Tamiya wild one review

Welcome back to MarkyRC. On today's video I'm going to do a little run through on the Tamiya Wild 1 off-road buggy. Another buggy from the collection I thought I'd show everybody. Based on the FAV chassis, the fast attack chassis which I've done a video on already. The original was released in 1985 and was on model number 58050. So that was like one of the 50th car Tamiya ever brought out in the RC industry as such. This is a re-release from 2012 and is model number 58825. Really nice kit, really easy to put together, really easy to maintain. I'd even say good for a first time buggy. Not many hop-ups available for them from Tamiya. Ball racers, motors, speed controls. But then why would you want to hop it up? It's pretty cool as it is and it looks really good and really scale. They're sort of styled after the early 90s sand rail buggies that they used to have in America. It's a bit of a, well it's almost like Tamiya have used up parts from other buggies and made this type of buggy. It has a rear mounted engine, a rear mounted motor sorry. Rear mounted gearbox which is sealed so you're not going to get any debris in there causing issues with your gears. Oil suspension which are proper oil shocks on the front but as you can see they're a little bit slow and the rear shocks are basically just a pogo shock and I mean it's quite bouncy. Front's rock hard but then you can always change that, get some upgraded shocks, make it sort of handle a little bit better. Body style is really nice with the red roll cage and you've got your little red nerve bars down the side and a few red accent pieces throughout the buggy. Like I was saying earlier we're a bit sort of cobbled together from different buggies. I mean the rear end is the same as like the Frog and Blackfoot and quite a few of Tamiya's cars with a centrally mounted gearbox and then you've got little drive shafts that are off on a funny angle to compensate for when the suspension compresses. As you can see there you've got the spike it's quite an aggressive rear sort of generic Tamiya tyre for the back with like a big knobble and a pin and then on the front you've got the ribbed tyre with the white pepper pot wheels and then the front end is pretty much the same as a grasshopper if not identical. I haven't actually measured them up but it looks to me as if it is. It's even got a grasshopper front bumper. Battery compartment is quite good because it's square instead of being round like normal Tamiya batteries so you can use LiPo batteries in there or LiFi batteries. Also the gearbox is quite capable of taking a mild brushless system so you can fully upgrade all the electronics in these. They do a version of this which is the FAV sharp mouth which I'll put on the turntable at a later date. Three of the buggies that are on the FAV chassis have like an FRP plate but the sharp mouth one for some reason has a solid sealed battery box which I think's probably a lot better if you've got lithium batteries in the bottom of the buggy Really really nice buggy You've got rear trailing arm suspension rear front suspension is the same trailing arm comes with a three gear differential you also which is quite a nice little touch get a little oil point on the side and if you can see that in there This has got a standard silver 540cc motor and the driver I think of all the cars I've ever made and if you can see the driver figure in there he's the only one that has that style of crash helmet I don't know if anybody else has seen that crash helmet anyone else let us know in the comments Comes with a plastic bathtub chassis not many hop-ups available like I said probably good to get some ball races if you're going to run it I'll take the body off and I'll show you what the chassis looks like Here we have the buggy now with the body shell taken off as you can see the way inside everything's laid out all your electronics are hidden under the driver figure he has a absolutely massive gloves for some reason a little bit out of scale compared to his head metal gear servo in the front very easy to put together but quite a robust off-road buggy I've had quite a few of these over the years and they are pretty much indestructible anything ever gets damaged is the body because of his mounting points it basically just clips in behind the driver which I always found was a weak point if you ever when they roll over when they have a crash so I'll stick it on the turntable and let it have a couple of turns. Here we have the Tamiya Wild 1 back on the turntable just a few things to note the re-release version slightly different than the original the original come with a three-step mechanical speed control and a little battery holder to hold the batteries the re-release which this one is comes with electronic speed control but apart from that there are very few differences between them I think the decals on this are really cool I do like that silver red and orange livery shame about the driver figure not being a little bit more scale he's totally out of scale in there I think the alloy shocks look cool shame they don't work very well but probably take this one down the park give it a rip about you've got the aluminium bracing holding all the roll case together which makes it quite rigid and 110 scale Tamiya buggy they absolutely rip when you put brushless systems in them the only thing you might fall foul of is you know gearbox rebuild once in a while but apart from that parts are easy to come by because they share so many parts with other cars that Tamiya have made so that's about it really so I hope you've enjoyed the video if you could like and subscribe would be cool for a new channel thanks for watching I hope to see you in the next one see you later bye