Found something to post today: a kit that had been KIVed for many years. It was a 1/48 F-4EJ Kai from Hasegawa  but only the cockpit piece was completed. Those instrument panel details are mostly etched parts and the side  panels were painted on. 
 

Had the urge to touchup my Deluxe Bumblebee/Cliffjumper's heads. Heres the results. Before this being done the heads were quite ugly, as they re mostly the same color as their body. Nothing much, just a minor paint over with some darkening of panel lines of the head.



Stealth Bumblebee: I keep transforming him and the paint peels off easily on his car roof, so i re-colored StealthBB's roof piece to fully black instead of it being yellow on the inside. The black paint was mixed with a metal primer and sprayed onto the paint stripped plastic piece so that it sticks well, it was then sanded and polished to match the rest of of the car body. Also touched up the headlights.

There wasn't any 20% off OG items but i couldn't wait to do this. Based on practicality of the project being successful rather than the choice of my favourite car, a Choro-Q chasis with a larger height was picked, in this case, a Toyota Alphard MPV was picked. Reason being its transparent headlights and sunroof.

The first step was obviously to unscrew the chasis from its pull back machanism, and the piece of plastic with the screwthread was removed carefully with a cutter, at an appropiate height
With a comparasion with the original Q-Steer chasis, there was a few differences, namely the thickness of Choro-Q's chasis is much thicker, and the wheels (tyres) of Q-steer will touch the surrounding plastic when fitted into the holes meant for wheels. The R/C portion of Q-steer would not go in properly , and thus, much filing/sanding is required.
 
Namely, the four sides of the chasis that came in contact with the RC portion of Q-steer was filed down for a decent fit, while the 4 wheel holes were filed to allow the wheels to turn and roll.

Also, the distance between the 2 LED lights was reduced by re-soldering. When put together there should be a perfect fit, you are able to see the LEDs inside the headlights.
Wanted to try out many things, but i'll just keep it simple right now but soldering another flashing LED in parallel to the headlight LEDs


There 's a video of the final result: Flashing ALPHARD video. With this new chasis, the front wheel L/R steering is no longer hindered by the LED right above it, as in the situation of the bus. Also, the headlights are nice and proper looking and there is ample space to insert the flashing LED on the PCB
At this point, there a couple of things to be tested, perhaps lining the interior of the chasis with aluminium foil might reduce the opacity of the non-windowed parts, and the flashing lights might appear more intense.

Got this mini R/C called Q-Steer just this week. Heres how i attempted to mod it by adding headlights, much like many other customizers did.


I took apart the chasis in order to fix the front wheel which tended to be jammed often. Seems like TakaraTomy
glued the chasis onto the lower body. Removing the chasis's rear latch and bending it up/down continiously would loosen the dried glue, allowing the chasis to come off. It is able to fit nicely again with just by snaping it back.

There appears to be 3 different types of PCB board layout i found on the internet. All appears similar, I decided to follow the one that looks closely like mine:
The chasis was masked off except for the 2 headlights. The paint was removed slowly using cotton buds dapped with small dozes of thinner.
The LED is connected in parallel to the power supply on the PCB and test fited to the chasis.

So far its working, except when the bus is moving the LED dims a little. Perhaps my battery is weak. Also might have to scout for smaller LEDs as its size seems to interfere with the front wheel's steering.

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