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The main theme on this site is radio controlled vehicles, and more specifically Tamiya Vintage and current models, from 1976 to now. It is a hobby, better said a passion, in which I fell back into after some 20 years You will also find some information about grid computing that uses the unused spare power of our computers for scientific projects. Go and discover how you can make science progress for the benefit of the Human Kind.

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News

05/02/10: The real Sand Scorcher!

Both for the Nuremberg Toy Fair and the Sand Scorcher official re-release, a band of fans present a totally mad project: a true real size Sand Scorcher! Everything started at the end of october 2009 and I do recommend you to entirely read the blog that tells the whole story about this tremendous project. The pictures you see here just show the final result and how M. Tamiya got happy. Walter and his team at The Bug Box just made such a great job that Tamiya decided to present it on their booth at the Nuremberg Toy Fair. Let me stand up and respectfully salute Walter and his team

Da Real Thing !

M. Tamiya on board

15/01/10: Every model ball bearings
On RC forums, I often read this question: "what ball bearings do I need for my model?" I have the same question every time I get a new model. So I thought that listing all the ball bearings for every Tamiya chassis would help.

06/01/10: Tribute to Alex JUNG
There are websites thanks to which a passion was born or revives. That's what happened for me with Alex JUNG's TAMIYA R/C Collector Site. Since 1998, this site could be reached at www.classictamiyarc.com but sadly, it disappeared from the web since the end of 2009. In order to preserve this very valuable ressource for fans, I made a miror of this site onto mine to let fans still access it. This is Alex JUNG's website, his great work and absolutely not mine. You can now visit it by following this link or by clicking the menu entry. Enjoy!

02/01/10: Happy New Year!
I wish you the best for this new year: could it be full of happiness, health... and RC passion.

The site grew a lot along the past year, and statistics show that you liked it: you were over 25.000 visitors and read over 70.000 pages. It's 4 times more than in 2008! A big thanks to all of you as this is a proof that you show interest in what I share with you.

For 2010, I have some nice surprises in stock to be shared with you for the next months. I also hope to open at last that "Racing" section that desperately remained empty for so many months. 2009 was pretty rich, 2010 should be even richer.

Thanks all for your interest to my site and for your many mails to felicitate and encourage me.

14/11/09: After a so long wait...
After Tamiya's On-Road chassis strategy, I've just finished the last part on the Off-Road models.
I hope you'll find it interesting after such a long delay. I needed 2 more months than expected to finish writing it because I had some trouble understanding a few models.

03/10/09: An old lady shows up
I finally publish the page dedicated to the last model I received this summer: an XR311. It is a true grand'ma since this is Tamiya's first ever released off-road vehicle back in 1977.

Concerning the sequel to Tamiya's On-Road chassis strategy for the off-road vehicles, I'm late and writing is still in process...

05/08/09: Tamiya's range of product stratégic analysis
Today I publish a project I've been working on for more than two months. Everything started with a pretty simple question: what's the meaning of Tamiya chassis names? From there, other questions followed and I found the subject to be as vast as interesting. Since I already had gathered a lot of documentation, I decided not to keep all this for my sole use but to share it. The result is a first article you will discover there: Tamiya's On-Road chassis strategy. The second part on Off-Road chassis should be published by the end of the month.

As a bonus, I found enough material to write another short article on Tamiya's RC Guide Books.

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