Tamiya Porsche 934 RSR 10th Anniv. TAMICO Vaillant Edt. TA02SW Kit

Mines shipped

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So jealous! Looks a cracking kit. Are you going to build it, or keep in box?

2 minutes ago, tolk83 said:

49 minutes ago, Guns said:

Mines shipped

So jealous! Looks a cracking kit. Are you going to build it, or keep in box?

Probably keep it in the box tbh. Im dead against that normally, but for the sake of £190 why not?

 

I kinda wanna see the FRP chassis though!

Looks like theres 195 left to buy if you’re interested 

Hah my mrs would murder me before i could admire it.

3 hours ago, Guns said:

Probably keep it in the box tbh. Im dead against that normally, but for the sake of £190 why not?

 

I kinda wanna see the FRP chassis though!

 

I bought the Jagermeister 40th off Tamico on one of their xmas deals, 166 euro. It stayed in the box for the best part of 6 months, no intention in building it. Then decided to crack it open

 

The chassis got built but decided I fancied a Taisan Starcard shell, purchased a 911 GT2 shell and rear wing, decals from MCI.

 

 

 

 

 

Still got the Jagermeister shell, decals and plastic parts which may get painted up one day.

 

The build is simalar to your 911 GT2 TA02-SW chassis, front and rear gearbox. It's the bit in the middle that is different. Very very nice.

 

Knowing there's only 195 of the Vaillant left, I may have to bag one quicker than I thought

 

25 minutes ago, ChrisT said:

 

I bought the Jagermeister 40th off Tamico on one of their xmas deals, 166 euro. It stayed in the box for the best part of 6 months, no intention in building it. Then decided to crack it open

 

The chassis got built but decided I fancied a Taisan Starcard shell, purchased a 911 GT2 shell and rear wing, decals from MCI.

 

 

 

 

 

Still got the Jagermeister shell, decals and plastic parts which may get painted up one day.

 

The build is simalar to your 911 GT2 TA02-SW chassis, front and rear gearbox. It's the bit in the middle that is different. Very very nice.

 

Knowing there's only 195 of the Vaillant left, I may have to bag one quicker than I thought

 

I can see me building it. Yours looks epic mate. Thanks for the photos of the FRP Chassis, looks epic. 

 

Does the Tamico one come with the ESC? I think it comes with LED lights too?

 

192 left now

Jesus! Is this how much the hop up chassis is?

 

https://www.rcjaz.co.uk/tamiya-53166-4wd-ta02-fwd-car-frp-chassis-set-p-6309.html

8 minutes ago, Guns said:

I can see me building it. Yours looks epic mate. Thanks for the photos of the FRP Chassis, looks epic. 

 

Does the Tamico one come with the ESC? I think it comes with LED lights too?

 

192 left now

 

It does come with LED kit and the ESC is not included, same as the Jagermeister 40th and Black Edition.

 

What you'll get is the Black Edition with Vaillant decals and blue spoiler/mirror parts.

 

Also, I beleive the box is just wrapped in a sleeve that Tamico had made up. It is held in place by the shrink wrap. It was too much effort to have ONLY 333 boxes made up specially. Don't be surprised if when you unwrap it the sleeve falls away and there's a Black Edition box underneath. Don't hold me to the box being a Black Edition, but the box art is definitley a sleeve.

 

192 eh? I'll check back in the morning and make a decision. I can't see them being there at the end of the month.

 

3 minutes ago, ChrisT said:

 

It does come with LED kit and the ESC is not included, same as the Jagermeister 40th and Black Edition.

 

What you'll get is the Black Edition with Vaillant decals and blue spoiler/mirror parts.

 

Also, I beleive the box is just wrapped in a sleeve that Tamico had made up. It is held in place by the shrink wrap. It was too much effort to have ONLY 333 boxes made up specially. Don't be surprised if when you unwrap it the sleeve falls away and there's a Black Edition box underneath. Don't hold me to the box being a Black Edition, but the box art is definitley a sleeve.

