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Holy fudge balls!
Last time I checked the polls I was at a steady third place behind coxbros1 and Hcp22.
Thanks guys and thank you all for a awesome 2019.

Thanks Lowgear.

Updated.

Long time since last update.

Had to work hard on the drivers helmet.
The waterslide decals did not want to cooperate even with micro sol and micro set. So that meant painting the red and blue areas.

Kyosho 1/8 EP Formula One Racers.
Nigel Mansell's 1991 Williams Renault FW14.

https://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=44437

So I have have had this in the basement for a while..years actually. Figured I do a resto on it with this COVID-19 thing.
I'll do a complete teardown and rebuild accordingly

Step by step according to manual

Some more steps.

Oh there goes another one who is all out of blinker oil... fucker!!

This will be interesting.
I really like the B2.
I my self have plans on doing a Tamiya Super Astute all in black and or grayscale.
When it comes to small aluminum parts such as screws and in this case front axles you could try with Birchwood Casey Aluminum black. Just be thorough when cleaning

Fabricated the front shock tower (Probably not the final version) Decided to move it rearward so it could bolt on the bulkhead.
On the pic it’s 1.32” rear shocks, but will have to source 1.02” as these are way too long!!

You could use a taller shock tower and play with inner spacers for the right suspension travel? Yeah, that might be the way to go in the end if nothing else. I just wanted to have as low fron end as possible. The body will sit behind the bulkhead and I think it will look even more weird with tall s...

Congratulations, David!
Superb build.

Possibly try making a rack bar which should require less cutting and possibly could correct geometry with it a bit also. Rack bar is a good idea and as you say it will fix the geometry a bit. Thanx! I'm also tinkering with the rear wheel axles. I'm not a hundred percent sure what way to go. Here's ...

No turning back.
Chassis is drilled and we have what looks like a working steering setup. Some minor adjustments left, but overall happy with it.

Sacrilegious some may say!
I’ve had this Novak NER-3FM in a drawer for quite some time due to that someone before me had cut the housing around the crystal and it looked like crap.
Finally found use for it.
Mounted a Futaba 2.4 GHz R204GF-E circuit board in the Novak housing.