The small cans of tamiya paint used to drive me crazy. Then I tried Core RC paint. Bigger cheaper cans but just as good finish. But the light bulb moment for me was buying an air bush and I started to use Proline and faskolor paint. The little bottles of paint go a long way and as they are water based can be used indoors without stinking the house out.
Great fun and all true. I would buy a couple of RC10 re re for my son and I in a heartbeat if they ever came out again. I Still have my 'cadillac' edition A stamp from '87 and it is just the coolest rc car ever. 30 plus years old and still works like new including the ancient electronics. A couple of those new in a kit to build all over again would be a blast for sure. Here' s hoping! Cheers.
My biggest pet peeve? Pretty much all the hate that the hardcore racing scene has for anyone who isn't a full-on hard core racer or anything that isn't specifically catered to them. Show up to a track with an older model car or anything from a "basher" or "budget" brand? Chances are at least one person will harass you about it. And the companies are only making things worse by constantly hiking their prices - which forces people who want to start racing to either buy an older used model or a budget model unless they have over a grand to sink into something they may or may not like. My second biggest one is Traxxas's unethical business practices in terms of dealing with other companies.
Speaking for off-road; Overly competitive man-children certainly haven't done the racing side of the hobby any favours where I live, it takes the fun out and makes it feel stressful going to the track, then there is the knock on effect of everyone having to have the latest fastest car - the next racer's edge is the tyres, which have become softer and softer to get the best lap times, they wear out in next to no time and they aren't exactly cheap, which kills it for the mum and dad racers, and even some of the grown men. A particular hobby shop in Western Australia (which no longer exists) was very much the hardcore racing culture you speak of, one day I went to buy some old Tamiya parts - which they listed in stock, it was my second visit in a few days for parts for an old chassis - and the guy who runs the shop tells me "We only cater for the racers here, mate" the insinuation being "don't come in here and waste my time for TOYS". Even though he had the parts on the shelf, and I had the money to purchase them...........
Nice video, I'm still smiling. For #11 put a MSC in the car if your running one of the old tuning motors. The chassis of vintage cars still have the mounts for the second servo and the MSC😉
I was thinking the exact same thing! I’m tired of feeling like i have to actively order more product. The beetle and lunchbox requires more than 1 can to get it right. So annoying! Thx Gavin great video 👍🏼
Gavin, far as decals go.. most manufacturer's use a silk screen printing I believe..?... Which is like they are painted on to the clear media..Plus the fades look The way they do on the decals because of screen printing... The reproduction decals are resin printed from thermal ribbons...and your limited on colors and therefore color matching....so they do the best they can... Also the sets are redrawn by mouse and text is matched...or using something close... Doing fades like Tamiya does....is very hard to match.... I sometimes make my own decals for my rc vehicles.. but it is alot of work... Lol. Side note... I helped MCI get the scaling right on their Vanquish decal set... They used to be WAY to big...
You are right on on the paint,your right on on all you said.tamiya please put out a monthly or bimonthly magazine I will buy it.you are doing an awesome job
Totally with you on the administrative charge for collecting import duties, which there is no method available to pay in advance. I despise the Royal Mail charge of £12:50 (from memory). Although, eBay’s Global Shipping program does let you pre-pay, but I’m not sure if it’s not overpriced, and it only works if the Seller is prepared to use/offer it.
Awesome video! I agree with most. I have a radiolink and find the interface easy to use. Just my opinion of course! Would love a Falcon and 959 and a Mid! But I have no money and I don't know why........
@@clintonepps3666 ya don't get me wrong a lot of people who truly love the hobby are great about it. I'm talking about the people who stock up for the sole purpose of reselling later. Earlier this year when Tamiya stocks were low there were plenty of $200 kits on eBay for $500+
Great Video!! I’m still rolling!! That last bit that u said Is so true. With technology and things ever changing, you just about have to be the richest person on the planet in order to keep up with the latest and greatest! And like always, just when you think that you have the newest and best model out Pops another one! It’s NEVER ENDING!! LMAO!!😂😂
I can help you with the paint. Use AMMO MIG Acrylic colors with AMMO MIG 2000 thinner. using an airbrush spray a very very thin coat on the plastic underside like you would with the PC colors. This would be your primer coat. Use the same primer coat as the color you want. let dry 15 minutes then apply again. Letting dry 15 minutes between coats. use as many thin coats till you get the desired color thickness. will not flake off or break off under collision. Have five cars already using this system. DO NOT use these paints for Gas cars, I have not tried them yet on a gas car. Oh by the way the acrylic paints dont stink! Hope this helps.
Hoarders and scalpers bothers me a bit.... They buy up multiples of the same kit/part/ accessory and resell them at crazy prices or don't sell them at all and just store them away in a box somewhere.
