I decided to paint the plain ABS body of my Tamiya Grasshopper. I let my son choose the colour. Of course it's fucking bubblegum pink.
The 'hopper shell is unlike most Tamiya kits in that it is hard ABS white plastic, which is deliberate as you can sticker it up and get pretty close to Box art, Without having to paing anything, in keeping with the entry-level nature of the kit.
I may get another shell off eBay as son no. 2 wants it in candy green.
@geniusmusing they've been reissued! The Hornet and Frog too.
@geniusmusing You can go lipo and brushless too now if you like. It's a bit much for that poor little thing.
I found my old dragster drive while moving last year. Never did get a full power pass out of it, smoked the controller. The best pass I had with it was just under 3 seconds and somewhere in the 50-60 mph range. https://nu.federati.net/attachment/281141
@geniusmusing That's incredibly quick.
The Pro Stock/buggy was running 10 sub-c NiCad's and the dragster ran up to 20 sub-c NiCad's but the last run was only 16 as it smoked with 20.
If you want to see fast...
Worlds Fastest Rc Drag Car 1.11@203kph YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5pYAbxyn-o
@geniusmusing I'm always amused in these videos that most people are above the cars, such is the risk to legs. Someone put a mere 2s Lipo in a Tamiya Frog and got it to do 61mph, which doesn't seem much by drag standards but it's hilarious that a 1983 car can reach such levels.
Always impressed the transmission doesn't give, that even on older cars if you get the pinion mesh right they're usually fine.
@geniusmusing I read of an interesting side effect of high torque in the 4wd drivelines of some stock cars - the propshaft starts to 'skipping rope' I.e. the rotation movement changes to a kind of helical movement and it fucks everything.
I can confirm this, one of the "toys" I had was a 4WD car/buggy(?), I don't remember the name/manf but it had a real differential in it (ring, pinion/etc) and it was the parts I used for the dragster drive diff. Me being me, I had to make it quicker and faster so I dropped the drive prop shaft from the rear to the front and added a second motor to the front. It caused other issues but I didn't have the issue I had with the front/rear propshaft, usually falling out at some point due to the 'skipping rope' effect.
They still make them?!?!
I had one a very, very long time ago, nothing near stock when I was done with it. I turned it into a 10 cell (NiCad was the only option then) Pro Stock drag racer complete with the required wheelie bars, functional and needed, to get it to do a 10th scale quarter mile (132 feet) in around 4 seconds. I forget the speed but I think it was around 40-45 mph or so.