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Here is the body on the car .. no wing yet, as I havent received the engine/pipe .. so didnt setup none of the 8T.

looks great

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Alright … one more update

I have finished the Losi 8T on the same style as the LST racer shell, it’s the same colors except the front I used yellow instead of orange .. I prefer the brighter solid front

Here is a picture of it after it was all painted

And here is a picture of it after I place the stickers (still no relio sticker .. workign on it)

And finally, side by side with the Racer shell

Love it, I am quite proud of how they came, and how unique they look

Maybe tomorrow i’ll post a daylite picture of the shell on the 8T body.

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A few months back I asked about plastidip here

Well, the guys at plastidip UK now sell on ebay, and you can get some good deals, allot cheaper than on the site, I didnt say it before becuase I wanted ot first order and make sure it was indeed legit (when I ordered they had 0 feedback)

I got my 425ML can for only £7

Here is a pic of the can and a servo I am about to dip into it, this stuff is great to protech servo’s against whater damage

Here is the servo dnagling from a cord while it dries .. best thing, if you ever need to access the servo internal’s the platidip just peels off

Here is their ebay items … I’m thinking of getting a spray can next

My advise, dont outbid anybody if there is a bid already, the contantly putting more items out.

This stuff is great to protect servos .. plus any stripped cords as well.

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Today when I got home I was greeted with a parcel, inside I found my new RD Logics stand for the LST

I decided to get this stand because my current one is static, which means if I want to work on the opposite side of the truck, I need to pick the truck up and flip it around, it gets tiresome when you are on a task that demands lots of access to both sides.

Anyway, I had seen the stand all over the place in the US based boards, and it looked awesome, so I decided to order one.

And awesome indeed it looks .. sheer quality is the word I would use to describe it ..

Here it is after I assembled it

And here it is the LST2 on the stand it will replace

Now for those thinking of making their own stand, this wood configuration is just excellent .. it was made by bigjonny at SpeedWay RC, and while i cant fault it, it was just the need for a rotating mechanism that makes me move on

I will still use the wood stand for certain task neither the less

And here it is the LST2 on it’s new podium

Love it … and the price was great too, £38 shipped to the UK (from US) .. not bad at all, I seen some similar RD Logic stands for the Savage going for £65 .. funny enough, I never saw the LST stand for sale in the UK :/

Here is a video of why I purchased it … rotating on all it’s glory

I must say, after playing around with it, this is definitely a must have for a LST(2) owner

Technorati Tags: LST2, RC, SpeedwayRC, Team Losi, Truck

The weather today was just great, so I could have not picked a better day to try out the new racer shell.

I head out to SpeedWay RC and set the LST2 all up with it’s new body, this is how it looked.

Unfortunately I broke my LST Wing Mount, so no wing until the replacement arrives :p

Then it was almost 5 hours of fun around the track, we had a great time, I got great comments from everybody on how sharp it looked

Here are some pictures of it in action (sorry, not really much quality)


And the aftermath …

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With tomorrow being a racing day, I pushed extra hard to try and finish the shell for tomorrow’s heat.

I went out and buy some Enamel Nail Polish Remover to try and clean the blotches … it didn’t work .. would not remove them, I try then to use fuel .. also didn’t work, so I just used a knife and scrapped it off .. as ThermalRD (lstforums) told me scratches wont be visible once painted, I went forward with it … and he was right .. worked quite well.

After a few hours, I was done, I did messup the Chrome effect on the front .. I forgot Lee (Rapid-RC) had told me to keep the chrome paint warm for a better effect, I did use the heat gun on the chrome bard at the back, and boy, it made it nice and shiny … another lesson learned for the next project.

As I was breathing a sight of relieve for being done, I started the process of cutting the shell .. and the word “frustration” is not enough to describe it .. gosh, did I HATED cutting the shell .. it’s so tick, by the time I was done, my thumb and index fingers hurt like hell.

But I was finally done .. and here she is

I don’t yet have the “RELIO” big stickers for the side (A buddy of mine is making them) .. but I went ahead with some other parma and Losi stickers I had already, the end result is here .. I cant wait to see it with the RELIO stickers .. but it will make the track tomorrow as is

Love it !!!

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My goal for today was to remove the center strip of masking tape, clean any overflow of paint that sip thru it and re-mask the white strip so I could paint the red strip.

So I started with removing the 3 centre strip masks (2 white, one red) .. that part was easy

I then was faced with the fact the Tamiya tape came out clean, but the regular tape from B&Q (Home Depot) did not, it left some residue on the car, on this next picture it’s easy to see

I circled the area where some paint has run, and needs to be removed, I went to Halfords and bought some “White Spirit” hoping it would remove it, I dipped a cotton swab and try to brush it off ..