 

192 eh? I'll check back in the morning and make a decision. I can't see them being there at the end of the month.

 

I guessed it would be something like that. If I had the black edition TA-02SW I wouldn't have bothered by my TA-02SW Porsche is just the standard one..... and If Im honest its probably my favourite model!

 

@53HRA PM'd me early on the release day of this to show me. I initially dismissed it as Im currently in my first week of Self Employment. Im in a bizarre situation where Ive never had so much money in my bank, but Im scared to spend a penny as its going to be a slow slow road getting some decent income coming in regularly, and I still need to buy a van and drills!! But the more I thought about it, I thought why not so I ordered one about 11am. 333 sounds a very low number, but Ive no idea? For example how many of a 'normal' popular model (say the TT-01e Subaru Impreza) would be produced.

1 minute ago, Guns said:

333 sounds a very low number, but Ive no idea? For example how many of a 'normal' popular model (say the TT-01e Subaru Impreza) would be produced.

 No idea either by 333.

 

I guess a normal model production is just ongoing over a long period of time, maybe thousands over a period of years, really don't know.

 

What we do know is only 333 of these Tamico specials have been made and that there are only 190 left now

Yep, it is a Black Edition box underneath the sleeve.

 

 

175 left

174.

 

https://tamico.de/Tamiya-Porsche-934-RSR-10th-Anniv-TAMICO-Vaillant-Edt-TA02SW-Kit

 

And nope, I havn't bought one yet

One less in stock

Mines arrived

 

7 hours ago, Guns said:

Mines arrived

 

 

Name and number laddy

 

What number you got? should say on the spine.

Got mine yesterday. 120  

It sounds like tamiya wants to sell anything but competitive kits lol. I was the kid who wanted a tamiya rc its all Argos shown. The first focus or scooby tt01 kits mayb tl01 it was all about the body to me then. But never got one so don't have any link to tamiya and really cant see why new people would either. Apart from the price and to display. 

 

But didnt tamiya ban sellers from putting tamiya kits on special offer? Diminishes the brand, nothing so funny sitting on designs for decades diminished the brand. Now its probably more focused on trippy stuff than rc cars. The scaletrix type rcs you just accelerate brake they bounce from wall to wall in the crazy coaster style tracks. Or the robotic type rcs. They look cool but why cant they modernize the tamiya line up. When their trying to do all the crazy innovative other things. 

 

Its all good. Until they say cheap prices diminished the brand lol. 

 

11 hours ago, ChrisT said:

 

Name and number laddy

 

What number you got? should say on the spine.

Where am I looking?

I bet the first 50 or so was sent to special fans, dealers or sons. 

 

So is tamico another tamiya? 

I bet the first 50 or so was sent to special fans, dealers or sons. 
 
So is tamico another tamiya? 

Tamico is a german model shop. Pretty good prices, I've had a few bits from them now. 2 day delivery most times too!

49 minutes ago, RCbutcher said:

I bet the first 50 or so was sent to special fans, dealers or sons. 

 

So is tamico another tamiya? 

I think youre reading into it too much. Its not much of a special thing to be honest. I just love Porsche's and for €199 cant moan.

Tamico are just a model shop in Germany that sell a lot of Tamiyas at very good prices. They obviously have a deal too celebrate 10 years dealing with Tamiya so have come up with this special edition as a small celebration I guess. Its just a regular TA-02SW  Black edition which has some nice hop ups and LED lights, but with a new decals set and a a special sleeve on the box.

Edited August 7, 2018 by Guns

Seems people use any excuse to try and kick Tamiya. They are and always have been a gateway to the hobby grade stuff. Sure. you can buy more technically advanced products, but they also cost a lot more.

2 hours ago, Guns said:

Where am I looking?

 

On one of the sides above the Tamiya logo. Should be a white rectangle.