mercoledì 26 giugno 2013

052 - Action Pics, First attempt


I'm fascinated by the action pics I see in surfing the web and I would like to be able to make something similar but the truth is that  I'm a terrible photographer.
Looking for an easy way to do it, today I shooted a short video and after I took some shots from it.
The results are shown by the pics, there is a silly pink atmosphere and colors are awful all is due to a wrong set up of my camera but I want to try to understand if it could be a quick way to do the job.

martedì 18 giugno 2013

051 - Improving The Steering Of My WO



During a ride in a car park I bent a tie rod for a thump on a sidewalk. At home, using a pair of 3Racing turnbuckles and some 4mm adjusters with a proper hole, I tried to swap to the original butter made tie rods to a pair of stronger 3mm ones. The idea wasn't bad but the central nut hit the chassis edge and the steering doesn't work fine. So I've decided to order some new 3mm tie rods in various sizes and some adjusters that  helped me to improve the Wild One steering as shown by the pics below. I, also, decided to swap the stock uprights with the F103 black ones to satisfy my obsession for black parts.




Spite the wide selection of tie rods I've used a 71mm one and a 57mm one.

sabato 8 giugno 2013

050 - The Green One Is Finished!


During this week I finished the Wild One I built during the past weeks. I enjoyed very much the built of this Tamiya classic and I've adopted some little tricks to reach something close to the idea I had in my mind.
First I wanted to resolve the problem of the right side hole so I built from scratch a clone of the A11 and A12 parts and I've painted it in black.
To get to the car a clean look I've decided to swap all the red parts I could to the black FAV parts and to paint the rest in black. Also the front shocks towers are painted in black and the front bumper isn't fitted.
I spent an evening to find a clean layout for the cables, I've chosen both black silicone cables for the motor the antenna is hidden under the body hold in place by a tie rod end.
A good old Sport Tuned sits on the back with a 15T pinion gear.
It's full ballraced and is awaiting for rear unis.
I was in doubt for the bodywork because I like very much the paintwork inspired by 70s and 80s I've seen on TC but I, also, love the styles that, some years later Hirosaka, Kinwald & Co have used for their race cars. Unfortunately after a lot of surfing to take inspiration and after a lot of mumbling the result is only this stupid semi-arrow style.
I did a shakedown afer the photo shooting and I've discovered that this car is a pleasure to drive, I'm totally fascinated by this car and I love how it handles. The only problem is the less room for the ESC that after 20 minutes of run stopped the car for overheat protection.