** Hopelessly Incomplete Project of the Month - May 2025 **

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Vote for your top 2 Hopeless Build choices

Poll runs till Fri May 30, 2025 2:10 pm

Elkcycles
3
9%
Trass
7
22%
RogueIV
0
No votes
BattleTrak
12
38%
Frankentruck
5
16%
GrePo
1
3%
Scottzone
4
13%
 
Total votes: 32

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** Hopelessly Incomplete Project of the Month - May 2025 **

Post by Frankentruck »

One more month of hopeless incomplete projects, then we will do the beaters and bashers again next month.

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We always like seeing runners and excellent shelfers, but how about the projects that never seem to come to completion? This contest is for the projects that are stuck. Missing parts, broken parts, impossible to find parts, or lack of motivation to put the parts together. What does winning mean? Congratulations, you had a vision but you haven't built it yet! Maybe next year? :lol:

Rules: We always need rules, even if they aren't enforceable

You have 7 days to post up photos of your entry. No need to do a placeholder. Just proudly put in your entry and let the intimidation begin.

Up to 10 entries are allowed

Up to 3 photos of an entry.

Photos are uploaded to the site, not remotely hosted

No run videos because entries need to be incomplete.
Runners are disqualified and the overachiever will be booed!

Open to all brands and franken-style builds

"Winning" one month does not disallow a different entry from the same member in another month.

Past monthly "winner" entry not eligible for future monthly entry.

2 votes per member will be allowed. Are votes for an entry actually an insult? 🤔 :lol:

Voting poll will be added on 8th of the month, or sooner if there are 10 entries before then.

Please only make contest entry posts before the poll is up. After poll has begun, other posts can be made.

Thanks for reading all this. Good luck?
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Re: ** Hopelessly Incomplete Project of the Month - May 2025 **

Post by Elkcycles »

This 3DSets Baja Beetle has sat on my toolbox offending me since October of 2024. Life has become too busy with my own kids, my students, and my side hustle to even proceed any further. I am 95% of the way finished.
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Re: ** Hopelessly Incomplete Project of the Month - May 2025 **

Post by Trass »

Hi averyone !

I started this project in 2010, still not finished, no motivation and no idea for the paint .

X-RAY T1M Lightning / Flash Mc Queen (toy adjusted and mofidied body)

Full story here https://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?t=50745

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Hope finish this one day !


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Sorry for my rusty english, i'm a kind of French farmer lost in his montain ...

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Re: ** Hopelessly Incomplete Project of the Month - May 2025 **

Post by RogueIV »

My Electrified XXX-NT Project that was running but then got robbed for parts. I'll get back to it at some point. All the upper deck and mounts are designed by myself. I do plan on getting a dedicated chassis plate made.
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Picture of it during early prototyping/testing, before all the orange stuff got warped from being left in my trunk too long in summer.
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Consistency is the key I keep misplacing.

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Re: ** Hopelessly Incomplete Project of the Month - May 2025 **

Post by BattleTrak »

Here is my on-road Jrx2 project that I have been gathering parts forever.. RPM, JG and Bolink kits.. a whole box of tires.. I have no idea where it’s going.. then there’s a box of bodies.
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Re: ** Hopelessly Incomplete Project of the Month - May 2025 **

Post by Frankentruck »

I started my quest for a nice TRX1 with this nice 'no gearbox' roller. It has a never been run feel to it. I've been in search of a gearbox and motor plate to complete it. In the process I collected a TRX3 gearbox, internals that work with it, slipper parts, a well cared for TRX1 runner (that was going to be a parts donor), a less well cared for but restorable TRX3 (no longer going to be a parts donor), and used a TRX1 motor plate that's incompatible with the TRX3 gearbox.

