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Open Contest This Month! Any Manufacturer!

OK, this will be the thread for the February 2017 Build of the Month Contest.

Refresh yourself with the rules before entering - http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=98&t=35923

Please remember, no chit chat until all of the entries are locked in so they can stay grouped together.

GOOD LUCK!!!

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** Place Holders **

If you would like to enter the contest, create a post as a "place holder". DO NOT POST ANY PICS. You have until the 5th of the month to lock in a spot (10 entries max). You will then have 2 days to edit your post and attach the pics of your entry. The poll will be started on the night of the 7th. If you have not submitted your pics by then you will be removed from the contest.

Scorptima - Modyfied 2014 Scorpion with Optima body

My 'Faux' Worlds car I put together as kind of an 'all white' version. Updated a bit from the original thread, including the piece de' resistance, the detonator worlds I was lucky enough to obtain from Mr. Jeff Harris, including the matching stand. Thanks!!! This was put together well before the re-re was available, i did add a couple of small parts that were re-released.

original thread:
http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=14211&hilit=junkyard+dog

RC10 sand rail featuring a plethora of MIP hopups, including a 4wd MIP SP-2 chain kit.

Build thread: http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=20271

Here's my Big Wig It has a very special value to me:

This is the very first vintage RC car I worked on, starting in '98, when I painted the body first. It is pseudo box-art but with pearl white and metallic blue, and some yellow stripes to match the rollacage. Not my best paintjob to be honest!

Then the chassis went through a few rebuilds in the decade after that as I was painfully collecting parts, and it is now made solely of NOS parts gathered and swapped in the decade or so after that. It sports a new VZ, and the mech speedo still needs to be installed some day. (maybe...)

I painted Larry Lancaster with much patience, being not a patient kinda guy this was almost therapeutic for me

It has basically sat on the shelf like this for the past decade or so... Then Tamiya decided to re-release last week, and for the first time I was pissed at them for re-re'ing something as it took me so long to get this one together.

I was happy to see that this month's contest was open to all brands, because this is the last time on rc10talk you can say you will see a bigwig built for sure only and genuinely from original parts So I dusted it off with a brush, and here are the pics:





One last comment... Tamiya plastics age really, really badly. As I took the body off for these pics, for the first time in almost a decade, the front bulkheads just cracked where the front body mount lies just like that... snap! Crazy

Good luck to everyone

Paul

My Cougar 2





Full build thread here:

http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=27254

OK here is my entry, tho It's not as good as the others, it is one I'm proud of. I got this NDS Qualifier as a beat up complete rolling chassis. after cleaning it up and locating a used but nice fuel tank, vintage new rear shock tower vintage new OS .15 engine, and I even added a vintage new Transmission (had to due to a lack of the slipper the diff gear and bearings had become 1 piece)(I also added a Aluminum diff gear from robinson and an hg aluminum idler). Shocks were rebuilt using a vintage rebuild kit and I topped it off with a new Vette body which will hopefully be replaced at some time with an appropriate Associated body. Wheels and tires are also vintage new. I don't plan on running her but she's ready to go if the urge ever hits. Almost forgot the sport muffler is also vintage new. Hope you like.

The goal of the "project" was to make the Dyna Storm as fast as or a wee bit faster than the AE RC10 Worlds...

I took a lot of effort, but we did succeed! It's not for the faint of heart, and we left no stone unturned. For instance it has a custom made aluminium one piece chassis with built in kick-up.

Have a look at the "Evo 2 version" here (with pics):
http://tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=127797&sid=22039

Have a look at the "Evo 1 version" here (with pics):
http://tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=125790&sid=22039

And the initial car (mostly stock):
http://tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=122270&id=22039

And lastly our "Project group" on Facebook, with all the details of the mods:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1533568173577273/?fref=ts

Thx for looking and anyone is 100% free to use these ideas!

Tamiya Super Astute 1991

RC10 Hop Up

http://citylife48.com/showroom?iid=120

Yokomo Yr-4 buggy conversion

http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=41329

Yay, 10 entries..... let the cr@p-throwing begin!!!!






Who will be next?

Wtf I'm gone 2 minutes! and this happens!
Keep it up and I will take away your computer privileges
Lol
Glad to see you guys are still thinking of me

Farmer

Well.... Now I will have to bleach my brain.

Sadly this still might not remove that image.

Thanks guys, just thanks...

farmer wrote: ↑Thu Feb 02, 2017 10:26 pm
Glad to see you guys are still thinking of me

Farmer

kinda hard not to with the impression you leave on us every time your boytoy Alex brings your picture back to life