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OK so I changed my mind again. After a long hard think I decided to go with this.



Basically the Tamiya Titan comes with a crap ESC, crap motor and isn't ball raced. By the time I change them to something even half reasonable I would have spent more money. The Cougar was £196 btw. Here are the parts I got to go with it. Note, there's nothing brushless or lipo in sight but that's no problem as it gives me something to look forward to and something to upgrade to (so I can tinker).















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Oh and front and rear tyres (spiked) because the car doesn't come with any.

Very nice from what I've read, but you could get a 4x4 Quanum Vandal / brushless combo / radio gear / LiPo and charger from Hobbyking for the same money.

I spent £140 on everything else other than the car. The radio will work with brushless.

Don't forget £20 of that was on tyres. Then there's a hex nut driver etc.

From what I'm hearing about brushless motors I'm a little scared. Apparently they hate water, and the beach is covered with puddles.

Also dude, you have to remember I have never used lipo or brushless before.

It doesn't matter, in four weeks time I'll be buying all that stuff any way

Edit. For example the motor was £10, controls £34, charger £21 (mains) and batteries £14 each. There's no way I could have afforded brushless and lipo for that.

Edit again. Ohhh I see! You mean like everything in a combo. Yeah I looked at those but I've always wanted a schuey of my own. As a kid I couldn't afford one mostly because an esc was £90 then and you couldn't fit a standard speed controller so a mate of mine with rich parents used to loan me one of his cats for racing.

It'll be a nice buggy mate. Don't want to be negative just saying rather than upgrade (like I did at first) you could go brushless / LiPo from the start.

All motors hate salt water too

I couldn't afford to really dude. I'd have been looking at over £600.

Then of course there's this with the Vandal that would have really put me off..



Just hoping I can get my head around it, because the instruction manual is quite daunting. It's odd how they are showing it going together, yet not telling you the part numbers etc. Hoping it's easier than it looks

£600?

Mark and I have ran our Vandals with very little trouble for two years now. Had to replace slipper clutch and spur gear... and wear and tear stuff like tyres, shells. Parts are pence for them and available everywhere.

Anyway I'll stop banging on about them now. Enjoy your buggy JC, sure it won't be your last

Nope definitely won't be the last. I live four miles from Ford Airfield and there are three ww2 runways still there so I also want an on roader.

Car is coming today. I've ordered a reasonably large bottle of shock oil, Tamiya spanner and thread lock and they're all here. I downloaded the manual for the car and that was all it suggested I would need but I see an awful lot of Allen bolts on the car so I just hope it comes with an Allen key.

If not I'll have to go out later today and get one.

Awww bollocks. I thought this came with a flat black body. It's clear and I don't have any paint. I've ordered some Tamiya paint hopefully have it soon.

Took the car up for a thrash on the Common - for a brushed car it goes some.

Of course the cows are out, so I then spent half an hour cleaning liquidised cow shit out of it afterwards...

Spent last night building a DT-02 out off the two non runners I have. But had the same main broken part on both! Managed to glue it back together for now while a spare comes from Japan (worryingly little spares available locally). Had it cogging on 3S but running fine on 2S battery so leaving it at that.

Well my car came on Monday.

Truth be told I did not realise that a RC car could possibly ever be this complicated. It took me five hours just to build the front end. I don't regret it though. Even the steering joints and so on are all ball raced and then held in with carbon fibre pieces



That's where I was at before yesterday, when I started the build of the gearbox, clutch and diff. The diff is a bit of a sod....

Not far to go now. Just have to glue on the tyres, fit and track them and then paint the body

Good work. And because you built it you'll have problem mending it when it breaks.

Went out with Zardoz at lunchtime and followed his plane with my quad as he appeared to try and crash it into some goal posts:

Awesome

Is Zardoz operating the elevator with a head wand?

Good fun at lunchtime

Got the new FULL METAL JACKET landing gear on my Skyraider afterwards, so that's ready to crash again now.

No.

I use that to control your mother.

That's awesome. Looks like you have the nice weather too

I hope you fly her with a little more finesse, lead paws.

Finesse is for fannies.

Also, shut it 'brushed boy', you scrubber.

Exactly.

Some of us don't need artificial aids to go faster and longer, old man.

Guys are ESCS supposed to be noisy? This thing beeps and whines like a pig.

The two or three I've had are, yes.

I see thanks.

Nothing to worry about then

Beeps are for 'armed' 'I'm not armed' and programming stuff.

Whines and other noise are from the fan. All of mine are noisy but you don't really hear them at all when they're crashing



New props arrived for my Corsair so I'll soon be airborne again. For a bit.

It doesn't have a fan..

I can live with it, given that it'll be away from me. One thing I don't like though is that there's sometimes a delay between going forward and going backwards.

That's to prevent you from stripping the gears.

Ahhhhh. I see!

Bah, takes away spins though lol.

Gave my TT-02 Capri a run tonight. Very nice indeed Needs a little adjustment to the steering turnbuckles (didn't have spanner with me) and a check to see if anything worked loose.

Looks sweet !

I was hoping to paint the body of mine today but I realised that you can't just spray flip paint on without a black base coat. So I need to order some black spray first. Harumph.

Don't you spray the flip paint first then back it up with black? You spray the inside of the shell rather than the outside.

Just fixed my little RC boat too by stripping out the safety circuit

Usually I would but the shell is not clear. It's kinda milky so if I paint the inside it'll be flat.

Is it milky due to the outside protective film?

I don't think it has film on it no. It's kinda like a satin finish.

TBH I've not really looked at it closely yet. I can't paint it here because we have no garden so I went over to mum's today and the moment we left the pissing rain came. So it's still not painted

Mum gave me a load of newspapers so I'll do it in the kitchen. There was no point getting it ready because the airfield I'm planning on running it at is a good few miles away so Mrs JC is going to stop in and see her whilst I'm racing the car and Mrs JC senior has been away.

So hopefully I can race it Monday or Tuesday next week... If you look at the pic I posted you can see the milky finish. I'm going to have a look at it now to see if it has any film on it

Blimey well I'll be darned it does indeed have film on it (or did, now I've got to mask it lol)

It's a good thing you told me that or I'd have spray painted the film lmao.

Don't, I feel like a complete pillock.

Maybe that rain was actually good.....

Downloaded this last night:

http://fpv-freerider.itch.io/fpv-freerider

It's a simulator for flying mini quads FPV. It's superb and will no doubt save me a small fortune in broken props. The control scheme of these little things is just so satisfying to master. I reckon there's bound to be some sort of console game based around this before long.

Got the body and wing painted. Couple of small runs (you can't actually see the flip going on it's almost transparent) but nothing a couple of well placed stickers won't hide.

I still have to apply all of the decals I want, so will get some pics when it's all finished

The kids and I took the Carnage up onto the Common this afternoon, got some excellent jumps in. On the downside, had to clean dog shit out of the inside this time. I know #notalldogowners blah blah blah, but fuck's sake, there are enough bad ones that, frankly, fuck the lot of you.

That sucks. Only really run my cars on car parks or very short grass, still no guarantee you won't hit a turd though.

Giving some serious thought to going in for my BNUC-S exams.

The number of offers of work I'm getting for aerial video is quite staggering (some of them even know about The Incident ) and it's annoying having to turn them down because I'm not licensed.

What's "quite staggering"? One a week? One a day? More?

Averaged out probably about one a week, yep. I suppose not a huge amount, but I guess I just didn't think it'd be that popular.

I'd consider "one" to be a pretty huge amount, to be honest.