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This was my second try at an aluminum chassis. Very unrefined in my eyes now. I was informed that to install a Fox 10 motor in a chassis, screws and a brass angle bracket were required. Okay, I'm on it. Someone mentioned that yellow is one of the hardest colours to paint. Challenge...

I saw a photo of Porsche RS61 a while back that wasn't silver. That was the inspiration for this build. The body was painted outside on a windy day at dusk when the light was dwindling away (with six people watching the paint demonstration). Not the best conditions I've ever paint in. But it...

This is my first try at a Hot Rod. Someone suggested an aluminum chassis won't fit in a Hot Rod. It's either scratch-brass, aftermarket, or nothing. Hmm... Another experiment besides the build itself was the paint. I came across a can of Tamiya transparent red. Candy-Apple red is...

Pendle Slot Racing offers this really cool Bugatti body kit that's fairly simply to make. The manufacturer is Penelope Pitlane. French blue seems to be the right colour for this car. Custom aluminum chassis with an NSR guide, roller bearings, a BWMS 050 motor, and 10x24 gears...

I always wanted a split window Stingray but the 1/1 version keeps eluding me. Something to do with the price. I'll have to settle for this one instead. It used to be a static model. It runs quite well now with a flat-6 and ball-bearing chassis. Thanks for looking.

I found this to be an interesting looking car. The kit was very simple to put together. The hardest part of the build was choosing a colour. The original body posts were removed for a custom made chassis. The chassis. The chassis fully assembled. Chassis with body mounted. Let's...

After making the Gunze Sanyo T-Bird. I could not wait to make the Impala. The Gunze line is hard to beat for body detail. The box is sun-faded from the being in a retail store window. The car on the box used to be bright red. Few models are packaged this nicely. This is everything in the...

I was looking for a Mini body to make a Targa Florio livery from 1972. A white Mini is easy to change colour. This came with plastic 10-inch wheels. The Mini that raced in 72 was "Plum Crazy Purple", and had crazy wide fender flairs as seen in the photos. Everything about this car was a...

The 70's GP cars have some of the widest rear tires on the planet. When these cars come off the track. It's never in slow motion. Very few variations on colour for the Shadow, so I chose Tamiya Racing Blue. It has a tinge of purple. Looks very different in the sun compared to indoor lighting...

I came across this discontinued kit made by Gunze Sangyo from Japan. Amazing quality kit. It's a bit on the larger side. But still qualifies as 1/32. Base coat. Clear coat. Drawing for the chassis. The chassis was made from 3/4 inch square aluminum tubing (1/16 inch thick)...

I had a bit of a challenge to find a body for a 3L GP class racer that would fit 3/4 inch wide aluminum chassis. After examining many bodies. I found that it barely fits in a Matra MS10. Almost every Matra on the planet is blue. We have several Matra's at our club. All of them are blue. Just to...

The club I race at holds a Targa Florio race that requires liveries to be as accurate as possible. I had a Fly Ferrari 512S that came with a broken chassis and no decals. RTR cars are not allowed in the Targa race. I took the opportunity to make it eligible for the Targa Florio with a new...

Hello folks. I was brought up on a healthy diet of Strombecker at least three times a day as a kid. The Chaparral 2D was always my favorite car. When a body turned up at a swap meet. I could not pass it up. It was very badly discoloured. But not too badly scratched. All 2Ds were white...

Whilst we are all in lockdown, everybody is building like never before. Here are the cars I am working on at the moment. First a little bit of history: SSCR has a scratchbuild saloon class with fairly restrictive rules. The first car I built was this one (Hong Kong toy with an RS chassis)...

Here is my collection of Tamiya based slot Monster Trucks in action.