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Another car that I've had for a while now, just finally getting some pics done. One of my fav's.

I went through this car to replace the bushings with bearings. The wheel bushings in it are incredibly sloppy, but not any more. The diff bearing I found was an oddball size. Found Duratrax made them ($1 a piece). Tore it apart last night to swap them out only to find it is already equipped with bearings. The manual made it seem it wasn't.

I am very impressed with the build quality of this car. The drivetrain when the chain is adjusted correctly is incredibly efficient!

I have the box, manual, body, driver, and stock speedo. I will install all of that stuff when I get a couple S148's to plop in it. I am torn on how to paint the body. I don't really like the 2 shades of brown they painted in the boxart, so I will most likely do a similar scheme, just change the colors slightly.

I am missing the gearcover. Anybody here help me out with that part (RZ-15)?

Enjoy!

VERY nice Brandon. The Radiant is such a cool car - and shows that a chain drive can most definately be efficient.

Did you get my PM?

Cheers

Darryn

Oh man...that's a great looking Radiant!

here is a pretty cool old school paint job that I found in an old rc mag

Cool! The Radiant is an awesome car, the only negative thing I can find is the plastic that makes the front gear box and tranny rear bearing holder is a bit soft. Other than that it's a great looking car... I whish I coud find parts to convert mine to belt drive though...

Cool car and it looks like nothing else. Nicely built!

murphy3428 wrote:here is a pretty cool old school paint job that I found in an old rc mag

That looks pretty slick.

murphy3428 wrote:here is a pretty cool old school paint job that I found in an old rc mag

wooooo........this looks a bit like Bigwig........

Give me a week and you can experiment with as many paint schemes as you like. Nicely done BTW!

Oh, and I've got gear covers.

Are you reprocucing the gearcovers in white or clear?

Do you have repro decals as well? Do you need a sheet to make copies of?

decal sheet above doesn't look like it'll cover all those stickers on the Print Ad paintjob

eg:

86
CIBIE
blue Radio Control Racing Team
white MAGNUM
red POLE POSITION
all the white AYKs
white GS1200

Some decals look to be from this series: