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Front suspension


Front arms with bumper


Gearbox with the new tubes, they fit well


Rear suspension


And with shocks and motor




Cheers, Bram

And finished chassis, now on with wheels, driver and body.






Ty for looking,

Cheers, Bram

To pass the time today, i decided to do something with the Fox. So i painted the driver today
Man, i am soo bad at this lol!


Cheers, Bram

Some more progress. Had some trouble with the wheels, my own stupid misstake . After sanding and stripping the wheels, i painted them with 2 layers of primer and 2 layers of chrome paint, as i always do.
The chrome paintcan clearly states; " DON'T overspray with clear coating"!!!
Stubbern as i am i just had to try....but did i just try it on 1 wheel?? Nooo i just had to do all 4 at the same time....
Result; chaos and a big mess...all 4 wheels are looking horrible!! Took me 2 days to get it all off again
Anyways lesson learned (i hope )
Fitted wheels and driver on chassis. Working on body now.




Cheers, Bram

BramMeijer wrote:

...Had some trouble with the wheels...

I'm the same - you have to try these things out



Are you going to treat the car to a new battery connector & motor connector insulation? They're letting the rest of the car down IMHO

Not sure yet if i will replace the motor connecter insulation and battery connector. Am trying to keep it as original as possible.
But body is a TBG repro (and i might say a really bad one ) Bought some repro's before there but this one is not worth the 24,99 dollar i paid for it.
So i might replace them.

Cheers, Bram

BramMeijer wrote:

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But body is a TBG repro (and i might say a really bad one ) ...

How so? I was thinking about getting one myself ...

The lining on mine was terrible and hardly visible at some points, this is not so much a problem while you can mark with perma marker on the protec film and just cut along that. More i disliked the fact that the lexan at some points was very thin! As you will see when my body is finished, it cracked at the rear end. So i had to make it a straight cut instead of the s - shape it supposed to be
Got away with it i think but everytime i look at it, i see the defect.

Cheers, Bram

Done










Ty for looking.

Cheers, Bram

That's a good looking Fox

What blue did you use? It looks a little more blue than the usual Tamiya blue...


The more I look at these cars, the more I think the wing area is very clumsy looking - it's a little too small, and _way_ too far forward