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  1. bertberr

    Really quite surprised by the lack of better quality 1/10 kits on the market at the moment.  Thanks to family members chipping in for my birthday, I have for first time in years, got a decent amount of folding to throw at a nice quality, fun build (with good ongoing parts/hop-up support) but I can't find anything that ticks all or at least most of the boxes...  May just resort to pulling another project off the shelf!

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    2. monkeyboy_uk

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      If your budget would allow for it, Tekno make really nice quality kits.

       

      Otherwise, as mentioned, Tamico is a great source of Tamiya kits and parts.

    3. bertberr

      bertberr

      To be fair, the Top Force was prob the least badly affected, but even so, the very first part no. I googled - 47373 - Ali Prop and Motor mount was unavailable everywhere inc. Tamico, RC Mart etc.  Likewise the speed gear set - 53127. Ditto the Tamiya motor mount sold separately.  Yes, there are other options, Yeah & GPM, but none of these are available from UK from what I've seen so far, and postage from RCMart etc on smaller items such as motor mount, prop etc turns a ten quid part into a twenty quid part, not to mention if you get stung by customs too. 

       

      So yes, TF partsnot too bad, if you're happy to go non-Tamiya and source from far east, I suppose I'd just like to know that I can get smaller parts easily from my LHS or even ebay UK as a last resort.  Avante/Egress parts - forget it as i don't really fancy a second mortgage, and yet you can still buy these kits new...

    4. No brains

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      The avante/egress I would never buy they are to fragile and expensive and parts to.

       

      If you want to buy everything from uk stores and only tamiya hopups then your options are limited ,even with other brands then tamiya.

       

      For me, I live in the netherlands I always have to buy from shops in germany or china or ebay, the local shops do not have parts  for tamiya or ask 3 times the price for a part.

       

      The only thing now with this corona crisis is, parts stock is getting low, and shipping  cost at  rc mart  are very high at this moment and the time that the parts arrive is months so I stop ordering from them for now.

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