Father Son Tamiya New Build Project.

[nigelpugh7]

So as we know today was wet, windy and miserable! No drone or RC flying today!

So we decided it was time to make a start on Toms first ever Tamiya RC kit built he got for Christmas!

Of course it’s going to take me back many many years to when I was a teenager building Tamiya kits all that time ago!

[nigelpugh7]

First job was outriggers and front suspension.

You do forget when you have been building and racing 1/12 Pan cars, 1/10 and 1/8 buggies for 25 years just how basic the Tamiya models are, but they are still fun!

[nigelpugh7]

I put Tom to work on fitting the tyres to the rims.

Nice that they were three part rims, but my god they were hard to get the centre section of the rim inside the tyre!

[nigelpugh7]

The front suspension uprights are next, they are stupidly basic, they don’t even have a shock, just a spring with a rubber compression pipe inside.

I can see me changing that.

I’ve already done a few upgrades of some parts prior to the build.

[petemurphy]

ah memories of my wild one that I had!

[nigelpugh7]

petemurphy said:

ah memories of my wild one that I had!

Exactly! I really wanted to get the XR 311,,but couldn’t find one at the Time!

https://www.tamiya.com/english/products/58004xr311...

[caterhamnut]

petemurphy said:

ah memories of my wild one that I had!

Me too!!

[nigelpugh7]

caterhamnut said:

petemurphy said:

ah memories of my wild one that I had!

Me too!!

I think we all had those memories, it’s seems every Pistonhead was a Tamiya kid growing up.

For us it was also the catalogues, they had so much amazing detail in them, and like most I suspect they got thrown away over the years, which we now all regret!

I also recently bagged the Tamiya Tyrell six wheeler RC, which again as a lad was a car I always wanted, so that will be next on the build list.

[HTP99]

nigelpugh7 said:

caterhamnut said:

petemurphy said:

ah memories of my wild one that I had!

Me too!!

I think we all had those memories, it’s seems every Pistonhead was a Tamiya kid growing up.

For us it was also the catalogues, they had so much amazing detail in them, and like most I suspect they got thrown away over the years, which we now all regret!

I also recently bagged the Tamiya Tyrell six wheeler RC, which again as a lad was a car I always wanted, so that will be next on the build list.

Yep, these threads always bring back memories of my Tamiya RC days when a teenager (44 now!), I had a Grasshopper and a Lunchbox; both of which I spent small fortunes on, upgrading.

I would take them either to my school at the weekend with my mate Toff, and use the playground (now it's all fenced and gated) or to the local Sainsburys which was shut on a Sunday and use the car park.

Happy days.

[nigelpugh7]

HTP99 said:

nigelpugh7 said:

caterhamnut said:

petemurphy said:

ah memories of my wild one that I had!

Me too!!

I think we all had those memories, it’s seems every Pistonhead was a Tamiya kid growing up.

For us it was also the catalogues, they had so much amazing detail in them, and like most I suspect they got thrown away over the years, which we now all regret!

I also recently bagged the Tamiya Tyrell six wheeler RC, which again as a lad was a car I always wanted, so that will be next on the build list.

Yep, these threads always bring back memories of my Tamiya RC days when a teenager (44 now!), I had a Grasshopper and a Lunchbox; both of which I spent small fortunes on, upgrading.

I would take them either to my school at the weekend with my mate Toff, and use the playground (now it's all fenced and gated) or to the local Sainsburys which was shut on a Sunday and use the car park.

Happy days.

Yep pretty much the same as us.

We started off with Kyosho Turbo Optima Mids, and a group of four of us used to race them around the local school car parks.

I seem to recall we used to get through about 5 pairs of front wishbones every time we raced them!

We progressed to 1/10 4 wheel drive flow engines cars, and ultimately to 1/8 glow on road cars.

Sadly the biggest issue these days is where to actually race them, seems glow engined stuff is frowned upon now.

A few years back I built a 1/10 brushless rock crawler, but never got around to doing much wirh it.

Today at the woods walking the dog there was a big group of guys with a whole range of off road rock crawlers and buggies, perhaps I should get it rolling again and get out there!

[nigelpugh7]

Not much to add today, been a busy Sunday with dog walking and Toms Rugby awards and presentations!

So no actual work on the build, but have Been looking at the motor I chose for the build.

It’s only a Tamiya super stock motor, but the difference between that an the standard 540 motor are like chalk and cheese!

[RobXjcoupe]

I’ve recently been having a building stint with old tamiya cars. Grey beetle is on a grasshopper 2 chassis, the black beetle is fitted to a frog chassis. As a kid with just a small fund from a paper round most upgrades were beyond me. As a 47 year old it’s fun looking for all the old school hop ups and building cars around them.