Excellent, Good to hear from another Tamiya collector. They are great fun to build and so well designed and thought out to simply screw together out the box.
The bullhead there is one I had as a teenager and must have covered a fair few miles around my parents garden over the years. Last year I bought all new chrome parts for it, new stickers and gave it a full restoration. Apart from a few scratches on the gear cases looks like new.
The Sand Scorcher paintwork was a tricky one and plenty of Tamiya masking tape was used for that one to stop the Halfords paints in the right places. I think one of the worst I did was a Repsol Ford Escort Cosworth with a 3 colour paint job on the inside of a clear body. I had to cutout some of the stickers then temporarily stick them in place with masking tape on the outside of the body then mask the inside so the colours stopped in the right places and off course you had to start with the darkest colour first so the final white paint stayed white and didn't go pink with the red over the top of it! Took some thinking about but looked good afterwards.
The Sand scorcher has non Tamiya reproduction stickers on it as the re-release stickers are very different to the original model. A lot of the trade names on the side are gone from the new version so maybe they lost the rights to use them?
I have a few cars now but not quite 40! Bullhead, Sand Scorcher, Lunchbox, Midnight Pumpkin, Hotshot, Grasshopper, Madbull, Repsol Escort, Monte Carlo Mini, Xanavi Nismo Skyline, and a Volvo 850 touring car. Most are now shelf queens but hold lots of memories. :)
These are the only other 2 I have in the house at the moment, Could never quite bring myself to cut the body mount pillars down!
Craig.
