HI!... Well this will be my build up of a Kyosho Scorpion (re-re).
Well I couldn't sleep last night so I decided to start building the Scorpion.
I went to start to build the roll cage for the body when I realized something was not right. The dummies at the factory gave me 2 left sides to the roll cage!!! The right side is missing. So I ordered another one. Should be here next weekend.
HI!... Well I got most of the Scorpion together now. Still need to find a vintage KYOSHO motor and buy some PS-6 yellow paint for the body. I installed all vintage Novak electronics in it. This will only be a shelf queen.
Looks like you bent the front shock towers slightly to clear the body? Im wondering how everybody is handling this situation. I may use spacers,, as Im using carbon fiber for the shock towers,, so no bending.
I thought it strange that you somehow got two left side roll bar parts when they appear to be molded & attached to a single sprue. Somehow that kit box must've been opened previously, maybe?
Strange. The original parts even have the flashing where they appear to have been removed from a sprue, along with that center section. Was Kyosho getting a bit lazy?
HI!... Well I got 90% of the Scorpion done. I decided to paint the body white instead of yellow. IMO there was just two much yellow in the box art. Still got to clean up the motor and put on new wires. Driver and cockpit need to be touched up.
A while back I went mad buying up whatever Scorpion stuff I could get my hands on. Today Im beginning to see light at the end of the tunnel with the first of a couple of cars Ive been working on. This Scorpion has the locked rear diff and Ive...
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Thanks for the nice comments guys. Dont worry Scott-Im intending on running this car at the vintage meeting we have coming up on the 22nd of June. I'll probably change the tyres though- :wink:
The scorpion was my first rc. I picked this one up a while back for a pretty penny, around $150 with a badly melted tub and body. I bought it because it came with a truck load of gears, two graupner diffs and some spares.
Ok so I have been really busy with buying stuff from all over the world and usually its vintage Schuey stuff but recently its been alot of Kyosho also.This is the first of a couple of old Kyosho buggies which are on the way.This is just an early...
One of my 3 Kyosho Scorpions. This I won on ebay a few years ago and had to do a little modernization. I changed out the brush motor for a Tekin 17T and proper esc, FASST Futaba trans and receiver and a SAVOC high volt high speed servo. This car...
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cool, all class these buggies! nice losi wing btw :lol:
Can anyone in the know—preferably someone with one of each—explain the differences to me in the U.S. version Cox Scorpion and the world-released Kyosho Scorpion? Not the Turbos, but the very original. What are the differences in the cars from each...
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Hi Eau Rouge :)
The differences are not many: The decals and the box as far as I know. The chassies is the same, at least on the earlier versions. In Europe, the Scorpion was released by Graupner and the latest normal-Scorpion came with the white...