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I've been spending the last few weeks testing out my new HG-P417 truck on some nice mountain tracks.
Plus a video showing it in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0AiPOEh4ak
Plus a video showing it in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0AiPOEh4ak
20-year-old Baja Champ:
and TA02-chassis Ford Mustang SVO (with Chevy S10 wheels and body and longer shocks):
and a newer but still somewhat dusty re-re Sand Scorcher:
All stock, save for the diff in the Sand Scorcher and a handful of bearings, although I am drawn to the Sand Scorcher engine and interior bits on Shapeways - chuffing expensive, though.
and TA02-chassis Ford Mustang SVO (with Chevy S10 wheels and body and longer shocks):
and a newer but still somewhat dusty re-re Sand Scorcher:
All stock, save for the diff in the Sand Scorcher and a handful of bearings, although I am drawn to the Sand Scorcher engine and interior bits on Shapeways - chuffing expensive, though.
V10 SPM said:
Were the decals hard to apply? This body has quite a lot of decals and most of the surfaces are curved. What makes it harder is matching the sections of decals from different body panels.
I’m not going to lie and say it’s easy! 
I’d read somewhere that using some washing up liquid in water and applying them wet helped as you can slide them in place a bit and reapply if they’re not quite in the right place.
I also found using a hairdryer really helped to bend them into shape and make them stick, and also an earbud helped to rub them into the curved surfaces etc.
V10 SPM said:
This super little rock crawler has just joined the BlackSeaRC collection. It is the Partner Racing QX-4 in 1:18 scale:
You can find more photos of the QX-4 rock crawler in my Partner Racing album:https://www.facebook.com/pg/BlackSeaRC/photos/?tab...
Video coming shortly at BlackSeaRC. Visit my channel here for all types of interesting RC vehicles: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYhgdDSy4Uwowod5y...
Built this with my kids yesterday and I did the painting (they chose the colour which I think looks rather good).
I liked it without stickers....
But the kids wanted me to sticker it up so I haggled and this is how it ended up...
It’s a fun bit of kit for the kids to learn on (although a bit slow for me) and it lasted 45mins on first run! Downside was the standard Tamiya servo steering plate threaded on the upgraded metal servo (I then updated servo one on and it works a treat, then the pinion grub screw came undone so lost drive (I’ve now really tightened it up).
I wonder how a brushless motor would go in this....
I liked it without stickers....
But the kids wanted me to sticker it up so I haggled and this is how it ended up...
It’s a fun bit of kit for the kids to learn on (although a bit slow for me) and it lasted 45mins on first run! Downside was the standard Tamiya servo steering plate threaded on the upgraded metal servo (I then updated servo one on and it works a treat, then the pinion grub screw came undone so lost drive (I’ve now really tightened it up).
I wonder how a brushless motor would go in this....
Edited by W12GT on Sunday 30th August 17:47
W12GT said:
Built this with my kids yesterday and I did the painting (they chose the colour which I think looks rather good).
I liked it without stickers....
But the kids wanted me to sticker it up so I haggled and this is how it ended up...
It’s a fun bit of kit for the kids to learn on (although a bit slow for me) and it lasted 45mins on first run! Downside was the standard Tamiya servo steering plate threaded on the upgraded metal servo (I then updated servo one on and it works a treat, then the pinion grub screw came undone so lost drive (I’ve now really tightened it up).
I wonder how a brushless motor would go in this....
As you can see my boy like stickers too!!I liked it without stickers....
But the kids wanted me to sticker it up so I haggled and this is how it ended up...
It’s a fun bit of kit for the kids to learn on (although a bit slow for me) and it lasted 45mins on first run! Downside was the standard Tamiya servo steering plate threaded on the upgraded metal servo (I then updated servo one on and it works a treat, then the pinion grub screw came undone so lost drive (I’ve now really tightened it up).
I wonder how a brushless motor would go in this....
Edited by W12GT on Sunday 30th August 17:47
This is my son's (6.75) midnight pumpkin - it has just come back from 22 nights camping and believe it or not is only a few weeks old!
He wanted to build one up so it was a tamiya....... And he has enjoyed adding the various hop ups i have insisted on fitting to make it good for me to use....
It has been driven off walls,banks,play equipment and spent quite a lot of time down the beach (gearbox is now graunchy) including in salt water as well as being run over by a lad on a bike and one particularly hard afternoon at a skate park....
Fitted with a 21t motor and a 5600 2s lipo is plenty for now, I am fairly sure a brushless motor would be dead by now..... Sometimes I run it on 3s...... Hilarious
Pictures taken in workshop as a rebuild is needed due to salt water in bearings and sand in gearbox, added the lights - very good (500lm)
Losi XXX/4 G+. Still as good as the day I put it away maybe 10-12 years ago. I used to go out to the US for work and stuff was dirt cheap at $2 to the pound. Prices for the losi stuff is mental now, I have boxes of brand new spares stuff I never used/sold somewhere.
Some people came home with booze & fags, I used to come back with a case stuffed full of RC stuff
Some people came home with booze & fags, I used to come back with a case stuffed full of RC stuff
dino_jr said:
My RC History... NIKKO Toyota Hilux, NIKKO Super Fox, Mardave Mini, Tamiya Toyota Hilux, Schumacher Cougar 2 (then a 25years gap) Tamiya Neo Fighter
I keep re-reading the CAT XLS build thread by lufbramatt. If lockdown 2 kicks in, I may relent and get a CAT too
The NIKKO Super Fox. A man of excellent taste! I found on BNIB but missing the screw in aerial which can't find for love nor money. I keep re-reading the CAT XLS build thread by lufbramatt. If lockdown 2 kicks in, I may relent and get a CAT too
Then there is the NIKKO Backfire if sir prefers TWO works of art =)
PRC QX-4
To see this RC rock crawler in action, please visit BlackSeaRC:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYhgdDSy4Uwowod5y...
To see this RC rock crawler in action, please visit BlackSeaRC:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYhgdDSy4Uwowod5y...
My slash 4x4 was just no fun for my daughter that has shown an interest in crawling/trails so ordered in the TRX4 sport which of course needed new wheels and tyres. Which meant it only fair for me to have to have new wheels too....
Enter proline hyrax and foams, coupled with boom racing beadlocks.
Enter proline hyrax and foams, coupled with boom racing beadlocks.
- tyre now mounted correctly
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Body super fragile, all four dampers losing oil - between 30-70% lost on each of them. Wheels balloon like crazy. Shell doesn’t shut properly and had to move the ESC as cables were fouling the shell. Says it will take a Lipo 3s but only fits if you move things around like the receiver etc. Dealer doesn’t give a hoot and won’t refund. Car has been used twice for a total of 25mins.W12GT said:
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