The Bren Gun Carrier is one of my favorite vehicles and its about time I got round to building one.
This is a nice kit as you get lots of accessories with it so you can customise the model to your liking. I have also been using this kit to practice improving the look of my figures.
There is still a lot of work to do here but its been an enjoyable build so far!
Bashing with my Twin Hammers and Losi Micro short course truck.
I finally got around to doing some more of my tiger tank build at the weekend. Last week I received the final parts of the series so I thought it was time to get back into it. In this session I fitted the exhaust stacks to the back of the tank and added the left track. The track is made of 96 metal links held together with pins.
I did encounter some badly cast track links, but these were overcome with a bit of filing and brute force.
Arms with adjustable camber, oil filled shocks and propeller joints for the drive shaft. All are Aluminium replacing plastic parts. Shocks need to be built and filled with oil so they will need to set overnight.
I should have some Infantry painted and ready to add to a Diorama soon. I will let you know what I think of the brushes too.
I decided to once again upgrade my motor on my electronic monster truck. The maximum upgrade people seem to recommend for a truck of thistype is a 12 turn with x2. the x2 gives it a little more torque to make up for the torque lost by using a lower turn motor. In order to use this I also had to replace the stock speed controller with one that would support a 12t motor.
The motor is an LRP v10 spec5 12×2 and I am using a Modelsport Sniper RV-12 ESC.
They seem to give the truck a nice boost compared to the small gain received by upgrading it with a tamiya motor.
Here is a test of the TT01 with its first parts. I forgot to put my head on straight this morning. Sorry!
I have had my eye on the Tamiya Silvia Coppermix drift kit before I got back into R/c.
Recently it disappeared from the store I always saw it on and it looks like you can now only import the model from America or Hong Kong.
So I decided to instead go for a standard chassis XB RTR version of the model and upgrade it myself as these are cheaper and more easily available.
It arrived today from Germany and has already had its first upgrades installed.
The initial hop ups I have installed are an aluminum drive shaft and race bearings to replace all standard bearings / bushings.
I found the main gear can be annoying to get back in without taking the rear differential apart. When you take the drive shaft out the bevel pinion gears attaching to the diffs drop making it difficult to re-insert the drive shaft. Good job I had to replace the bearings in the differentials anyway.
All in all its pretty easy to take apart and rebuild.
I have drift tyres and a sport tuned motor on the way as the next step.
Got round to picking up some polystyrene glue today to fix my spitfire. I am sure I will break it again over the holiday no doubt.
I was a bit adventurous last time I took my MCPx out and started attempting to fly upside down.
Although I did manage a pretty sketchy barrel roll I eventually crashed and snapped the tail boom and landing gear.
I started googling for parts and found their are plenty of upgrades available for this helicopter.
I brought a stronger longer tail boom (still and official part for the heli) and carbon fibre landing skids.
I was tempted by an aluminium tail boom but I figured this would just impart the force from a crash onto the main frame instead.
Shane's Shed 