Check it out - Top Force goodies!
There's definitely life left in the body shell. Thanks Spitfire. And at least I have one of the Evo decals... if I can salvage it. Would be interesting to see how slick I can get the original undercowl again. Gotta say the one from TBG looks like a nice quality. And the blue film is cool. |
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I guess they are shorter ones then - 85mm.
They're not gonna go on the FRP chassis car btw but on a bathtub Manta Ray that I will also build. More or less the car I started with, merged with some cool with hop ups from a British parts lot... I think I'll put that one up for sale. Just needed some nice shocks (not too expensive) to make it a complete car. |
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Man, cutting that undercowl right is a lot of work...
Normally I enjoy this job but with this item it's very fiddly. The lines on the TBG lexan are hardly visible too... But I'm almost done - still have to do the rear though : More adversity - I killed some of the small countersunk screws on the chassis. And then I decided to take it all apart so I can give the plate another polish : While I'm at it, I will replace any of the remaining blue details with silver. The servo horn for example - that normally doesn't come in that colour : After a bath of bleech : Then a scrub with a toothbrush and WD-40, some more bleech and a polish with the Dremel : I also replaced the 3Racing servo saver with the only genuine Tamiya I have... Another detail I will attend to - the proper Top Force aluminium wing washers and some press nuts : Next is elbow grease again for polishing the FRP plate... |
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The screws I murdered :
Causing the need to take it apart much more than I intended and the decision to do another overhaul on the details. Like this one - replacing the bearings with blue teflon shielding in the steering assembly... ...with black specimen : The turnbuckles will be the last blue items to be replaced. I don't have an alternative yet... |
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