Tamiya

This question seems to come up a lot on Tamiya club. I have no idea TBH, but everyone loves an XV01 despite it being a ten year old design.

really should build the one I have in a cupboard :|

Will be investigating XV01 builds on Thursday when I am "working" from home...

Got some better photos of the ‘Box…

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Ah Spring. Well it might be time to break this out of storage and give it a blast...

(Clearly also need to paint the decking)

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Random question, do you run this on the lake by the Thorpe bypass?

No. I never signed up there.

Used to to run at Southwater with my old man but they banned fast electrics.

So now I tend to guerrilla operate at hove lagoon...

*Cough

Aah yes - been a couple of years since we've seen this?! What's the current speed target?

Ha. Yeah. I still have the GPS recorder but not sur I'll be breaking any records.

TBH I have burnt out 2 brushless motors so far so will try and limit the time! 😁

Well that was fun... 😎

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So cool. And I thought I heard a sonic boom! This would explain it.

Been learning Unreal lately and figured I should redo the Avante assembly animation from a couple of years ago...

https://youtu.be/QM3K3QSmRE0

Not bad. I'm guessing you got a quicker result using GPU path tracing?

I think Modo? (Raytracing?) Looked better FYI.

There has always been a 'gaming' quality to Unreal imo.

I’d love to build an XV02 at the moment

Throttle Up... 😁

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Link not working

Yeah weird.

Is only 6MB...

Server storage not online @Velocio ?

Have an old insta clip instead...

https://www.instagram.com/p/CE-Nf5Fn3IW/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Starting with two basic hop ups on this build, the rest stock for now.

Then will slowly add further upgrades when I’ve driven it a bit…

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Yeah weird.

Is only 6MB...

Server storage not online @Velocio ?

Weirder... file extensions with numbers were not permitted!? It's always been this way apparently, which surprises me as I'm sure video attachments worked... but apparently not.

Fixed now. File extensions that contain a number are now permitted.

Thank you! 😁

Without intention I seem to have done a pretty good job of recreating the Avante's 'suspicious' handling.

https://youtu.be/LP6zk8u1aHY

Volvo 850 estate shell arrived.

Not sure if I am going to go full BTCC Rydell livery, or a custom, basic "sleeper" look.

Still unsure on chassis, but that is an issue for another (pay)day.

Paint it up as West Yorkshire Police T5.

https://www.screenprintdigitalstickers.com/product-page/rc-police-interceptor-1-10th-scale-decals-stickers-subaru-mitubishi-evo-set-3

It shouldn't be quite so bad with the Egress racing steering set....at least, not quite so dreadful...

To be honest I've nothing to compare it with, just going on what I've heard others say.

Actually quite pleased with how much my recreation feels like an RC car. Only annoyance was that despite much effort I couldn't find settings which would make it do donuts, one thing that I know for certain that the real Avante can.