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TravelinTravis wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 6:20 pm Nice ebay/early b-day score Eight more to add to the collection!

Any chance that 3rd one on the top row with blue endbell is a lemans 480s with different disguise?

Got this a few days ago, figured I'd better get a pic of this up before I goof with it any more.
Happy to have another Curtis body, don't care that it's cut up a bit. Chassis is very nicely re-anodized. Kyosho stock motor.
Nice bonus set of Tamiya Lancia rears.

This came today

caesar wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 2:28 am This came today



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Cool stereo.... get that Kyosho junk out of the way, though!

TheDiamondOne wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 10:56 pm

TravelinTravis wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 6:20 pm Nice ebay/early b-day score Eight more to add to the collection!

Any chance that 3rd one on the top row with blue endbell is a lemans 480s with different disguise?

Always a possibility of some shennanigans going on when you buy these old motors. Delivery should be in a day or two and won't know for sure until I start tearing them down. But the wear and label conditions seem age appropriate for these motors, so pretty sure they're all legit Revtech's....fingers crossed. After Mr. McCurdy/Revtech bought Checkpoint, they used a lot of different cans and endbells from time to time.

One parcel which I was waiting for some time arrived today from Sweden... It took much longer than usual, and the tracking of the parcel still show it under transportation in France at Sweden side and under preparation at sender on French tracking side... I had some fear each time I opened the tracking. My wife did receive the package today and she did not told me, so I was surprised to find it when back form the office...

It was within a bigger box, but inside there was a nice box


And inside the box, an incomplete car (missing wheels and central shaft, and maybe other details). And there was a lot of goodies, which should allow me to complete 3 cars (at the exception of the wheels).


The plan was for this Coors to be a donor chassis for the Shogun. I'll probably missing wheels set and a rear gearbox for the Coors, but now that I have a box, we can say that I have an incomplete Coors to complete

Nothing too exciting - just some wheels I slapped together in Tinkercad (I did not draw the centers, borrowed from another design) and sent out for professional printing....

Got a gamble Tamiya F1 kit in the post today.... Sold as new, but missing parts, and with lo-res pictures and a price to match.... turns out all that's missing is a body and some small body bits.

BARGAIN! Got to love all the blue bits

In case you're wondering, it's an F104 Pro II kit.....

Alex

Another day, another package



Underguards for Samurais by OptimaHouse and Lineworks, the coloring book by @optimaforever

silvertriple wrote: ↑Tue May 10, 2022 12:35 pm Another day, another package



Underguards for Samurais by OptimaHouse and Lineworks, the coloring book by @ optimaforever

where did you get the colouring book

Dadio wrote: ↑Tue May 10, 2022 1:34 pm

silvertriple wrote: ↑Tue May 10, 2022 12:35 pm Another day, another package



Underguards for Samurais by OptimaHouse and Lineworks, the coloring book by @ optimaforever

where did you get the colouring book

Well, I keyed my order in Ryo's messenger
There is some of your favorites car in, but I don't want to spoil the surprises

Few incoming today. Few RXs for some cars first...

Then a bodyshell and some accessories for my Kyosho Spider TF3... It will be a CLK GTR, and I'm not 100% sure yet if I get it painted my own way or not. Only thing that is sure is this car needs to get ready by first week-end of June for a vintage event in Belley...


Last, I got advised by a cool Australian guy that I have a package to fetch somewhere nearby... He told me : it's going to be amazing or a nightmare. I'll fetch that at the end of my day, check the content and report the long story if it is what I hope it is

silvertriple wrote: ↑Wed May 11, 2022 6:42 am Few incoming today. Few RXs for some cars first...

Then a bodyshell and some accessories for my Kyosho Spider TF3... It will be a CLK GTR, and I'm not 100% sure yet if I get it painted my own way or not. Only thing that is sure is this car needs to get ready by first week-end of June for a vintage event in Belley...


Last, I got advised by a cool Australian guy that I have a package to fetch somewhere nearby... He told me : it's going to be amazing or a nightmare. I'll fetch that at the end of my day, check the content and report the long story if it is what I hope it is

Very cool!
I also have the CLK-GTR - NIB waiting to be assembled. Not a Merc fan but that one caught my eye.
So many projects, so little time.

XLR8 wrote: ↑Wed May 11, 2022 9:18 am Very cool!
I also have the CLK-GTR - NIB waiting to be assembled. Not a Merc fan but that one caught my eye.
So many projects, so little time.

If you have the kit, maybe you'll be able to help me : I can't find the body kit instruction manual anywhere, so it would be very helpful if you can drop me a scan... There is things easy to guess and others which are not...

silvertriple wrote: ↑Wed May 11, 2022 6:42 am Last, I got advised by a cool Australian guy that I have a package to fetch somewhere nearby... He told me : it's going to be amazing or a nightmare. I'll fetch that at the end of my day, check the content and report the long story if it is what I hope it is

First it is A M A Z I N G !
I still have no words for what is happening right now. And I need to tell the long story, as it is part of what came as a result of the Nichimo Spirit FF project for me.

Few weeks back, an Australian guy mentioned he was searching rear arms for a Nichimo FF car in one comment of my posts on Facebook. I had the link as I had a set in my ebay watch list (for no reason as the intention was to get them printed anyway), so I gave him the link... Discussing with another friend I discovered this guy was behind a Youtube channel (TRUE VINTAGE RC, https://www.youtube.com/user/Bormac073), and looking at few videos, I found them quite interesting and detailed, so I subscribed...

Few weeks later (it was about 3 or 4 weeks ago), my Nichimo Spirit FF was printed and built. And that week, that same guy, Jason, alias Bormac, posted he needed parts as he received an incomplete kit from Europe. Among the missing part, there was some which I could help with my own now unused parts as replaced by 3D printed ones, and the broken chassis I thought myself I could not do anything with it. Jason told me he would get the buyer to pay for the shipment, and I told ok, and on the next day, the parts were going to Australia (and if I can see a nice video on those cars, that will be a nice bonus already).

2 weeks ago, I was in the car sitting doing nothing as one of my colleagues was driving while we went back from a 3 day trip for business... And Jason contacted me as he found a car in France on ebay, but the seller would not ship to Australia... He asked me if I can help again. I said why not. Jason knew from the discussions we had earlier that I would be interested to model that car as well, and he proposed me not only to get the car going to me, but to allow me to tear it down to parts, get it in CAD and then send the package to him... I was finding this a bit crazy, a lot of gamble (specially with a seller who got only to feedbacks on ebay), but that was Jason gamble... On the next days, I helped him a bit with the translation, gave him my full details so he can eventually get it send to me, but I was kind of thinking that story could turn in a nightmare as well...

This morning I got advised (I had the tracking link so I knew it was incoming) that I had to get the parcel from the destination point (a relay nearby). Jason told me "it's going to be amazing or a nightmare".

Here is what was in the package:


A Nichimo RC Midships 443 WDS. So it is definitely amazing
Some parts are common with the FF cars, and I'll start to model it soon

This is typically the kind of things that tells me that putting the stls on Thingiverse for the Spirit FF was a good thing. I have the authorization from this car owner to do a proper thread, and I'll start that as soon as I start to tear the car down to parts...