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Tamiya Comical Grasshopper WR-02CB

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DavidNGreater Melbourne (Metropolitan), VIC

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Tamiya Comical Grasshopper is as much a fun build as it is a fun drive

published 2 years ago

I won't consider myself a hardcore rc hobbyist but I do have several RTR RC vehicles, a 1/10 Tamiya Nitro Thunder, a 1/8 HPI Trophy 3.5 and an Arrma Typhon 6s. I started from kind of a crossover 1/10 scale nitro - Tamiya that is bigger than many 1/10 vehicle and uses some 1/8 parts like 17mm wheel hubs. Then I went on to standard 1/8 platforms, both nitro & electric. My latest is a tough speed run machine Arrma Typhon 6s. Now I have come full circle back to a toyish Tamiya 1/10 electric kit.

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Why this Tamiya Comica...

Read morel Grasshopper?! It is so slow compared with my Arrma Typhon which claims to exceed 100km/h out of the box. The Tamiya is so plasticky with scrawny little drive shafts, arms and everything else and plastic gears. In fact, my most recent project was converting my HPI Trophy 3.5 nitro to electric using a budget HobbyWing 4274 2000kV brushless motor and 150A ESC combo. It is running the stock 16T pinion gear from Arrma Typhon while the 18T upgrade is in the Typhon. Upgrade pinion gear is on the way. While I haven't measured how fast the Tyhon is, it is a very satisfying drive because I have shredded a few tyres running at speed, even on grass and dirt where I am sure I am no where near claimed top speed. Still it’s fast enough tyres would balloon up and explode. Likewise, with the HPI Trophy that is converted to electric, the conversion wasn't straight-forward because this model is quite old and electric conversion kit is impossible to find. I actually bought the esc, radio box and battery tray from both HPI and Arrma an ended up using Arrma version with fair amount of improvising (drilling many holes in the aluminium base) to get everything to fit and securely mounted. This is important to me. After all, this vehicle is quick. I definitely don't want the battery, esc, radio, motor to move about or come loose or rub against the drive shaft or spur gear. My local hobby shop suggested I don't bother with the HPI Trophy 3.5 due to its age. But it holds much sentimental value for me because I have substantially upgraded this vehicle. I won't list them because it is pages long. Sorry about all extra info and I haven't even gotten to the star of the show - the Tamiya Comical Grasshopper. I hope this background info gives you some idea of my capabilities and interest. Thanks to covid-19, I am grounded at home and working from home like most people and looking for little projects. I stumbled on this kit with a good discount at my local hobby shop and couldn't resist getting it. OMG, it is the iconic Tamiya grasshopper I wanted as a kid, in comical version. Limited Model Building Skills I have built a few model kits when I was small, with very limited tools and paints. I never had airbrush, etc. So my model building skills are very limited. Pretty much just following instructions and gluing parts together, apply decals and at times some paint with brush. This kit is easy to build albeit not painted. Similar kits the Tamiya Comical Avante and Mini Lunchbox come already painted. Consistent to the usual Tamiya quality, instructions are perfect and beautiful to read. If you have never read a Tamiya manual, you don't know what you have missed and you will realise how much better it is compared with the manual from another manufacturers.

Purchased in March 2020 at Metro Hobbies for $173.99.

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DavidN2 years ago

Follow instructions carefully when setting up the Tamiya TBLE-02S ESC. I made a mistake and motor stopped working, both brushed and brushless despite, servo, lights, and everything else were fine as ...

Read morewell as the beeps and leds were reporting everything are normal. I can tell signal was going to the ESC based on the lights but motors just won't work altogether. There is no factory reset option that I found but setting up ESC again from scratch fixed the issue. I thought I blew the ESC by running with LiPo. Appreciate letting me know if you know a way to factory reset the ESC. Thanks!

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