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thats an interesting idea!
i had a go printing up the designs on plasticard but the ink didnt take. i will try to take them to a proffessional print shop to see if a laser printer works better.
or i can just glue photo paper to the plasticard sheet.
choro-q deck system was released last week in australia and i grabbed 3 of the nicer shaped ones. they are pretty futuristic looking, but not as nice as a wipeout ship. ill be able to use the bodies on a q-steer with a little modding and some paint 🙂
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i had a look around more today and saw some very nice examples of these models done on photo paper… im very impressed.
tried doing some rough scetches on 5mm grid paper as well using the q-steer chassis as a template to go over. the trick will be making the wipeout craft as small as possible while allowing the wheels to turn and move normally and the ****pit would be great if it aligned with the IR receiver.
toyed around with rediculous ideas of how to get control surfaces/flaps to move when steeing is activated. lights would also be sweet.
October 6, 2009 at 12:18 pm in reply to: Melbourne Mini-Z super speedway! – Oct 17 2009, Box Hill, Melbourne #44015burn city mini drag strip! 🙂
the few times ive gotten together with the sydney guys who have mini-z’s has been great times.
sounds good, except if it works the infra red might not have the range to cope with the speed. good luck!
tomy have more pics on there websitte, allthogh they look pretty pixelated and bad theres better info as to what comes with what.
i dont understand why the contach is in a different group than the murcielago either.
heres the link: http://www.takaratomy.co.jp/products/choroq/products.html
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those 2 are still sitting in ***elcases on a bookshelf.
**** those german rims still impress, love the limo!
haha j e welcases…
its an angry antiantisemite filter.
looks hot, but very very fragile. it would be solid if it was stock, but with that set up a wall=death!
those 2 are still sitting in ***elcases on a bookshelf.
**** those german rims still impress, love the limo!
those 2 are still sitting in ***elcases on a bookshelf.
**** those german rims still impress, love the limo!
The q-steers use lr44 watch batteries and should last at least a few hours with the ones installed out of the packet. I have never bought a Mario cart qsteer but I’m assuming it is just like a regular one, not a buggy.
dang betty! i forgot about the xtreks… theres still 2 of them in the shed with your name on em if your keen. ive got a dead q-buggy as well that might be a good donor body for the xtrek guts. pm me your postal addy and when i get home ill post em off.
ive allways loved the boxy Bb. too hard to find in australia, toyota never released em here. shame really, would have been a nice vehicle to pick up.
i modded a few in the bit char-g days, the off road version all camo’d up with a trailer and a monster truck. i remember betty did a limo version which was awesome to. definatly the most versitile body available in my opinion…
the q-steer Bb’s i have so far havent been meddled with… but that could change 🙂
nah microsizers are rebranded tomy bit char-g. zip zaps are a bit longer in the body and less deformed.
if you dont want to be gouged and pay to much for micro cars that are new the q-steers are the only option. the non buggy ones are better for racing because you dont need to recharge them.
finding cheaper batteries for them can be hard at first but once you find a supply of them they are cheap and reliable.
just search for q-steer in ebay and you should get lucky.
also avoid the double car sets. 2 of them had not so good working cars in them and were more expensive than buying them singly.
i got some stuff in the works… dontcha worry DT im busy…
you might be able to use the gears in your upgrade set. ive never seen an upgrade kit for zip zaps, but a q steer is much smaller so it would be hard to do.
there arnt many mods fo the q steer because the perform like they have been modded out of the box. using faster gears from other cars and the fast orange q-steer motor you can make an undrivable car it goes to fast.
have a look at my modded bodies i have built. there are many to choose from and with a little practice it is easy to make from a choro-q pullback.
blast from the past lol
i dont think there are radio shacks in the canary islands. hell here arnt any radio shacks in australia either, or anywhere else than america as far as i know. ebay is the only place to find xmods stuff for us.
i wouldnt be so quick to write off micro scale racing, this is a micro forum for starters.
unless you have a lot of open space, and a decent track set up thers no point to getting anything faster. you need freinds to race against, and unless your just “mucking about” all the cars being raced have to be set up identicly (the same) otherwise its not a race at all.
more like an oppurtunity to show off.ive had far more fun with 4 micro cars and a table (with 3 other freinds) than i could driving really fast in a carpark with my beefed up mini-z’s. taking the overland on a walk is pretty fun however, especially on the beach.
ill have to have a shop around to find the same silver, i have bright and a really dark gunmetal in the spray box right now so this might have to wait.
the current silver does suit it heaps i think to.
i was toying around with making a cheesey transformers paint job to make it look like hotrod but that would look sh!t really.
the Bb is a really nice vehicle for mods. its a box, ready to be rearranged anyway you like and has plenty of room for customisation.
dark tari is a veteran of mico car detailing,painting andmodification. google up bitpimps if your at all interested in seeing some of the amazing work being done.
do we even make nelly’s any more?
were talking about micro scale i think (smaller than 1/28th).
i agree mini-z’s are *** like (really good) but the price is pretty high. especially if you plan on buying enough for freinds to race with. a car is only as good as the track its used on.
buying a mini-z scale track that is quality can be expensive as well.zeben, tomy q-steers are my recomendation. they wont be overpriced like any of the older stuff and perform well. you coulod pick up 4 of them for the price of one mini-z.
if you have lots of money to spend a mini-z is definatly an experience i recomend. it is a much larger car (about 4 times the size of a micro rc).
out of production means it is no longer made. its over, finished. more of a collectable than a functioning car.
sounds crazy. pics of the guts without the body would rock.
no worries on the language barrier!
nope most micro r/c’s are different except microsizers and bit char-g’s were american/japanese versions.
i think all the zip zaps, bits, microsizers, choro-q rc and clones are all out of production. if you get them they are vintage.
tomy q-steer and the tomy buggies are the only ones being made at the moment. these will phase out when the new q-steer models are released soon. the new ones were shown at the recent japan toy show and look like a nice product.
zip zaps are a bit longer than bit charge. slightly less deformed body style if i remember right. you might be able to adapt the bodies to fit the buggy yo allready have.
q-steer are very deformed and short length, bits are medium and zip zaps are the less deformed of the three.
http://www.hlj.com/product/TKT79172
hlj has a really nice up close pic of it… you hardly ever see it this up close and from this angle, and in choro-q form i think it looks pretty decent (unlike the fugly real one).
ill take some better pics soon for you.
also the paint on the evo x steer is amazing, looks like its a red clear coat over silver it has so much depth and clarity to it unlike some of the other metallic paint jobs in the series.
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