I had to get a heap of photo's of my RC mini's for another forum so will revive this thread and post them here as well .... Some are well used (blue electric and red and white nitro) and the rest are display models .
The 049 powered Kyosho rear wheel drive mini , it was a lot of fun but incredibly fussy and messy . The nitro fuel disolves the tyres and seeps everywhere , the 049 motor doesn't have a carb but has a mixture screw and a flap on the exhaust and ran differently when hot as to when cold so would need constant fiddling . Was a lot of fun though and sounded like a banshee at around 12,000 rpm . From somewhere around 1993 from memory . It was my first effort at painting a lexan bodyshell so is a bit rough .
This is the newer Kyosho mini , front wheel drive and 0.15 nitro powered , I've built it ready to run but will keep it as display only due to the mess the nitro made of the previous one (I love the engineering involved in it) . Looks fantastic on display with the clear shell .
The Mardave Ministock (or ministox ???) , this is very basic , flat bit of fiberglass for a chassis , axle drive pinion is cast onto the rear wheel's and motor runs directly onto the rear wheel . Only 4 cells for the battery but a lot of fun to throw around , not as fast as the Tamiya electric though . Body is a heavy but flexible plastic .
My often thrashed Tamiya electric front wheel drive mini , this is the first version of it as can be seen by the single horizontal spring at the front and rear suspensions , later ones hada vertical spring at each corner and handled better but this one is fun for thrashing . The only thing it's missing really is a handbrake ...
Not really a radio control mini but remote control counts sort of ... Each rear wheel is independently powered and steers by the rear wheels only , the fronts don't really touch the ground as they're held up at slow speed by a free-spinning castor wheel . Anything over a crawl and it rears up on the rear wheels and does wheelies everywhere .
A Radio Shack "Playtime Driver" , pretty basic and all the extra controls on the radio unit operate sounds and lights on the transmitter , not the car . The bodies pretty detailed though and it looks cute .
And finally a couple of the canned mini's .
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Seawind is a 1m one design race boat. There is a local race club, but I have not tried it yet. It was a fun kit to build. The smaller boat is a RTR, 26" boat.
