Vonats builds

[bearrickster]

made a little progress it has 4 wheels on it. I love my RPM arms but they made the tierods a funny lengh so I ended up useing 1 short and 1 long rod end to get enough thread in to them. hopefuly I will have some time to paint them sometime soon.

[bearrickster]

well I got a little wrench time in today, and did a quick spray bomb paint job on my Vonats car. I am going to paint a new wing to match this body, but it just got here after I put everything up. I was hopeing it would show up in the pic, but I put a little pearl white down before the fol yellow and it makes it pop. but I guess I will have to take some out in the Sun. I chose colors to go with the vintage theme, they are the box art colors but in my sceam. all but the red.

on another note I talked to LRP today and they are finaly shipping out my new speed control today I am suprised how nice they have been about replaceing it. its been out of stock for a month now, so I told them I needed for the Vonats and they didnt have one so I got a free upgrade.

[RCveteran]

What you call a quick spray bomb paint job would be one of my best attempts

[bearrickster]

What you call a quick spray bomb paint job would be one of my best attempts

well thank you it was just 4 piss cans, a heat gun and about an hour.

[RCveteran]

I just tell people my paint runs are part of my artistic color blending vision and are intentional. Actaully just finished painting a full size real 74 MGB in a friends garage and we are using the same line

[bearrickster]

thats funny I paint real cars also I have a body shop at my house. I know all about the runs

[RCveteran]

I am still blowing british racing green out of my nose. More ended up on me than the car.

[bearrickster]

man you need to wear a resperator. I just lost a friend he painted two cars one day with out one. and it took about two years of misery that no one should go through before he passed. well lets see some pics of your car. I am going to get on mine in the next few monts I am restoring a 1971 Torino Cobra.

[markt311]

Hey Rick, I'm using red springs on the back and FL green springs on the front of my pro-se and it's running pretty good, Are those blue springs from some Losi kit?

[bearrickster]

Hey Rick, I'm using red springs on the back and FL green springs on the front of my pro-se and it's running pretty good, Are those blue springs from some Losi kit?

yea the xxx kinwald its all I had I am going to order some and put these back in my kit. got a part number on the green ones? I think I am goint to put XXX hard coated threadded shocks on it before the Nats

[RCveteran]

man you need to wear a resperator. I just lost a friend he painted two cars one day with out one. and it took about two years of misery that no one should go through before he passed. well lets see some pics of your car. I am going to get on mine in the next few monts I am restoring a 1971 Torino Cobra.

i did for the most part, i was around the area while friend was painting. i will get some pics from him.

[markt311]

losa5132 for the front springs

[bearrickster]

losa5132 for the front springs

thanks Mark

[bearrickster]

I just relised I never posted the pic of them finished

[shirochanwrx]

Really, really cool.

Nice work ... now that Vonats are long passed, are those bad girls still in one piece? Or have they become project fodder?

Love the racing livery.

Excuse me for being ignorant, but what are those wheels on the JRXT / LXT? My following of Losi's took an almost 20 year hiatus just as the LXT first came out, so I don't know all the bits available for it ...