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Saw this on eBay looking a bit sorry for itself ... and very cheap

Rear tyres are very bald, rear shocks & fittings are missing, as are the gearbox pivot, "joint" and "joint holder" that allow a bit of rotation... but the plan is to spend as little as possible on it









Decals & paint are very poor I've whipped off the former ready to strip off the latter ...









I'm sure this will amuse eddrick : possibly the worlds worst example of soldering. Not only does it look like pigeons did it ...




... it was a dry joint - note the hole where I pulled the wire out

Hahaha yes it did! Even better that even after that amount of daubing it still wasn't stuck!
Shouldn't laugh really, it may have been a first ever attempt at soldering by someone who will eventually become a politician, salesman, teacher, doctor etc, or maybe by a horse (They struggle due to lack of fingers)

fIGHTER RX special edition
Worse than my poorest car. If it was cheap it's a good piece for spares and the body can be used for the rookie rabbit
Nice yoghourt paint

Hmm yoghurt paint.... have you tasted it yet Jonny?
Wattle-n-daube (Chicken doo-doo & straw) kinda sprung into the mind there for a bit

I will test the fork and spoon painting. Maybe a new mode??? Or better with tipp ex on my rookie rabbit
Jonny maybe is it a new ABS reinforcement method?

Not much progress on this one, I've dismantled & cleaned it, and stripped the manky paint off ... I've also glued, filled, sanded & repainted the driver in the correct boxart scheme - it looks ok from a metre away

Progress is not very fast on this, but I have made a little progress ...


Paint stripping (with UK recipe De-Solv-it Grafitti Remover) failed to get a lot of maky bits off...










... but 320 grit paper got it off...





... followed by a wet sand with 800 grit to get it more even:





This left a few dents/scratches that needing sorting with filler (Squadron White Putty)...





After sanding back it's ready for primer:





Showing progress on white bodies is especially difficult ... you can expect several more near-identical shots with primer, more sanding, white paint, clear, etc ... :whistle;

Still it looks a heap load better just removing that manky paint

I'm waiting mine bought on the bay for 40,50€ just to have a rookie rabbit brother.

Probably the ugliest Tamiya car ever produced I see what you mean about poor handling two wheel drive basic buggies Jon one of these is too many paint it stealth colours at least you wont have to look at that body I thought you didn't do spacy whizzy buggies