417 - Flashback Friday: My Wild One Second Life (And Its Breakages)

 

Some years after its build my Wild One have been revamped with some new parts and fixing some breakages.

416 - Almost Ready For Holidays: gathering some stuff

August is on its way and our summer holidays too, This year I haven't a kit to bring with us and to build during the fresh alpine evenign so I'm planning to bring my Kyosho Ultima Dirtmaster built during last year summer holidays.

My equipment have been lightened already thanks to some useful usb-C powered items: my new soldering iron and the G-Force charger neverthless the stuff to pack remain a lot.

As spare motor, if the Team Orion will prove to be undersized,  I decided to use my LRP Super Series Team Tested that claims 27.000 rpm. I've also purchased a good backup of steel pinons from Ruddog to find the proper gear ratio to keep performance without overheats.

415 - Flashback Friday: My Wild One First Life (early days)

 

I've bought my Wild One back in 2013, it have been my first build using the Tamiya Tools and I really enjoyed it.

After the build I've painted it in a simple and clean two colors livery

414 - The Delta Ray Buggy: Second Chance Or Honored Retirement?

The build of my Delta Ray Buggy has been the longest in my career in this hobby: born as my TA01 restomod project it has been finished as a buggy that Tamiya never made.

This car is on a shelf, fully equipped but it needs some electronics updates to be back to the runner status or only a livery revamp with fluo yellow lining to be definetely retired.

It has been driven for only a few times, just to prove that it moves. It gave good feelings but I'm in doubt if it is the case to give her a second chance.

413 - Flashback Friday: Madcap Refurbished!

 

During these years I’ve been constantly aware that the refurb of my Madcap has been only a mesh between two cars. Now it's the time do deep refresh it to give it the best shape I can do.

I will not bring it back to the runner status but it carries some of my best memories of the good ole days (including the day of its purchase at the local hobby shop with my father) so I will place it on a shelf as relic of that golden era.

412 - A Song For Billy Ray: Body Position Found!

Some experiments and some mistakes have been made so some holes to fill remains but finally I've found the desidered body position.

411 - Flashback Friday: Guess Who’s Back?

 

Almost ten years ago I’ve bought a second Madcap as donor car to refubish mine. The Madcap has been my first proper RC car and it carries the memories of its purchase day when I went to the local hobby shop with my father. In these days I’m thinking about to rescue it, to revamp it and to place it on a shelf as relic of the good old days.

410 - A Song For Billy Ray: electronics completed (Sorry For Being Late)

Finally the Carson Reflex Start radio set have been arrived with its own receiver in the box so I've been able to install it in to the Blitzer chassis. 

I have to admit that the receiver is very small, smaller than my expensive Futaba 3PV ones.

409 - A Song For Billy Ray: Something Went Wrong With Body Positioning

After the rescue of the unused Beetle body I've placed it on the Blitzer chassis but in a different position to try to give the car a more aggressive appeal.

Unfortunately this time something went wrong and it came out in a much higher, backwarded and disappointing position than expected. To save the day I will swich the front body post with a shorter one to lower the body and I will make some cuts to move it ahead.