Tamiya 58564 Toyota Land Cruiser 40 Special Edition CC01

[TiM!]

Hey guys!

 

Been looking at these for quite some time now and recently noticed that numbers were getting a little thin on eBay and such, so decided to bite the bullet and order one before it was too late!

 

Will be doing a bit of a build thread here, but time is quite limited at the moment with work and mates coming back from uni for Easter. 

 

Here's the box to kick things off:

 

 

 

Will be building it up to run, but only occasionally indoors, don't want it getting messy

 

Hopefully have some progress by the weekend!

 

Cheers

 

Tim

 

 

[TurboFurball]

Cool, will you be keeping it mostly stock?

[TiM!]

Will be left bone stock yes. Got a tekin FXR for the ESC and will be using my DX3s radio. Need see what servos I have, think the TT01 has a good Tamiya one in it. 

[53HRA]

Very nice,good to see the build thread on time

[TiM!]

Mad progress made

 

 

[Geeze]

These do look lovely. What extras do they come with besides the prepainted body and led kit? Anything else juicy?

[TiM!]

You get some "metal plated" parts such as the grille, bumper and wheels, and the tyres from the Tundra which look much better imo. 

[TiM!]

Lied a bit about it being "bone" stock. I am fitting an RCbearings kit, can't really be putting those plastic bushings in.

 

Here's tonights little bit of progress:

 

 

 

 

[Geeze]

You get some "metal plated" parts such as the grille, bumper and wheels, and the tyres from the Tundra which look much better imo.

Like that it has more detailed body parts, always a good thing on a scaler didn't notice the tyres til you mentioned it but theyre a good thing too, the normal ones seem to get binned as quick as the bushes!

[Gaz!]

Like that it has more detailed body parts, always a good thing on a scaler didn't notice the tyres til you mentioned it but theyre a good thing too, the normal ones seem to get binned as quick as the bushes!

The stock tyres are pretty much the same as the other cc01 tyres....

These do look far better though and will suffice for it's intended usage

[TiM!]

Quite a bit of progress tonight

 

 

 

 

Shocks up next, might leave those until Saturday.

[TurboFurball]

Wow, looking at this I realise just how much of my Unimog isn't standard!

Looking good there, though

[TiM!]

Yeah, they are very plastic fantastic

 

Doesn't feel low quality as such, but I could see how you could break or wear parts quickly if you were using it properly. Thankfully I don't think it'll ever cause me issue

[Geeze]

Looking at this stock build, its amazing just how capable some of these have been made. There's a severely nodded one around here that sometimes keeps up with SCX10s!

Think this one is going to look good with those factory extras

[TiM!]

Chassis pretty much done:

 

 

 

 

 

Little MS order being made tonight for a battery pack, then just need stickers on the shell, which could take a while!

[TiM!]

Fin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stickers aren't perfect, but are about a million times better than when I did my FJ CR01. Now to get it dirty, or keep it clean. Hmmmm....

[atom3624]

Nice job - body mount posts let it down - looks that nice!!

 

Al.

[johninderby]

Nice tidy job. Looks really good.

Maybe roof rack to hide rear mounting posts and shorten the front posts.

John

Edited May 3, 2015 by johninderby

[Davy Crockett]

Nice job!

Echo others comment re body posts and replace rear plastic links with metal ones