OMG im seeing double (Nitro RC shells)

paradigm

paradigm

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Had a productive day today even if it was spent stood in the garage for about 10 hours, my GOD the smell of RC paint is just gorgeous :D

Me and Mark (firestar) decided to spray up some matching NSX's for our Nitro RS4 RTR 3 EVO's, but with a simple colour difference to distinguish them. Took a while to settle on a design (which changed as we went along! lol), then a little longer to settle on colours. Today really made me realise just how many masking and airbrushing skills I have lost over the years of neglect :(

So, a few pics:


Shell being masked up, mix of tamiya stripe tape,
normal masking tape, and the supplied (crap) window masks.
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Can just about see the carbon effect spray job (my
god that is fiddly to mask), and the awesome blue colour.
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Got through a fair amount of various pactra paint, not to mention a small lakes worth of thinners!
 
looks very nice, almost as good as the nsx i saw yesterday :D, seem quite a high cut at the back though!
 
SoliD said:
quite a high cut at the back though!
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Have to remember that they aren't modelled on the road-going car. The cut is strangely correct for the shell, and helps with starting the engine (if using rotostart). :)
 
Its good to see someone else into rc cars! I used to race them, and had some good results......but I had to stop due to work and uni commitments. I will start again as soon as I get a full time job.

Have you run in the HPI challenge?
 
Sargeantpepper said:
Its good to see someone else into rc cars! I used to race them, and had some good results......but I had to stop due to work and uni commitments. I will start again as soon as I get a full time job.
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Same story with myself. Only now have I got the spare £££ and time to try racing nationally again. Can't wait :) Hope you get back into it too!
 
paradigm said:
Have to remember that they aren't modelled on the road-going car. The cut is strangely correct for the shell, and helps with starting the engine (if using rotostart). :)
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teheh was only kidding :D i know used to play around myself. just realised how awesome those rear lights look, loving the honda insignia in the middle too!
 
My racing calendar would have seen me at any of the following:

Outdoor Onroad (mainly TORC and BRCA series):
Ashby Woulds
Bedworth
Halifax
Stafford
Wrehxam

Indoor Onroad (carpet, CML carpet masters series):
Macclesfield
Stockport
Stafford
 
I love Ashby, great memories, won the HPI challenge there
And Bedworth, really technical track, love it.
I haven't been to the others though, will make sure I do though.

My club used to be Southend, so I will do club meets there first to get back into things. It's so competetive though, gonna have to make sure I get a half decent job!
 
Ashby is my favourite, the technical alpine section, the lovely long straight, and that banked curve, awesome :)

Closest I got to winning a series:

BRCAs.jpg
 
Very cool, indoor is as tough as it comes.

I used to race ministox on carpet, not a lot of people know of them...really low cost racing and great to start on.

I also did the Tamiya eurocup, drove me mad as there was loads of cheating, but I did win the junior title and got taken to Austria which was cool. Got onwed out there though, and my dad even hooked the motor up the wrong way round and I shot of backwards off the line :eek: it was not a great weekend, good experience though.

Then I got an RS4 Nitro (the original model), and we decided to do the challenge, that was great racing and great fun (especially pit stops!) I ended up winning that and got flown to California and won out there too. They gave me an RS4 Pro 2 as a prize so I raced that in the challenge, but kept getting beaten by sponsored drivers :mad:

So I turned 17 and it was time to get a job :( I'm now 22 and absolutley gagging to get back into it.

Sorry for the long post :o
 
Never got into the tamiya eurocup, lots of friends did, but tamiya cars just weren't my thing at all.

Best memory of onroad indoor racing was helping to organise and run the '98 worlds (1/12th and 1/10th scale) in South Shields! Ontrack98 was fantastic!
 
 
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