The Tamiya Thread! Aka just ask XVPilot :-)

[Mark_C]

Thanks Praetor, the other two work fine, who knows whats happened to this one. 

 

Focus looks great. Still not sure if my TT01E will turn up, meantime I do have an absima brushless combo on the way, so I'm slowly getting in to all this new fangled stuff !

 

Tempted to put it in the DF02 as the motor in that is a bit weak or the TT01 if it turns up.

[Kpowell911]

Started the TT01 Subaru

 

 

 

Edited July 10, 2018 by Guns

[RC4WD fan]

Don't know if this has been asked before ? but can't be bothered to look through the 50 pages  and thought this thread would be a good place to ask I'm looking at doing a project and would need the body from a tamiya blitzer beetle does anyone know where I can get just the full body set its self ?

[Mark_C]

There's one on ebay, but from USA so post is a bit expensive https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-TAMIYA-BLITZER-BEETLE-Body-Plastic-Set-with-Decals-TZ2/132671449561

 

If you have to buy in bits the decals (if you want them) are very expensive for some reason. Also strange is that just the body is twice the price of the monster beetle body - as far as I know the only difference is the colour, so if you're painting it anyway you might consider getting the MB one. The nose is different between the two though, so make sure you get the right one of those.

 

Cheapest Blitzer body that I can find (inc post): https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Tamiya-Blitzer-Beetle-2011-Black-Main-Body-Spare-Parts-19335623-9335623/401542988685

 

MB body: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tamiya-58060-Monster-Beetle-58618-2015-0335076-9335752-19335752-Body-Shell-NEW/292624132301

 

Nose & chrome parts (cheaper than ebay) https://www.modelsport.co.uk/tamiya-blitzer-beetle-mask-wipers-and-q-parts/rc-car-products/28522

Note, that picture shows original chrome parts, its missing the mirrors - refer to manuals below. I linked this because just the nosecone is £8 on ebay.

 

Driver, lights & roof insert: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tamiya-58122-Blitzer-Beetle-9115051-19115051-P-Parts-Driver-Figure-NEW/392045335223

 

Decals : https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Tamiya-Blitzer-Beetle-2011-Decals-Stickers-Spare-Parts-19495689-9495689/312143215188

 

Glass parts: https://www.timetunnelmodels.com/live/catalog/tamiya-19115330-9115330-parts-58502-blitzer-beetle-58618-monster-beetle-p-50568.html

 

It might be worth contacting tonystamiyaparts or jk-rc on ebay to see if they can source the parts for you - both are decent sellers, or maybe tamico ?

 

Manual on this page if you want to look up part numbers. http://tamiyaweb.com/manuals/download (original) or here: https://www.wonderlandmodels.com/media/manuals/19677/manual.pdf (re-release).

 

Note: anything you buy new now will be a re-release part. Differences on the re-re:

 

No rear window in the glass (they just make 1 part for sand sorcher, MB and Blitzer).

Body has holes for door mirrors

Two holes in the front of the body for the mount (difference between the three chassis).

 

You need 3 2x6mm screws to hold the glass in to the body, one each for tail lights and another for the license plate surround. Also 1 3x12mm to hold the nose to the main body.

 

Edit: the cheapest solution is a kamtec body, they 3 or 4 different beetle ones, see the bottom of this page http://www.kamtec.co.uk/epages/BT4645.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/BT4645/Categories/Body_Shells/Tamiya_Repro

Edited July 11, 2018 by Mark_C

[TMaxxDave]

Never seen these before until @big gaz posted them up for sale.

 

Decided to by them as they will do very nicely on either my TB01 or Levant, or possibly the Neo Scorcher.

 

 

[RC4WD fan]

13 hours ago, Mark_C said:

There's one on ebay, but from USA so post is a bit expensive https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-TAMIYA-BLITZER-BEETLE-Body-Plastic-Set-with-Decals-TZ2/132671449561

 

If you have to buy in bits the decals (if you want them) are very expensive for some reason. Also strange is that just the body is twice the price of the monster beetle body - as far as I know the only difference is the colour, so if you're painting it anyway you might consider getting the MB one. The nose is different between the two though, so make sure you get the right one of those.

