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Nice work

That's what I meant to say.

Loving the BDAD thread on TC

Ta. This hunt for a Desert Gator body shell is getting boring now, may just resign myself to the fact that there's no more to be had. Found 2 in 24hrs, neither of which are available due to miscalculation of stock. I'm sure it'll be like looking for the car keys, stop looking, go have a brew, and there they are, right in front of you (or not).

yeah, no idea why its so hard to find, it's obvs out of production but there must be a few around somewhere.

No Durga or Baldre bodies at the mo either :/

Fitting some blue bits to mine.

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Anyone in the market for a DB01 chassis?

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Does it have ball diffs?

Erm no

I mean yes

But gear diffs are available

Just put it all back together

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I take it you have multiple Durgas? One you've added blue bits to, and this one (for spares?).

Yeah I had the original basic DB01 then one came up with the all the alu suspension bits and shocks so I took what I needed from that, then rebuilt it with the stock parts.

So tempting

Here mine. Guess it’s roughly rr spec now.

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Lush

Does that still use the pins for wheel attachment, or is it 12mm hex?
Have ordered some rear wheels, same style as DN01/TRF, but 12mm hex, think they may be off the RRR version.
Jesus, Tamiya really know how to name their models!

Does that still use the pins for wheel attachment, or is it 12mm hex?

Pins, but the hex conversion is basically a hex that attaches to...the pins. It's not even captive like the Egress version.

Any guesses what this might have been? Terrible picture, but it was taken covert in the back of someone’s car next to us in a carpark.

It was big, maybe 500-600mm long. Aluminium ladder chassis, aluminium/wood/chequerplate pickup bed, skinny knobblies, lots of metal gears. Because of the size of it, I couldn’t tell if the motor was a 540 or the bigger 6xx (?) size. Couldn’t see any body shell in there to ID it.

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Homemade?

Yeah, looks like some sort of home brew truck/crawler

Yeah I wondered if it might have been a crawler. It sort of looked half homebrew, but then a lot of the early kits looked a bit like that!

Porsche gets some stickers. Christ it consumes time.

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Finally joined the hardened turnbuckle club.

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Porsche is coming along nicely. Pleasing amount of blue in that chassis.

Kinda wishing I’d bought the blue turnbuckle tool too after going through that. Despite hardened they are easily scratched by my hamfistedness