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The "Ahiru" or "Duck" event is pretty well known by the japanese rc'ers and has some years of history already.
You can find a video on you-tube of the event in 2004 even.

Once a year, vintage lovers and scratchbuilders meet to run their creations in a very amical ambience.
And I had the pleasure of seeing the event take place close to my home this year, so subscribed, and here goes the report:

(lots of pics, so multiple posts will follow as I get ready scaling and uploading )

First of the group picture: Some remarkable 1/10 cars:

My own special for the event: A new addition to the 'wanted' list ; a french Yankee Most surprising Cosmo Shooter; woow superb handling and speed What would Japan be without its shoguns? belt-drive optima wearing its years-old battle scars with pride My good buddy Yaji with his exttremely modded super hornet and beautifull super astute More here: http://flickr.com/photos/9904645@N07/tags/yaji/

Yaji's combining a kyosho front, tamiya tub and losi rear-end on his mix-and-match super hornet; bottom view

Excellent pictures as always. Thanks a lot.

EXCELLENT PICS ERIC!!

Nice one Eric - some truly sweet rides in that main pic for sure!

People always laugh at me when I say the pegasus series of car from Kyosho were one of the very best beginner cars ever made.......now I am glad others have seen how good they go.

Do they hold the event the same time every year ?

Cheers

Darryn

Do they hold the event the same time every year ?

Yeah me and the Dazzler want to come over there and race with all you guys!

Nice pics. Waiting for more.

Thanks guys.
I'll put up the link to the organisers site later: there will be an announcement for the next event plenty in time.
The site also has picture-rich reports of the past years and an interesting blog ( which unfortunately babelfish won't translate).
The next series of pics will be some amazing tam-tech conversions, I know; not really rc10talk stuff you think, but oh-so wrong You'll have to wait till tomorrow though: midnight here.

For those who can't wait: there was an M-chassis rally class also: I've posted some action pics in Minimini's mini thread:
http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6578

cool photos

Japanese guys always know how to throw down in R/C

Forget those mini-T's, RC18T's, vendettas and mini infernos. They may be popular bases for wild mods all over the world, but here in Japan Tam-tech's rule again.

While Tamiya mainly chose to recreate some of its popular old buggy looks, the fans are less loyal.
How do you like these:

T-T Kyosho Ultima: T-T Kyosho Optima: T-T Kyosho Gallop: with functional 4wds and trailing arms in the rear! T-T AYK Viper: trailing arms front and back and functional in-board shocks Scoop?
T-T Tamiya Fast Attack Vehicle: Even in almost stock form the T-T's are lookers with different dress

T-T Kyosho Ultima and Optima.
Are these new reproductions or have they been out for awhile? Whats the story on T-T making Ultimas, I didnt know anything about that. I think I want a couple , I know that much.

how good are the viper and gallop !

Very Cool Stuff..... Ingenius ideas. I think the Optima is just a buggy champ body on a TT Hotshot chassis, I believe. Not sure about the rest, but I love it. Thanks for sharing Erik.

folks, all of these specials are custom built models using the T-T's as starting point.
Works of fans with simple tools and lots of ideas.
No way Tamiya would ever make these themselves , except maybe that FAV.

If you want one, you 'll have to build it yourself

Hint: the ultima body uses a frog body: who wants to try this in 1/10?
Optima ; lex got it right: side pods are added for better resemblance.

Do you happen to have a side shot of the Ultima? I would like to see the wheels.... they look like they are close to the Kyosho wheels, I know they are custom, but would like to see them better.