Liquid Mask is AWESOME! I tried using tape on my first two bodies, I'll never go back!

Do you spray it on, or brush it on?

I love liquid mask as well, I brush it on. It goes on Blue, but dries to almost clear.

i tirted the parma liquid mask, and hated it! never seemed to dry anuf, and always tore! i have yet to use it well anuff to even try painting anything. i always peel it off and use tape.

peter
:)

Spelling aside, :p, clearly people have different results. I will have to give it a try for sure. The tape does work well but the overlap regions just add that much more work.

Hey, I'll take a poll here! I am still planning to do some shadowing on the flames on this body. The question is light shadows or dark? Do I want the flames hovering and blocking light from the blue or hovering and lightening up the blue? You probably have 3 hours to decide!

Spelling aside, :p, clearly people have different results. I will have to give it a try for sure. The tape does work well but the overlap regions just add that much more work.

Hey, I'll take a poll here! I am still planning to do some shadowing on the flames on this body. The question is light shadows or dark? Do I want the flames hovering and blocking light from the blue or hovering and lightening up the blue? You probably have 3 hours to decide!
i think i need my third graders spelling help!;)
what colors are the flames going to be?
if your flames will be dark shadow with a lighter color.

but it's just one of thooooose days! lost a spider gear fo rthe tlt today

so the tlt is shelved again..........

peter
:)

Good advice on the paint choice. I will go dark!

What is the spider gear?

That would be things like your wrist web shooter, mask, utility belt, etc.....

spider gears are in the diff pumpkin. they are what give you a diff action. i had poster tack in the diffs but snapped a axle end...... and was cleaning everything up for some ofna diff lock 120,000 wt oil.

and BILL ;) i think the spider gears would be in the spidy tracers..... you gotta love comics

have a good day
peter

Good one Bill!

I use Traxxas pegs in my center diff but nothing in the axle ones so I haven't seen those sicne I built it up.

i have already chewed up a center diff too. :) i have switched to a gear diff(from the ta04 like ja anderson).

You must drive yours... Mine is holding up fine in the basement.

the body came out very very nicely! Not for close-up inspection but in a 'drive-by' sort of way! pix later

Glad it turned out well Chris.

I've just about finished my tape job on the wing. It to trned out well. Going to hate putting the first ding in it. But looking good until then.

Happy long weekend ya all.

Once you get that first ding though, then it is fair game and it doesn't hurt that much!

The attempt at shadowing on this body was a complete failure! Luckily I am using water based paint so I was able to simply wash off the disaster and start fresh. I need a lesson on airbrushing but also I probably need a different brush or new parts for this one. I am too cheap!

So, here are a couple pix, as promised. This is pretty much in race set-up. The batts are strapped underneath (with very strong tape). I figure I can run one pack and recharge rather than untape all the time although I have plenty of tough tape!

looks good to me chris!
and yes i had run my tlt alot till i snapped the axle end. has beem down 2+months waiting for parts. the last couple of months i have just run everything into the ground. the whole sitting still and doing repair work hasen't been an option.

have a good weekend, we are off to watch a softball turny.. wife is head of the local little league(softball side).......

peter

Looks real good Chris.

How about a photo with the lid off so we can see that brushless set up?

I'm sure your all waiting to hear how well the wing flew with it's new tape job. Good. It is a little nose heavy but that can be trimmed out and it should fly in the heavier wind much better than before. So all and all it is Good.Now to get the trucks ready for the Harris/Catalina Drive Off. The first thing I need to do is give every truck I have more ground clearence.:p

Hey, I thought you said they got rid of most of those pesky buffalo!


had a grand 4th today1 We got up at 5 and headed down to Cape Cod, our "local" awesome beach area. we left at 6:30 and the ride of 110 miles take s~ 1.5 hours. (speed limits? what are those anyway?). spent a great morning at the beach, early afternoon bayside and then hauled butt back home for a nic eparty next door! Couldn't be better.

Of course we had to take the trucks out for show and tell. ( A bevy of lovely young women always need to be impressed!) Well, there were so many cars that we couldn't really run them right in fornt of the party but it was fun. Jesse ran the bl pede for a while and complained of stuttering and flacky steering. I just told him to turn it off and I will deal with it tomorrow! My transmitte was left on so I couldn't take the TLT out... Hopefullly they will recharge nicely.

Happy 4th of July.......is over.

