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great choice of bodyshell

Thanks, have to say that exact same picture was a source of inspiration.
Saw it a while back and had not forgotten...

Lars' 58115 doesn't look too shabby either :


Don't be surprised if I also get tempted by a Bluegroove Top Force body later though.
Kind of like the setup with the undercowl for an FRP chassis.

But what's the deal with them having an empty shop so often?
And for that metter - what happened with Rccarstickers? But that's besides the topic.

How about this badyouknowhat from TC :

Edou wrote:

My computer is also a bit of a Trigger's Broom - a 1999 500 MHz P3 that's been updated to still work (more or less) with today's speeds. Not much that was originally there - not even the OS. That's now XP instead of Windows 98.

i have a laptop which is:
2mb video card
400mghz cpu
xp pro service pack 2
10 gb hdd
128mb ram

it runs so much better than the laptop which i am using to wright this, which has:
2gb ram
7 hundred and something mb videocard
1.7ghz cpu
etc

The first one sounds like it has about the same specs as my ole desktop... laptops tend to be a bit faster though.

But I'm not complaining! I guess it would be wise to reserve some budget for a (used) new one.
I could think of some badwords for the way the internet connection is behaving here lately.

An Xmas present for myself has arrived today. Top Force universals.
It's an awesome bit of tech. Gonna resist the tempation to polish 'em though...

Some WD-40 aroma therapy and a pic without flash is much more becoming on this awesome piece of mechtech :



Now I'll be putting them on the car...

Coca-cola... for cleaning up your universals.
Left them in this fizzy drink for a few hours and that cleaned up the remaing small spots very nicely.

Now I'll be putting them on the car...

This is how the Manta Ray will look on it's first run :


I'll have to take a little off the sides of the front for it to fit better on the body mount...
And I change the place where the shocks are mounted - also to be able to fit the (strenghtenend) nose :


But it'll see some tarmac soon. Theoretical top speed 70+ km/h.

those plastic hexes are only for show right, youre not really going to run the Ray without replacing them for some nice alu hopups?

( or are that axial parts? )

ps. did you see that nice hoped black Ray on Marktplaats should have uped my bid