 

Cheapest Blitzer body that I can find (inc post): https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Tamiya-Blitzer-Beetle-2011-Black-Main-Body-Spare-Parts-19335623-9335623/401542988685

 

MB body: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tamiya-58060-Monster-Beetle-58618-2015-0335076-9335752-19335752-Body-Shell-NEW/292624132301

 

Nose & chrome parts (cheaper than ebay) https://www.modelsport.co.uk/tamiya-blitzer-beetle-mask-wipers-and-q-parts/rc-car-products/28522

Note, that picture shows original chrome parts, its missing the mirrors - refer to manuals below. I linked this because just the nosecone is £8 on ebay.

 

Driver, lights & roof insert: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tamiya-58122-Blitzer-Beetle-9115051-19115051-P-Parts-Driver-Figure-NEW/392045335223

 

Decals : https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Tamiya-Blitzer-Beetle-2011-Decals-Stickers-Spare-Parts-19495689-9495689/312143215188

 

Glass parts: https://www.timetunnelmodels.com/live/catalog/tamiya-19115330-9115330-parts-58502-blitzer-beetle-58618-monster-beetle-p-50568.html

 

It might be worth contacting tonystamiyaparts or jk-rc on ebay to see if they can source the parts for you - both are decent sellers, or maybe tamico ?

 

Manual on this page if you want to look up part numbers. http://tamiyaweb.com/manuals/download (original) or here: https://www.wonderlandmodels.com/media/manuals/19677/manual.pdf (re-release).

 

Note: anything you buy new now will be a re-release part. Differences on the re-re:

 

No rear window in the glass (they just make 1 part for sand sorcher, MB and Blitzer).

Body has holes for door mirrors

Two holes in the front of the body for the mount (difference between the three chassis).

 

You need 3 2x6mm screws to hold the glass in to the body, one each for tail lights and another for the license plate surround. Also 1 3x12mm to hold the nose to the main body.

 

Edit: the cheapest solution is a kamtec body, they 3 or 4 different beetle ones, see the bottom of this page http://www.kamtec.co.uk/epages/BT4645.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/BT4645/Categories/Body_Shells/Tamiya_Repro

You can buy the blitzer beetle kit for £120 I've not added up any of that yet but probably be better to just buy the kit ? is the tamiya sand scorcher the same body but with the mounting holes in slightly different places? 

 

Edit I've just looked at the Kamtec shells think that might be a good way to go there not as detailed as the Tamiya ones but for the price and what I want to do with it might just work perfectly and there cheap and not to far away from me ?

Edited July 12, 2018 by RC4WD fan

[rob bark]

You can buy the blitzer beetle kit for £120 I've not added up any of that yet but probably be better to just buy the kit ? is the tamiya sand scorcher the same body but with the mounting holes in slightly different places? 
 
Edit I've just looked at the Kamtec shells think that might be a good way to go there not as detailed as the Tamiya ones but for the price and what I want to do with it might just work perfectly and there cheap and not to far away from me [emoji106]

If Kamtec is near to you pop in to shop they will get stuff out for you to look over!! So you can compare shells etc!!

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[RC4WD fan]

12 minutes ago, rob bark said:

If Kamtec is near to you pop in to shop they will get stuff out for you to look over!! So you can compare shells etc!!

Sent from my F3211 using Tapatalk
 

There only 25/30 minutes away from me so might nip down tomorrow or Saturday 

[XV Pilot]

They are very friendly, and the quality of their shells, while not as detailed as the originals, are nonetheless very robust and well suited to vigorous running. I use a couple of them on my runners, and they have lasted very well indeed.

[RC4WD fan]

11 hours ago, XV Pilot said:

They are very friendly, and the quality of their shells, while not as detailed as the originals, are nonetheless very robust and well suited to vigorous running. I use a couple of them on my runners, and they have lasted very well indeed.

Very good to know ? I'm wanting it more for bashing and just havinga good time so looks like Kamtec is the winner ?

[Mark_C]

Been away over the weekend, but the TT01E turned up, it has a aluminium driveshaft and bearings and a 20T hpi motor, so thats good.

 

Also my brushless esc and motor turned up, couple of questions as I'm not used to all this fangled stuff.

 

The setup works, fan kicks in on the esc, motor runs. If you make it run forwards and then let go of the throttle the motor stops instantly. If you go in reverse it just slows down and stops like any other motor. Is this normal ?

 

Maybe related, it goes faster backwards than forwards by some margin. 

 

This is an Absima A10 Thrust, the manual is not helpful : http://www.produktinfo.conrad.com/datenblaetter/225000-249999/239490-an-01-ml-1_10_BRUSHLESS_MOTOR_THRUST_BL_de_en_fr.pdf

 

Seems you can't set anything on the esc, there is no button or any jumper pins. This is the unit: 

 

 

The motor has yellow, blue and red wires to I sent blue to blue, yellow to yellow and orange to red. Can I swap these around to make it go faster forwards ?

 

Any ideas ?

[XV Pilot]

41 minutes ago, Mark_C said:

Been away over the weekend, but the TT01E turned up, it has a aluminium driveshaft and bearings and a 20T hpi motor, so thats good.

 

Also my brushless esc and motor turned up, couple of questions as I'm not used to all this fangled stuff.

 

The setup works, fan kicks in on the esc, motor runs. If you make it run forwards and then let go of the throttle the motor stops instantly. If you go in reverse it just slows down and stops like any other motor. Is this normal ?

 

Maybe related, it goes faster backwards than forwards by some margin. 

 

This is an Absima A10 Thrust, the manual is not helpful : http://www.produktinfo.conrad.com/datenblaetter/225000-249999/239490-an-01-ml-1_10_BRUSHLESS_MOTOR_THRUST_BL_de_en_fr.pdf

 

Seems you can't set anything on the esc, there is no button or any jumper pins. This is the unit: 

 

 

The motor has yellow, blue and red wires to I sent blue to blue, yellow to yellow and orange to red. Can I swap these around to make it go faster forwards ?

 

Any ideas ?

It sounds like the speed controller is set to go in the opposite direction to what you would expect. If you cant change the settings on the speed controller, I would recommend that you reverse your throttle channel on your transmitter and swap any two of the wires around between the speed controller at the motor. That will make it go faster forwards than in reverse, and will hopefully stop the strange braking behaviour as well.

[Mark_C]

I made a mistake - although it makes more racket when going backwards it is actually faster going forwards. I also found that I had to already reverse throttle to make it go forwards. 

 

So: with motor wires colour matched and throttle channel in reverse the car goes faster forwards than backwards, but as soon as you let go of the throttle the motor stops, causing the car to skid to a stop.

With motor wires swapped and the throttle channel in normal the car will roll to a stop when you let go of the throttle, but it is slow (faster backwards).

 

I guess that is how its meant to be, the auto brake seems weird though. I'm only running this with a nimh pack (3000mah) but a fresh charge has the blue led flashing almost right away, which according to that manual indicates a low battery. Maybe its only suitable for lipo packs ? I wonder if that has some bearing on the auto brake thing somehow. 

 

Flipping fangled new stuff, I know where I am with brushed motors

[ghazghul]

On 16/07/2018 at 21:48, Mark_C said:

I made a mistake - although it makes more racket when going backwards it is actually faster going forwards. I also found that I had to already reverse throttle to make it go forwards. 

 

So: with motor wires colour matched and throttle channel in reverse the car goes faster forwards than backwards, but as soon as you let go of the throttle the motor stops, causing the car to skid to a stop.

With motor wires swapped and the throttle channel in normal the car will roll to a stop when you let go of the throttle, but it is slow (faster backwards).

 

I guess that is how its meant to be, the auto brake seems weird though. I'm only running this with a nimh pack (3000mah) but a fresh charge has the blue led flashing almost right away, which according to that manual indicates a low battery. Maybe its only suitable for lipo packs ? I wonder if that has some bearing on the auto brake thing somehow. 

 

Flipping fangled new stuff, I know where I am with brushed motors

 

A google suggests the drag brake is supposed to be 0% by default on that ESC but is programmable.   Have you tried recalibrating the ESC to the TX once you've got it working the right way round?  It also has a programmable LiPO cut off, which you'd want to disable if you are running NiMh or it'll go into go slow mode really early.  I can't see anyone selling the program card for it tho...

 

[Mark_C]

Thats interesting, because the only instructions/infrmation I could find suggested the ESC is not programmable, can you share the link you found ?

 

Thanks

[Kpowell911]

 

Get Married on Sat so that should be that for a while. Still after:

 

Escort Cosworth either TA02 or TL01
Mitsubishi Evo V WRC (possibly a TB-03)
Skyline R34 and Supra Both will be on a TT-02D Id imagine

However a TT-02 Ferrari F12 TDF has come up cheap on the Bay so may pounce

 

 

[stonedef]

I like the Porsche and the Scirocco   

[ghazghul]

 

41 minutes ago, Mark_C said:

Thats interesting, because the only instructions/infrmation I could find suggested the ESC is not programmable, can you share the link you found ?

 

Thanks

 

Apologies it might be for the "ECO" 50A version : Link or Abismas page : Link  The one you pictured is the older 80A one.

[Mark_C]

21 hours ago, Guns said:

 

 

Get Married on Sat so that should be that for a while. Still after:

 

Escort Cosworth either TA02 or TL01
Mitsubishi Evo V WRC (possibly a TB-03)
Skyline R34 and Supra Both will be on a TT-02D Id imagine

However a TT-02 Ferrari F12 TDF has come up cheap on the Bay so may pounce

 

 

 

Did you see this escort ? unpainted shell, so it'd be as new once on your shelf

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tamiya-Repsol-Escort-Cosworth-WRC-4wd-Extras-Spares-TA0/232854258296

 

If you're feeling rich there is a michelin livery one too, still as a kit : https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TAMIYA-MICHELIN-PILOT-FORD-ESCORT-RS-COSWORTH-58125-TA-01-NEW-IN-BOX-KIT-VINTAGE/113152931746

 

21 hours ago, ghazghul said:

 

 

Apologies it might be for the "ECO" 50A version : Link or Abismas page : Link  The one you pictured is the older 80A one.

 

Yeah its the original one rather than the eco or v2, thanks anyway.

 

 

I've bought a Subaru NBR body for the TT01 along with some MST wheels, just waiting for them to show up, body will probably be here next week, wheels are from rcmart, so goodness knows when they will appear.

Edited July 20, 2018 by Mark_C

[ChrisT]

23 hours ago, Guns said:

 

 

Get Married on Sat so that should be that for a while. Still after:

 

Escort Cosworth either TA02 or TL01
Mitsubishi Evo V WRC (possibly a TB-03)
Skyline R34 and Supra Both will be on a TT-02D Id imagine

However a TT-02 Ferrari F12 TDF has come up cheap on the Bay so may pounce

 

 

 

All the best for Saturday Guns, enjoy you're day.

 

 

Nice collection BTW, spot on Are those floaters from Argos?

 

 

[Kpowell911]

2 hours ago, ChrisT said:

 

All the best for Saturday Guns, enjoy you're day.

 

 

Nice collection BTW, spot on Are those floaters from Argos?

 

 

Thanks

 

Yes mate they're from Argos, I used to work for Sainsburys so got a load of them with my discount. They vary between £10-15 depending on offers

 

Need another one now, ordered that Ferrari TDF

Edited July 20, 2018 by Guns

[Kpowell911]

4 hours ago, Mark_C said:

 

Did you see this escort ? unpainted shell, so it'd be as new once on your shelf

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tamiya-Repsol-Escort-Cosworth-WRC-4wd-Extras-Spares-TA0/232854258296

 

If you're feeling rich there is a michelin livery one too, still as a kit : https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TAMIYA-MICHELIN-PILOT-FORD-ESCORT-RS-COSWORTH-58125-TA-01-NEW-IN-BOX-KIT-VINTAGE/113152931746

 

 

Yeah its the original one rather than the eco or v2, thanks anyway.

 

 

I've bought a Subaru NBR body for the TT01 along with some MST wheels, just waiting for them to show up, body will probably be here next week, wheels are from rcmart, so goodness knows when they will appear.

Its a reproduction shell which I don't like, Ive been offered a TL01 Cosworth off a member off here. Im temped....

[PraetoR]

That Porsche is gorgeous!

[XV Pilot]

I like that they are out on display and not tucked away in boxes. Some cars deserve to be appreciated whether running or stationary. 

[Kpowell911]

8 hours ago, PraetoR said:

That Porsche is gorgeous!

I really want the black edition but not sure I need it. Especially as Ill paint it black anyway haha.