RE: Tamiya Toyota Hilux: Time For Tea?

RE: Tamiya Toyota Hilux: Time For Tea?

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BritishRacinGrin

24,602 posts

159 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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David! More pressing issue to attend to, surely? laugh

dapearson

4,252 posts

223 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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BritishRacinGrin said:
David! More pressing issue to attend to, surely? laugh
What can i say. Wife is having contractions. I've been up for 24 hrs now. Plenty of coffee, a good 4G signal and PH to keep my mind off it!

BritishRacinGrin

24,602 posts

159 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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Fair play... Didn't Ben keep you waiting as well?

P.S. Having a birthday on Halloween is (and I don't use this phrase lightly) uber cool.

Cable

239 posts

182 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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I had a Boomerang and Calsonic Skyline (still got) as a kid, and recently bought a Midnight Pumpkin for myself... I mean 1yr old daughter :P

I always wanted the Bruiser, a beefed up version of the Hi-Lux, so I'll probably look into one of them in the not too distant future, though they are bloody expensive. The Land Cruiser CC01 may have to do the job until then.

C.A.R.

3,967 posts

187 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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Love my FAV (Fast Attack Vehicle)




And my M03R Mini Cooper


I tend to spend way too much time giving them scale details and make them too fragile to actually use. Then I have an excuse to buy another one...

Amizade

284 posts

224 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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I had a Tamiya Rough Rider back in the day, which sustained terminal damage after some RC interference and it attempted a reverse at full speed (with a race engine) through wired glass window...a distraught 11yr old quietly shuffled away from the scene...

I too indulged in a re-release Tamiya Buggy Champ - but it is really a nice ornament & restricted to indoor use, for fear of looking like some of the anoraks in the park !

My original car had a set of indoor spec foam wheels - which hopefully would be more sympathetic to flooring - anyone know if they are still available anywhere?

djdestiny

6,542 posts

177 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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My Tamiya Volvo, even though its 1/14, this shows how big it is compared to a 1/10 Tamiya 911!



Chassis



The remote control 3 speed box is similar to the off road trucks



Nearly complete chassis, this is days of work, not hours!



Cab painted and fitted, look at the scale compared to the coffee cup, its BIG!





Building the trailer





Finished!







I built it about 9 years ago, it is easily the best Tamiya I've every built, and easily the most enjoyable too.
The amount of parts for it is massive when compared to the average car, and the time it needs to build it reflects this.
It would of taken even longer if I had of used the full set of lights and sound/vibration module.
I recently decided I am going to start another one and fit everything this time, especially as they've released better trucks since I bought this one.

Even if you're not that much into trucks, but love the building element of a Tamiya, I can highly recommend getting one.
Then, if its not your thing to keep, you can pretty much get all of your money back on eBay. I sold mine to help raise money towards a mortgage deposit and hardly lost any money on what it cost to buy. They are in good demand because they are very expensive and hard to find in the UK. I got mine from www.stellamodels.net that I mentioned earlier in the thread

vrsmxtb

2,002 posts

155 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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Only thing I dislike about most Tamiya models is the suspension - often far too hsrd and not much travel / articulation. Hilux (and Bruiser) is a case in point, it just bounces everywhere.

This brings back fond childhood memories:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6IV6wV372Y

probably chalk

671 posts

191 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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I started off with a Tamiya Hornet and then moved onto one of these which I still have:



Nobody seems to have mentioned Mardave yet. They are a British firm set up by two blokes called Martin and David as I understand it and are credited with producing the first serious 1/10 scale radio control cars. They never went down the scale model route, they were just for racing, but in value for money terms I don't think there was anything to touch them. Their cars were certainly way more competitive than equivalently priced Tamiya products. Although I do go all gooey eyed over Tamiya stuff nowadays.

djdestiny

6,542 posts

177 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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vrsmxtb said:
Only thing I dislike about most Tamiya models is the suspension - often far too hsrd and not much travel / articulation. Hilux (and Bruiser) is a case in point, it just bounces everywhere.

This brings back fond childhood memories:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6IV6wV372Y
Remember there are countless Tamiya and 3rd party upgrades and mods for them!

Pete Eroleum

278 posts

186 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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Some people really make them into little works of art.

Have a look at this Sand Scorcher on the Tamiya USA site. Check out the details like the windscreen wiper swept area.
Wonderful.

http://www.tamiyausa.com/articles/feature.php?arti...

