Simple clean-up of an XXT with a little different body

Post by **Mr. ED** » Mon Jul 06, 2015 5:18 pm

I'm not sure where but I think it was on tamiyaclub... someone offered some re-popped bodies to convert tamiya touring cars into a shortcourse look-alike.
I got 1, painted it about 2 years later and then had it lying for I don't know how many years more.
The XXT on the other hand is more recent: llokked like it had been in a fire and kind of smelled that way too. Probably it was actually as the hobbyshop I bought it at had a fire inanother location some time ago.
I cleaned up most of it in the sink of a hotelroom and replaced some missing and broken parts pirating on an XX back home. Stripping the chrome plated rims was the biggest pain, but worth it.
Usually I don't build for shelf use or resale. But this one may be an exception: will keep it as adecoration for now and take it along to some races to see if it gets anyone interested.

Body On

Body Off

Post by **matt1ptkn** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 8:08 am

Nice. The body and tires give it a whole different attitude.

Post by **Mr. ED** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 11:32 am

matt1ptkn wrote:Nice. The body and tires give it a whole different attitude.

Thank you.
I was just making the best I could with what I had on hands, but in this case it fit the bill perfectly.

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