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Well I really want to build a Knight Beach Buggy like SHO's but I had 1/2 of the money saved and the wife said she needed it for bill's. isnt that the way it always happends but cant complain I have the best wife in the World. Since I dont work she still buys me a new toy at least twice a year, when we have extra money. so after some neg. I have been wanting one of these for well forever. so I orderd up a new one from Tower and she got the rest. the Beach Buggy will come soon. I am already starting a new fund. well I put it together so I can look at it and decide. do I want to do a Sand Rail or a Fast Attack??? I had some extra lights from my Buggy Champ so I put some on the roof. I hate decideing what color to paint anything well I had a nib Sport tuned motor it came with some bearrings I had a few so it has all but the two smaller bearrings on the center gear in the trans. I dont now why Tamiya would put in bearings for the wheels and not the trans where it really needs them? So they will be put in when I blow it appart for paint.

I think I am really digging the Sliver for the color, I will still need to paint it since its just bear plastic. just needs a little detailing and some extras. Here are the wheels I think are going to end up on it. I like the AJ's tires on it also with their ballooned size it looks fuller. what do you think??

and Yes I am building a Airplane in the back ground

I was just playing around with my Toykid bumper I bought for my Sand Scorcher, but it was to short for it. I think it looks pretty good on here.

that toykid stuff is awsome...

well I took it all apart tonight and painted it a med sliver/grey ramdon color by painting it dark charcole and misting a bright silver flake over it. it looks almost the same as the plastic color but no streaks and its all one color now. will post new pics in a few days ran out of clear so have to get some tomorrow.

Soncho Ponza wrote:that toykid stuff is awsome...

Yes it is, I only wish I had more money to buy more of it. I have one of his motors on my Sand Schorcer and exhaust coming in this week for it. along with another motor for my Buggy Champ.

Looks good so far. I vote for a dune buggy look rather than the fav look

shodog wrote:Looks good so far. I vote for a dune buggy look rather than the fav look

thats were I am going, I already have a Hummer I want the 50 cal for the roof of that anyway I like the silve and I have some Valvoline stickers I may put a splash of blue on their.

I have a new built wild one I never finished. Always wanted to do it up cool buggy style. Can't wait till Toykid starts selling the engine kits for fav/wild one. I'm looking forward to see what you come up with on this buggy

shodog wrote:I have a new built wild one I never finished. Always wanted to do it up cool buggy style. Can't wait till Toykid starts selling the engine kits for fav/wild one. I'm looking forward to see what you come up with on this buggy

Thanks he already has them for sale. I hope to order one this week for mine.

https://www.shapeways.com/model/1861823/vw-engine-for-tamiya-wild-one-fav.html?li=shop-results&materialId=62

well I painted it up with a two color silver I like the color. and after looking at a bunch of reference on the internet I decaled it up. not sure I like them so glad I didnt clear over them as they might come off. I am still painting the driver but I need to order a new driver head not happy with the Army one for a Desert Racer

A wild one head would look just right on the Fav body. I'm not livening the round 537 number plate. I think it would look better squared off. Might be able to do it with a hobby knife without having to remove the sticker

shodog wrote:A wild one head would look just right on the Fav body. I'm not livening the round 537 number plate. I think it would look better squared off. Might be able to do it with a hobby knife without having to remove the sticker

a wild one head is just was what I was thinking. their is one on the way as we speak. yea I am not felling the decals at all, their what I had. I have squaire numbers I may try them over to see if that looks better. I was going to wait till I have the driver finished and installed before I mad any harsh decisions on the decals. I kinda liked it plain just silver.

Well waitting on parts again I have the motor and pipe and a new drives head on order. here is a pic of what I am getting. here is the head I am going to run

Working on the interior I had a extra Wild Willy gear shift so I put it on their. it came with this little tiny one that was in a place that would be impossible to shift in real life so I cut the second shifter lever off and drilled a hole poped it on. I drilled all of the little holes out on the steering wheel. the dash decal was nice so I used it.