As for those who wonder why we would go to the extremes of finding a way to run these alongside Tycos:

http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj136/EAHORC/Vill%20Rothmans%20Mega-G/2009Fastbodies90sWilliams11.jpg

Not much we can do about those who want to stick with Tyco :)

it's a great kit we have here ! but I'm not into modern cars...I'll wait for vintage ones :thumbsup:

Thanks for the fantastic photo essay on Fastlap's new project, Montoya1. This should make sure Gary's order book is filled.

I hope so.

Nice Job!

Also, it looks like the Mattel car has the '09-spec rear wing compared to the '97 Williams.

Just in time for the new-look 2009 F1 body style!

oops! Logged in under my "real car BBB name". I have to delete that. Send any communications to Fastlap......

Thanks

Gary, once the dust has settled, if you can mock up what a finished but unpainted ''West McLaren'' and ''JPS/Martini Lotus'' would look like I can start trying to round up those 10 orders we spoke about.

Hope the rest of the move goes well.

Deane,

Should be the end of this coming week. I will take a photo of the painted McLaren. I will have to sand the nose down on another body for the unpainted photo shot. I may have one in the camera though that I took before I painted the body. I will have to look.

The Lotus, or at least the body I have modeled from the AFX lotus is very close to the final casting mold. I actually opened up the driver cockpit and subbed in the Ferrari 312PB driver, compliments from Dranoel Dragon. He sent me a couple 312's to hack the driver figures from. Thanks Dragon!!! That driver body is much more realistic than the flat driver in the AFX Lotus. And, it all clears the workings of the Mega-G chassis. I'll post a current photo of that as soon as I can find which box I put it in.

I was making great progress on all the modeling right to the point of keeping Mama happy that I was fully committed to the move......:lol::lol::lol:

Gary,

Thats good. I don't know how many, if any, orders I can get from the UK crowd, but I would like to think the HO community as a whole would bite. After all, it is not as if open wheelers for the Mega-G are plentiful.

I have been playing around with the Mega-G chassis, looking at ways to get down to and near our new 453 rule. This is why the Williams has chromed wheels in the pictures. I intend to yellow up some black wheels and take some more pictures at some point.

The Williams is 0.3g heavier than a standard Champcar body, and all of that or more is in the nose. I am hoping this will be a good thing and will help cornering stability as well as making the mega less of a wimp in battles. Our group have noticed that the mega tends to lose if it goes into a corner alongside a Tyco, if things get a little robust its the MG that de-slots.

I am additionally working on some shallow-dish metal wheels with the guy who supplies BSRT with some of their trick items, with the same thing in mind:

http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj136/EAHORC/Misc/Megadishfrontwheel.jpg

As thing stand, the Mega-G has impressive acceleration and torque, and over a lap of a typical UK track I prefer driving it to a Tyco. More weight will change the way the car feels, but the good thing is, just as with F1, you can have a lot of fun and make a lot of changes with a chassis that is 'underweight'.