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10 years ago I saved up the cash ready to buy one but bottled it and walked out the shop with a 1:10th nitro instead.

Lad at work has had a model buying frenzy tanks and boats and got me thinking!

This one I found down at Heathrow was a couple of years old but had only had 1 tank of fuel through it last owner was a fruit cake he had two more in the living room he had spent over 4k on each, fitted covers, on stands and never used not even been run.

I've brought a replacement battery as just started to leak and even with a fail safe if the servo battery goes flat the throttle doesn't shut of:banghead: some fancy oil and a mixing bottle arrived today.

Uprated 26cc FG Marder 1:5th scale, updated servo's, gear and gear carriers, set of slicks, alloy brake carrier.

Can't wait to give it a run









Iam sure others have posted up nitro stuff anyone else running 1:5th stuff?

Couple of years ago I sold my nitro stuff and bough an fg leopard 25cc or was it 26cc I can't remember and it was awesome

Bit gutted I sold it tbh

Blimey a Marder! My ex had one of those still brand new in the box albeit the box was faded and tatty. I begged to have it but she wasn't wearing any of it.

I have various RCs still kicking around including a 1:8.5 Defender and a mental twin motor 1:12 mardave banger. We should bring some toys along to a meet.

Trev did it seem more reliable than the nitro stuff, got a Mardave mini in the loft.... Bring on the next meet.

The fg's are hardcore lee
They take so much abuse and they go alright aswell
My last nitro was a Schumacher menace which was a 3 speed thing and was bloody quick, way to quick for the little thing, everytime I used it I smashed it to bits so was an expensive hobby, bought the fg and didn't break a thing

I am currently back into tamiya battery stuff I bought a vintage 80's boomerang a couple of months back
Not the same buzz as a petrol one but kids love it

Just saw this on ebay. Could be made into a 1:5 RWB


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/porsche-gt2-1 ... 27cffb535d

Tk wrote:The fg's are hardcore lee
They take so much abuse and they go alright aswell
My last nitro was a Schumacher menace which was a 3 speed thing and was bloody quick, way to quick for the little thing, everytime I used it I smashed it to bits so was an expensive hobby, bought the fg and didn't break a thing

I am currently back into tamiya battery stuff I bought a vintage 80's boomerang a couple of months back
Not the same buzz as a petrol one but kids love it

That what I hoped, first play this afternoon if weather holds..

Wow how fast, a lot harder than I thought to control, scary when it barrel roles hundreds of meters away.

IWANT1 wrote:Wow how fast, a lot harder than I thought to control, scary when it barrel roles hundreds of meters away.

Awesome, you'll have to rig a GoPro up to it.