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oldwilly wrote:

OK,
So over the holidays I also received a box from my friends at Team Blue Groove! Aren't Canadians great !!
I had sent them a vintage Parma McLaren body I have been saving for many years so they could copy it and when they were going to send back my new copy ( the originals don't survive sometimes) I also ordered a couple of other bodies for some projects. One was a new body for my Astute!
I have been wanting to change the ugly original body for a new one so I when right to work, trimmed it and washed it up, I used MCI masks for the windows, my first time with them and I must say they worked great, had to trim just a little bit but very easy and great results. I am into my last jar of Pactra Racing Red on this one, just an awesome color. I really don't know what I am going to do when I run out of the Pactra paint it is all I have ever used for PC bodies, guess I will switch to Tamiya but I will miss the airbrush ability of the Pactra.
I haven't started cutting decals for yet but could not resist sharing a picture in just the red!

Looks so good I almost don't want to decal it well almost

I will add more pics when it is done.

And the bonus question....... what is going on in this picture??

Egress shocks??? Dyna storm???

oldwilly wrote:

And the bonus question....... what is going on in this picture??

DT-02 wheels with mini pin rears & Hicap racing shocks . Funny I got A set of those wheels for when I run my Astute Black keeps the look but gives it A Super Astute feel

I might have clicked BIN on this one today...

Roooooooh. It's the ta02 I miss. Dude Lars.

That smells the taisan.

stingray-63 wrote:

That smells the taisan.

YEESSSSSSSSS you must to post a topic for it Lars...

Unfortunately, I have not decided if I will build the 911 GT2 as a basis for the Taisan body.
I might have to look for a 58172 TA02SW chassis for the Taisan bodyset. I don't like mixing vintage and reissue parts...

-Lars

stingray-63 wrote:

YEESSSSSSSSS you must to post a topic for it Lars...

Why not try this motor on the m05?

Well some good guesses on the buggy guys,

So far Andyaus is the closest....the wheels and tires are actually a set for the Holiday buggy that were fairly cheap, I ran the rims through my ( finally up and running ) refurbished sandblast cabinet just to rough them up a bit then sprayed with Krylon Fusion satin black, I tried looking for a set of real Astute wheels but being the 2wd fronts only came on one car ever......they are way to rare and expen$ive . I intend on racing this machine on my friends back yard track this summer so having some more disposable wheels and tires might be good too.

Oh ya, right on the shocks too they are some nice old school hi cap racing ones, a bit faded but very nice, they are also sporting the cool square profile springs, I don't think it made any difference but they look good