http://www.tamiya.com/english/products/57798abarth500/index.htm
Just saw this and thought it might be of interest
Personally I'd just buy the body and not waste my money on the RTR kit but I guess if you're an R/C noob it's the way to go.
That looks really good, so if your selling it what price are you looking for and does it come with mains charger and batteries?I'm most likely going to sell my Tamiya 500 kit soon.......
Painting a lexan/polycarbonate body is the easiest thing. You paint the INSIDE (important that!) of the shell so you get a perfect finish every time.
Slightly shocked as it's not difficult although I suspect your paint colour was a special job?
Agreed! I started well over 10 years ago with a Tamiya M02 which tbh was a PoS and then bought a Losi XX-CR Kinwald Edition which basically came with all the fruit standard
Carbon chassis, carbon front and rear shock towers, oil filled low friction dampers with titanium nitride coated shock shafts, titanium turnbuckles, MIP CVD's as standard, ball bearing diff, bull ball bearing kit
Agreed! I started well over 10 years ago with an M02 which tbh was a PoS and then bought a Losi XX-CR Kinwald Edition which basically came with all the fruit standard
I sooooo wanted a 1/8 scale TGX CLK GTR or 911 GT1. Are there any directories of tracks in the UK? Fancy getting my XX-CR sent over from Australia and giving it a blast on a proper track.Ahhhhh *Goes misty eyed* they were the days.
Always a HPI man myself, N-RS4/2 kit built when I was 13 ish iirc. Hopped it up somewhat and bought it out of storage last year to discover the engine has lost most of it's compression (ok when cold, dies when hot idling)
Could put a new engine in but I suspect most of the newer designs would destroy the drivetrain in an instant. Oh well, if I sell the 500 when I go back to uni I could treat myself. Rather fancy the look of some of the buggys floating about now. :yum:
