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Kyosho Blizzard restoration


Candyman

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  • 6 years later...
On 28/01/2018 at 10:47, Candyman said:

So I ordered a new body a while back for a Blizzard SR, this turns out to be a narrow 1 piece body, I should have spotted that really. Its the width of the chassis, which is fine if your mounting the battery length ways, but not if its mounted like mine on the DF300. I considered changing the battery placement but its hard on the single motor version, the SR has a seperate 2 motor trasmission and no skid steering so theres more room for the battery length ways.

 

I prefere the wide look of the DF300 2 piece shell, so I ordered a repro one from team blue groove in USA (or might be canada actually).

 

Decals for the DF300 are just not available, so I spent some time scanning in my old body shell and cleaning up the scans adding some little bits and changing some stuff. Did some little warning stickers too, fake head lights and some of the chequer plates for the back, but not all, I felt the original had too many. Im getting these printed digitally on some waterproof vinyl, then i'll scalpel them out. It's costing me the same to do a run of 5 as it would for 1, so anyone who fancies a set for their DF300 let me know.

 

Obviously this pic is shrunk down, the original is A3 size!

 

 

http://www.ukmonsters.co.uk/blizzard/Blizzard%20decals.jpg

 

Hi, I am restoring a DF-300 and I am very interested in your restoration job! Especially the body and the decals.... about the decals, can you please explain me how to reproduce a copy of yours? They look fantastic!!! Thank you

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12 minutes ago, irondog said:

 

Hi, I am restoring a DF-300 and I am very interested in your restoration job! Especially the body and the decals.... about the decals, can you please explain me how to reproduce a copy of yours? They look fantastic!!! Thank you

 

Hiya, are you in the UK? i'll have a look round, if I still have a set I can send them to you.

 

 

 

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7 hours ago, irondog said:

Hi, nope, I am in Italy, however I will be in the UK (London) the weekend of October 19th... thanks for checking!

 

Ok no problem, I have found them. Just private message me with an address when you are ready and I will send them to you.

 

 

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On 26/01/2018 at 17:53, Candyman said:

Got most of this back together, the whole thing is ball raced, no idea if they come like that.

 

http://www.ukmonsters.co.uk/blizzard/12.jpg

 

made a little exhaust, just because.

 

http://www.ukmonsters.co.uk/blizzard/13.jpg

 

chose some Tekno fibre brake disks just because they were cheap, to replace the metal ones, this should give the brakes a bit more feel.

 

http://www.ukmonsters.co.uk/blizzard/14.jpg

 

http://www.ukmonsters.co.uk/blizzard/15.jpg

 

http://www.ukmonsters.co.uk/blizzard/16.jpg

 

 

Hi, can you please give a bit more details on this? I was thinking if moving to the same direction because the Kyosho replacement is quite expensive and I broke a brake pad too... I am attaching the status of the metal part of the brake pads, do you think it should be replaced? or it can work with the Tekno brake disks?

PXL_20240929_083459977.jpg

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