If I said you had a fantastic body, would you hold it against me?
The E30 body I ordered from WalaWala arrived in the post yesterday, I was surprised at how light the box was. Looking at the body, it has "1992 TAMIYA" printed on the edge of it, so I'm not sure if it's the TA01 original, or the TT01 rerelease. I doubt they would be selling the shell for $30 if it was original, though :)
So the wheels are sorted, the chassis is sorted, but the electronics are still an issue. My brother might need to get his own radio gear, or at least a receiver. Up to now, we have used a Mini-Z radio with a Mini-X receiver. Both are 27Mhz AM, but there are problems. The aerial in the Mini-x is quite short (only 6 inches) and the range is only about six feet, so it's useless for what we want. Also we are getting interference running the cars close to gether, even though my own radio is 27 Mhz FM. I might solder on more wire to the aerial to see if it boosts range, if not, then it's time to invest in some 40 mhz gear, though that will probably be further down the road.
Now that I have the body, I need to start looking at colours. Himself reckons that black is the only way to go. I have suggested everything from Blue to Camel Yellow to Flourescent Orange, but it has to be black. I think that while black is a cool colour, it doesn't show off the detail of the body. As I hope to enter this into a BOTM or two, I was thinking of trying something more complicated than a single colour. I'd like to add a pearl effect to the black, or maybe a colourshift, maybe navy to dark green, but keeping the overall colour very dark. I'm filling my ModelSport basket at the moment, I have Smoke and Transluscent Red (for windows and rear lights)so I'm thinking of getting one of the Iridescent paints, and black of course! the more I think about this, the more I realsie that I'm going to end up with something very similar to Turbo-GT's BMW, which has always been a favourite of mine. More of his stuff can be seen at:
http://www.turbo-gt.dk/rcbiler.htm
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So the wheels are sorted, the chassis is sorted, but the electronics are still an issue. My brother might need to get his own radio gear, or at least a receiver. Up to now, we have used a Mini-Z radio with a Mini-X receiver. Both are 27Mhz AM, but there are problems. The aerial in the Mini-x is quite short (only 6 inches) and the range is only about six feet, so it's useless for what we want. Also we are getting interference running the cars close to gether, even though my own radio is 27 Mhz FM. I might solder on more wire to the aerial to see if it boosts range, if not, then it's time to invest in some 40 mhz gear, though that will probably be further down the road.
Now that I have the body, I need to start looking at colours. Himself reckons that black is the only way to go. I have suggested everything from Blue to Camel Yellow to Flourescent Orange, but it has to be black. I think that while black is a cool colour, it doesn't show off the detail of the body. As I hope to enter this into a BOTM or two, I was thinking of trying something more complicated than a single colour. I'd like to add a pearl effect to the black, or maybe a colourshift, maybe navy to dark green, but keeping the overall colour very dark. I'm filling my ModelSport basket at the moment, I have Smoke and Transluscent Red (for windows and rear lights)so I'm thinking of getting one of the Iridescent paints, and black of course! the more I think about this, the more I realsie that I'm going to end up with something very similar to Turbo-GT's BMW, which has always been a favourite of mine. More of his stuff can be seen at:
http://www.turbo-gt.dk/rcbiler.htm
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