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Very nice, Barney the dinosaur approves! I like that you went with natural-looking colors for the "snake skin". Are the wheels painted a similar color to match?

Back in 2013 Romulus22 knew i wanted an RC10DS nitro car. He also knew a guy that was selling one. He connected us and the rest is history. The RC10DS was mailed to me from Arizona and that started the DS fever. This is my first Nitro DS. I painted a HPI 69 Camaro body for it and kept stock exhaust ...

Take a close look, unfortunately really just a body set on an existing platform. Not exactly a rere. My buddy and I were going to both preorder the nitro version until we noticed.

I traded my built DR-10 for an Infraction. TBH, $$$ wise it was a pretty square deal; both having close to about the same in each, but I feel like I got the much better end of the deal! These big Arrmas are just impressive! :mrgreen: I have decided this is just going to be a straight up speed rig. N...

I probably won't get a chance to try and dig up my old FrankenOptima until Thanksgiving weekend, and that seems like way too long to wait. Had to get a re-re while the getting is still good, just to scratch that itch. . Where'd you find it? Micheal's RC Hobbies has the Optima and Javelin in stock. ...

Nice work so far. I get memories of my Optima resto-mods every time I see one of these resto project threads. It all starts with a tear-down and clean-up of the old chassis and inventorying of all parts that will need replacing. I don't think I'll ever do another Optima or variant, as I've done enou...

On #1, I'm assuming you opened the rear gearbox to get the chain out. Was the big final pinion still the OEM aluminum gear? What kind condition was it in? When those start wearing, they end up chewing up the plastic differential / chain drive gear.

Burniefloyd wrote: ↑Sun Sep 12, 2021 12:31 pm Does anyone recognize this diff? I am hoping it's for an Optima but I think I am being too optimistic


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I'd say Lazer ZX instead

The white'ish girl is a small Lab / Retriever mut. The long leg girl is a Potcake.

Here is my English Staffy, Jenny. She weighs 12.5 kgs (27.55 pounds) last time I weighed her, and just over 14 inches at the shoulders, my friend got a English Pointer pup and at 9 weeks he was already taller than her, she gets to play with him once a week for an afternoon and she has put on a lot o...

I’ve had this for 10+ years and prior to that I tried to buy it off of an old friend of mine for 10+ years. I never knew what it was until I had it in my possession.

Composite Craft or similar chassis with Andy's arms and a truck conversion (mostly).

The front axles look long. Possibly Team Crp axles for use with Tamiya truck wheels.

I have a buggy with many of the same parts.

https://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=46245

Ya, I was thinking "or similar" as the holes and material don't seem to match up with anything else I have found so far. I guess the next question is does she want to be a truck or a buggy? I've got time to think about it but I don't have a 10T so maybe... I can't offer a positive ID of t...

Was looking through some older pics and ran across this one.

While unloading groceries, I came back out to this.
This picture was a couple years ago, so he is a little taller and a good bit thicker now.

The build thread still lives on here https://www.kyosho-optima.com/midse.html

I referred to it many times during my ongoing Turbo Optima Mid SE thread.

Chuck