It didn’t work, didn’t do a thing to the paint, so this crap is officially out of the project :p .. and not recommended .. well .. I am learning as I go, funny thing, it did work great to remove the tape residue .

Since the pain blotches are on the area that it’s to be painted white, I went ahead and masked them anyway, I was doing red tonight, so it didn’t affect that, I will go to B&Q tomorrow and try to get something better to remove the paint.

Once it was all masked up again, I proceeded to pain, I decided to try this tool I found at HobbyCraft that acts as a gun for any type of spraycan .. I thought it might be a cool thing to use … I was wrong .. it sucks, with it you don’t have a proper feel for the flow of the spraycan .. I used it for 2 seconds and bin it .. it’s rubbish

Live and learn

And here it is with the centre red strip … I am very excited .. it’s looking real good, tomorrow i will back the red with silver, hopefully find a solvent to remove the paint blotches and proceed to paint some white stripes

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aright .. part II of the project

To start, after reading and getting some advise on lstforums on backing up colours, I realized I need 2 more colour cans

- Silver (to back all colours)
- Black (to back chrome)

So I went to the nearest LHS and bought them.

I was dreading this part, because I don’t have an airbrush, I had no idea how was I going to make those red fades into the orange … well, nothing beats trying

First, early in the day, I backed up the blue with silver and let it dry, it sit for about 10-11 hours

Then at night, I proceeded to remove the masking, and left just the area to be painted orange out.

This now posed a dilemma .. should I do the orange colour first and try and leave some fading on the edges for the red, or should I try and do the red fades first and do the orange after ? If I had an airbrush I would go for the red first .. but I was afraid to mess up and spray red all over the orange section, so I decided on a mix of both

I did this by using my heat gun

This is what I did .. I first spray 2 coats of orange and quickly dry them with the heatgun, while leaving the edge quite thin so the red could be seen thrum, I then was able to put a coat of red fade and not worry too much of the red spilled over .. if it did it would land on the orange and not be too visible, I then quickly dry it with the gun and then put 2 more coats of orange all over it .. it worked like a charm !!!

But here I also messed up a bit, I was using the low heat setting, and because impatient and put it on the max, melting a little bit of the masking tape .. a big bummer .. one needs to be patient and always use the low heat setting (about 200 degrees)

But regardless, it was actually easier than I expected, a steady hand and some patience and you can achieve allot with a rattle can, I still would have loved to have a airbrush, I could have done it even better .. maybe it’s to become my next purchase

This is how the front looks .. now, my camera is POO when you use the flash, so the orange looks a bit read, but that the camera, not the paint, tomorrow it’ll take some pictures on the sunlight and people can see how much bright and orange it is

The side runners

and a picture of the whole truck

As I said, the camera is poo, better pictures are needed.

I noticed 3 or 4 spots where there is some leakage on the strip to be white .. my idea is to go to HobbyTown tomorrow and grab some paint diluter, and with a cutip clean them up before painting the white.

a few more days and this project will be done … more to be posted tomorrow hopefully

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A few weeks back, I posted how I had installed an Integy Roll Bar on my LST2

And people then warned me .. send it back, it’s poo .. it will bend like butter

But, like an idiot, I figure .. I only race, no bashing, I’ll be FINE

Nop .. at the FIRST roll .. this happened !!

The roll over was not even that big .. it does bend like butter.
Kids … it’s true .. Integy does suck .. do NOT buy this rollbar.

Sometimes one has to learn the hard way to listen to others who been there, done that .. at 33 I still have problems lessening ..

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I’ve started work on my LST racer shell, I have never painted a shell before, so I am a bit nervous, and hope not to mess it up

Basically I have never painted a shell before, so i was trying to keep this one simple, but still stylish and different .. one of my criteria was “no flames” .. I see to many cars with flames these days.

Nifty !!

This is the sketch I made for the paint scheme, it calls for

- Rally Blue
- Glow Red
- Glow Orange
- White
- Chrome

I started by masking all the lines, I used Tamiya Masking tape from Rapid-RC, this stuff is great, I also used standard masking tape from B&Q (UK’s Home Depot) for the bulk areas, I also then masked the front which will be orange and the roll bars at the back & front bumper which will be Chrome

And then I proceeded to paint the first colour (Blue) .. i gave it a few thin coats and used the air gun to speed up drying … tomorrow I’ll give it one last coat of blue, one of my big problems is, since I never painted a shell before, I am not sure how many coats do I really need, anyway, tomorrow I’ll also move to the red strip.

The blue looks amazing, the pictures makes it no justice, I am still undecided if I am going to back it all up with white or chrome.

More pictures to come as I paint this project

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