306oc - Peugeot 306 Owners Club & Forum

Copy and pasted from another forum, hopefully it all still makes sense!

I won an auction for a nice M03R kit which had been built but never run; the builder I think took on too much for a beginner (not that this was hard to build) and had given up a few stages from the end of the manual.

The M03R has some pretty cool unique parts like the chrome played chassis/monocoque, blue alloy front steering knuckles, rear uprights, motor heat sink/mount and servo posts.





You'll notice that the funky transparent-blue CVA dampers are missing, replaced with black ones. I can't really remember why I did that now! I think they ended up on a TA05...

I tried 3Racing alloy shocks but they seemed way too hard for the little chassis which isn't really all that heavy; so kit springs and standard mini CVAs is what it's now got.

I've also added Tamiya Quick-release battery retainer and Front and Rear Stabiliser kit. The motor fan was really just a bit of bling I got cheap from 3Racing, but the power wire has snapped off the board can you just replace this little fan unit?



Anyway, once cleaned up and with a motor slotted in I found there was a horrible binding in the gearbox, and only once the motor was installed did the diff not work correctly; both wheels were locked. I dismantled it and was surprised that the M03R didn't have a ball differential (should it?!!) and the gear diff was incorrectly assembled, so that was an easy fix.

The body absolutely had to be a Mini Cooper - what else?!



Masking this was an absolute pig, all of the chrome is painted on because I wasn't happy with just having a silver finish. It took forever!



I really couldn't decide on a colour, I had lots of cans kicking around too; it was going to be metallic red, then PS16 metallic blue, then PS2 red. In the end I had to just take a gamble and pick a colour - I'm rubbish at making these kind of decisions.





I had deliberately masked off the headlights and tail-lights; I hate getting the kit stickers to match the dome shape of the headlights and the rear light decals always seem to flake off over time.

Stickers on; starting to look the part now:



I then used this stuff; it's a textured transparent decal made by Wrap-Up Next, for extra detail on drift cars.



This was hard to get to stick to the curvature of the lights too!

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And on the rear lights, with transparent orange and red painted over to get the right effect -

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What I then did was get some Tamiya Aluninium tape, face a piece shiny-side pointing outward through the transparent lights and then secure it down with a larger piece facing the other way. This gives the lights a 3D look and the light reflects off them very realistically



A proper Cooper needs an exhaust pipe, but no massive Jap Cannon here! And a bit of Meccano came in handy to secure it to the chassis





Inside the bodyshell I have applied black duct tape - this helps protect the paint finish but also helps back the paint with a good base colour of grey. I then added some light buckets which I modified from a Z-tune Skyline gtr, the rear light bezel to be precise. This was secured with more aluminium tape and the proper halogen light bulbs were added, for a vintage yellow hue





FINISHED!!



Hope you enjoyed that; sorry it wasn't much of a 'build'!

That's awesome Chris, love the attention to detail. Chrome looks brilliant. I regret selling my Tamiya now, nice to have something to work on inside with this weather.

That does look amazing man! Massive attention to detail.

If only you were closer we could have a forum bash session but I'm more into 1/8 buggy's these days take so much abuse and love it lol but I'm sure I can bring I mini 8 brushless drift buggy ??? Iv not even looked at a tamiya for years I feel their more of a model that moves that's why I got into the buggy's ill post a pic up shortly if u want but is not as pretty as yours

I remmber my tL01 from about 10 years ago

Do you ever race or is the enjoyment in building it?

class! finely a one that isn't using metro bits for a change!

That's brilliant mate love the detail, how things have changed since the hornet and boomerang days lol, I started to get back into the rc seen late last year, I have a old Schumacher cat which I'm trying to get up and running, my main car is a old fg beetle which is based on the fg marder