RJJ Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 (edited) Hello chaps A good dose of tamiya nostalgia for me the egress. Always wanted one in my younger years but alas to expensive and the local model shop never had a kit in stock to simply ogle at lol. Well they re released it and I waited to let prices settle and the kit arrived from hong kong before Christmas. A little frustrating as I had to keep on waiting for parts that I would like on it but it's getting there. At a rolling chassis now, lipo arrived yesterday so it has been bench tested and all works. Parts used on it are: Carbide diff/thrust balls Rubber Sealed Bearing kit TGX Carbon prop shaft Lunsford Racing titanium turnbuckles all round Tamiya 5mm low friction rodends Robinson Racing steel pinions Tekin RS gen2/motor brushless combo Xpert RC low profile Lee Martin servo. TLR white/black grease, shock oil and tamiya ceramic grease for the gears in the gearbox. Used a full hex hardware kit and black nyloc nuts including the flanged ones and washers. All aluminium parts are anodised black including motor plates, chassis posts, shocks, spacers and more. When the box turned up, just love the tamiya box art now just as much as I did as kid. Edited February 4, 2015 by RJJ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJJ Posted February 4, 2015 Author Share Posted February 4, 2015 Starting to build it, always in the details on my rc's and just being different. Carbon prop shaft fitted, have to dremel the ends to fit the gearbox outdrives. Upper deck fitted, sway bar ends are black. Front end driveshafts and knuckles, driveshafts built and used tamiya anti-wear grease as per instruction manual. Shocks built up. Rolling chassis, motor installed and robinson racing pinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
53HRA Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Looks brill, these are great to build and well engineered IMO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJJ Posted February 4, 2015 Author Share Posted February 4, 2015 Looks brill, these are great to build and well engineered IMO Cheers fella, totally agree mate. quick pic of all the parts that help to make the chassis all black and looking stealthy lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJJ Posted February 4, 2015 Author Share Posted February 4, 2015 (edited) Plumbed in the electrics last weekend. All fitted, used black wires from esc to motor/batt to carry on with the black theme. Put a bit of red heat shrink to mark out the +ve side on the deans. Shortened my esc to rx wire and enclosed in black braid plus I made a extension lead for the servo as it has a very short lead. Esc side, aerial wire is run in black heat shrink. Yep my ocd levels are not good lol. Posh servo, low profile one used. Closer pic shorter sensor lead used, not to shabby on the wiring & soldering Edited February 4, 2015 by RJJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJJ Posted February 4, 2015 Author Share Posted February 4, 2015 (edited) Front end pic. Rear end pic. Just waiting on my bodyshells and will then finish up this thread. Not built a 1/10th electric buggy since my childhood and its where rc all started for me. Hope you like it so far Edited February 4, 2015 by RJJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noj Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Damn, you're good Rav Looks stunning. Attention to detail is bob on, well, red can aside...surprised it wasn't dismantled and the case sent to the anodisers 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJJ Posted February 4, 2015 Author Share Posted February 4, 2015 (edited) Damn, you're good Rav Looks stunning. Attention to detail is bob on, well, red can aside...surprised it wasn't dismantled and the case sent to the anodisers Very, very kind words Noj, thank you fella Yep I could have but if it went poof in smoke then tekin would have blamed me for dismantling it lol. I always try and keep new electrics as they are just to be warranty friendly if any issues occur. You know how I roll, will happily run with anybody so long as we are enjoying rc. Does not matter what you do to them, I just build em how i would like em matey. Edited February 4, 2015 by RJJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NITO Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Looks great RJJ, really tasty spec and build, love that drive shaft! Enjoy! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz! Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 B-e-a-utiful! Your OCD sure makes for a neat and cool looking buggy fella 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PraetoR Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Stunning. Beautiful. Gorgeous. Etc etc. Nice to see hex hardware on a Tamiya for once as well! These were stupidly priced when re-released, how much money is "prices settled"? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJJ Posted February 4, 2015 Author Share Posted February 4, 2015 (edited) Thanks guys for the kind words, glad everybody is liking the egress. Yep Nito that carbon prop shaft is lovely, seen somebody else fit ne and thought hell yeah definitely going into the build. When they were released it was Edited February 4, 2015 by RJJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the watchman Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 (edited) Yum yum fella, very nice, your builds are always super neat, tidy and gorgeous the egress is a stunning kit, for me it was the avante, obviously Pretty much the same chassis as sure you know, ill be purchasing the avante very soon to add to the collection, i cant wait to see it finished fella, hope you enjoy the whole nostalgia trip Edited February 4, 2015 by the watchman 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJJ Posted February 5, 2015 Author Share Posted February 5, 2015 (edited) Yum yum fella, very nice, your builds are always super neat, tidy and gorgeous the egress is a stunning kit, for me it was the avante, obviously Pretty much the same chassis as sure you know, ill be purchasing the avante very soon to add to the collection, i cant wait to see it finished fella, hope you enjoy the whole nostalgia trip Thankyou watchman, kind words matey for my builds, definitely get the Avante its lush The Avante a technically engineering masterpiece. I saved up for ages, did the chores, and luckily not a good seller so kits were discounted and after selling the clod I had one. Put a reedy pink dot in it and lucky for me still have my old tekin esc from that era. It's why I used tekin here again, some memories re lived. Only just about managed to get monies together for one rc at a time back then, now it's a different story lol. That old Avante is unfortunately lost as my dad must have thrown out one of my boxes years ago, my mum says. Original prices especially nib are eye watering. I to am thinking of buying the re re Avante just to re live old times. Edited February 5, 2015 by RJJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJJ Posted November 19, 2015 Author Share Posted November 19, 2015 (edited) Hi all, been a while since I posted something on this project I have been waiting on some parts, and I decided to purchase a kit developed by a Tamiya fan David Beeby. He re produced the parts that Jamie Booth had on his egress from Tamiya racing factory (TRF) and seeing that particular car in Radio Race car all them years ago, decision was an easy one. 17 kits will be made and individual numbered and I will add it to this egress to make it really special for me, hopefully will receive the kit in the next few weeks. Oh......by the way both body shells are here and I do love this particular undertray Edited November 19, 2015 by RJJ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evssv Posted November 19, 2015 Share Posted November 19, 2015 very nice...so u gonna actually use it or shelf it??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJJ Posted November 19, 2015 Author Share Posted November 19, 2015 1 hour ago, evssv said: very nice...so u gonna actually use it or shelf it??? Cheers :), this shell will see shelf duty while the other one will get used. I probably will use it at some iconic rc vintage race meets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evssv Posted November 19, 2015 Share Posted November 19, 2015 cool.....I wouldn't bash it.....no way!!...too nice.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PraetoR Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 It's gorgeous! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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