Vanessa's Lunchbox

[chunkymonkey71]

Finished building it ages ago and haven't touched it since.

What colour should I paint it?

[dundarach]

Yelloooooow

built a TT01 subaru and painted it bright yellow, easiest to see when tear as$sing about

[chunkymonkey71]

I was thinking of finishing it in original yellow...

But then, the idea of painting it like the A Team van is kind of kool too.

[thehos]

far too many a team lunchboxes around, yellow is your best bet

[Emsman]

I went for a metallic yellow, slightly darker than the normal hue.

And chromed wheels.

And a couple of coats of clear lacquer after the decals were on it.

Its the way forward, honest

[vdubbin]

Pics! We demand photos!

[Emsman]

Ok, something like this then......................

[XJSJohn]

[Rich_W]

I had one of them!

Mine was black, with headlights fitted. Then a "Aerostar" polycarb 1/12 body. Ran it with yellow oil filled dampers, full ballrace kit. ESC and no radio gear batteries (to lower the COG donchaknow ) If you take out the spacer between the motor and the gearbox you can fit a bigger (17T IIRC) pinion and get more speed (though no wheelies of course)

Found it the other day whilst having a semi clear out. In the bin it went, along with the radio gear and batteries. In fairness I hadn't used it for about 18 years!

[thehos]

Rich_W said:

I had one of them!

Mine was black, with headlights fitted. Then a "Aerostar" polycarb 1/12 body. Ran it with yellow oil filled dampers, full ballrace kit. ESC and no radio gear batteries (to lower the COG donchaknow ) If you take out the spacer between the motor and the gearbox you can fit a bigger (17T IIRC) pinion and get more speed (though no wheelies of course)

Found it the other day whilst having a semi clear out. In the bin it went, along with the radio gear and batteries. In fairness I hadn't used it for about 18 years!

shoud've let me have it! rather than bin it

[Emsman]

The bin?

Heathen!

[ajprice]

Anyone got a decent image of the cartoon on the side? I'm trying to do the paint in Forza 3 .

[vdubbin]

[chunkymonkey71]

Still haven't painted it...!

[Jez Thain]

Here's one of mine! Rollin Thunder, a tribute to the Monster van that the Lunchbox was actually based on

[Jez Thain]

....and the pic!

[vdubbin]

Class, love the wheelie bar as well!

[Rich_W]

vdubbin said:

Class, love the wheelie bar as well!

They come with it They have (relatively) quick acceleration and a high CoG, so Tamiya made a big thing that if you went backwards then nailed forwards they would wheelie

[y2blade]

Emsman said:

Ok, something like this then......................

fantastic