All new Meng 1/12 MP4/4

Box is not huge as other 1/12 formula kits, fully packed with parts tho.

Comes with metal suspension arms, and PE parts too. 

BD11 #3

Another 2 good hours spent to complete all 4 suspension arms and drive shafts. 

I used a wrong 8mm screw to lock the mid pulley end up with excessive play. Changed it back to 6mm screw and remove one of the inner 0.1mm shim to make it best fit and issue resolved. 

BD11 #2

Continue for 2 more hours and completed all 4 arms - it is the first ever time I built CF arms.

CA is applied between plastic parts and the CF arms before the screws, I did not CA the edges of the arms tho as it seems no one doing it for some reason. Guess I will figure it out if it is actually required. 

Anti roll bars were fitted too, and followed the tips from Yokomo drivers too the little brown color o-ring will have to sit "outside" of the metal mount instead of being "inside".

BD11 #1

Using the degrease solution for bicycle chain to soak the ball bearings for couple of hours

Dry them and apply thin bearing oil

Main chassis has been CA in the mean while, started the build with front solid axle and rear gear diff (7500 wt).

Replaced the original 64pitch gear with 48pitch 76T spur.

Yokomo BD11 Project Started

After one year of collecting this kit, and don't know how many years since my last build of any TC ....

Decided to build this one before building the just arrived BD12.

First step is reading thru the manual, and applied CA glue on the bottom chassis edge.

The connection of upper deck to rear bulkhead is "floating", not exactly rigid as usual TC (I cannot really define usual TC now .....), interesting design. I will take my time to build this kit, first time ever to build "modern" TC with carbon graphite arms ....

Tested new rubber tires CA glue

Already tested once on the Xray buggy, and this time applied the CA on the bike. Unlike the usual thin CA, this type is a bit sticky, will see how it holds up. 

Bandai 1/1000 space battleship and 1/12 K-2SO

 The K-2SO is rare these days ....

Bandai 1/500 and 1/1000 Yamato Space Batttleship

 Finally found it

Together with 1/1000

Airfix 1/72 A-4B/Q #6

masked and add more color on the fuselage

- Blue on the vertical wing tip

- Black (actually used German Grey) in front of windshield

- Red on leading edge

- Gun metal on exhaust

Let the paints dry for 48 hours, with 1000 sand paper, clean up some of the paint leak among the masking tape. 

And decals time