Built a car over Christmas....

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

But it was easy doing it indoors on the dining room table! A fabulous 1/10th scale Tamiya Sand Scorcher. Not a Christmas present funnily enough, bought it for myself months ago but only had time to get to it this week.

Some pics for you:

Fabulously engineered components - all alloy independent suspension with torsion bars and oil filled dampers.

Taking Shape.

The finished article.

Looking great! Now to see how she runs...

[LHD]

Want.

[davepoth]

The only thing I want more is the 10:1 scale model of it that Tamiya had made...

[magpie215]

lurvly OP

I can vaguely remember the original release

[RB26DETT]

Do they do this in anyother cars ? Any Fords, Id love to build one.

[S1_RS]

Fantastic! I had a Rough Rider as a kid, bought the Sand Scorcher body as well. Still got the remains of it all 30 years on. Sorely tempted to buy a new one.

[vdubbin]

Lovely job, still one of my all time favourite kits!
I built a "poor man's" Scorcher a while back, before the re-release. I use a Grasshopper with a Kamtec Beetle shell, and some M-chassis alloys…

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=6...

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

vdubbin said:

Lovely job, still one of my all time favourite kits!
I built a "poor man's" Scorcher a while back, before the re-release. I use a Grasshopper with a Kamtec Beetle shell, and some M-chassis alloys…

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=6...

Nice work! Lovin the colour scheme

My next kit will be a Grasshopper, they've been re-released too, about 80 quid. Had one way back when, got rid of it so will build another now I'm 38.

I'm worried this could turn into an expensive addiction.

[NiceCupOfTea]

Used to drool over the Tamiya catalogue in the 80s but never had one.

Quite tempted to buy one now. Boomerang was quite good wasn't it. Bigwig as well?

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

Yes they were both good, both 4 wheel drive buggies.

The bigwig caused a revelation IIRC because it was the first kit to use an 8.4 volt battery cell, which made it as fast as buggery.

Honestly, get yourself down to a model shop soon, Tamiya are doing a lot of these old kits again from our youth. You'll have a complete nostalgia fest, trust me

[NiceCupOfTea]

Found a 4WD Hotshot, and a nice e30 M3 on the etamiya.co.uk site, but £300 each including all the radio gear...

Is there a cheaper way to do it? Radio gear s/h on ebay? Are there any good online retailers?

[morgrp]

Unimog on the new crawler chassis they do for me thanks

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

Ahhhh, now you've made me miss my old Hotshot too!!

Yeh cheaper has to be online, wouldn't know who's good but have a look in the scale model forum on here and find Roop. He's the main man and has so much RC it's scary. He'll probably point you in the right direction.

As a guide though, I paid:

£45 for radio gear brand new from Modelzone ( Hitec stuff )
£25 for the battery cell to power the car
£22 for a fast charger

The speed controller was included with the kit.

And the kit was £280, but as I said they start at about £80.

So your £300 looks a wee bit steep? How much is just the car kit sans other stuff?

[vrooom]

You can just buy kit excluding radio gear.

you can buy 1 radio gear for all your model.

[Mostro]

Ah the memories. My brother had a Tamiya Hornet, though I spent most time with it doing donuts in the gravel...

[m444ttb]

Cool! I had. Tamiya Monster Beetle then a Blitzer Beetle a couple of years later. Sadly wrecked both, although I think the latter is in my garage. My other half had a Tamiya Escort Cosworth amongst others too!

[NiceCupOfTea]

Found this - brand new Boomerang for £125, will throw in radio for £60...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TAMIYA-58418-BOOMERANG-OFF-R...

[Anthony Micallef]

Mostro said:

Ah the memories. My brother had a Tamiya Hornet, though I spent most time with it doing donuts in the gravel...

I got a Hornet for Christmas, just finished it today. All I need to do is the body shell.

[NiceCupOfTea]

So:

for razzing around the garden, RWD or 4WD?

[SlipStream77]

NiceCupOfTea said:

So:

for razzing around the garden, RWD or 4WD?

Start a poll in GG.