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Assembling the front part, including the suspensions with the new parts







Oh i forgot...i also cleaned and filled the shocks with fresh oil





The rear Gearbox



Fitting the period correct electronics



Assembling the front part

Unfortunately i noticed during the assemble that a front Gearbox fixing point is broken....
Instead of dissasemble everything again, i went for the easiyest solution (shame on me ) and simply fitted a washer



Fortunately the kit also contained a new front bumber, the old one had too many scratches and as this one will be on my shelf i'm really happy fitting the new one



More progress soon

Thank you for looking
Manotas

Great work there Manotas! That body work is really great, looks like brand new
End result will be smashing!

Cheers, Bram

That bodyshell came up a treat almost new looking

tamiya wrote:

That bodyshell came up a treat almost new looking

Well i'm actually rellay happy for the result of the body.
Honestly, i hate working lexan bodies, they become real fragine over the years and depending on the paint that was used it's almost impossible the get them in a decent shape for a display. I made lot's of testing with several cleaner's, brake fluid and other things and i think that i finally found something that works.

My first attempt was with a Fox body, it was poorly painted by the previous owner and certainly with a cheap paint bought in a random store.
My first attempt to remove it with brake fluid was a complete dissaster.

The lexan ended braking up at several parts. I think the paint made a chemical reaction with the lexan and made it real fragile





On the other hand, the wing came up quite good. As the body, the wing had the same brake fluid bath that removed the paint. I suspect that the body and Wing paint were different.

The Fox Wing had the same treatment as this Thundershot shell.

First of all a brake fluid bath
And a second part with this "automotive brake cleaner"



I have to admit that this brake cleaner removes quite good the paint in the corners without having to sand it or use any other tools that could damage or scratch the lexan.

My other attempt trying to recover an old lexan body is on my Porsche 959 i'm working on.
The body came up like this
This is how i got it:



And that's the result after spraying 2 times directly the breake cleaner on the paint. (the body was painted from the outside and inside by the previous owner )






The next step, after removing all the paint, will be to give it a real good polish in order to give the body a nice and shinny look

That's for the my technique working on lexan bodies....

Just note that the Fox body did not survived that treatment..... (i already found a complete original Fox body set....should be arriving next week )

I will keep you updated on the Porsche body in a new resto thread as soon as possible.

In the meanwhile, back to the Thundershot. Unfortunately i only painted the lettering on the tires yesterday



Thanks for looking

Manotas

Manotas wrote:

Unfortunately i only painted the lettering on the tires yesterday

Thanks for looking

Manotas

Of course doing the lettering only take a minute good work

The brake cleaner is very agressive . I test it on lexan and I had the same result like you.
it is good for pilot or ABS.

stingray-63 wrote:

The brake cleaner is very agressive . I test it on lexan and I had the same result like you.
it is good for pilot or ABS.

I had excellent results on the Thundershot body...I came up like new.

Maybe the brake cleaner i'm using is less agressive than yours