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The originals were $199 iirc... in 1985 money that was $475. This ones a bargain!

No kiddin... I thought I was the only one left with an Axis EX - though I've had it for years & haven't gotten around to building it yet. That's probably the one example of the old Kyosho 1/12s that's harder to get parts for than the Fantom. Do you run yours? Seems like nobody has discussed it a...

Assembled and added the HydraDrive. I don't have the HydraDrive silver spring, so it'll have to live with the standard friction slipper gold spring. Man, this thing is heavy! Definitely NOT low rotating mass. I thought the Dyna Storm Multi Dusk Clutch was heavy, but I think the HydraDrive might have...

Looks great! Love the detailed photos. I agree the hydradrive is damn cool, and I hear it drops a second a lap on any shelfer.

We have not made too much progress lately as we are waiting for a few bits to arrive that I did not have in the parts bin. However, we did get the battery cup, antenna mount and rear arms installed: back_end6.jpg battery_cup.jpg I didn't have a decent set of hard anodized shocks so I fished a set ou...

Little update. Basically done, just need to paint a body.

Status update.

Chassis finally together.

Can't wait to see the end of this amazing build
what a bunch of incredible spare parts

You're surely on the right way to get your "pinky ring" RC10

Cheers
Phil.

There's been one or two that have popped up on here before. They are very rare I'd surmise as they were only produced for a short time in 1988 I believe. I bought mine in 2013 from member clinehobbies. At the time I didn't know much about them but had a hunch it was something special. The one I have...

This would be a good kit to buy in my opinion, I can't see huge numbers of these being sold but once they are gone spiking in value.

I would definitely buy one if I was financially better off and our dollar wasn't so crap.

^ Thanks. Currently I am working on this and the JRX Proformance build. I typically update my build threads as I go. I used to hate taking pictures of my RC builds because I could never get the right lighting and couldn't properly show the colors and details. I got myself a photo light box and that ...

thats looking sweet! Those little tits on the ball ends are from when they were parted off on the lathe and they didn't post-process. I hate those things. Are they steel or aluminum?

Yeah they were probably made on a screw machine. A specialized lathe. Once the profile is turned on the ball and the threads cut, they part it off, basically drive a square tool into the material and it cuts it like a saw, but if the tooling is not exactly on center, you get the little bit of the ce...

Best build I have seen on here so far, nice work!