Tamiya

Hah yes finally cracked.

@jono84 going with the kit paint and decals and a mild 15t double brushless.

Took this out for annual run... had to limit the run time as over heating taken last 2 motors... 😎 💪

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Have you got a link back to an older post with your current boat specs? I’ve seen it for the last few years when I’ve dipped in and out of the thread but I don’t think I actually know anything about it!

Are they just the shells or a chassis too?

One chassis, one painted shell, one unpainted

So it would just need a controller?

I think it has the motor but no battery or controller

Hang on, I will have a look!

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I don't think I have ever detailed...

Unlike otp tamiya kits etc this has been patched up and modified over the years.

Acquired when I was a teenager. (Now 40 😎)

Originally a Graupner Brushed 700BB Turbo motor with 2 x 8.4v Ni Cad.

Current setup...

Hypercat ABS twin hull.

Octura cable surface drive + prop.

Turnigy LiPo 3180kv Brushless Motor.

Turnigy 5000mah 25c 3s power.

Turnigy 120 Amp Marine Esc.

Which all points to SAW class boat.

spare shell

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Nice one cheers.

I was WELL into RC cars when I was a kid. Crystal Palace was one of my local parks so it was kind of in my blood with the track up there. Trying to remember the exact timeline of the cars I had.

Started off with a Tamiya Hornet when I was about 8. I remember coming down in the night for a cup of water and rumbling my dad building it, and that was the end of the Father Christmas secret. I remember the front end was quite fragile and it ended up with metal suspension uprights and chassis braces made from stuff out my dad’s DIY box.

Next I think was a Kyosho Optima which I used to race at school on the AstroTurf. It was a good car but also had really fragile front suspension. One of my dad’s mates was a metalworker and remade the front upright in aluminium but it used to get squashed when the car went over.

Then there was a Mardave Ministock. Loved this thing but it was a bit slow on the big 1/8 track, so I transplanted in the hump back battery from the old Hornet, which meant 7.2V within the tiny body and it flew! It went so fast down the straight that it span the tyres off, and I had to start gluing them on! The bloke in Eltham Models (Geoff?) used to race them like this and always (reluctantly) gave me advice.

At some point I managed to talk my dad into a fuel car and I got a Kyosho Corvette ZR1. It looked great, but it was gutless, handled dreadfully and the aero was terrible. The OS-10 engine kept breaking the conrod and after a few fiddly engine rebuilds I upgraded it to a CZ-11 which was a lot more powerful and interchangeable with a few modifications. It made the car even more undriveable. I remember entering an open race up at Crystal Palace and it was absolutely tipping it down. I had an aero body on the car at time and all it would do was fishtail down the straight and crash into the end before I could slow it down enough to get it round the bend!

The CZ-11 got transplanted into the back of the Ministock. Transverse, solid axle, driving the wheels directly but through the Corvette clutch bell, brake also adapted from the Corvette. That was mental. I don’t think I ever got it up to top speed because it was just uncontrollable!

Then there was a bit of a break until 6th form. Me and my mate had free access in the workshop and we’d knocked up some pretty cool aluminium chassis for Ministocks and we took them up to Crystal Palace and raced them after school. 7.2V, ESCs were available by that point, and I had a 17-turn double motor with wet magnets. Whatever that meant, they were all the rage! The cars evolved each week and I had one LWB chassis with an A Team van body on it. They were good times!

Holy shit! Orig or re-re?

Weirdly I got an email from Tamiyaclub.com reminding me that I haven't visited for a while this am.

https://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom.asp?id=19798

Very cool bio ta.

Was never as competitive but joined the local school rc club as a yoot. Was lucky enough to get a Monster Beetle kit and was then hooked for lyfe. Various brushed modified then on to brushless lipo. I saw the inventor of lipo received a Nobel prize recently. Amazing to have grown up during these technological advancements. What's cool is I can now pass the baton on... 😎 💪

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I've wanted the Lunchbox since I was a kid. I regularly used to go in the local model shop and stare at it. Always tempted to treat myself at Xmas but never do. At least I can justify it now by pretending it's for my son.

2013 re

I’ve just remembered there was also a Grasshopper in the 6th form mix of cars. A mate at school wanted rid of his old one and I took it on. I ran it basically stock except for the 17-turn double motor and a baja Beetle body. That thing was ridiculously fast but somehow I managed to never wreck it.

OG Tamiya. (Kyosho Monster Stock) Even older than the boat. Still works. 😎

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This always reminds me I want to build a fast boat! Did it make it out of the water in one piece this year?

Ha. As I said I limited run to avoid over heating so no burnout. The place I run it is emptied in winter so very low water level which is fine for draft but I did snag a rope and had to take me shoes n socks off. 😎

Mini 3D printed Hornet kit.

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F223815216724

Only for the brave

Mad jells. Was fully into racing 1/18th scale when that came out so was out of the tamiya loop

Waiting on the Madcap re-re that will pull me back in.

1/18 Jesus.

Any pics?

Ill dig them out, I ran the national championships for a few years which was fun, brushless they still hit 30mph even though they are tiny

Yes please. 😎