All things R/C

[Smitty335]

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She will be kicking your butt in a couple years as long as you keep her in batteries. HA! Killer! Has she guided one before? She will catch on quick!

 

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[Smitty335]

She will be kicking your butt in a couple years as long as you keep her in batteries. HA! Killer! Has she guided one before? She will catch on quick!

Have a good nights sleep!

 

[Adam490]

Have a good nights sleep!

I just cracked another Busch Latte. Not going to bed any time soon!

 

[Adam490]

@Mopower58 - I saw where you were saying your wife has access to that heat activated film. That's basically what is on the outside of the bodies that they call overspray film. A buddy of mine tried doing it on the inside and the paint bled through all the cuts. It just doesn't stick well enough. If you go with the liquid mask, try applying it to the scrap pieces of lexan on your body before you go at it. You want to be able to basically drag the #11 blade through it without using much force.

What design are you planning on going with on your Ram?

 

[Adam490]

Found some pictures of my old 1/36 Micro-T body. Phone cameras weren't quite what they are today lol

Found some of another paint job on the 1/36 that weren't taken with a potato...

 

[Adam490]

Think I'm going to go back to this paint scheme on my X-Maxx Raptor body

 

[Adam490]

I had to pay $6 to get into my old Photobucket account. This is like a treasure trove haha

 

[Ridinfool]

When you charge these this way are they balanced? I've got a quick charger that charges through the balance terminal on the battery?

My charger is not a quick charger, but you do have to set it for the type of battery you are charging. Yes you are supposed to use the balance port when you charge a LiPo battery.

 

[Adam490]

This was a fun one to cut out...

 

[Ridinfool]

Hey Adam, on that tire venting thing how many holes do I want to put, 1-2-4.

 

[Ridinfool]

I always had fun painting bodies, I was nowhere good as you, but I still had fun with it.

 

[Adam490]

Hey Adam, on that tire venting thing how many holes do I want to put, 1-2-4.

On a crawler you're fine with one.

 

[Adam490]

I always had fun painting bodies, I was nowhere good as you, but I still had fun with it.

Same here. I had lots and lots and lots of practice. I'm trying to find my oldest upload on Photobucket but this interface is s***. Stumbled across this one I did. I always liked this color scheme. It's got a marbled red/black pearl under the green.

 

[Adam490]

Damn I always liked this picture. I retro'd my Dad's old RC10 paint job onto a modern (at the time) 1/8 scale nitro buggy.

 

[Ridinfool]

Same here. I had lots and lots and lots of practice. I'm trying to find my oldest upload on Photobucket but this interface is s***. Stumbled across this one I did. I always liked this color scheme. It's got a marbled red/black pearl under the green.

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That’s bad azz, my first body was a 56 Ford that was on my traxxis buggy, working at a sign company I was able to find some cool funky colors laying around to use, it was a bright orange and fluorescent green.

 

[Adam490]

Here's a good one showing some marble effect

 

[Ridinfool]

Damn I always liked this picture. I retro'd my Dad's old RC10 paint job onto a modern (at the time) 1/8 scale nitro buggy.

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Love the RC10 pic, that’s what most of the guys I ran with had, except we raced in a parking lot so they where more set up for road racing.

 

[Ridinfool]

Here's a good one showing some marble effect

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Nice.

 

[Adam490]

Love the RC10 pic, that’s what most of the guys I ran with had, except we raced in a parking lot so they where more set up for road racing.

My dad worked for Lockheed Martin (well, still does) so he had access to quite a bit of machinery and material that a lot of others didn't. Pretty sure he had a carbon fiber chassis, shock towers, custom motor mounts, etc. before anybody even thought to put them on an R/C car. That one in the picture was an OG gold tub at one point in its life.

 

[Adam490]

Oh sweet lord I forgot about this feller...

I drew, cut, and painted those damn sheep in this thing. The guy was a dope head and always called himself the "blacksheep". He paid me $150 to paint this...