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Turned out really good. You have to have minty white parts to pull that color combo off.

That turned out very nice Adam.

Thanks guys, it started when I asked Reggie why he didn't use a yellow motor plate for his yellow pan build and he said Associated didn't do them for the powdercoated colors. So I had to think if I was going to go for the black, or go for the gold. I thought it would be a bit trippy to intermix the gold effects on this one and get to use some fresh nip gold shocks bodies and tops, plus do Jake's beautiful collars and spring perches anodized gold to match.

I really owe a big thanks to Jake, Jeff (jay dub) for doing these shock towers for me, Ron (noony) for selling me the nip Proline rear wheels, William (nvxwax) and askbob for lots of white parts and the nip TQ tires, and probably a few others I forgot! This really is a great community to help us feed each other's addiction for crazy builds and rare parts.

vintage AE wrote:awesome colour combo. Too bad the nose tubes weren't gold too

Sorry, forgot to respond to this. That would have been cool but I haven't found a place to anodize titanium?

flipwils11 wrote:

vintage AE wrote:awesome colour combo. Too bad the nose tubes weren't gold too

Sorry, forgot to respond to this. That would have been cool but I haven't found a place to anodize titanium?

Here you go Sir: http://mrtitanium.com/anodizing.html

Very nice!

I just saw a clip on youtube for anodizing titanium turnbuckles gold using simple green and some 9v batteries....I can't find it now though.....

jwscab wrote:I just saw a clip on youtube for anodizing titanium turnbuckles gold using simple green and some 9v batteries....I can't find it now though.....

maybe the one in this thread: http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=25391

yep! That's the one!

Love it! Only thing I would change is Id powder coat the motor plate green and Id get some of the Atlas body mounts in gold!

Great job! I love it when people do something different from the norm!

looks good.

i think the green chassis is probably my favorite out of the one ae did.

OK Adam we get it! You have a bunch of killer RC10s!

Just kidding man. The minute that latest body arrives I demand group photos! Both dressed and topless please.

So I decided to try this and only came up with purple and blue, then accidentally figured it out! ( incandescent light )

Need some input on the steering setup. I got these MIP bellcranks because they are white, but the black screws which go through the metal sleeves are not going to thread into the nose plate and through the chassis the way the stock phillips screws do to hold the front end together. Plus I prefer the light gold color of the stock screws for the steering bell crank posts which match the others holding the suspension mounts, bulkhead, etc to the chassis.

I tried the stock bellcrank screws without the metal sleeves but keeping the bearings in the MIP units, but there's slop on each side. I don't know if there's a solution here with some kind of very thin metal sleeve I can substitute for the MIP ones to eliminate the slop and use the stock Associated bellcrank screws?

Hobby shops usually sell brass tubing that will work.

Maybe some SS screws would look better? Otherwise I don't think you'll find a bearing or sleeve that will make that space correct. But that steering setup makes the nose still rock solid and was used on most 4-10 legends converted cars. Maybe find a white worlds bellcrank set instead