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G'day guys I finally got myself a Bigwig. When I saw this for sale, I did some research & found that it seemed to be a bit hit & miss model for Tamiya. i found more negative comments than favourabel ones. But, despite, I could not get over the looks, I really liked it more than my Hotshot, so I thought that I take a chance & buy it to see what I could do with it. I bought it from the original owner, came with box, manual, Technigold & lots of new spares. I immediately bought a new body & repro decals, new tyres, the rest was in really good condition. I really wanted to do something different than Boxart as there seemed to be so may done this way, so, I painted the body with pearlescent clear, than black, then white, so in the sunlight the black is metallic, I painted the front & rear shock towers black, threw out the yellow shocks & replaced them with yeahracing chrome items. I also had the drivers roll cage, airdam & exhausts chrome plated , then I sprayed them with Tamiya gloss to give that alloy look. What was it with Tamiya & yellow plastic? I also painted the engine block silver for some detail as well. New bumper has been cut down as I think it looks better like that. I think the rack & pinion steering is brilliant! It won't be to everyones liking, but I'm wrapped with it! It will be my 4WD vintage racer, a 5000lipo should get that Technigold going! Action pics will follow

Nice job Jack.

I also have just bought a Big wig.

Plan to mod it with yeah racing shocks, cvd's , 2.2 wheels, brushless 9t, and a few other mods.

Got my repo shell and decals . Will be painted Black and yellow. Cant wait to start on it but maybe a while as i have other things on the go too.

Is your shell a teamblue groove repo. Did you have to cut thw back section out??

Thanks.
Mark.

Hi Mark, yeh its a team blue groove shell & yes I did have to cut the back out. Quite a hard shell to cut out actually.

I was going to get some nice white 2.2 inch wheels for it, but I really want the moondial wheels on it. I will probably just put a sport tuned motor in it for racing in the stock class though.

regards
jak

Jack.

Did you paint the roof or did somthing else.????

No surprises here, absolutely incredible as usual!

I've always felt the BigWig was an underrated model.

Yeh I painted the roof gloss black so that the rollcage stood out more
Jak

Looks very very VERY good, great job.

I vouch for chucking the YR shocks though... I've had some in my hands before and they are absolutely the worst piece of shock absorbing engineering I have ever had in my hands since I started RC in 1985. They stick like crazy, the piston rubs the body, the holes are way too small, they leak, and the bladder is made of a material that swallows silicon oil like crazy and swells twofold in just a few weeks. In other words, they're even worse than the horrific original yellow CVA's!!! I'm sure there are other chrome-like shocks that work much better...

Still, the thing looks stunning - great job

Paul

I realize that there are a few problems with Yeah racing shocks. I have well over 20 pairs of them for all my tamiya cars and it was Jack that put me on to them.

I use Tamiya bladers No leaks. Losi springs ( totally Tuneable)

Drilled out pistons '

Losi Gold shafts on my Terror Conqueror.

They work so well. For $!0 they are awesome. Whats more you can get them in 10mm increments and are thredded alloy bodies with alloy bottom stand offs.

I doubt there are any better shocks for the money and can be ordered to fit any vintage car.

nice bigwig ...i dont have the pleasure to own this yet...

I have the yeah racing shocks on 4 of my vintage cars without ever a problem. I like Mark also drilled out my pistons & played around with different oil weights. U also get 2 sets of springs which is more than enough for the type of racer that I am (not much of) & u can actually get these in 5mm increments!
I have these on a sand scorcher, monster beetle, hotshot & now a bigwig.
Plus, they come in chrome! Bling Bling
regards
Jak

Very classy ride!

My first car was a boomerang, which I later converted to a bigwig... bit of a mistake in hint-sight except for the twin shocks upfront.
The body I got for it was 2nd hand and the previous owner used a course metalic dark-blue paint, and JPS decal set. Really was a show-piece but the car didn't do it honours.

i got to have my first drive today, it was brilliant! I can't wait to get it on the track at the next vintage meet. So very cool.

looks a treat jak, how many hours it that build mate

Jack that is just awesome in action.

Knowing you it would still have the stump pulling Technigold in it.

I might run mine with the Technigold at Boondal.

Need to start on it soon .