The Tenderfoot’s red Tomahawk
Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 10:21 am
The Tenderfoot’s red Tomahawk or Hot Tricks inspired Tomahawk.
This journey all started when my friend “Walfre” introduced me to his Hot Tricks Ultima 2 years ago. It looks rather neat with all those red parts on his Ultima, and that inspired me to build this Tomahawk.
As you know, Hot Tricks never made any parts for the Tomahawk or the Scorpion for that matter. This mean’s I have to anodize the parts my selves or rather let someone do it for you. So 1½ years ago I asked around at different companies what it would cost to get it done. The price tag was between $225 and $300… Then I thought about Pergu2000 and ordered 2 aluminum wings, one red and one natural. After that I contacted him asking if he was willing to anodize my parts, but that conversion got lost in cyberspace so project was put on hold because of the “Blueprint Scorpion”.
Around Christmas time I went through all my project ide’s and it all started all over again. But this time I was in luck, a fellow member on the Swedish forum RSB Sebastian was able to help me. For $30 I got all my parts anodized, and then I saw “Kyosho Scorpion kid’s” red Tomahawk. My first reaction was “he has stolen my ide’”, but that’s of cause is not true. There was only two persons that know about this project ide’ of mine and they would never tell anybody I think.
So this is a straight “put parts together project” as many of my projects are. The only thing I have to figure out is the paint scheme; I’m leaning towards white, red and black scheme. So like to have your input with suggestion’s how to lay it out…
This journey all started when my friend “Walfre” introduced me to his Hot Tricks Ultima 2 years ago. It looks rather neat with all those red parts on his Ultima, and that inspired me to build this Tomahawk.
As you know, Hot Tricks never made any parts for the Tomahawk or the Scorpion for that matter. This mean’s I have to anodize the parts my selves or rather let someone do it for you. So 1½ years ago I asked around at different companies what it would cost to get it done. The price tag was between $225 and $300… Then I thought about Pergu2000 and ordered 2 aluminum wings, one red and one natural. After that I contacted him asking if he was willing to anodize my parts, but that conversion got lost in cyberspace so project was put on hold because of the “Blueprint Scorpion”.
Around Christmas time I went through all my project ide’s and it all started all over again. But this time I was in luck, a fellow member on the Swedish forum RSB Sebastian was able to help me. For $30 I got all my parts anodized, and then I saw “Kyosho Scorpion kid’s” red Tomahawk. My first reaction was “he has stolen my ide’”, but that’s of cause is not true. There was only two persons that know about this project ide’ of mine and they would never tell anybody I think.
So this is a straight “put parts together project” as many of my projects are. The only thing I have to figure out is the paint scheme; I’m leaning towards white, red and black scheme. So like to have your input with suggestion’s how to lay it out…
just kidding. My assault is powder coated red and not anodized you should leave some bits polished aluminum they look great against the red
If HT made a kit for the Tomahawk or Scorpion they would've replaced the chassis rails with a flat sheet of red fiberglass and a giant one piece aluminum front end, and the stock aluminum arms with weaker thin aluminum ones..maybe even a-arms. All they would've kept was the stock transmission 
Would love to have 1 again......
