts availability for Tamiya cars is much better than for Marui cars, and Marui cars all have numerous weak points making them very fragile. They're great resto projects, though!

I decided to change the tires and wheels. The rears are chrome versions of the Beetle wheels with new tires. The fronts are chrome Scorpion wheels with JConcepts Rips for a RC10. The front tires are sooooo much better than the originals. Screenshot_20210725-140150_Gallery.jpg For some reason, the la...