397 - BBX Renewed, Driver Start Your Engine!

Finally my BBX has the decent driver figure I've planned from the early beginning. Most of fails are due to the desperate attempt to avoid the use of paint brushes and to achieve this result I got all of my knowledge as modeller plus several sorceries as masking tape, masking fluid,  paint markers, spray cans... in short everything to compensate the loss of sight due to be a Gen X guy.

396 - New Paint For The Wild One

Some minor works have been made on my Wild One: new body posts, new servo horn and new screws for ESC switch but the main is the new paint for its body.

The fresh painted body and placed on the chassis to see how it came out.

Well it could look a bit monotonous because the paint scheme is more or less the same of my Ultima and BBX but I'm pretty satisfied to have find a good colors combination after all this years in the hobby and  like to have a kind of team livery for the running cars in my fleet.

Some mistakes have been made, as usual... but it's the teenager in me :)

395 - A Disappointing Purchase

To revamp my Wild One with in mind the improve of its durability, some weeks ago, I’ve bought the GMade crossmember for the front shock towers.

In other occasisons I’ve built this kind of parts from scratch but, this time, I decide to go for an aftermarket item.

This GMade reinforcing brace looks like a nice piece of alluminum and I was convinced that it was minded to be a direct fit but unfortunately I realized that it need some extra millimeters to fit between the Wild One shock towers. It’s disappointing, not scaring for a modeller but, IMO, an advice that it needs some extras to be completed could be included/printed somewhere.

Surfing the Web, as result of a simple Google search I’ve found that someone used the same parts with in addition some spacers so, to complete my Wild One revamping, I will look for something usefull to do the job in my spares boxes.