The E55 RC Car
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The E55 RC Car
I can't get enough of my E55, so I built an RC Car version of it.
It started life as a Tamiya TG10-Mk.1 body. Added custom parts from Tamiya's CLK-DTM, AMG wheels are from Tamiya's old C-Class AMG DTM, and decals are from various RC kits (HPI's S55, C32, and CLK).
It started life as a Tamiya TG10-Mk.1 body. Added custom parts from Tamiya's CLK-DTM, AMG wheels are from Tamiya's old C-Class AMG DTM, and decals are from various RC kits (HPI's S55, C32, and CLK).
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Nice job, I have an HPI C32 body on order at my local hobby shop, it SHOULD be here sometime this week. I am terrible at airbrushing though, lol.
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Thanks for the nice feedback. RC car building and miniture scale cars are a hobby from my youth, but I still enjoy it today. I also have a 1/18th scale E55 diecast model and a 1/24th scale E55 plastic model. I will post these later when I have some time.
The HPI C32 and S-Class RC bodies are very nice! I have both of them, as well as the CLK-DTM AMG Racer. But this E-Class body is quite rare and hard to find. I just happened to stumble on to it while visiting a hobby shop in Japan during a business trip. It's a Tamiya Touring Car Body Parts Set (A-type) for the 1/10th scale TG10-Mk.1 series, and should fit on most 1/10th scale RC cars. The part number is 50901, for those interested.
(BTW, I don't even let my 10 year old play with my E55 RC car. It would surely end up looking like the poor magma red E55 in another post.)
The HPI C32 and S-Class RC bodies are very nice! I have both of them, as well as the CLK-DTM AMG Racer. But this E-Class body is quite rare and hard to find. I just happened to stumble on to it while visiting a hobby shop in Japan during a business trip. It's a Tamiya Touring Car Body Parts Set (A-type) for the 1/10th scale TG10-Mk.1 series, and should fit on most 1/10th scale RC cars. The part number is 50901, for those interested.
(BTW, I don't even let my 10 year old play with my E55 RC car. It would surely end up looking like the poor magma red E55 in another post.)
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