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Edou wrote:

Not disappointed by the total look.

Me like!
Very good looking, almost Stealth like...
Is grey the new blue?

-Lars

Thanks, I do think the titaniumish colours are my favourite. And I've done a lot of blue already.
Not to mention the mucho blue F103 that's still in the planning...

Hit a bit of a bump in the build 'cause I fear I'll be needing some 6mm ball nuts for the front shocks after all.
But I think I've found an appropriate item (51130) - for a Tamiya nitro car they call them ball collars.
The ones called nuts only come in blue or red. Gonna need black or similar here...
Also saw an alternative (titanium coloured) by 3Racing. They use the term ball studs.

did you mean these?



edit: those 51130 look very nice...

the shocks look great, mine didn't come with the ball joints either

waterbok wrote:

did you mean these?

Oeh... nice stash! Haha. And yes, the one on the bottom right looks like a match.
Wanna trade? If you have four of them, I'll send you a pack of 51130s back later.
Main thing at this moment is to finish the car as soon as I can...

@zephyrin : it would have been nice if they'd added a few. Now my build's delayed.
Or maybe I should just keep better stock.

Waterbok, Ducdennis might have some... national should go a bit faster too.

Ok, but I just made another picture to drool over



both ballcollars and nuts 5 and 6mm, fresh delivery from Seidel (never know when you need some right)

got some spare hardened driveshafts too (both lenght for TA and DF)

One can never have enough parts like that.
Got some different type adjusters coming in as spares. Like these heavy duty ones that got the Tamiya logo on 'em.

waterbok wrote:

got some spare hardened driveshafts too

I can kinda match you there. I've got two sets for the TA01-TA02.

I wrote:

One of the very first TBG MkII undercowls for the FRP chassis.
Gotta say I'm slightly impressed with the quality of the new item.
Looks great and feels very sturdy. I'll have to compare but I think they even used a thicker material this time.

Here's the confirmation on that - very nice :


I'll have to wait on some parts to finish the current build...

Btw - eddrick, the gear set you sent is taking absurdly long now...

Edit - not complaining to you of course, just about the mail service between our countries.