Tamiya

nice work bud, you're getting good at this.

my builds have slowed massively, huge issues getting the last parts i need.

What are you after? Modelsport have PS1 in stock! ;)

A particular parts tree, everywhere was out of stock, thought I had it but it was a mislabelled Lunchbox windscreen..... had to get it from Germany.

The bling steering arms for the Top Force turned up though.

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Drive shaft part arrived from Tony last week, car is up and running again, one very happy 10 year old boy been skidding it around in the gravel this weekend.
Thanks for the link.

Next on the list: Re-attaching the driver's head.

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Yassss

Trimmed the DN01 shell

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It took me a while to decide whether this should go in bastard neighbours thread or here but here it is.

There's an almighty mostly passive aggressive storm brewing with my neighbours here in Blackheath. About once a week a chap brings his rather zippy engined radio controlled car to the heath and thrashes it around until he runs out of batteries. Usually no more than an hour. Always around about lunchtime, always as far away from people as he can get.

Keep in mind this is from people inside 7 to 10 figure value buildings several hundred meters away:

"I cant enjoy my living room anymore, I can't hear myself read"

"It worries my pets "

"Why would a grown man play with a toy car?"

It has even spilled over into Twitter. Apparently somebody even called the police on him recently.

I'd like to suggest that it's not the man enjoying his hobby that is the problem!

That's kinda bonkers. The leccy cars are pretty quiet. They are quite big and quite fast now though.

I got the sense from various forums that, when the lockdown was more restrictive, most owners were not running their cars at all and felt it was against the spirit to do so. I'd take one out with the toddler in case he got absorbed with rocks or something so I at least had something to do for 20 mins that wasn't staring at my phone and had an excuse for doing it. But we were in a deserted commercial / business landscaped street thing with nobody around.

Tamiya thread meet-up in Blackheath then?

It's not electric. Its loud, and clearly running on an engine rather than a motor. Still, it really shouldn't be a subject of annoyance.

That's awesome about people being considerate. I heard the same about some drone club members.

It's a nice place for a beer...

Oh, I did wonder if it was Nitro, they can be quite loud and the tone is really annoying. Personally I wouldn't run one in a public urban place. Guess when you said batteries you meant the RX/TX cells.

I'm not sure what I meant to be honest. I know nothing about RC! It does sound like Nitro though.

Yeah I can’t imagine people complaining too much about ‘leccy.

You can convert the large 1/8th scale nitro stuff to electric to make it much more sociable and easier to live with. Just as fast, if not faster with lipo batteries too.

public urban place.

I suppose my lack of sympathy is quite how much distance there is between their houses and where I've seen him doing it. I've never seen him closer than two or three hundred meters to any homes. That said, perhaps I'm being too judgemental, I dont know for sure he hasn't done it right outside.

Sounds like you’re in Blackheath Park, that private partially unmade set of roads. One of my schoolmates lived in there. They were awesome roads to run 1/10 buggies on though!

Running a petrol/nitro car in there though, yeah I could see that being quite annoying for people.

Very nice

All change here. Sold the last project car and selling The Top Force.

Incoming is a micro scale race car for next season and a buggy/truck to bash, not sure what though

Considering selling all my rc gear (probably regret it, but considering another bike project, and apart from my soul, I have little else to sell), much interest in a Tamiya TRF 201, hobbywing powered, lipo energised, Savox steered, buggy bundle? Would be after £300 for everything including plenty of spares, transmitter, charger, spare (unpainted) shell and wing.

Hah that’s pretty much what I’m building.

Dibs TRF dampers if you split

If I split, don't think it will be down to individual parts level.

Did this kind of weird alternate Durga shell. Not sure what to think about it, except the black kinda took over a bit.

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I like, the splatters are very nice

Seems to like the DB01

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Weirdly hates Egress an Avante tho right? ;o)