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Fitting e clips inside a large clear plastic bag is a trick I learnt for particularly tricky assemblies.
It doesn't help at all until the clip springs off, then it's fantastic!

I figure we should have a nerdy meet up somewhere for a bit of driving action.

The kit comes with a nice scale roof rack, a lighting kit, loads of stickers, that gave me a real nostalgia hit when I opened the packet, and extra detailing like wing mirrors and wing lights which I've not yet installed.

With the chassis finished and the electrics installed it was onto the bodyshell. Lots of thin coats of black, red and white.

Building and installing the shocks was fiddly, but straightforward.

Steering and suspension installation.
It's all typical Tamiya, it goes together beautifully. I've installed the steering servo upside down, this option give less bump steer according to other reviews.

Diff and axle assemblies coming together.

Chassis together, and gearbox installed.

Gearbox going together.

I still need to finish some details on the body, but it all runs, so that's nice. A few picks of the build process.
This is a CC02 chassis, so it's basically a crawler. I built it with the lower gear ratio, but even then it seems pretty fast. One to I've heard is to run the motor connections to the speed controller backwards and then reverse the controls in the transmitter. That way the speed controller is running in reverse, but the car is running forwards, but more slowly. I might try it once I've had some running time in the conventional set up.

Also completely impossible to use if you have visual impairments.

One of the worst examples of design I've seen

Or my mum sadly.
She routinely launches into tirades about wind turbines, despite living in the middle of Town in Essex.
The latest one was a right long moan about the efficiency of heat pumps of all things. I'm not quite sure where that came from. Maybe one of the neighbours?

It's exhausting.

My secret plan for it is to add a Sand Scorcher bodyshell and a Wicked Willy driver figure. But that can wait for a bit.

Enjoy the build, it goes together nicely. Did you order the bearing set to go with it?

My first time building a new RC car in over 35 years and my first spray painted polycarbonate body. I still haven't added the window trim stickers, but I'm pretty happy with how it's come out.

I never really liked Gundam, but my son loves them and it got him into modelling which was good for him in all sorts of ways, but I found the little SD Gundam kids quite fun and last summer bought myself one of the Master Grade SD Gundam kits, which was an enjoyable few weeks of idle modelling.
There's a second kit due out soon, which I'll probably get as well.
https://en.gundam.info/content/mgsd/001/

Lidl have got their Speculoos and almond mince tarts in stock again.
I've already eaten two boxes of them.

I've got an original mk 1 Tamiya Hotshot that I'd like to sell on. It's got a cracked front shock mount and as a youth I drilled out the front suspension arm mounts, so the front end is incredibly loose, but I've checked online and all the spare parts are available to fix both these problems.

Would anyone be interested?
It would come with the original box, manual speed controller and manual, plus a few spare parts.

Has anyone tried the Schumacher paint? It's cheaper and they have all the colours in stock.

My main problem is I want three different colours and I haven't yet found one stockist that has all three!
PS1, PS5 and PS16

I've got a TT02s chassis waiting to be built up as a rally car. Has anyone found somewhere to buy paint over the counter in London?
It's crazy difficult and expensive to buy mail order.

I discovered yesterday that Wordle can have words where letters are repeated. I had always assumed that the solution had to be made up of words with no repeating letters.
Now my mind is blown as this was the first solution where I'd tried this, on my very last try as well!

Note that it has a handy drain plug that you could fit an expanding foam cartridge to...

Thanks, that's so cool of you to write all that out.

This thread has had me looking around on YouTube looking at videos of people putting together kits. I had loads of different kits back in the day, I used to build them and then sell them on. I've still got a Hot Shot up in the loft.
I always wanted a Rough Rider or a Sand Scorcher, but fuck that for the prices now!

Can you explain your method, or point me to a video?
It looks great and I've been teaching my son a bit, but that's beyond my skill level!