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Open Contest This Month! Any Manufacturer!

OK, this will be the thread for the January 2018 Build of the Month Contest.

Refresh yourself with the rules before entering - http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=98&t=35923

Please remember, no chit chat until all of the entries are locked in so they can stay grouped together.

GOOD LUCK!!!

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** Place Holders **

If you would like to enter the contest, create a post as a "place holder". DO NOT POST ANY PICS. You have until the 5th of the month to lock in a spot (10 entries max). You will then have 2 days to edit your post and attach the pics of your entry. The poll will be started on the night of the 7th. If you have not submitted your pics by then you will be removed from the contest.

Graphite chassis
A&L transmission
Tecnacraft airfoil wing, quick release mounts, and front axles
Racemaster machined wheels
Lots of other cool stuff

I would like to enter my build for this contest

4wd SRB, well, I still call it SRB as the 'basic' geometry is SRB.

Custom CNC main woven graphite chassis, graphite rear roll cage, MRP Pro-110 body,
MIP: rear trailing arms with original MIP CVD, rear tranny with Thorp Dirt Burner diff, front gearbox innards with custom front mini-gearbox, hanger wires front shafts, 4x400 front tower, RCH front arms
Yokomo: mid-damper for upper chassis stiffness adjustment, 870C wheels, Duratrax tires
Kawada RX430 chain, HPI RS4 alloy shocks with custom shaft, modified CRP bumper

https://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&p=481925#p481925

RC10T . This has a Jconcepts Team Body and powder coated chassis .

Worlds Re-Re

White A-Arms front and rear (front trimmed to fit larger shocks)
JConcepts nose brace tubes
Lunsford retro turnbuckles
B4 carbon fibre battery brace with JConcepts thumb screws
JConcepts motor plate, 6565 and 6570 idler and gearbox case

First time I have ever trimmed a tub!

Original Tamiya Super Champ with some RCH aluminum wheel outers.

10T purple'd out

MRP Pro-110. All stock. The only missing items are the lexan driver figure/dust cover and and the stock silver can motor. I have an MRP motor to swap in one of these days.

You've seen this one before - as I was checking everyone's entries, I saw EOL's BlackWig and I thought that I needed to side by him and his tamiya obsession and add ANOTHER BigWig to this month

So here we go, Here's my ORIGINAL Big Wig - no re-re, not a single re-re part, the real thing It has a very special value to me: This is the very first vintage RC car I worked on, starting in '98, when I painted the body first. It is pseudo box-art but with pearl white and metallic blue, and some yellow stripes to match the rollacage. Not my best paintjob to be honest!

Then the chassis went through a few rebuilds in the decade after that as I was painfully collecting parts, and it is now made solely of NOS parts gathered and swapped in the decade or so after that. It sports a new VZ, and the mech speedo still needs to be installed some day. (maybe...)

I painted Larry Lancaster with much patience, being not a patient kinda guy this was almost therapeutic for me

It has basically sat on the shelf like this for the past decade or so... When Tamiya decided to re-release last year, for the first time I was pissed at them for re-re'ing something as it took me so long to get this one together.

Everyone will say it's a re-re, I don't care a penny, because I know it's the real McCoy and I will never ever sell it anyway

OK, we have our 10. Feel free to get your pics uploaded so we can get underway.

Just a bit of thread editing from the Grand Master and we can start

Wow! What a great variety of beautiful cars this month! I have always loved the Big Wig and there are two fantastic examples here.

OK guys, poll is up. Back to just 1 vote.

Good luck!