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check out the embedded youtube vid in the middle of this blog… driftoooooooo 😛
upcoming buggy q-steers…
http://item.rakuten.co.jp/mrmax/izu-290133/
cant see if they are articulated and have any suspension in the rear. im hoping for to much there heh, but one can dream.
found a choro-q knockoff in safeway tonight of an ambulance. body fits nice and snug 🙂 last one left but ill be on the lookout for more of these on my travels, there are some nice bodies available, and at less than $3 and available from supermarkets makes moding these easy.
read some nice info about people using bcg motors in these by shaving down the pinion gear. after opening one of mine up the motor is grey on the end, denoting it in the old bcg colours as a 1.0. some of the upgraded sets have an orange end motor (the old 2.6) so will go faster. cant wait to get home and mod these little suckers!
the return of the gold/silver bodies!, and check out the detailed 24 set.
these rock. im in love with my pair honestly. its like all the annoying factors of bcg have been illiminated (except the lack of a diff heh).
no interference between 2 of them, going to have to test 4 at once when i get a few more.
range is just perfect for its size.
wont take old bcg motors by the looks of the thing, but its been a long time since ive looked at my bcg motors so i might be wrong.
will take bcg pinions, so some custom ratios are possible right now.
copious body shells available from supermarkets. penny racers e.t.c are cheap. the aussie q-steers have been glued on from what ive noticed unfortunatly. easy to fix though.
http://www.takaratomy.co.jp/products/qsteer/products.html
the calsonic skyline at that link looks like it has 2 axles in the set. might need some help buying these in japan 🙂
cant wait to get em home and revive the old bcg tracks
micro baja? *drool*
how fragile are the little buggies? not having a bit of body protecting the wheels is kinda scary… but if they are tough enough to take a full tilt hit then im very interested
indoor offroad track? yes please
good to see you lads are still at it. and dgs back on the boards! awesome 🙂
ive vowed to get all my z’s working again, maybenext time im down this way i can hook up for some beers and racing
picked up a red rx-8 and a blue r34 today for $20 each. they are litte rippers.
out of the pack the range is better than pretty much all bcg’s i ever bought (a lot) and the turbo works well.
body shells are glued on however…
necromancy! hehe nice one panda 🙂
last week i told a guy in a rc store to drop by here, he was keen to get his mini-z cranking and i thought aarons turbos might just be the ticket…
micro mosquito… i saw it and bought one yesterday… great fun and a lot more enjoyable having the extra control.
does “roll” around a bit after moving forwards, but i guess its a challenge of the design.
quite a bit heavier than the heli-q, the throttle is touchier as well. lots more power+lots more weight= funfunfun.
and those eye headlights are great 🙂
<hooke d on choppers now i guess.
the tail end consists of a single metal wire, bcg size motor and stickers covering the metal frame. i could trim the stickers but i really dont want to mess with it.
i stuck in two jewellry pins, kinda like u nails but tiny steel at the front and it balanced out nicely. got some really nice extended flights indoors today.
flying is fun 🙂
even landed safely a few times.
sorry for the thread necromancy but i bought a little chopper myself today. i saw the pico-z at a toys r us up in townsville but passed up the oppurtunity of buying it due to zero experience or knowledge on the little chopper.
on the way to pick up some medical supplies (this flu is a killer 5 dead allready 😛 ) the local jaycar shop here in noosa caught my attention and the tiny infra red controlled heli-q was on display and one out for me to muck around with.
after 5 minites i got the hang of it enough to hover and then got a little to confident and nearly collided with some old guy customer in the store. i was sold. unfortunatly its only got rudder control and throttle and cost $50.
im hooked on flying now. wish i checked out this thread earlier though! i must find an affordable indoor chopper with full control now.
its about time i enjoyed my r/c’s again.
hey Aaron! i gave you a call when i was down in canberra last but didnt get any message back, you must have been busy mate.
hope all is well down in chillfactor10 canberra.
i wanted to show off the tank to ya 🙁
good luck with the move!!!
