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Finished the car over the weekend, mixture of oldish electrics. Still prefer the feel of brushed motors
Will give it a couple of runs before running next Sunday at an out door winter series meet
Excuse the paint, just a quick blow over so I can run

Looks good!

very nice example. Did you get the car with the 'glass shock towers? I know both of my factory carbon fiber ones were very brittle, sitting in a box in pieces.

I'm sitting here looking at that body and thinking it would look sweet painted red w/black web; as a spiderman mask. The windows are a perfect match of his eyes, black outline with a silver or mesh pattern. Finish it off with blue wheels, and maybe shock towers, and a blue spoiler with a black spider on it, eh? All these years and it finally clicked what that body reminded me of. Sorry to get off-topic.

The car came with the fibreglass towers, I have another set on a second car waitng to be restored
Are the carbon fibre ones all carbon or did they have a "glass" middle like sandwich?
Great idea for the paint job, not so suer on the blue wheels

mine were all carbon. Not a weave though, laminated in opposing directions. they were very hard and brittle, a couple hard crashes, and they basically fractured apart. Later ones were either white or black 'glass, from what I can tell.

I find it a little sad you didn't go deeper on the effort side while painting such a rare body. A lot can be done to a white body with todays decals though.

Sweet ride!

What type of undertray and battery brace are you using?

The undertray and battery brace are all homemade as are the wing and body
As to a bit "sad" about the paint scheme, this body on trial to see how it handles the rigors
of a race meeting and the feedback from fellow racers.
The material used is thicker than the original, so I am hopeful
If all goes well I,ll have a shell painted "boxart" by someone else, painting is not for me

you mean this is a repro shell? that should make a couple people happy

Mr. ED wrote:you mean this is a repro shell? that should make a couple people happy

dam straight! details...we need details
Todd

That is a repro shell, undertray and the wing is copy of the RC10 worlds.
They are all made from 1mm lexan.
When I am happy with the feedback I get from this weekend then the next stage is availability
The windows are marked out, is it advisable to put the cut lines on

Well I know its been a while, but I,ve finally got my body and wing painted
You may notice a slight colour difference, wing looks more creamy, not sure why
the same paint was used, anyway my paint guy is having another wing to try and get a match
I,ll give the paint a couple of days to fully dry then trim it to fit, just need some decals, any recommendations

Looks splendid. I wouldn't add much, perhaps a race nr and some smaller ones; just traxxas and TRX-1?

With all due respect I HATE YOU!

Hopefully those babies are ready soon! Looks like a box art replica going on?

Hey Ken,
thanx for the updated pix. Looks great. Can't wait to get a couple sets. I'd have to agree with MrEd and not overdo it. Once its all fuddled up with stickers it takes away from the paint but thats just my 2cents
Todd