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Ooohhh a very nice project.  The body is the main issue but we are coming in the good days. So you will be able to fix it .🤗🤗🤗

I think that front corner might need a bit of heat on it as well as a good amount of glue and filler !!!!

Yes but it's a nice chassis. I have the ralt and love it. 

Nice and complete Al and it look like there aren't any pieces missing from the front end damage which will make repair that much easier.

Driver was painted well, cool chassis! 

Perhaps a restoration thread............?

Cheers Jim, there will definitely be a restoration thread.

YESSSS!!!!👏🙌👏🙌

One of these magnificent beasties - An M4 SHERMAN with the full sound and light stuff .. can't wait to get this one together 

BTW, the instructions are missing if anyone has a booklet they could spare or is no longer wanted.  

I got a bunch of parts for my speedrun build today.
The Hobbywing 10BL60 Esc has been laying unused for some time now (bought on sale about 2 years ago), beside the gears that arrived yesterday,the rest came today.
I can finally now start the build..

And the Traxxas turnbuckles are wrong as they are M4, so these will be returned and changed for TT02B turnbuckles that I got a tip fits the Hornet well.



My project has now offcially more funds into it than a new kit would have costed me 

Hadn't seen this sort of tyre before, supposedly a road tyre for the Lunchbox. Tread pattern is very much like the Sand Blaster as first seen on the back of the Rough Rider, they're very soft, but flexible and thin so while I've no doubt they'd improve grip substantially with stock & slightly tuned motors, I suspect they'd balloon & disintegrate if spun up too much.

Assuming the "9" in 915 is the tyre width (in inches) of a nominal 1:1 real tyre and the "15" is the wheel diameter (again in inches), then a quick bit of maths suggests that the 72mm width of the tyre and the 55mm outer diameter of a Lunchbox wheel translates to 18.5" width & 18" wheel size at 1:10 scale Wild Willy etc - so a SAND BLASTER 1918 -  or 22, 22 at 1:12 scale Lunchbox /Pumpkin, etc.







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I spotted those as well when I looked for parts on ebay here the other day.
Look forward to see how they perform and how they look fitted to a Lunchbox.