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This truck started out as a factory Team gt. I put all the available blue RPM parts on it a while back. This year I decided to blue it out as much as I could without going nuts with aluminum. I've been collecting parts for the rebuild and finally got around to doing it.
I got ahold of some "white" parts thanks to Temple. A couple days soaking and they were ready to dye.
I used Justinspeed's suggestion for the blue sharpie instead of rit, and they came out pretty close to RPM blue. The truck was apart for a clean/rebuild. The lone body post in front of the steering servo is for an EDM body. We have a couple dirt ovals locally, but the truck was re-assembled to stock ride height for bashing.
I added a mip BB steering kit, lightened outdrives and a fresh set of shiny CVD's. It has a new Robinson blue slipper kit and steel clutchbell/spur combo.
The rear lower shock mount, 6-hole tranny brace, and steering servo mount are all (IIRC) trinity. The nose tube braces are hardcore racing.

Well, the say you can't polish a turd.. but I think you've succeeded! What a transformation.

tomstacey wrote:Well, the say you can't polish a turd..

You can if you freeze it first

OK what's a flipping sharpie, a felt tip pen?

It's turned out real well by the way, nice work.

If it's a felt tip pen, that's gonna take a lot of time to colour it in!!!

I use Dylon, that stuff is fantastic

I knew those "white" parts would never be white again, but I'm quite impressed they took the blue as well as they did.

Good job...I has half expecting them to be brown even after the dye job.

Nice use of those pieces!

looks great so far

does anyone know the process to dye using rit btw? just boil and soak parts till desired color is reached? is boiling needed?

Thanks for the kind words.
The blue sharpie brand marker worked well. crack open the marker, pull out the ink pad, cut it up and put it into the boiling water insstead of the usual dye. My daughter flipped when she saw that, running to mommy to tell her that I ruined the marker they had just bought me today.
on another note, the cheapie plastic measuring cups do not like having full strength bleach in them for 2 straight days. It was hazy and had multiple full thickness hairline cracks. I guess I should stick to glass.

mikedealer wrote:looks great so far

does anyone know the process to dye using rit btw? just boil and soak parts till desired color is reached? is boiling needed?

Have a look at this thread mikedealer it covers the process quite comprehensively.

http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1237

mikedealer wrote:looks great so far

does anyone know the process to dye using rit btw? just boil and soak parts till desired color is reached? is boiling needed?

I like to string the parts up so I can put them in and take them out all at the same time to get an even color on all parts.
I usually bring the water to a boil, add the dye, then shut the heat off. I then add the parts, usually it does not take very long and they are done. I have not actually let the parts sit in actively boiling water as I am always afraid that the direct heat of parts sitting on the bottom would melt/warp the parts.
This seems to work well for me.

aconsola wrote: My daughter flipped when she saw that, running to mommy to tell her that I ruined the marker they had just bought me today.

*Tattletale*