Tamiya Car Hornet RC Buggy Body Painting Guide Part 1 

Amazing channel Gav! I had a Hornet at the age of 7 or 8, around 1984/1985. I just bought the rerelease this week (plus all the modern radio gear etc since things have changed a lot in 35yrs!) and will be closely following your Hornet videos for my build and paint. I still have my original car in the loft, but it looks a bit worse for wear now, and quite frankly is undriveable. Battle wounds from years of fun had with it. My rerelease purchase will be a bit more of a nostalgic one, but i'll still be having a bit of a blast with it when its done. Keep up the good work with the channel. After being out of the RC life for many many years, I suddenly find myself absorbed in watching your videos to the point of this weeks purchase! Gulp!

When i was a we lad of six my uncle built me this with a hand made wooden box the had spares and room for the car, grateful for that amazing memory.

Thanks for the tutorial looks more complex than I thought and more tools needed ha

Awesome paint job

I liked it with the additional detail. For me, 90% of the fun of an r/c is the build, so watching someone else I can live vicariously haha. Plus, even if I’ve been there done that I might still pick up something new. For instance, I actually never knew those decal cutting mats were a thing or why I’d use one, but now I do!

Very nice. Glad the winner decided on box art. I think it looks great

I always needed a break before the final cut on the body, just to keep the stress levels down... keep up the good work.

My all time favorite RC CAR 👍😎

Love the Hornet, if u like Tamiya's I do a Tamiya build-off with fellow channels n do a video of all the builds at the end, I call it the Show'em off videos. A bunch of us do Tamiya Tuesday where we do our building videos n running videos of our Tamiyas. I see a couple guys in the rc family in ur comments. Friday night hangouts too

Just building a Hornet after owning one in 87' aged 14. I remember using a brush to paint the shell in those days.

Thanks for the steps

Looks good , box art all the way

soo good rc car😍👍👍

Great video on the steps involved. I've only done one body myself (DT-03 Racing Fighter) so I've got lots to learn. Thanks for keeping the video shorter too. I tend to bypass long ones! Great job!

That's going to look sharp ! Great video 👌

Hi Gavin, i’m really liking the detailed format of the video. But it must take you a long time to produce and edit. I would have loved to have a tutorial when I built my first RC car back in the day.

Cool

nice

do a white hornet body great video thanks

Good job with the video and body. Didn’t it come with decals for the roll bars? Maybe I am thinking of another build.

No washing of the body as in the manual?