Now about two weeks of worry that some Scout does not decide to light a firework. We are so dry.

Yeah, I bet you guys are a tinderbox these days! Good luck with that.

Bill, ygm.

Hi all! I was up north camping from the 1st until today so I've been catching up. I had fun with my 'Pede over the weekend, some little kids were running Radio Shack/Toys'R'Us trucks in the street next to our campsite and I just had to go out and mess with them! I sat in our campsite and held the radio low so they would wonder who was controlling the truck. Went out with the 'Pede and slowly chased them a little, did some donuts, circled them, sped up the street & back again. It was a blast! Then I got out the E-Maxx..... Wicked...... Terrorized the poor little truck. The kids running it were having fun though so it was all good!

Glad to hear you're all OK.

Hi Tom,

Glad you had a good vacation. Nothing like having a couple of kids to mess with.

As you can see the thread has been a little slow these days with you being on the road. Maybe we can get some RC talk going again.

nope. nothing to say. :)

Hi Tom,

As you can see the thread has been a little slow these days with you being on the road. Maybe we can get some RC talk going again.
it took me most of the week but i added 1-1 1/2 inches in length to my tlt-1, and added the stampede stock tires to it again. then today my son wanted to put the tlt tires on the mini cooper. i liked it.

just slooooowly getting everything running again. waiting for more hobby money though. never in a hurry, but hate to wait:)

pics of the truck here
http://www.one18th.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6422&perpage=40&pagenumber=3
new pics 2/3 the way down.

cool pics, As mentioned there I was really liking the Challenger in the background. Of course, I'm a car nut!

cool pics, As mentioned there I was really liking the Challenger in the background. Of course, I'm a car nut!
thanks. if i went another 1/2-1 inch i could run a stampede body :)

Funny, I was reading the 1/18 page with your pix and people were saying it looked real scale. I was thinking another inch or so and a Pede body and THEN it would look scale. That is my plan, should I get the motivation. The axles are narrow enough that theyfit under a Pede body making it look very realistic.

Still, it does look great! I love the mini body! :thumbsup:

Funny, I was reading the 1/18 page with your pix and people were saying it looked real scale. I was thinking another inch or so and a Pede body and THEN it would look scale. That is my plan, should I get the motivation. The axles are narrow enough that theyfit under a Pede body making it look very realistic.

Still, it does look great! I love the mini body! :thumbsup:
if you poke around one18th.com there are traxxas part numbers to do a pede sized strech. the biggest size difference are the tires. i put then up against some imex dirt claws/dogs? and they looked tiny. i think it looks good witht the stock body. but am really temped to run the rover mini.

peter
:)

ohh and thanks for the kind words.

I must add my complaments to the others, nice job Peter. I'm also very impressed with the 1/18th.com site.

I actually tried it with the stock TLT tires and it looked sweet! Not like an oversized off-road beast- just a slightly jacked stocker.

I will have to spend more time on the 1/18th site, for sure.

I'm a member at one18th.com, I joined before I got my Mini-T to read up on it. I find it a very informative site under the right circumstances. But it doesn't seem to hold my interest well, same with www.minioffroaders.com

Lovely weekend. All rested and relaxed, ready for another week of chaos. I had no idea. Pulled in on the bike and walked in with a co-worker whow as telling me about a fire. Where?, I ask innocently. Oh, a few doors down from your office. Oh indeed. Actually, it was next door. In a lab filled with some seriously nasty stuff. Luckily the whole place didn't go off like a bomb and take out the building. I actually got lucky in that I have some floor level water damage (like the clothes I was going to wear today:rolleyes:- I am wearing some shorts now!, power strips, chargers, and a set of my own speakers for my computer). The computer was up on the desk so it lived. Other friends weren't nearly as lucky. Lots and lots of total carnage. As it is you don't want to breath anywhere on our floor but that isn't a problem since I work elsewhere.

Then the wife called and explained that Jesse in his 12 yr old wisdom decided to test out his brand new backpack with a friend up in the attic. What to use for weight they pondered... How about these paint cans? Well, that was last week. This morning he found that one of the lids was not on tightly. Orange paint. All over the inside of his new pack. It is one of those things you can't even yell at him for because he is already so completley devistated. Tough lesson.

yuck. On a "lighter" note.... While I was on Vacation, I blew the motor up on my Suburban. 1300 miles on a fresh remanufactured engine and it blows up. nice. Motor Defect, hopefully the warranty will fix the motor. You ain't the only one.....

sorry to hear about the fire! :(
but no one got hurt did they?
hope things smooth out a little.
and the paint in the backpack, it's now a Harris original.
peter

Luckily the fire happened at 1:30 Saturday morning so none of the idiots who don't evacuate when alarms go off got hurt.

