Losing grip – Even greater than I wished
Happy New yr everybody! Did you see the best factor to be teased in a very long time? Someone filling that IFS shaped hole in actuality that I’ve been occurring about for 2 years now? Two weeks in the past i wrote “will someone take the plunge and release an all conquering IFS rock racer? The offspring of a Losi Hammer Rey and an TRX-4? Please?”
Well, I received much more than I requested for. Capo racing is about to launch their Baja Ultra4 kit and from the appears to be like of it, it’s going to actually be an all conquering IFS rock racer. All metallic, tremendous scale, an abundance of shocks.
If you’ve checked out their earlier fashions, you’ll know that their kits are the mom of excessive finish kits. All metallic, wonderful consideration to element, and the value level to go together with it. Unfortunately, their homepage is down proper now, so I can’t even discover any particulars on their different kits, however take a look on this chassis of their 1/8 JKMAX crawler which ought to give us a reasonably good concept of what to anticipate.
I anticipate a worth of round a few grands. Plenty. It’ll take quite a lot of lobbying work from home to get certainly one of these to land on my doorstep. I all of a sudden want that I used to be six years older, in order that it was my fiftieth birthday developing this spring… And preserve wishing for one of many mainstream firms to do a 2.2″ IFS.
Well, right here’s to dreaming. It’s enjoyable, however doesn’t get me far, does it? What I do hope will get me additional is the Harder & Steenbeck Cult of Paint Infinity airbrush that I simply received. A magnificence that I intend to inaugurate on some wargames terrain this afternoon. Googling of images of dragons and squids has already commenced, for the subsequent physique. From what I’ve laid my eyes on to this point, the Phoenix that I did not too long ago was a breeze as compared. The image heading this was a fast attempt utilizing AI. It’s a begin. Pretty intimidating as a portray venture, however I’ll preserve pushing it! ‘Cause isn’t that a part of why we’re all on this pastime?
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