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I borrowed this pic from Ruffy's gallery thread to describe what I'm asking.

What is need to achieve the roll bar and netting look?
What is the best way to trim the body this way?
I have seen some people use what appears to be window screening as well, but this looks like cloth netting.
Anyone got preference as what to use?

Thanks,
Lynn

No rollbars there—that's the stock #6160 body with the windows painstakingly cut out, and painted on the outside of the body. It's a bear of a job—takes 2-3 hours with a skilled hand. Major props to anyone who can do it without cutting their fingers off or the roof in half.

Ruffy will have to answer your window netting question. I have not found anything that I like personally.

I kind of thought that. I just hate the thought of playing Russian roulette with a $15 body that I could screw up in a fraction of second or send myself to the ER, AGAIN, for stitches.
So that is paint on the outside? Interesting.
I thought about using the netting that clams can come in and paint it. I have seen in it in that small of a hole size.

Lynn

That window netting is vintage stuff used on a Tamiya super champ and Hotshot. The netting from the Rere hotshot would do but it's not as cool looking.

this stuff at mcmaster looks interesting...

9265T61

roughly .25" square white molded mesh. It's not like the box art, but I bet it would look scale and more like the nylon webbing they use in real cars today...it's polypropylene, so you would probably need to paint it. the minimum size is around 11 bucks, and it's 1"x4" enough to do a bunch of cars....

they have a few other things that might work also, this just appeared to be the most 'scale' to me. you could use a wire mesh that could look more like boxart.

very cool and hate to hijack, but what's with the fastner on the shock screw instead of a nut? looks like a steering rod do hicky thingy?

RCveteran wrote:very cool and hate to hijack, but what's with the fastner on the shock screw instead of a nut? looks like a steering rod do hicky thingy?

It's a box art replica, and fully accurate to the original RC10s (look at the box ).