You are right. They ruin the hobby. Just look at the 'get rich selling gold pans' retards on youtube and look at ebay full of new in box rc10 re re for 1200 bucks all bought up by losers trying to turn a buck instead of enjoy them for what they are.
I'd LOVE to hear what your lovely wife Rebecca has to complai...erm say about this hobby! I bet her list overlaps some of yours but the differences will be interesting. I can imagine one of the points being.. my husband spends hours and hours in the room, hardly ever being seen during the day! XD just kidding! But yeah, totally feel your frustration on the paint cost/amount, and issues with motors, ESCs, batteries, and transmitters. I don't mind the numerous hop up parts as being a Tamiya fan, I'm happy to start from stock and build up, although if they can add ESCs and Torque Tuned Motors, they can certainly add bearings to a lot of kits!
Hi!!! Great video and spot on!! I thought I was the only person who thought that about the spray paint! Again couldn’t agree more with you on the other pet peeves except about the falcon.... yeah nobody needs that car or to lose their money except or they improved EVERYTHING about it. Thanks and keep up the great content!
This was great. I totally agree. I did go back to NIMH batteries to run all my trucks and cars that are ran in the basement. I use 6 cell 1800mah as they weigh as much as a 2s 4000mah lipo. I use a 1500 2s lipo in a few vintage cars that will run for 15 minutes. Outside cars trucks I use Lipo.
What pisses me off about controllers is the fact that all the pistol-type ones are for right-handed people who drive "the usual way". I figured out that you can hold it in your right hand and operate the throttle all right, but now they insist on this "ergonomic" offset, which makes this impossible. When I asked a dealer, his great idea was "just get used to it".
Battery management systems do exist in lithium batteries, just not in the ones we use. The problem is that we push our batteries well beyond what the commercially available battery protection circuitry can handle. The ones in cell phone batteries can barely even handle a couple amps at most, and we're generally pulling several times that with our cars. The Spektrum SMART batteries are still very new on the market and use custom circuitry. As a result they end up costing a lot more compared to equivalent batteries without battery protection circuitry. I don't see the tech catching on.
Not printing stickers isn't Tamiyas fault, it's licensing. In the 80s they could get away with using sponsors logos, it was seen as free advertising. Today since the sponsors worked out they could make actual money out of it every sponsors logo has to be licensed from that manufacturer, and often a fee to be paid for each one. For a new model they sell enough of them to cover the costs. While I don't think Tamiya has much of a problem over others reproducing ones they don't sell any more, the problem for Tamiya is that the sponsors then go after Tamiya themselves for misuse of their logos. Tamiya made the F201 with a Ferrari body, the car cost £20 more than the one with both a clear and carbon printed unlicensed bodies. The extra £20, and one body less, was to cover the cost of licensing the body from Ferrari. The same happens with every logo used. The Schumacher XLS production was held up, as they had to get licensing sorted for the other manufacturers logos. They couldn't get an agreement with HPI, which is why the Uno motors logos are missing. As for quality, that's because the manufacturers use screen printing to create the stickers. The advantage is very high quality, durable stickers. The downside is that creating the screens and setting them up for printing costs money, and the stickers are printed in large batches to make them viable. I'm sure a printer would happily screen print some stickers, to anyone prepared to buy a few hundred sheets of them. Repro stickers are made using digital vinyl printers. The advantage is that they can be printed on demand, once the stickers have been drawn up. They can also be easily altered with different colours or scales. The disadvantage is that the quality can't match a screen printed sticker.
The other NICE thing about aftermarket decals is that quite often they are reproduced with complete with the old, REAL life manufacturers - the yellow smiley KC Daylighters for example ;)
Most paints now stick to plastic acrylic, I don’t buy those little tamiya tins anymore I search about for 400 or 500 mm cans from various builders merchants
Love that video! So many good points, but hey the world can't be perfect. 😉 Like peoples don't like painting bodies, Tamiya doing prepainted bodies and others complain about it, that they can't paint it by themselves. People don't like the handling of an vintage car, manufacturer is offering upgrades, but people complain about have to buy so many expensive Hop-Ups..... etc.
The amount of paint doesn’t matter to me. It’s the fact that I’ve never been able to get a good paint job. It’s making me want to get out of the hobby. Usually I can get good at anything I put the effort in but not painting an rc body!
I spent £180 just on hop up bits for my new Cougar Laydown ... I only run it on the carpet inside the house!. I have the fastest buggy I've ever owned with more carbon and titanium on it than an F1 car but it cannot bring myself to get a scuff on it. It will never go out! 🤣..... Funny video and some great points made. Especially on the Re release kits and decals! I missed out on the RC10 and I would snap one of those little suckers up! And then have even less money 🤣.
