Joe Handley Posted June 21, 2021 Posted June 21, 2021 This is one of my “bigger” kit bashing projects and It’s finally done, here’s a few of the pics I shot yesterday8) It’s a Tamiya GF-01TR Monster Beetle Trail with the portal hubs that were taken out to be kitbashed onto yet another Tamiya R/C. Since I had an otherwise nearly complete kit, I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with it and I didn’t care much for the body this came with, soooooo………. I bought one of these, one of Tamiya’s WR-02 Wild Willy 2 kits! Turns out the WR-02 and GF-01 share a large number of parts, even though one is 2wd and the other is 4wd and have similar dimensions that make putting the Wild Willy body on the Monster Beetle Trail’s chassis very simple! Not only were these both use ABS plastic “hardbodys” that need to be painted like a model kit, but Willy also has a driver figure that needs to be painted too. I used Jeep Moss Green Metallic automotive touch up paint mixed and canned by my friend Miguel at RestoPaint in West Chicago from Sherman-Williams automotive product for the color coat in the truck body and helmet then gloss cleared the helmet and flat cleared the truck then painted Willy with a mix of Testors Enamels, Vallejo and Games Workshop Acrylics, and Tamiya Flat Clear after the body was painted, this also just so happens to be the first figure I’ve ever painted too! Unfortunately, it did endo while shooting some video of it yesterday and I now have a one way front differential on order for it to fix that little drivability issue and plan on removing the roll bar and painting it and the roll bar lights where the silver pinstripe tape isn’t with the bedliner I used on the spare and inside the tub. There may be oil filled shocks (stock are friction shocks dampened by rubber tubes inside the body vs oil) and a Holmes Hobby Snub Nose Revolver motor and Castle Sidewinder Electronic Speed Control in it’s future, however! 1
Joe Handley Posted June 23, 2021 Author Posted June 23, 2021 Got the part to fix the end over problem in the mail today! So long as I put it in the right way, the truck will be 4wd going forward and RWD in reverse and while braking! Sounds like this is a common mod for this chassis in the Japanese market.
PatW Posted July 12, 2021 Posted July 12, 2021 I saw a 1/32 version of this on ebay here in the UK. The starting bid wanted was £110!
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