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Love those Arrma Typhon 3s'. Got a Kyosho PureTen SuperTen Nitro in the garage somewhere, must find it and do a rebuild. Anyone got any experience of or own an FTX Outlaw, they seem pretty decent value?
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vanpeebles
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Couple of my new arrivals.
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Rich
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It’s an MN 99S if it’s fully proportional control, which will help you find the whole world of upgrades WPL wheels will fit. 👍🏻
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Oooooo thanks Rich yeah its fully proportional, I'm goin to end up down a rabbit hole now
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Rich
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Oooooo thanks Rich yeah its fully proportional, I'm goin to end up down a rabbit hole now markbognor is definitely your man 👍🏻
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markbognor
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Got this random Land Rover from marketplace for me and the boy to mess with, I think its one of the Chinese ones? It's very cheaply made but seems really capable, only issue I have is the rear shocks and springs seem way too soft. Was only 20 quid and had extra batteries and accessories as well. WPL wheels really help the looks on these. Lots of folk stiffen up the rear by putting a pen spring inside the shock body as a supplement to the main spring. MN D90-99 Defender based photo dump incoming..... The WPL V4 is my go to tyre on these, the original WPL wheels will fit straight on the MN axles. www.wpl-rc.com/products/wheels-tires-v4-c54-new-design?ref=ssa
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jmsheahan
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Tamiya RC Nissan King Cab Shelf Queen That is insanely cool. I had one of the shells years ago but never knew what kit it was from. Now I do, thanks! I've got an old TL-01 Tamiya that started life as an Impreza about 20 odd years ago. A few hop-up parts but currently resides on the bookshelf as a JTCC Cavalier I've got a TT-02 Audi V8 Touring car to build (been sat under my desk for a couple of years). One day! There's also a Mk2 Golf rally car coming out in August I'm mega tempted to waste more money on... must resist
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Managed to score some very cool and very clean Tamiya Legends Yesterday all to be sold on bit wanted to share as they are so clean. Tamiya RC Nissan King Cab Shelf Queen I've got one of these, with its box etc and in working order (or at least it was the last time I put a battery in it, which may have been a lot longer than I think it was) but the shell of mine is absolutely shot. I rolled it over on the local BMX track many times in the early 90s and it ended up being lots of bits of shell held together with tape...
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Paul
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Can't believe I've only just found this thread...like a lot of folk I got back into RC (having been an enthusiast as a child) last Spring and have already built up a bit of a collection. My interest seems a bit different from a lot of folk here and I fear I'd cause some shudders with the abuse mine get. None more so than my Traxxas X-Maxx Here she is after a bash around the local fields - so far the body is already showing a few cracks and I've had to replace the ESC fans as one dropped a fin after only a couple of days and made a helluva racket. She runs on 8s and a speed pinion gear so really, really shifts. I've also got an Arrma Notorious stunt truck that I run on 6S and do take to the local skate park - me and my son are 'bashers' as the saying goes. Here she is in her usual state - despite quite a few metal upgrades she's not been very reliable although I do put the beatdown on it. A couple of loose screws in the rear diff, an overenthusiastic launch and a collision with a bin and she split in two, snapping the rear brace in the process and wrecking the diff case. Is currently running...but don't know for how long. The Corally Sketer has taken a real pounding and so far I've only snapped the wheelie bar - but parts support in the UK is nonexistent so she's still not repaired. I've also got a 4S Radix by Corally which is pretty good, but the wheels needed upgrading straight away as one literally exploded during another bashing session. This is my current baby - a Absima Yukatan 1/8 scale crawler with front and rear locking diffs and a 2 speed gearbox. She's got the wheels off an Axial Wraith (I have a Wraith on the shelf awaiting some steering upgrades from China too) and - more interestingly - the old brushed 775 motor was pulled in favour of a 3665 3100KV Flux brushless motor from a Maverick Quantum that just kept breaking (would not recommend, ended up breaking mine for parts) A very capable crawler in low speed mode, it loses all realism when it pulls away doing wheelies on 3S A few others in the fleet...an HPI Jumpshot that I've also upgraded to a brushless motor - despite looking flimsy (and broken in this picture, think I rounded a wheel hex - next to my son's Traxxas Bandit which he has bashed to bits but keeps coming back for more) it's a very capable stunt truck and plenty powerful on 2S - one of my favourites. I've also got the Tamiya Lunchbox (because you just have to) which is totally standard and great fun in the garden or car park, an FTX Banzai drifter (the first one I got when I returned to the hobby) which is just ludicrous on brushless power and does massive skids on its deliberately hard and shiny tyres, and an FTX Outlaw (which I've ALSO but a brushless motor in lol) which I took to the beach last year, didn't properly clean and is now covered in rust There's also a Traxxas Rustler and a couple of Traxxas Stampedes in the collection (including this uber-rate Monster Mutt truck) I think that just about covers it. Now that Summer is here I want to get to the local woods with the crawlers and the skate park with the bashers (me and my son go super early at weekends as some of these - especially the Arrmas and Corallys - are pretty powerful machines and I won't go near if there are any other kids about...they'd do damage if they hit you or landed on you). As beautiful and scale as they are the shelf queens hold no interest for me I'm afraid...
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Mine and the kids tamiya tt02 club racers, we're not competitive by any standard but it is good fun.
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Rich
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Realised this thread is devoid of any of my current fleet. Ram 2500 HellHound Unimog wrecker HellHound (again) Wrecker some more Ol’ Yeller and HellHound Police unmarked XC90 and wrecker (agaiiiin) at RetroRides Weekender RC display HellHound. Doing what she does best.
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Picked up this today for the boy, he spent ages reading up on the specs for various 2wd trophy trucks and this is the one he went with. We'll build it over the weekend
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Here it is in 1 piece, the boy likes this more than the saxo I got him last year.
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vanpeebles
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Looks great! Good job
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Sept 19, 2023 21:34:28 GMT
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And another one added, picked up for a bargain, complete ready to run but never has been, body just needed stickering up. Never done that before, what a ballache 😂 new found respect for my shells now, always had second hand ones and bashed hell out of them, not any more 😂
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