Today I’m going to post quite a big blog entry and I’ll be covering multiple items that have recently come into my posession. There is also some more stuff to post about, but today I’ll only be focussing on some new RC stuff that has come in. To start I’ll show you all my new Tamiya TA-05ifs 4WD touring car that I have bought at the RC store. After that I’ll show you all my new transmitter that I got second hand from a guy who calls himself Snoopamilo on youtube and recently replaced this transmitter with a new 2.4Ghz transmitter for better response on long range for his FG Marder. Then I recently got a very nice Tamiya FF-01 FWD touring car from a very nice guy on a Tamiya enthousiasts forum. And lastly there is one of those immensly popular X-Twin park flyers. I got the X-Twin Thunder Jet with ducted fans instead of rear mounted props.
So, here is the Tamiya TA-05ifs. The chassis is a little dusty allread from a testdrive, but soon I’ll be cleaning it and taking it out on the track.
The TA-05ifs is basicly the same as the normal TA-05. Ifs stands for Inboard Front Suspension and as you can see on the first picture as also a little on the second picture is that the shocks are mounted more or less horizontally. I don’t think this does very much for the performance of the car, but it does mean that bodies with a very low nose as the one that came with it can be mounted on it, but they can’t be mounted on a normal TA-05 because the front of the chassis would be too high with the shocks in a upright position.
I’ll soon be taking it out on the track, maybe even tomorrow if the weather will allow it. Then I’ll be really able to say how it handles. Now I can only say that it’s reasonably fast, even with the mega cheap motor I have mounted in it.
The second thing I mentioned is my new transmitter. This is a Graupner XR-6. This is a 40Mhz FM transmitter. This is the version of this transmitter that still uses crystals. There is also a version (the XS-6) that uses a synthesizer instead of crystals. Crystals are a bit of a drag, but it’s more than adaquate for now.
The next thing on the list is a Tamiya FF-01. This is quite a strange chassis when compared to the more conventional 4WD and RWD models out there. This is not a 4WD or a RWD, but instead it’s a FWD chassis and unlike most other models, it has it’s center of gravity at it’s front instead of an equal weight distribution. Unfortunatly I don’t have all electronics I need to take this one out for a spin and I also don’t have wheels for it and I don’t have a body yet. The wheels on the pictures where temporarily taken from the TA-05ifs. And to be clear about the body: there is no way that the body from my TA-05ifs will fit on this FF-01. The body I have is a bit too wide. It’s a 200mm and for the FF-01 I’ll need a 190mm body or else it’ll look very stupid. The other problem is the front and on the pictures you can see why that would be a problem.
I’m thinking of making this one into a rally style car. With a rally style body and rally style wheels and tires.
The last RC thing for now is a Silverlit X-Twin Thunder Jet. My friend Michiel and I were actually looking for an X-Twin Pro Air Acrobat, but instead we got this one, because the Air Acrobat is available nowhere. And this one does have at least one benefit over the Air Acrobat. The Air Acrobat has a height rudder used to make loops. This is very nimble and will easely break. The Thunder Jet doesn’t have this. It’s just a 2 channel controlled craft like the other X-Twin planes and because of it’s ducted fans it will not break very easely under normal circumstances. The normal props of the other X-Twins can break much easier because they can actually hit stuff. You’d have to give quite an effor to make them hit something, but it is most definitly possible. So this one is probably a bit more durable than another X-Twin air craft and it looks undeniably cool.
I haven’t flown it yet, but I will very soon when there is a little less wind to worry about. These things are extremely ligth, so when there is a bit of a breeze it’ll probably be carried away by the wind and it’ll be very hard to control.
That’s all for now. I’m planning on shooting a few short vids of my TA-05ifs, FF-01 and of the Thunder Jet sometime soon and when I’ve done that I’ll upload them to youtube and post them here.
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