404 - Beetle Body Ruined! When It’s The Case To Show Mistakes.

Well I don’t know if it is the same for every modeller but, in my 40 years long experience, I’ve witness that fails are part of this hobby and, in this modern age where every model on the Net seems to be finished by a pro, I want to show my most recent fault.

To give to this Kamtec Blitzer Beetle repro body a dynamic and fresh look I’ve planned to use the dish soap painting technique that I’ve never experienced before but something goes wrong: much soap I suppose. I’ve tryed to save the savable but at some point I have to give up.

The ruined body was destinated (and trimmed on porpouse) to be placed on my revamped Stadium Blitzer so to give to the car the same appeal (a kind of Blitzer Beetle with a lowerd body) I’ve rescued this other Kamtec body in origin used on my CR01.

403 - A Song For Billy Ray: Little Steps To The Goal

Years ago, in revamping my Blitzer, I had reinstalled the electronics I've been used to run before I swapped from the EX-5 to the 3PV so, to prepare it for Billy Ray,  I had to "clean" the chassis before and the old KO receiver and Savox servo have been removed.

Now the Tamiya TSU-1 servo is in place and the Hobbywing Quicrun 1060 awaits its wires to be curl and that a motor is installed  where solder the extended cables (in black).

402 - A Song For Billy Ray: Servo and ESC Ready To Be Installed.

The first step to give my Stadium Blitzer (Beetle) a new life is the choice of the electronics.

In the bunch of servos and ESCs rescued by my spare boxes I've choose the Tamiya TSU-01 servo that came ages ago with my Grasshopper and the Quicrun 1060 bought years ago for an unknow reason.

The ESC has been switched back to Tamiya plug for battery making a joint between OEM and spares cables already equipped with the J plug meanwhile motor cables have been only extended awaiting to be soldered to motor tabs.

In a short time a will order a simple radio easy to handle by a 11/12yo young gun.