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Last week-end I received a sj30 suzuki body set. A small work for a friend. And included spares to repair the wt01 of my stepson. I'm thinking about the color and detailing. 

Painting the Escort MkII body right now.
No pics..

Meeeheuuu.  Picts please. I'm fan of the escort

Not much to look at atm...

Not goingt to pull the film or masking before the details are painted.

Uploaded another article, accidently trashed ONE. uploaded another one, then replaced the  trashed one  

That sucks jonny.

I did run my Fantom and the Spider Touring Force TF-3 this week-end in Macon on a nice on road track with nice curves and a long straight line...


There was a lot of fun on this week-end with a lot of vintage rc passionate people. Stands of the site were full. Exposition for some, running for some, and both for some...












The track is allowing for some serious running with bigger scales, so the running session was organized based on the registered participation : during each hour, there was two fifteen minutes sessions for electric powered cars (1/10 and 1/12 mixed), one for gas powered (1/8 and 1/10 mixed - including one EP converted 1/8), and one for big scales (1/4 and 1/5 mixed).

There was a lot of fun, and the big scales are truly spectacular to see running (I took some videos, and will share some later), and also when you have a guy running in 1/8 like a champ, with very nice trajectory and regularity (maybe he was running like a champ because he is a champion)...

My son got his newly built Calibra TA02 and his TT02. He got some escaping front dogbones issues on the TT-02, I may need to find him some universal shafts... This is the only issue he reported, he had a lot of fun but did not attend the second day.

On my side, I ran 5 cars there :
- Kyosho Fantom EP-4WD, in terms of track car (about 15 runs of 10 minutes over the week-end), it quickly became my favorite. The one way requires a bit of adaptation, but once you got the fact you need to keep some trigger in while in curve, that is just super fun, as when the rear lose traction, the front kicks in after a short transition
- Kyosho Spider TF3. Initially, I had a doubt about the Kyosho superstock 34 motor I had in this car. I got it with the chassis, and when I built the car, the first try triggered a decision to order in emergency a new motor, just in case. I did 6 runs yesterday, the chassis is having a very nice behavior, very clear and running straight. It was missing a bit of power, but I decided to keep it this way for the time being. Today during the two first run the car seemed to have more brake than yesterday, so I changed the ESC setup, and during the 3rd run, the car stop in one the lines, with smoke going out from under the shell... The lipo was safe, but the motor was super hot. Basically, the motor is dead. I replaced it later on with the replacement motor (a Tamiya Superstock RZ 23 turns), and it ran like a charm, with the additional power which was good in the long straight line
- Tamiya Lunchbox (I never go without this one, for the time when I'm too depleted to run a car seriously) : it was a lot of fun to run on the track with it, and far from being ridiculous
- Tamiya M06 (1 pack only, it is too much imprecise for this exercise, and I think that since I got the two Kyosho built, I will almost never run anymore)
- Nichimo Spirit FF : I took it to the track, as the ground clearance is too low for being run off road seriously. A on road track is where the car runs very well. Except the silver can make it definitely too slow. about 10 minutes run, printed transmission is still working like a charm. I'm curious to see if this can survive a bigger motor, and the idea start to germ in my mind to put some on-road tires on this car for the fun...

There was some people selling stuff, and my son scored a nice BearHawk, while on my side, I succeed to score a nice Marui 360RS motor in better state than the one I got already...



Overall, a very nice event, lot of fun, and waiting for the same event next year already

Fitted headlights on the Austin, and took some happy snaps.

 

Today I finally finished installing and wiring the lights and roll bar on my pick up. 

Wahooo too nice. It's Always cool to see this k serie.