A piece ‘a Me

I got my newly acquired Tamiya King Cab stripped down pretty much to component parts tonight. It’s sat next to me in about 6 ice-cream boxes at the moment.

I also cleaned out my bro’s old RC toolbox and washed it out (was full of dust and crap). I found a couple of cool bits and pieces in there. No King Cab spares though :(. Looks like I’ll be hitting eBay and spare dealers in stages over the next few months to renew what I need. I might also have a go at fabricating some parts myself in metal for it. The stock parts are pretty tough and are surprisingly undamaged, but metal looks cooler and is less cumbersome, so could be good. We’ll see
I’d post a photo but it wasn’t worthy before I stripped it, and now all there is to look at is a lot of jumbled parts in boxes. I *will* photograph it as I start to rebuild it though!

All good so far, as long as I can get a usable electric set out of the bits I’ve got I ought to have it going again pretty soon. Watch this space!

Hey now here’s a thing. One of the guys at work has gotten into RC (that’s radio controlled model) rock crawling. He used to be a full-size off-road challenge competitor but had to give it up due to family commitments.

RC stuff costs a ton less and is easy to do on a kitchen table or in a small workshop. You can also involve your kids (I don’t have any yet, but it’d be a useful thing if I did).

So I have 2 projects planned now:

1) Buy a HPI Wheely King RC Monster truck and set about modding it into a demon rock crawler.

2) Restore my brothers old Nissan King Cab Tamiya truck

See, my brother and I did this when we were kids but I thought I’d ‘grown out’ of it. More the fool me, I forgot how much fun building, running, breaking, fixing and servicing these things was. Also now I’ve got access to a workshop and tools, can get metal stock, and am getting a bit handier with metal working, I can do a lot of mods using custom hand crafted parts.

I can’t wait to get started. Stories and pictures are sure to follow!