The Tamiya RC car thread

[Stussy]

I've always had a soft spot for the Wild One / FAV, for the same reason, it looks more realistic.
I've just been reading up and hadn't noticed that the Blockhead version of the Hotshot 2 has a higher sitting roll cage, now I've noticed it it looks so much better! Its got me thinking about a Hotshot with the higher cage fitted...
It's amazing how many aluminium parts are available now too, I can imagine if you used as many as possible it would be a fairly heavy thing to run, but would look awesome as a shelf queen

[ThisInJapanese]

tim0409 said:

My Egress kit arrived today!

I bought it from Tamico.de with my Halifax Clarity card (really good rate for purchasing in a foreign currency), and with the delivery charge it came to £302. I assumed I would have to pay vat and a courier admin fee but it would still be cheaper than the £509 UK price. I’ve just come back to find the kit left with my neighbour with no duty to pay so it must have slipped through the net? I have a Buggy Champ coming as well so it will be interesting to see what happens there.

Lovely!

What are the additional costs of importing from Germany? Did you have to pay import duty on it?

[tim0409]

ThisInJapanese said:

tim0409 said:

My Egress kit arrived today!

I bought it from Tamico.de with my Halifax Clarity card (really good rate for purchasing in a foreign currency), and with the delivery charge it came to £302. I assumed I would have to pay vat and a courier admin fee but it would still be cheaper than the £509 UK price. I’ve just come back to find the kit left with my neighbour with no duty to pay so it must have slipped through the net? I have a Buggy Champ coming as well so it will be interesting to see what happens there.

Lovely!

What are the additional costs of importing from Germany? Did you have to pay import duty on it?

No duty as it must have slipped through the net, so £302 is the total cost, which is a result.

[eccles]

tim0409 said:

ThisInJapanese said:

tim0409 said:

My Egress kit arrived today!

I bought it from Tamico.de with my Halifax Clarity card (really good rate for purchasing in a foreign currency), and with the delivery charge it came to £302. I assumed I would have to pay vat and a courier admin fee but it would still be cheaper than the £509 UK price. I’ve just come back to find the kit left with my neighbour with no duty to pay so it must have slipped through the net? I have a Buggy Champ coming as well so it will be interesting to see what happens there.

Lovely!

What are the additional costs of importing from Germany? Did you have to pay import duty on it?

No duty as it must have slipped through the net, so £302 is the total cost, which is a result.

Hopefully you have got away with it, but just be aware it can be several weeks after you get your goodies that the import duty and handling fee invoice turns up to spoil the party.

[ThisInJapanese]

eccles said:

tim0409 said:

ThisInJapanese said:

tim0409 said:

My Egress kit arrived today!

I bought it from Tamico.de with my Halifax Clarity card (really good rate for purchasing in a foreign currency), and with the delivery charge it came to £302. I assumed I would have to pay vat and a courier admin fee but it would still be cheaper than the £509 UK price. I’ve just come back to find the kit left with my neighbour with no duty to pay so it must have slipped through the net? I have a Buggy Champ coming as well so it will be interesting to see what happens there.

Lovely!

What are the additional costs of importing from Germany? Did you have to pay import duty on it?

No duty as it must have slipped through the net, so £302 is the total cost, which is a result.

Hopefully you have got away with it, but just be aware it can be several weeks after you get your goodies that the import duty and handling fee invoice turns up to spoil the party.

Is it below a certain value you don't get charged duty?

[tim0409]

It exceeds the threshold by quite a margin so I should have had to pay something. I’m also waiting on a Buggy Champ from the same company so will see what happens….

[tim0409]

eccles said:

Hopefully you have got away with it, but just be aware it can be several weeks after you get your goodies that the import duty and handling fee invoice turns up to spoil the party.

I’ve just had notification from Parcel Force that the second package (Buggy Champ) has duty to pay before it gets delivered. Apparently they are writing to me to let me know how much and how to pay, which seems a bit odd given it’s 2024 and presumably they could just email me with a link to pay it! Hopefully I won’t get any emails further down the line for the Egress!!

[troc]

Post office probably don’t trust the internet and email……….

[tim0409]

My Buggy Champ kit arrived today….can’t quite decide whether to do it in red/orange or blue. Any thoughts?

[generationx]

tim0409 said:

My Buggy Champ kit arrived today….can’t quite decide whether to do it in red/orange or blue. Any thoughts?

See the previous page - I did mine in blue and think it looks great!

[Stussy]

I've just ordered a Hotshot 2 Blockhead edition from Tamico, fingers crossed it gets through but is above duty threshold.
The Hotshot has always been my favourite buggy, but always thought it looked a little odd with the squashed cockpit.
One of the BH edition changes is a higher roof, and I think it looks much better!
I quite fancy ending up with a hybrid of Hotshot 2 with original Hotshot red and matching decals.
The next challenge will be finding some red CVA shocks to replace the BH yellow ones and other yellow parts, might have to get some red alloy ones instead. Also, the BH edition body comes prepainted, so that could be an issue too.

Edit: just realised I typed a lot of this last week!

Edited by Stussy on Tuesday 12th March 21:14

[generationx]

Stussy said:

I've just ordered a Hotshot 2 Blockhead edition from Tamico, fingers crossed it gets through but is above duty threshold.
The Hotshot has always been my favourite buggy, but always thought it looked a little odd with the squashed cockpit.
One of the BH edition changes is a higher roof, and I think it looks much better!
I quite fancy ending up with a hybrid of Hotshot 2 with original Hotshot red and matching decals.
The next challenge will be finding some red CVA shocks to replace the BH yellow ones and other yellow parts, might have to get some red alloy ones instead. Also, the BH edition body comes prepainted, so that could be an issue too.

Edit: just realised I typed a lot of this last week!

Edited by Stussy on Tuesday 12th March 21:14

The re-re Hotshot 2 has red shocks so they should be available as spares soon. BTW they’re a much brighter red than the original HS2 parts.

[Stussy]

Yeah, Id spotted that too. Some of the red on the BH is now yellow, but some is silver too. So might not have to swap everything, depends how it looks.
The other option is black CVA's, but I dont think that would look too good

[generationx]

You should be able to get all you need from this

https://tamico.de/Tamiya-58737-HotShot-II-2024-Kit

[Stussy]

I won’t need many bits, certainly not enough to warrant a 2nd kit

[tim0409]

generationx said:

See the previous page - I did mine in blue and think it looks great!

I’m definitely leaning towards the blue; the red is nice but it looks a bit too “orangey” in the pics I’ve seen of completed cars.

[eccles]

tim0409 said:

generationx said:

See the previous page - I did mine in blue and think it looks great!

I’m definitely leaning towards the blue; the red is nice but it looks a bit too “orangey” in the pics I’ve seen of completed cars.

I suppose it's the colour you paint as to how it comes out. I painted my original one red, but it certainly wasn't orangey red.

[Stussy]

Remember colour can change depending on what it’s backed with too

[Moos3h]

What’s the best option for a complete newbie to all this to start with? I guess ideally something that can handle getting wet as it never stops frigging raining around here!

[tim0409]

eccles said:

I suppose it's the colour you paint as to how it comes out. I painted my original one red, but it certainly wasn't orangey red.

This might sound mad but I’m keen on keeping it “box art” and the manual says (I think) TS12 which is orange (although it looks redish), so I think I will stick with blue, which is the colour the car is on the side of the box.