DT, that is some mighty fine masking right there!
ever seen much stenciling street art, like stencil graffiti? some of the stuff ive seen here in oz lately has been awesome. saw an amazing rolling stones lips 3 stage one the other day that was flawless. you got the skills! do it on a bit!
between world of warcraft, my woman and work there hasnt been much time at all for the toys.
when im on the road wow gets shelved for the sony psp, and lately the scene really picked up with a solid downgrader and custom firmwares that let you do whatever you want with it.
bit torrent + custom firmware = free games pretty much… ive only dl’d about 5 so far, but ive bought about 10 so theres no guilt. yet…
emulators work well on it, but finding bios to get some of them to work has been a pain in the a$$.
last week i couldnt resist the temptation of a beastly rc tank. its a heng long 1/16th panzer. got to muck around with it for a day before i had to send it off to home as the car is chockers for the buisness trip allready.
cant wait to get home and figure out how to “enable” the firing mechanism, there is a switch in the turret that was glued in the off position so im hoping i can just scrap the switch so the cannon is permanantly enabled.
it sounds awesome, and it has a built in smoke machine that chuffs the grey stuff out. about the only grip i got with it is that it does 360 spins waaay to fast (apart from the cannon not working yet!).
i got a freind living in osaka now and im tempted to get a pair of those new tomy q-steers sent over just to check em out. would be awesome if they were better than bcg’s as i have 2 decent tracks gathering dust in the garage. anyone heard about the q-steers?
those mame cabinets sound awesome. have you guys heard of mugen? its a 2d fighting engine where you can import files for pretty much any 2d fight game character. check out mugen vids on youtube for some examples… homer simpson Vs. fat albert is classic.
thanks for the info Aaron, please blog more often its great to hear about what youve been up to.
personally ive had little time for the cars myself. i bought a nice xmod and it looks all shmick so im scared of beating it up without having a prettier shell to stick on it. really need a better motor made up for it, i should buy one for myself before my birthday hits.
so which toys did you keep? 🙂
sorry dave i havent tried to get any bcg batteries for years. i suppose i should resurect the collection though and at least get new batteries for them. its been so long since i looked at the guts of one heh.
betty or ph2t had a zz monter that used an i waver board inside it. the proportional controls made it 2x the original. only saw it once on a visit to victoria.
what are the IR tanks you have pictured above?
i live way up the coast near byron zenkins. i do travel quite a bit with work though so next time im heading south i will bring some cars.
very smoove! the white turned out perfectly.
howdy pete! does this mean i should give you guys a call if im in sydney next time? pm me your mobile number so i can talk to ya, cant wait to have a lash at a new track
very nice dere dt.
http://www.geelongorthotics.com.au/news.htm
cf sheet in different thicknesses is used a fair bit in orthotic manufacture. i used to work as a secretary for my mum who was a podiatrist and used to think the cf sheet could come in handy. we stopped making orthotics from scratch when a company in melbourne started to produce them in bulk custom orders. we only did minor alterations and repairs after then so the mats for manufacture just didnt get ordered. cf sheet became available after we stopped production so i dont know much about it.
these guys are in geelong, but almost any podiatrist would have the same catalogue with the cf sheet available for order. its for medical purposes so it might be a little pricey, but youll probably be getting some very nice matirials though.
had a nice party at home with a bunch of freinds. gotta a little drenched at one stage, but it was all good. hope everyone had just as awesome time as i did.
heh have an awesome one guys!
heh thanks ph2t. could you and betty remember how his modded blue ford xmod was set up? the one with the i waver shell on it i got clobbered by when i raced you guys in melbourne?
the i-waver el light kit tubing is a 2 pin plug, the xmod system uses a 4 pin so the lights wont work running from the plugs. ill have to attach it from the motor leads so will the terminals be to “hot” for the lights ph2t?
someone here on ausmicro did the 99kmph mini-z a while back. it might have been the sydney guys. i remember seeing a vid of it then.
!!!sounds !!! annoying!!!
ill stick to my mini-z and x-mod. thanks for the story of your misfortune.
the underground carpark of this motel in noosa was a very nice place to let the xmod rip it up a bit. powerslides where happening once i had enough speed up but the grunt just aint there (wish i had the kyosho awd with me for a side my side test).
emma (the GF) reakons i was drifting, but i know it wasnt sustained enough to qualify… just some meagre but alltogether awesome powersliding.
so the xmod evo is heavier, i guess some lightening is in order then werever its not going to play havok on the solidness of it. thanks for that. it sure has a lot more complex engineering and about 2x the parts of a kyosho awd.
i wonder if anyones worked out the reason for the turning imbalance, apart from its awd system of course… is it still possible to get a bit of drifto with it wunning just rwd?
dang, thats just brutal right there. ill stick with it the way it is for now. pretty bad glitch in the system though i woulda thought bugs like that would be ironed out early in the design.
no camber gear yet, ah well. might have to look at the custom options i could work out then.
great, i got a garish light tube in purple just waiting for a use. ph2t, with the nelly install will the lights get boosted also? i hope they dont blow heh.
thanks for the reply yank!
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