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Hi @Lopes3d, cheers mate. I'm discovering a few decent locations round this way, so give me a shout if your up for popping out for a bashing session before the weather gets real bad👍🙂

No one? Anyone no of any decent off road tracks in the south east area maybe? Cheers

Got the old shell delivered, got to say I like the bashed up, used look it has... I also fitted an old driver figure that I got with another 2nd hand buggy recently. The battery was a bit loose in it's cage so for now I've fitted some foam number plate tape to ensure a more snug fit. Out on the range... Picked up some white wheels to better match the haze grey/blue/white colour scheme. Think I might put some Tamiya stickers on the inside of the wheel rims as well, there's a pretty big empty dish in there. For ref these are the wheels from the Tamiya VW T1 Bus Wheelie 1:12 model RWD Monster truck and are a direct fit for the Mad Bull, as are the Wild Willy chrome wheels. Some point soon I'll get the new shell painted and stickered up and then fit the white wheels😀

Hi guys, Anyone in the Farnborough area up for a localish RC blast? Cheers👍

Hello mate, I’m new too, but look forward to seeing what trucks you’re pulling out of the shed! What you got?👍

Build day today. It went pretty smoothly, and was very enjoyable. I found the electronics at the end a bit baffling at first. With no wiring diagram as such for the ESC and Servo plug into the receiver, it took me a while to sort that out. I did however draw first blood with the scalpel... rookie mistake, cleaning the bits off the sides of the parts!🙈 Cleared off my week day 'work from home' desk (Project Manager) in the bedroom bay window and set this up... A mildly confusing mess, Google soon resolved all issues, as did reading some of the ESC and Radio kit instructions!... Cut some of the posts off the mechanism deck and fitted the ESC and receiver on top. Are they better placed lower into the shell?.... Took it for a run at the rec over the road and it was f**king great fun! Attempted to tweak the trim, if that's the correct word? and that seemed to go ok. Surprisingly I got on really well with the pistol grip. I was hesitant due to having only used sticks back in the 90's, but it was really intuitive. I found it harder trying to judge the speed and turn in points on some of the tighter corners on the paths in the park, but I'm sure that will come with experience. One thing I found really odd is the fact you can't just whack it into reverse, it seems you have to touch the reverse on the trigger and hit it again once it slowed to the engage reverse, otherwise it just doesn't move. I guess that's just the nature of the gear box and ensures it doesn't get mashed. Even with the big tyres, the car got stuck in long grass once, but it managed some jumps down grassy banks with style and it was great fun drifting round the corners on the tarmac paths (the few times I got it right and didn't crash into a bush!😆). The car is definitely not quick, but that's fine, it'll allow me to get used to driving it and it's not exactly designed to be a speed demon. However, from this first drive I can see myself at least fitting a more powerful motor in the not too distant future. My son loved it and was chasing it all over the place and racing it. We shared the controller and he operated one of the controls whilst I operated the other, in a very large area of local rec's football field, was great fun!! He was very sad when the battery ran out and we had to go home for dinner!🤗 Tomorrow the battered shell should be arriving, and we'll be taking it to a local country park. I bought a 2nd NiMH battery, 4500mAh to go with the 3000mAh I got when buying the car. I think I'll get maybe 45mins or so out of the two.

Ha, yeah I see your point. For me it's nice to be able to upgrade something tbh and for just a few quid! This hobby is going to be way cheaper than the motorcycles I usually tinker with!😂

Thanks guys, appreciate the input👍 I'm going to build the kit tomorrow, any advice re do's and don'ts? The chap in the shop said I need to make sure to center the steering servo before I connect the linkage.

Thanks for the warm welcome guys🙂 Yes Bajadre, it was a great swap for an old pair of Nike's and gave me my first ownership of a genuine Tamyia, as opposed to the ready to race £30 jobbies from Argos! Big Homer I think it was called. A midi hi-fi is also a fair trade!😆 Thanks for the links Larry. I've gone with the Mad Bull for a few reasons, detailed in link to my build thread below, but I think that if I get the RC bug badly then I'll be picking up a Neo Scorcher next, it seems like a real bargain for a 4WD buggy.

Hi guys, So my first steps back into RC'ing since the 90's are with the purchase of the below... Today I visited my local model shop (support the local guy FTW) and picked up the a Mad Bull and a starter kit - not sure if it's particularly good kit, but looks similar to what is on offer from other online shops. Also, got the bearing set, but it seams they are not the sealed type, does that matter? I was really tempted by the Blitzer Beetle and it would be a more interesting build. However, for my current needs (first kit back into RC'ing, 4 year old son who loves monster trucks, need for it to take jumps and bashes as well as a Tamiya can) the Mad Bull seems an appropriate, cheaper option... for now😉 I also bought a well used body shell from eBay (apparently 90's body shell, not bothered if it is or not) so that I can use that whilst I paint the other one and also whilst my 4 year old (and myself) gets to grips with RC and pistol grip! I've bought a set of the Mad Bull stickers in blue (my boys fav colour) and I'm going to paint the body in Haze Grey, see spray can in the photo above. So I'll end up with a grey/blue colour palette and yellow wheels, plan to get some generic yellow stickers from somewhere to tie in with the wheels and maybe leave some of the blue stickers off to make space for yellow if needed. Any advice very welcome! Will add further updates as I get through the build👍

Hey Tony, Nice reading your thread, the first I've gone through since joining the forum earlier this evening. You've had an interesting journey with the Mad Bull I see. I'm thinking about getting one myself as my first step back into RC since the 90s! I have read that the Mad Bull has some questionable handling, due to the front end, but that is also the reason for the name apparently!🤣 How do you rate the Mad Bull as a return to the RC world for some fun? What is the deal with the heat shrink on the steering linkage, how does that improve the handling? Cheers

Hi guys, I'm based in Farnborough in Hampshire, and glad to be joining the forum. I used to have a Hotshot II back in the 90's (traded for it with a mate for a pair of Air Max 90s😂). My little bro used to have a Black Foot. I stumbled across Tamiya again on the weekend somehow and and I'm now set on getting a car again, going to visit a localish store tomorrow. I'm looking for a bit of nostalgia, so really glad to see all the re re's that have come out over the last couple of decades. I'm looking for something to build and to play with my son, and he's gonna like jumping it, so thinking of a Mad Bull or perhaps a Blitzer Beetle. Are those durable? Well for a Tamiya anyway Any advice would be very welcome, in particular on the selection of a first purchase back into the RC world. Also, I see there have been advances with motors to brushless and Ni-cad batteries are a thing of the past now! 🤔 Cheers!