More stuff from Shizuoka, this time its from Kawada who are showing their version of the Tamiya TA05 on their stand. Kawada recently showed a small pixelated CAD image of this car on their site, sparking some rumours of completely new car from them, but it turns out that it is only another conversion for the popular TA05 platform.
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HPI / Hot Bodies are out in force at this weeks big hobby fair in Japan, with the Japanese firm displaying, amongst other new products, its new 1/12th pan car. Called the Cyclone 12 we first mentioned it back in February when it was shown in prototype form at the Nuernberg show in Germany. Now the car is finished and will go on sale immediately and it looks pretty good from the pictures we have seen and if the Andy Moores performance at this year 1/12th Euros is anything to go by it should perform very well too.
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Our partners have RC Forum from Korea have taken their cameras along to the Shizuoka hobby show in Japan to take some pictures of the new cars and parts on display from the many manufacturers present and among the items spotted was the Hirosaka edition Kyosho Stallion. Other things on display from Hirosaka were optional CVD shafts, shock absorbers, springs and gears as well as the carbon components needed to upgrade your current Stallion to this Hirosaka spec version.
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Kyosho have shown their new 1/12th scale 4wd pan car today at the Shizuoka Hobby show in Japan under its new name, the Spada 09. The car up close looks well made, featuring a carbon fiber chassis which wasnt present on the first picture released last week, as well as sporting a new low profile steering servo and different receiver placement. Also shown were the body shells that it would use and these too look pretty good.
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In the middle of April we showed you CAD images of the new Tamiya TA05MS and TA05IFS chassis’ and today Tamiya showed the real cars for the first time at the Shizuoka Hobby show in Japan today. We wrote about them before saying the TA05MS is essentially a competition based TA05 with carbon chassis, racing shocks and other optionals as standard while the new TA05IFS is an all new chassis with inboard suspension to fit the Super GT300 class bodyshell. Also shown at the show was a conversion set for the TRF415 MSXX to allow the mounting of stick packs.
UPDATE: Added 2 more pics showing the MSXX stick pack conversion.
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We have shown you the work done by Masaaki Hirosaka on the Kyosho Stallion before in which he has completely modified it to the point that it is hardly recognisable. Today on his site he has announced that his version of the car will be shown at this weeks Shizuoka Hobby show, and judging by the very neat and final looking car in the picture above we presume it is getting ready to be sold. Also mentioned on his site is the fact that he will be selling, to order, pre built versions of the standard Kyosho Stallion TF-5, so if you ever wanted your car built by a World Champions mechanic, now is your chance.
Source: Hirosaka [hirosaka.jp]
We showed you pictures of the Crono RS7 buggy back in February when the car was shown at the Nuernberg toy fair in Germany but little has been heard of it since. That is until last weekend when a pre production version, it seems, was shown at the French EFRA GP. The car sports new steering blocks, the center shafts use CVDs and while this example looks like a pro version, due to the machined chassis, the shock towers dont look as beefy as those shown previously.
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The 8th installment in the Xray column from Xray owner and chief designer Juraj Hudy is now online. In this months column Juraj discusses the pressures surrounding getting the companies 2 new cars, the XB8EC and NT1, packed, ready and to market and also discusses how he fits the many races into his busy schedule.
The last weeks before a deadline get frantically busy in the packaging department, who has to package an unbelievably large amount of parts into the building packages, as well as package a huge amount of spare parts. So those days when you walk into the warehouse it is like a giant-sized ant-hill…
Read the full column here.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
