Toyranosaur's oddballs, customs, and vintage builds

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Mkay, I'll start with a few notable oddball things built just because.....I do CNC work now but for most of my history, I had more time and modeling skill than cash or fancy parts, but I love all my children equally. In 20+ yrs. I've only ever sold TWO of my babies, & I'm still irritated about it..Grumblegripesnivel....Chris REC

First off is the all-pink-anodized RC10GT- I was doing my own ano work for a while, not any more though:

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My next 2 RC10T & T4 are Bugs, so I'll show my Bugs here starting with them I spose. Yellow/black, RC10T: Black/Red, RC10T4 brushless runner...

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Couple Mini-T's, one is a Mini-Me of my yellow/black 10T: The blue one has the logos in the paint, and was my demo for the 1st ever SCAB (Slipper Clutch Adjustment Button.)

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Hadda do something Neat-o to my Monster Beetle, so all Aluminum is 14K Gold-plated. Paint is Krylon Fusion, buffed out to optical reflectivity (My wrist still hurts from that job.)

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Micro-T w/Tamiya 1/32 Bug body, not quite finished, with custom Alloy wheels-

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My 1st 'Hobby Grade' R/C car, a Kyosho Turbo Rocky- Love this old beastie....

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Some weirder stuff: My Micro R/C Toilet Dragster (Extra cell in the tank makes thje wheelie bar functional & the seat flaps up & slams down of takeoff- Hard not to smile.... )

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World's Smallest Nitro Truck!! (Actually a Radio Shack micro w/a mini machined head, it's only a 2" long truck... )

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The Micro-Bullhead: My full-size Bull is easily one of my faves, so I hadda build this. Based on a Microsizer, with custon 'chassis' and an HO scale front end. Rear end & all tubework, pipes, rollbar, etc. is fine Al. tubing, even scaled down a decal sheet. Runs great, and fits inside a real Bullhead wheel!

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Ah, maybe time for some scooters: Here is a Radio Shack Ricky Carmichael that I got carried away with..... I did all the Aluminum work, a buddy cut the carbon for me. I use this to show folks my ability so they don't think I'm just hackin' stuff out with a hobby mill. Fork legs are Titanium, sliders are machined Teflon.

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Mom always warned me about getting involved with HORs, but as we all know they're tough to resist! Here are details of 2 of mine, with custom Alloy gas caps, brake disc/hubs, Titanium sprockets, knitting needle exhaust, Lexan replacement windscreens (Kit units are too clunky for scale!) and I forget what else. Then that's it for tonite Lads, more soon, thanks for letting me show some of these! Chris REC

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The Mini-T clone of my 1/10 T, for fun:

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The 'Real' Bullhead, one of my faves! I'll eventually do a whole custom chassis, with my black 'Lockers, paint, etc. (My future is awful full...)

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Monster Mini-

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Futaba FXT & USA-1 body on Kyosho Turbo Rocky...