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 You can go lipo and brushless too now if you like. It's a bit much for that poor little thing.
@geniusmusing That's incredibly quick.
@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.