Gorbyrev

1,160 posts

153 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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More cowbell! smash

cianha

2,165 posts

196 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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A lot of my stuff is on a shelf, or stuffed into boxes at the moment. Time to give them a once over during the winter, I think.
Prior to the Sand Scorcher Rerelease I built this Poor Man's version, using a modified Grasshopper chassis , Kamtec Streetrod body and wheel adaptors for the Cosmic alloys.


Before that I had my M01 for racing, while it was ultimately slower than the expensive 4wd stuff, it was a great trainer, even displaying lift off oversteer when provoked.


When I got into scale trucks I built this crawler, using the running gear from a Tamiya TLT-1, a Junfac Tracer conversion kit, and a Kamtec LR 130 body. I added a load of greebles and details, but it rarely survived the bashing.



BMW drift car, in front of the house that would eventually lead to me spendng much less time on RC cars…





I liked them so much I built a second one:




And a fun little project than I never got around to finishing:



and another…


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Edited by cianha on Friday 31st October 10:03

SuperVM

1,098 posts

160 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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I was into Losi stuff as a boy and still have my XXT. I pulled it out from storage a couple of months ago and let my eldest daughter (4) drive it around the garden. She enjoyed it, which obviously meant I needed to get a Desert Truck and an Associated B4. I'd like to buy a Losi 8ight brushless kit and build it over the winter, obviously entirely for her use.

g7jhp

6,959 posts

237 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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DM525i said:
Real good point made about things like this creating a generation of car fans. I'm a primary teacher and it amazes me that none of the children seem to aspire to owning a car of any sort. I have never heard any kid talking about radio controlled cars as play things. When I was in school some cool kid had a Big Foot RC car. This caused a big fuss in the play ground, another had a Tamiya car of some description and we talked for hours about the speed and the skids it could do. I sound like a grump old man but this is just an observation.
In the 70-80's there was a lot of car and bike stuff for kids.

JPS Lotus, Evil Kenevil, Dukes of Hazard, Beach Buggies, Herbie, Knight Rider,
Chopper, Grifter, skateboards, BMX bikes.

We'd spend hours taking our bikes to bits upgrading them and then seeing how fast we could could go and how high we could jump.

A car was a right of passage to get out and meet people - today they know everyone through Facebook!

Life has also become very safe - you need a helmet to ride on a flat dry road! wink

0836whimper

974 posts

197 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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Tamiya Blackfoot from the 80's, which I resurrected, with a new lightweight Lexan body:



And always really wanted a Supershot....but then the Avante but by then couldn't afford it and moved on in life.

So I sorted that recently by buying an Egress Re-Release that I am building up now with a brushless motor.

Mmm...carbon chassis tongue out




humpbackmaniac

1,894 posts

240 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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GREAT this thread just cost me £400. Avante desk build here we come!

BRMMA

1,845 posts

171 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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I had the WRC Escort Cosworth as a kid, i removed the shaft which made it 4 wheel drive so it became RWD, i then used to wet the kitchen floor so i could slide it around

I've just bought myself a Vaterra Nissan GTR, mainly because it was so cheap (£120 reduced from over £200) god knows if i'll ever use it

I'd really like an RC version of my own proper car, i feel this makes me a total nob

Davey S2

13,075 posts

253 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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0836whimper said:
Tamiya Blackfoot from the 80's, which I resurrected, with a new lightweight Lexan body:



And always really wanted a Supershot....but then the Avante but by then couldn't afford it and moved on in life.

So I sorted that recently by buying an Egress Re-Release that I am building up now with a brushless motor.

Mmm...carbon chassis tongue out

That's the last one I had. No idea where it is though. I suspect it was thrown out as it didnt work (but only a few parts needed to get it going again).

Will need to check my parents loft next time I'm there.

sparehead3

20 posts

177 months

Friday 31st October 2014
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Lovely bit of nostalgia ! I remember that advert for the HiLux. I bought a Sand Scorcher (all my paper round money) from Beatties and raced at Weston-super-Mare in the early eighties when they first came out.

My memory of the HiLux was that it was a beautiful model, really really clever but nowhere near as quick as the Sand Scorcher/Rough Riders (the local model shop brought one along to show it). So, never won any races. It was also expensive ie: more than paper rounds could pay for.

But, great great memories of a happy couple of years racing cars before computers came along - until the cars came back in my late 30s smile