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Finished the cosworth off! Always wanted a cosworth and happened to accidentally paint it in a similar colour to ford mallard green. Was meant to be grey buy decided to back it with electric blue and that's how it cane out.

Down the field with the old man. He’s really getting to grips with the Maxx. He can drive it on two wheels at will now. Talion was rapid as ever, I’ll be adding a fan to the motor heat sink as soon as it lands! IMG_3380.MOV

Another smelly nitro Braaaaaap braaaaaaaap braaaaaapppp

Finished the FR4 Demon 😁

This.Been after one for a while and managed to find one in stock.Going away until my birthday and then I will fit an arrma 3s system I have laying around.

Made a start building the tt02, got carried away and now have a roller! Will get electrics in today and maybe some paint on!

First run went great! The dogs liked it as well 🙂

Spent the morning at this spot just outside my front door. Hours of fun with the mtxl...

Finished the 1100mm North American T-28 Trojan, all ready for maiden

Treated myself to one of these as it’s my birthday next Monday. Originally went for the nitro version but decided to change the order to a Flux - Should have arrived next Wednesday but came a week earlier!

Took the R1 and the dogs to the coast again this morning

Got my new injora wheels and not proline hyrax tyres from China. Thought I might finally be able to fit my disc brake wheel weights with these but it turns out they bind on the portal covers on a TRX4 so will have to leave those off for now. Also got a pile of bits and pieces so that I can finish up the LED lighting loom for the prairie wolf shell and a few new wera tools as I’m a sucker for free postage.

Getting ready for a rare bash, shoes in shot because apparently that's now a thing.

Got some paint on the Ford Ranger shell. Had really hoped to have this finished by now but real life keeps eating into my RC time.

Finally managed to finish off the design for some rock slider stand offs and then get them printed as the last step to get the knightrunner shell properly fitting onto the TRX4. Not sure why the Picture is upside down for this but these go on the top of the side plates to raise the mounts for the rock sliders up by about 13mm. My new wheel hubs arrived so I have refitted the disc wheel weights. I’ve also drilled lots of small holes in the shell for mounting up all of the supplied moulded parts. Not sure I should have fitted the snorkel but will do how it looks with paint before deciding if it goes or stays.

Yesterday the post men where nice. Lots of items. A set of proline ibex tyres for my sporty. Some titanium rod to make links for people. And a ton of smaller parts to restock my parts. And a brand new car for my son to have. He went crazy when he realised what it was. His first proper RC car.

Took it for a swim

Not today, but over last few days, set about making changes to the Element Enduro. Really didn’t like the Trailwalker body shell and although stock tyres are excellent, the 1.55 rims didn’t give much ground clearance. So it’s 1.9 steelies with ProLine Krawlers and a Ford ranger bodyshell with Element inner fenders. Next…add window masks and wait for a sunny day to throw some paint at it …. Have ordered some aluminium rods and tubes and will make homemade bumpers. Will also replace the stock ESC with a 1080.

new bumpers came for my trx 4 recently and finally got em fitted, got a nice weight increase going to the alloy bumpers vs the stock plastic ones 🙂

Not me I say buy 2 just in case the 1st one sinks😁

She said yes!

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Got my deliveries from wheelspin and got the narrow front fenders mounted and put the new front bumper mount onto the rear. Still need to sort out lifting the rock sliders and finding a very low stack height body post option for the truck bed.

fitted some brass wheel hexes to the trx4 and new wheels and tyres to it 🙂

Took the Texan for its first run

About to take these 3 out for their first proper bash of the year

Jetko Rock Forms fitted to the Hyper GT, I’ve also lifted the suspension so I can use it off road on the local playing fields Made a extension for the exhaust stinger Set all the radio gear properly with failsafe and I’ve added a alloy servo horn

stickered up the trx 4 and greased the diffs, fitted a alloy servo horn to it and also some nice shiny new alloy drive shafts fitted 🙂

I’ve eaten the chocolate so back to business…. My first nitro since a Losi Muggy with a OS .30 VG I had ten years ago 👍

Fitted front shackles and the light guards that came yesterday

Early finish today and the sun was blazing so took the Pro4 for a spin 👍

This is the box contents! Insert suitable Kevin Talbot quote! Maxx for the old man and the Talion for me. That should scratch the itch… for now!