I agree with the paint and different coloured re releases. I think the stickers could be down to licensing issues, i know some full size car makers are really really hot on licenses (Audi being one). As for transmitters i have one TX and keep all my cars on there, the big rigs and tanks are on another transmitter just because they need lots of channels. Mind you saying that i am trying to resist buying into mini z and thats another transmitter per car in general.
Prices of RC Vintage parts - especially Thorp items. In 2012 I bought 3 Thorp ball diffs for a Fox for $120. Now 1 ball diff is $120AUD....as example. Its the same thing I hate about 1:1 classic cars also. 300% increase in price to what things really need to be. PPL are in it for the profit, and not just to keep the hobby alive for those people who arent rich!
I was ranting on fbook today about why tamiya charge so much for hop ups that come as standard on kyosho kits and how expensive paint is so i now don't buy tamiya brand spray paint cos i want 400ml. And why is it that cars just cos its painted green cost 60 quid or more than the original without paint as u said u can just paint it. After my rant i noticed your video.
On the transmitter problem: Buy one AND STICK TO IT. If you run out of memory, re-evaluate if you just have too many cars or if the one you picked just has a small memory. I picked up a FlySky NB4. It's affordable, receivers are cheap and small, 20 model memory (enough for me) and the menu makes sense. The Sanwa MT44 and M17 have the option to add an SD card to increase the model memory to 250, if you run out with that much may god help you.
I feel the pain as an rc car hobbiest it herts the pockets not all of is have unlimited funds for parts and paint and all the new goodies etc that's why i gave up rc racing just have few left as shelf queens 👍
Funny and accurate, totally agree on the paint, why soo small cans and tripple price. Took me a few months to find a ESC that could handle my old 8T motor and some of my other hot brushed ones.
I absolutely endorse this message 🍺😂👍🏽 I’m patiently waiting for the Optima Mid re re so many vintage parts stock piled no car to install them on none of them mint they will be for a runner 🙄
I have two pet peeves one is They were discontinued. Many cars today have an extremely short production span. They are here today gone tomorrow and once they’re gone it’s impossible to find parts and the new version is not much different than the old version
I'd like to see you put together and XRay T4 touring car. I paid $590 for the 2020 edition and every step of the manual has 'recommended parts' that are not included. What the hell?? At nearly $600 shouldn't the kit come with these recommended parts?? I'm already on the hook for a body and wheels that are not included.
Another one of my pet peeves are decals. I have learned to design my own decals but they are not cost-effective. A set of decals can take me weeks or longer to design and are not cheap to print. Most reproduction decals are junk because they are simply copies of the original and the scanning equipment cannot usually provide a clean image so there is a loss of image quality unless someone is willing to reproduce the decal by re-drawing from scratch using a vectored design program. I’ve bought what I thought we’re going to be good reproductions and they were complete garbage and I spent a fortune on them and they were unusable
Fantastic! You missed a big one though, stuff you can’t buy because it isn’t in stock anywhere. Seems to be a bigger issue in the last year than before!
Agree on the paint - I use primer off Amazon :) And then I back in white or black primer With Tx - I just pair many Rx to a single Tx (no memory) - all I have to do it tweak the trim each time - is that not a thing?
I agree on all accounts. And also Limited runs of REREs just make tons of them....they'll sell. Tamiya not including BEARINGS!!!! Prices for kits is getting RIDICULOUS!!!
Very good, very true, very amusing. With the hop ups for re-releases, are you frustrated with all the hop ups in general or are you frustrated with a re-release being standard and then having to shed out loads to make it run with present day power? The CAT XLS is a good example. Wasn't the transmission upgrade £80 or so? Some will say that should be in the kit, others will say they were released separately in case people wanted it to remain standard and wouldn't want to spend more on the purchase price for the kit to include parts they were not going to use. Do you prefer the CAT XLS or the Optima Mid when it comes to all round build and running and maintenance? I think you should do this more often. Looks like you enjoyed it.
Haha, I totally agree with the paint buddy. I can see the stress fading away buddy. It's great to get it off your chest. lol Send some transmitters to me please...Great video my friend. Take care.
I got my first rc car in 1986 and have been racing since 1994. Nothing has changed in that time, i still loath & detest anything to do with bodyshell painting, detailing or mounting.
its much like my Gundam collection but only more expensive. so many cool designs in both hobbies but the RC kits and related parts cost so much more.... got a TT02D, a 2WD slash that is due to come in and im looking at 2021 Thunder dragon......
I would add one more to the list... Discontinued cars. Take Schumacher - the demand for CAT XLS and Top CAT is huge so why not just keep making them instead of cutting off your own income.
