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eddrick wrote:

Love the FJs Waterbok! They're fantastic! Where did the shells come from?

THX.

those are the original tamiya FJ40 shells that come with the CR01 or CC01.
red came with my used cr01 and was a little bashed up the yellow I finished last week as a replacement.
Thats when I went for velcro up front, looks better without thingies sticking oot of the bonnet.

Here a picture of 'vintage pins' on the left and the present ones on the right.
The 'vintage' were still on the Willy M38 swb, the M38 lwb came with the 'new' pins.
So if you realy want to get it right it is not just the colouring.



(going for gold )

The level of detail far exceeds what I expect from lexan shells. As far as I was concerned, lexan's for race cars & only ABS is any good for scalers, but these shells more or less show otherwise.
As far as sticky-out bits go, what about making some minature body pins, so they look like proper bonnet pins? Not a fan of magnets or velco, I've found they don't like aggressive/wet driving or shunts/rollovers!

must admit, looking at the pics of spitfires NSX and a couple of the others on here, they look fantastic but the sticky out bits on the body shells really spoil them. a much discreeter mounting option would look much better

Spose it depends what you're gonna do with your toy cars - if they're scale or display models then yeah lose the pins & body posts, but for thrashing about for as long as possible without distractive breakisms, you need something more substantial than velco or magic

The Hummer has a cool alternative for the front, where you can clip it on.
So nothing's sticking out - I'll make a picture later...

I will try to find this location again and will test the velcro



I think the clouds, and the bee at 1:16, are the best parts of this vid

here is a tamiya clip i heat shrunk. crap photo i know but i did it red as i have no white small enough. looks ok i reckon. also checked out ebay and you can get allsorts of clips for rc cars in different sizes and colours, if so desired. cheap as well !

That's no bee.... it's a spacestation!
You're right about the pic Agemax, so bad it looks like I took it....

I also voted for period correct
Generally though, I usually have a kit of any car I work on, so that makes it handy to check and make sure the clips you're using on a restoration of that car are what came in the original kit. To me it's all about the original kit and what that included, so the rules are simple.