Yup, the backpack shall be a topic of conversation for quite some time!:p

That's it, I'm not going outside anymore. Bad stuff happens.

Yeah, well after work and a whole lot of office cleaning I DID go outside. And found a flat tire on the bike. This is Moanday right? And it wont be tomorrow?

(oh, I am a whiz at flats- I had a new tube in and pumped, wheel on the bike, and rolling down the road in about 5 minutes. Not everything was bad).

The pack looks...used. :lol: Not my problem. My money the first time but not my problem.

Now I now what you mean. I stayed inside to be safe and I got a paper cut.:confused: So I guess, no matter where you go .... there you are. Danger lurks.

Seriously guys hope all the bad luck has passed you buy.

Take care.

Thanks Bill, Me too! Truck is in the shop getting repaired now, hopefully that will be the end of it.

What happened? a Whole day with no posts!

I decided I need to race, I'm going out tomorrow to the summer series race & hope to get my mind off the bad luck. My youngest pretty much convinced me to go & my oldest decided to go along as well. So it will be a nice Father-son outing, should be fun.

Not only was it a "day", it was EXACTLY a day! And, you were the poster at 7:52 Eastern time) both times. Scary.

Hope you have a great time at the races. My guys are busy packing for the CA trip so I will have time to play on my own but it is nice to have the family outings for sure!

Hi :wave:

Wow, didn't notice the time stamp... wierd! wouldn't that technically make it 2 days though? 48 hours apart?

Hi Bill... Hope your ready, Chris & crew are "packing".....

hello.

By golly, you are correct. Two days it was. What a bunch of uncommunicative so-and-sos we have here! Too much life getting in the way!

I am preoccupied with work. lfe and of course, the Tour de France! Vive La Lance!

Hey Fellas.. long time no posts.. i know i know..

i've been Sinning.. the RC's have been pretty dormant for 4-5 months while we got the wedding, house, etc taken care of.. i'm happy to announce i'm now a married man and the wedding was incredible.. went flawless and what an amazing day..

i plan on checking in more often again, never forgot about you guys just didnt have much to contribute.. i'm running my own VW Forum at www.franklinsvwwerks.com/phpbb/ (http://www.franklinsvwwerks.com/phpbb/) which takes much of my attention but its time to get back to my RC's..

last time i tried to get the pede running i could only get a flinch when i turned the Radio on but thats it. didnt have the time to trouble shoot so its sat ever since. the touring cars are 'farily' in one piece but havent touched them either. villian is still in need of an adequate speed control.. need to bite the bullet and buy one of those from steve at offshoreelectrics.com

i DID however put on a VW show which benefited Children's Hospital of seattle (raised over $3500.00 :D) and had over 130 vintage vw's show up. it started with a 100 mile road rally thru the mountains and then we met at a park in Issaqua to show our cars.. i included my Pede'n trailor setup with the Beetlecup TL01.. everyone got a huge kick out it.. now if they were running that woulda been even cooler.. but no one knew haha..

here are some pics
http://home.comcast.net/~dstafursky/Pictures/image11.jpg
http://www.franklinsvwwerks.com/cruise_pics/CFTC-1.jpg

and i'll throw this one in just for kicks.. made a 'few' changes since you guys saw it last.. :)

http://www.franklinsvwwerks.com/forum-images/Frank%20and%20Que%20013.jpg

ok.. i should get back to work..

talk to you guys soon..
Q

hey Peter, havent forgotten about your mini..

Wow! nice to hear from the Q again.

I look at your low riding bug and think "that car wouldn't last here in Michigan, rides too low, roads are too rough."

No VW Motorhome conversions?

OMG! I remember a guy who went by that name! He was real nice then this woman thing happened and he vanished from the face of our world!

Glad to hear that things are steadying out for ya. Also that the wedding went great!

I love the shots of your show. Great job on that. I will have to check out the website for sure.

Welcome back!

Hi :wave:

wow Hi :wave:

Q,
nice poics of the show.
and no worries.
glad it all went well.
peter