The hopeless part is I can't decide if I need a TRX1 gearbox or a TRX3 motor plate to finish it. Both seem like they require a lot of patience to find :lol:
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Re: ** Hopelessly Incomplete Project of the Month - May 2025 **

Post by GrePo »

I sacrificed this incomplete Kyosho Optima Mid Custom Special to make the broken Lazer Alpha runner in the background drivable. I had to choose one car or the other and I'm not sure if I made the right choice but the upper deck on the Optima is so supercustom-veryspecial that it put me off saving the Optima. Too bad, but who knows, maybe the missing parts will come my way sooner or later.
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Re: ** Hopelessly Incomplete Project of the Month - May 2025 **

Post by Frankentruck »

If anyone else wants to enter, please do so today. Also, please change your place holders to entries. Thanks
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Re: ** Hopelessly Incomplete Project of the Month - May 2025 **

Post by Scottzone »

Kyosho Outlaw Rampage Pro Team converted to electric. Definitely hopeless as these SST transmissions are ridiculously bad. If I can’t get the trans at least decently smooth I can’t bring myself to buy a repro body.
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Re: ** Hopelessly Incomplete Project of the Month - May 2025 **

Post by Frankentruck »

The pollis up! Remember, you get 2 vote selections. Good luck! (on finishing your projects 😁)
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Re: ** Hopelessly Incomplete Project of the Month - May 2025 **

Post by R6cowboy »

Shoot, just now noticed this thread and last month went completely over my head. These types of polls I have many hopeless projects to enter :lol:
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Re: ** Hopelessly Incomplete Project of the Month - May 2025 **

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R6cowboy wrote: Sat May 10, 2025 3:30 pm Shoot, just now noticed this thread and last month went completely over my head. These types of polls I have many hopeless projects to enter :lol:
Next month will be back to 'junkiest runner' and then probably back to hopeless builds again. I would take other suggestions too.

When I look at BattleTrak's JRX2, it makes me wonder how many he's trying to build from that pile of parts 😂

Scottzone also has potential for junkiest build for an otherwise decent truck because of the poorly made gearbox. At least my TRX1 has *some* hope of getting a good gearbox setup. Are there some SST gearboxes that work smoothly? How would someone know other than trial and error?
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Re: ** Hopelessly Incomplete Project of the Month - May 2025 **

Post by Dadio »

I really must enter this as I've got a few almost projects ..... I just can't completely decide witch one to enter .
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Re: ** Hopelessly Incomplete Project of the Month - May 2025 **

Post by BattleTrak »

Frankentruck wrote: Sat May 10, 2025 8:06 pm
R6cowboy wrote: Sat May 10, 2025 3:30 pm Shoot, just now noticed this thread and last month went completely over my head. These types of polls I have many hopeless projects to enter :lol:
When I look at BattleTrak's JRX2, it makes me wonder how many he's trying to build from that pile of parts 😂
😂. Despite how it looks, there is only one set of bulkheads, arms, hardware and gearbox. Any on-road or oval parts I’ve come across has been thrown in the box to be sorted out later. The wheel/tire box is definitely outta control…leaning towards the Proline Strikers with the wide 2” fronts though.
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Re: ** Hopelessly Incomplete Project of the Month - May 2025 **

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RogueIV wrote: Fri May 02, 2025 4:46 pm Picture of it during early prototyping/testing, before all the orange stuff got warped from being left in my trunk too long in summer.
The curse of printing with PLA filament. Such nice surface finish but so vulnerable to warm temperatures.
GrePo wrote: Tue May 06, 2025 4:10 pm I sacrificed this incomplete Kyosho Optima Mid Custom Special to make the broken Lazer Alpha runner in the background drivable. I had to choose one car or the other and I'm not sure if I made the right choice
But wait, these aren't Yokomos! :lol: You've definitely got a focus on high quality 4wd buggies.
Elkcycles wrote: Thu May 01, 2025 3:57 pm This 3DSets Baja Beetle has sat on my toolbox offending me since October of 2024.
This looks like it would be a cool scale occasional runner. Just don't leave it in RogueIV's trunk. :wink:
Trass wrote: Fri May 02, 2025 4:01 pm Hi averyone !

I started this project in 2010, still not finished, no motivation and no idea for the paint .

X-RAY T1M Lightning / Flash Mc Queen (toy adjusted and mofidied body)

Full story here https://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?t=50745
Hope finish this one day !
This NEEDS to be finished! Kachow! ⚡
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