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this was muy cunning plan - self adhesive 5mm Rhinestones

Thanks, just had to slap myself there... wish I'd thought of that before spending hours carving my indicator lenses out of lumps of thick red acrylic sheet

Gearbox on ... rear torsion bars aren't doing anything, three layers of 1mm clear sheet bolted & ziptied on work but aren't that pretty... clear underguard is shorter than standard as the re-re XR311 ally guard is longer ...




Really needs an RX, 4xAA box, battery, and control rods for the servos, but these things are so frgaile it'll spend it's life on a shelf ... also made a new (XR311 style) bumper out of 3mm styrene to be painted later:

Quite chuffed with how this turned out - even if it did take 9 months

Nine months ain't too long in my book.
Wreck to wonderful.

@ Eddrick - I don't know if you got yours finished, but this is the list of my leftovers if you're interested in any of it:

Cheetah instrument pod & steering wheel boss
2 Cheetah rear lights (poor condition)

1 off XR311 wiper (broken in two bits)
XR311 fire extinguisher (broken in 2 bits)
XR311 MSC (needs a bit of soldering/rewiring/connectors/fuse)
XR311 wheel inner & centre

3 off E1 (front knuckle)
8 off E2 (front upright top/bottom); + 4 homemade, 2 brass, 2 aluminium?
3 off E3 (steering swingy bit top)
5 off E4 (steering shaft end)
4 off E5 (steering swingy bits)
3 off E6 (rear wishbone narrow half)
4 off E7 (front wishbone stop)
5 off E19 (front end plastic plate)
5 off E10 (dry cell contact holder)
2 off E11 (rear wishbone wide half)
3 off E12 (driveshaft cups)
4 off E13 (servo saver spring)
7 off E14 (front wishbone wide half)
4 off E18 (front wishbone narrow half)
4 off E16 (steering swingy bits retainer)
3 off E17 (front upright spacers) + 2 metal ones
1 off E23 (Cheetah front torsion bar

JR
Another splendid effort mate! You can be very proud of the end result considering what you started with. Enjoy the fruits of your labour.
Marius

Very impressive! I will surly be using a couple of techniques you have showen.

Holy crap! Looks like you've got nearly enough bits to build another?
- have a wander through the manual to see what's missing for another build & let me know, I might well be interested (For the right price) in a box of bits for a custom-build.

Regardless, If you have a full set of dry-cell connector bits, I'd be very interested in those - I'd originally intended for my Cheetah to be dry-cell-powered rather than the more common NiCd setup, but couldn't lay my hands on the bits needed. Again, let me know.

Oh, & yep my Cheetah was finished ages ago, well as finished as it's ever likely to be! - there's a couple of (poor) pics in my gallery

eddrick wrote:

Holy crap! Looks like you've got nearly enough bits to build another?
- have a wander through the manual to see what's missing for another build & let me know, I might well be interested (For the right price) in a box of bits for a custom-build.

Regardless, If you have a full set of dry-cell connector bits, I'd be very interested in those - I'd originally intended for my Cheetah to be dry-cell-powered rather than the more common NiCd setup, but couldn't lay my hands on the bits needed. Again, let me know.

Oh, & yep my Cheetah was finished ages ago, well as finished as it's ever likely to be! - there's a couple of (poor) pics in my gallery

AFAIK what's needed for dry cells is 2 plastic plates, 1 metal double contact & 2 small contacts - I only have the plastic bits & one small contact

You're welcome to those & any or all of the rest ... I also have a driver (paint stripped & in bits, most of the fingers on the right hand missing, + 2 helmet heads with the faces painted).

If I'm using the Royal Mail site correctly, I think I can post it all for 5.30 GBP