Grey body for the Hyper MT The Blue body rtr truck was £45 cheaper than the Grey. I found a Grey body for £33 😂

Fitted the new metal bumper with a winch to TRX6 . Old plastic bumper in shot to show difference

Went for walk with the TRX4 and Knightrunner.

Egg shell is tougher for sure! My highrock shell was cracked in shipping some how, i think some one sat on the end of the box as bumpers mounts were snapped too 😞 This shell is dead... held together with alloy plates and rivits 😂 the roofs finally cracked, it lived a hard life, but glass for sure... vs the trx4 bronco shell. Took the trx4 out on the same weir rocks i tested with the highrock at few weekends back ^. Nice little lines that max the flex and test the ability to cross pretty large gaps. Did well but couldnt complete the final climb, every time on its roof, not enough weight to stick it to the rocks, same tires as the highrock too. Besides the axe system its stock, one day she will get some sexy brass, should transform it, oh and i really need to swap out the stock servo, the motors on its last legs. Gatekeepers up next, i expect it to excell with no bumpers and mad flex.

A day of tinkering with the Hyper MT New servos Tidied up the fuel pipe work and added a filter/primer bulb

Did this a couple of days ago, a long overdue rebuild/service of the diffs on the EMB-1 also fitted the new hardens steel outdrives at the same time. Then it was at the local track for a shake down with its bigger cousin.

This Unfortunately it's not mine but my brothers. He's hoping to give it a run later.

Just been and picked up this like new losi mtxl, nice to be back in the rc game after a short break... And some FID bling to go with it...

It went in easy but didn’t come out easy…. My trainers are in the washing machine as we speak 🤣

Fitted the rear corally shocks to the dr8.

Made some improvements (maybe) to my table I use when at the RC track. Cut and fitted some foamex board around the sides and back, covered this in some vinyl wrap to make it a bit more easy in the eye, stuck some self adhesive magnetic sheet (to catch those wayward screws/nuts) to the top.

Actually got this lot a few days ago. It’s all been in the house for a while but I was banned from opening any of it. “If you want RC parts for your birthday, you can wait til your birthday “ Element enduro inner fenders, Ford Ranger shell, paint, wheels, foams, tyres.😁

Been testing out my new engine heater It got the engine up 65c in 10 mins 👍

Gone all out Max5 innit 😎 was going to attempt to fit in original esc location, but after spending at least 5 seconds contemplating, I decided against it. EBay mount for FTW.

Crawl and bash with the old man. Not in pic, but woodland now also has 1 x wheel nut from my EMB-MT which came off and a sheared wheel screw from a Funtek DT4 (old man's car). Annoyingly DT4 has been discontinued and parts are basically non existent in the UK .

Took the IFS out the gatekeeper, replaced it with the metal axles off the highrock. Results seem pretty epic. That is some steering angle. Need to tweak the panhard and geo a bit to reduce bump steer. I want to use this for SST in september so went a bit overboard 23% overdrive and some other goodies. Front winch used to pull up the front axle, like on real rock buggies (manual droop). Also have a scale winch in the back so can do the same on the rear axle. Doing this sucks the car down onto the axles, lowering CoG and giving an extra level of control. Will probably swap the motor out for an axe, not enjoying the revolver like i used to.

This! From @53HRA 🤤

I've been waiting for the light blue to come back into stock at my LHS for a while now, with the black specks I think it works well. I need to have a play round with the mounting of the shell as the front is a little low. I've got a cheap 1/10 drift spolier on order for the back.