My fleet of RC Cars
 

Following on from the snow thread, here's some shots of my "fleet!"

I'm a bit of a sucker for Tamiya models so over the years I've build up quite a few... with a few other mixed in from Kyosho and HPI that add to about 80 - 90... I've not counted recently :joker:

One of my favourites, and one of my best pictures. Taken for a comp on the Tamiyaclub world owners club it ended up coming second

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The truck that more or less started it all, the Traxxas EMaxx... the truck that actually got me my user name as the first forum I ever joined was for RC car racing!

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The Kyosho Blizzard - fantastic fun in the snow

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The HPI Baja 5B... insane fun and a deadly weapon if it ever hit you! :axe:

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My Tamiya Mountaineer... the oldest model I own and probably the most vauable

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All the Impreza's together

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The Juggernaught... it's a bit of a monster

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The Aeromax. A total swine to drive as it's so damn big and heavy. This one is probably the most expensive as it runs 6 channel radio gear and everything is automated. it looks, sounds and acts like a real truck

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My little F201 F1 car. Carbon fibre everything and proper inboard cam driven suspension. I love this car

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Godzilla - the Nissan Skyline R34 Z Tune replica I made up with full lighting kit

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My old racing colours from back in 2005 when I was sponsored by Morrisons MG garage in Stirling

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The Crawler project I put together back in the days when rock crawling was still a bit underground and you couldn't buy kits off the shelf. This one started life as a Tamiya TXT1 that was modified until the point only the chassis and axles were original!

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and the rest of team orange. My current Tamiya TRF 416 racing chassis (imported from Japan) and HPI Micro RS4

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And the last time they were all together in one place in the back garden

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and all the stuff that lives in the loft

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there's loads more here:

http://s34.photobucket.com/albums/d136/maxxed_ross/RC/

A great but slightly mad collection you have there :bow:

That lot would fill my house!
Used to have a Tamiya 406, Mini and S2000. Loved them all but got smashed to pieces as the only place I could run them was on the road!
Was offered my mates 1:6 Kyosho Impreza but its just to big and fast! Would love a nitro one day.

A very nice selection Ross.

cheers lads. I've been running these since 1999 and only stopped racing at the end of last year when my local club went bust.

It's been a long and exciting time in places. I found a Tyrell 6 wheeler in my ex girlfriends uncles loft and he just gave me it... the car was mint and worth a silly amount of money.

Then there was the TA05 powered Ferrari F430. I had good links with a few guys in Japan and I had my kit built and painted the day after it was officially launched in Japan - and a week before anyone else in Europe got hold of one.

almost if not every car in that group picture has a story to it

Wow! Some nice little beasties youve got there :)

Would love to one day have a couple of nitros.

nitro is a total pain in the ass, I've only got 3 and they hardly ever run these days

the Baja is 2 stroke and much more user friendly, starts without any issue even after sitting for months, is much cheaper to run (at todays prices roughtly 50p of unleaded and 2 stroke oil per tank - a tank lasts about 30 mins if you drive flat out everywhere!) and is faster

Ahhhhh cool well maybe one day when I have some spare funds. Would be a laugh :)

nice collection there Ross i am not jealous honest :whistle:

wow amazing collection. i was gonna put some pics up of Tamiya M03 Mini, Traxxas Rustler and Bandit but i dont think i will now lol