Tamiya RC buggy / truck options for around £200?

Tamiya RC buggy / truck options for around £200?

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Ecosseven

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1,972 posts

216 months

Tuesday 26th May 2015
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Afternoon all,

I enjoyed my RC cars when I was younger and fancy building another one much the amusement and bewilderment of the missus (what mid life crisis dear....). I've no intention of competing in races and I'll get as much fun from building the car as running it. I have a budget of around £200 - £225 and that needs to include the kit, the radio gear, batteries and chargers.

Anyway I always loved Tamiya kits when growing up so would like to get another. The front runner is the Subaru Brat but not sure how the re-release compares with the original?

Always liked the Blackfoot but was never keen on the Lunch Box or the Midnight Pumpkin. I don't think you can get the Blackfoot new?

I also have a few questions of batteries and speed controllers. Are most speed controllers electronic these days? How do they deal with running through puddles or wet grass?

Batteries - What run time can I expect from a modern set up?

Thanks in advance.




NITO

1,077 posts

205 months

Tuesday 26th May 2015
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The Brat/frog chassis is old hat and doesn't have sufficient ground clearance for my tastes, great as a scaler but I went with the much newer and very competent WT01 Tamiya chassis for which you can get it in Blackfoot III (hard body) or polycarbonate Brat body in Mud Blaster 2 guise...it's a very tough and versatile chassis, you can easily convert to 4wd and 4ws too if you want.

http://www.fusionhobbies.com/product/58498-tamiya-...

http://tamico.de/Tamiya-Mud-Blaster-II-Monstertruc...

If you enjoy modifying, loads more info on my build thread here;

http://www.msuk-forum.co.uk/topic/160586-tamiya-wt...

Biggest advances in the last 20 years, brushless motors, lipo batteries and 2.4ghz radios. Basically much faster, hour long run times with a very light battery and no radio interference. Of course you'll need to modify the motor, electronic speed controller (another big advance, some are mappable too) and use a lipo compatible esc to use a lipo battery. I also wouldn't skimp on charger, you want one that can discharge/condition also.

If you want more info search tamiyaclub for wt01 information!! Warning, it gets highly addictive!

Ps. Original Brat re-release link here;
http://www.modelsport.co.uk/tamiya-subaru-brat/rc-...

Edited by NITO on Tuesday 26th May 22:09