Goldpan DS conversion
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Re: Goldpan DS conversion
Nice not to many goldpan DS’s around should look great.
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Re: Goldpan DS conversion
Here it is today. Only the bumper is the same.
I need to find a place flat enough for it to run. I haven’t driven a car this low before and it’s a perfectly clean gold pan.
I have 2 bodies to decide between. I have the mustang ds body and the protoform vtr body.
Just gave it a shakedown run. I need to find a place flat enough for it to run. I haven’t driven a car this low before and it’s a perfectly clean gold pan.
I have 2 bodies to decide between. I have the mustang ds body and the protoform vtr body.
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Re: Goldpan DS conversion
Sweet looking. Gold and black looks good. Tough choice on the body but, only a little tweaking to go from on-road to drag, rally, drift so... more freedom to have fun.
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It is a fun project and there is a lot more to do. Servo , body and tires are next up.
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Not sure which tires I am going to go with. It seems like the rubber vta tires would be good for some street running. I have made this over powered enough that it may make sense to get some drag foams.
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The protoform body looks like it fits the ds better than the ds mustang body.
It seems that I may want to decide on the tires before the body. Right now everything ticks up nice under the shell.
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Nice choices. The Mustang is late 90's cool but that Javelin is so much more tough looking. It's like Sophie's Choice... choose the body that fits the tires or choose the tires that fit the body....
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The protoform body is just a much better build quality. The rear wheel well as well as the lower trim lines are not present on the TBG body.
I'm still learning paint but it seems that this livery
is something I can pull off
The full race scheme is a bit more but I may also be able to get that looking nice.
I also got it in my head that I want a yellow sports car and a yellow DS will be the closest to that as a reality for me.
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Re: Goldpan DS conversion
Did the DS body have rear wheel or lower trim lines originally? Omitting them has been a thing since way back, so the body could be "fit to your application".JosephS wrote: ↑Mon Sep 25, 2023 1:32 pm
The protoform body is just a much better build quality. The rear wheel well as well as the lower trim lines are not present on the TBG body.
I also got it in my head that I want a yellow sports car and a yellow DS will be the closest to that as a reality for me.
For the narrow banded cars... The angled looks much more aggressive:
Than than straight:
The Roy Wood's car would be the easiest to emulate... a set of 1/10 sponsor decals would sell the look, not exactly, but convincingly enough to be enjoyable. Though, if you're bad at paint and want to emulate something... there's always the 'Scraptona'...
Mustang could look good with something like a modernized Terlingua livery:
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Re: Goldpan DS conversion
Tamiya F1 slicks work awesome on the stock DS rubber wheels.
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Current: 3 SC10 first gens, 3 SC10 Street Outlaw's, 12 RC10 DS’s, Carbon RC10T, RC10LSS,RC10L, RC10 Graphite,RC10 B44
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