010 - New old project - Graaande King

This project is dedicated to the 4x4 truck that I consider an icon, it's started when I've bought My Tamiya CC-01. I immediately started to look for a Nissan body to substitute the original one (Mitsubishi) and I found it on E-Bay, it's a TBG Nissan King Cab lexan body.
Unfortunately  I was working on another project and Tamiya decide to release a lot of interesting models and this project has waited for a long time on the shelf.
Now I start to work on it and first I modify the body bracket with some pvc hand made spacers.
The next step will be about the suspensions and, of course, about the body.
Stay tuned, I'm working daily on this truck.

Off topic: I noticed the date and the hour are wrong on my pics, it's due to the fact that I bought my camera in Kyoto a year ago and I haven't never change the time zone.

009 - Stadium Blitzer underbody, first attempt

After months without posting anything on my blog I'm back with a little project started in august, after my holidays.
For the holidays I had planned to bring with me my FF03 because near the holiday home there's a rc track. Unfortunately some days before the depart during the shakedown of some new upgrades I broke a suspension and I had no spares. so I decided to bring on holiday my Stadium Blitzer to get some fun on the lawn.
After some runs on the grass I noticed two issues:
the Sport Tuned motor has not the power needed to have too much fun on the grass;
the second problem is show in the picture below:

For the first problem the solution in easy: replace the Sport Tuned with a more powerful motor and soon i will do it.

For the second problem I tought of a solution inspired to short course truck underbody and I built a mould with wood and filler and this evening I tryed to mould a 2 liters pepsi bottle with a heatgun... results are not exciting but I think that this is the right way, I only have to buy two or three pepsi bottle!

Here some other pics and the first results:

The Blitzer, the mould and the bottle

The bottle wrapped on the mould

After the heat gun

First attempt

Second attempt

 

008 - Mission accomplished

Installing a full set of stainless steel screws is a simple work of re-building. I did it for my FF03 following the Tamiya manual and having a lot of fun, it was almost the same of building a new kit.
The only "problem" is that the two long screws that are screwed in the motor plate passing trough the motor stay and the gearbox are too much longer. It depends from the carbon motor stay that I'm using that it is tiny respect the stock one.
I solved this little inconvenient using two trimmed CVA shocks spacers.
I used a old mouse pad to get a new foam bumper... nice!