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havent seen you on here in a while Gex, glad so see that sweet lotus again.

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http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...4/01011795.jpg

this is currently the shell sitting on my ride. i bought a couple of cheap sets of abs tires for drifting. the car is a tc4 and powered by a mamba 7700 with a hitec digital 5925 servo and jrs radio.
the car is not a full time drifter (obvious by the motor selection)
I hope to track down some new visual mods and the final show body will be a Supra.

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what brand is the shell? it looks nice

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thanks for compliments on the elise. I do like the body, came out better than what I expected, just messing around with an airbrush. I also like how the onroad bodies look so realistic. I have a Saleen Mustang and a Chevy Silverado waiting to be painted.

I havn't been drifting for a while but i'll get back into it. I wish I knew someone around here that also does it. Right now it's just me in front of my house. It's fun though.

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E30 trash, wow.

Are those the new rims where you can adjust offset? I LOVE the offset look. It's too nice to be driven. hehe.

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Gex, wow, beautiful Lotus. Professional two tone pain btw.

WOOT for LOTUS!!!!!!!!!

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My first electric, first kit, first paintjob. Just painted it today and built it a few days ago. Used blue medium adhesion 14 day scotch painters tape to mask the windows.

Looks better in real life because you cant see all the tiny scratches and dust, looks worse because you can see the paint bleeds/leaks.

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Man, just looking through the pages, and alot of nice bodies, but at least for me its completely ruined by the field goal body posts. Is there a reason why you guys kleave them so long, or no?

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hey guys nice cars

mine is not really a drifter,

although it is set up to drift with tyres and a few hop-ups[&:]

anyway i just wanted to show off my new shell lol

so here it is

a HPI 1968 Chevrolet Camaro, in dark metallic blue (Tamiya Spray can PC-16)

half way thru the stickering
http://p7.piczo.com/img/i103306544_98996_7.jpg

and after it was finished
http://p7.piczo.com/img/i103305555_36510_7.jpg
http://p7.piczo.com/img/i100359368_37981_7.jpg
http://p7.piczo.com/img/i101550075_85814_7.jpg
http://p7.piczo.com/img/i101627047_24753_7.jpg

it looks better in real, the photo's were took on my phone lol

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my body posts are only long because i have just finished the shell, and i have got quite a tall BMW M3 to go on aswell

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Hpi Makes extenders for that I hear. It extends the body post to the front of the car, ad then you make how tall you want it to be.

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Here's pics of my new shell. I had to buy extended posts to accomodate the hatchback of the body. I thought green would be ugly but, in my opinion, I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!

http://image.rcuniverse.com/forum/up...95/Ng99825.jpg
http://image.rcuniverse.com/forum/up...95/Pm35048.jpg
http://image.rcuniverse.com/forum/up...95/Wn85911.jpg
http://image.rcuniverse.com/forum/up...95/Rm38195.jpg
http://image.rcuniverse.com/forum/up...95/Nl30229.jpg
http://image.rcuniverse.com/forum/up...95/Yt60892.jpg

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Rcluke, WHOA!!!!!

I want that shell badly.

If you wake up tomorrow and your shell is missing. don't blame me. That shell is too hotttttttt.

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Ok, i dont really understand the HPI extender thing. Does it allow you to move to body posts forward, or backward so it will mount better? What i was talking about was how alot of you guys never timmed your body posts.

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they make adjustable body posts. kinda like the antenna on your radio. it moves up and down to extend. im guessing thats what they are talking about.

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i agree

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Well the main reason I dont cut the body posts anymore is because I got caught out once on my TT-01 chasis. I cut the body posts down to fit one set of wheels and body but then when I put another body shell on with different tires all of a sudden the tires would rub or the front tires would rub when steering. Due to that sort of thing I leave them now because on Tamiya cars its a pain to try and track down a new set of body posts. Usually you cant buy them on their own and you have to buy a whole parts bag (like the whole "B" parts bag for the TT-01 for example).

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Very nice shell psychorevo, i was just wondering whats on ur wheels, becuase they look different :O?

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Are you talking about the things that come with the Rs4 3 evo nitro car? I was thinking of using those, becuase it allows you to adjust the hieght of your body, and ive a bunch laying around.

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well the ones I seen were for the front. They move it forward so the post look lower.

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I thought about using those HPI post extenders from my Sprint2 on my TT-01 when I cut the posts too low but I found that the TT-01 body posts arent as wide as the HPI ones and the extender wobbled around. I managed to get rid of the wobble with some electrical tape but in the end I just bought a new set of posts for the TT-01 because I didnt feel like cutting bigger holes in my bodyshell and left the posts long for whatever body I throw at it later on.

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i dont have pics, just the movie i made.. nothing special, but i like my small money pit..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2tCzgONwkg

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I just used old stock wheels from a nitro RS4. They come in white so I just spray painted them black.

O yea, the tires are made up of ABS piping.

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thats a pretty nice body.... put up some vids of u driving

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Changed the rims and took off some stickers:
http://image.rcuniverse.com/forum/up...95/Ju12623.jpg
http://image.rcuniverse.com/forum/up...95/Jo30509.jpg
http://image.rcuniverse.com/forum/up...95/Mh21312.jpg
http://image.rcuniverse.com/forum/up...95/Hf99093.jpg