Hi all, thought I may as well do a build thread for this little project of mine. I've always liked these cars and so wanted an RC one but Tamiya discounted the shells and kits sometime ago so prices have been very high. I did see the rallylegends one but It just looks wrong imo, they've clearly stretched it to fit a 257mm wheelbase chassis. However in August I found that Tamiya had done a re run of the shells so I quickly bought one and it arrived about a week later. Anyhow it's sat on the shelf since as I didn't have anything to put under it (239mm wheelbase is awkward) I did think about chopping up a spare tl01 I had but a few weeks ago a M01R long wheelbase came up for sale so I after a few pm's I swapped a drifter for it.
The plan is to make a proper RC rwd Group B rally car with it, maybe a set of on road wheels for those tarmac stages like corsica too.
The M01R is a bit narrow, I had planned on putting TL01 arms on it to widen it as you can do this with the M03 but it turns out you can't on the M01. With 6mm offset wheels it looks about right so I'll have to get some really wide hubs or something so I can use the proper 037 wheels.
And yes that MSC will be going!
More updates eventually...