Month: March 2007

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 Technorati Tags: 8IGHT-T, 8T, RC, Team Losi

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…