That's an awesome buggy! Now I want one also, ha ha! And like the others commented, your footage is really top notch! You set the standard for videos worth watching more than one! Looking forward to the run video, too!
They are a cool looking beast, also really nice to build. I say go for it, you'll love it! Thanks, I appreciate the great feedback. Hoping to get this beast out over summer for a run on the sand some. Have a great new year! 👍
And with a snif of the tyres, crack of the knuckles n a flip of the hat.... BAMMM she's done 😃 That turned out bloody nice mate! 👌 I wasn't a fan of the lack of mudguards on the body but it looks trick! Thanks for the video mate 👍🦘🇦🇺
Lol that's how it happened. Thanks mate, I'm happy with it. The body looked strange to me at first but I think instead of a scale body you'd find on a Sand Scorcher and Monster Beetle, I think maybe they were aiming for the look of a full fibreglass body of some race buggies. I dunno, looks good though! 👍
@@RCHobbyShed Definitely looks great! 👌 From memory if you unbolt the front & rear guards on a beetle that's what they look like. The colours ets on that beetle are a nice touch.
Such a cool buggy, just reminds me so much of looking through the Mini Kyosho catalogue back in the day. Luckily however I have one arriving in a couple of days :) My Christmas build along with a Javelin!
They are one cool looking buggy, that's for sure! I hear ya, I also spent countless hours looking through those mini catalogues. Awesome, between the Beetle and Javelin builds, you're gonna have a great Christmas! 👍
This looks great, the wife just painted a body for her bad bug. The thing looks beautiful, I rebuilt the diffs and it's a beast. She just bought a 6s Kraton so I'm going to get a Kyosho or a Tamiya. Just put badlands on the losi 8ight and that things so fast on 6s it's a laugh. Better start looking for a Kyosho or a Tamiya. Take care mate and thanks for the build.
Thanks mate. Sounds like her bad bug is ready to rip now, nice! 6s Kraton, also very nice! Let me know what car you go with, Kyosho or Tamiya. They should both be pretty cool! Stay safe mate! 👍
@@RCHobbyShed The choice is so hard, they all look great and go quick enough for some fun. Biggest worry is I won't be able to stop building these beautiful cars and I'll need a second garage . Rc cars are very addictive and the fun is too good. Kyosho has always impressed me with the quality and they look great. Better check your videos again unless you have a recommendation for a nice beast. Thanks for teaching us mate ,I learn a lot from you.
@@petergoodwin2465 It is a hard choice. If you're looking at the Tomahawk, Beetle, Scorpion or Turbo Scorpion, they're much the same buggy. Apart from the Tomahawk having the radio deck instead of the tub like the others. The Ultima is awesome too, but totally different to the others. It is probably the best of the bunch although it doesn't have so much of the scale look that the others have. I don't think you can go wrong with any of them. MAYBE as far as reliability goes, the Ultima might be a little better and there's less metal parts to come loose. Of course if you keep an eye on the others and keep things tight that won't be an issue. All I can say is, Just Do it✔ 🤣👍
Great build video, liking your style, Mick! I like your trick with the servo wires mate, very neat. Well the Beetle came out awesome, looks like a sweet bit of kit. It's gonna be awesome bashing this little beauty! :)
Thanks Mark! I probably should have shortened the servo wires for a cleaner look but I got lazy. lol. They're a great buggy to build, great quality. Oh yeah, it's gonna be fun to run it... If we're ever allowed out to play again! 🤣
Thanks mate. It's a must have if you have the others. I still need a Turbo Optima, can't see it happening for a while now due to me not working and the current state the world is in... At least it'll already be vintage when I get it. 🤣
Hey man im a new sub to your channel and I just want it say I love your video quality and extra things like the end montage. (They just help please the viewer that much more.) making your vids more enjoyable. Much love for your channel from NZ across the Tasman
Hey bro! Sorry mate, had to lol. Thanks for the nice words and of course the sub, thanks for your support! I just subbed to you also and checked out some of your videos, great channel you have there. Great unboxing on the Kyosho MP9 and the track run, what a beast! Keep up the great work mate! 👍
RC Hobby Shed thanks for returning the favour man! Have actually sold my MP9E was sad to see it go but I now have an axial Capra as I’m moving more to the crawler side of the RC world. Really appreciate thanks man!! I love your workshop and vintage tamiya collection! They really pop on the shelf
@@coolasrc No probs at all mate. I would have been sad to see the MP9E go too, it was awesome. I only have one little HSP crawler, so I'm really a complete noob to crawling. There are some sick rigs out there though! Thanks mate, it took a long time to get the room that way, now it's too small lol. Keep up the great videos mate! 👍
tidy and beautiful build. I just bought it yesterday. My friend has one too but he told me that the decal quality is not as good as Tamiya and the they could not stick on the shell firmly. Do you have the same problem too？
Thanks Charles. Congrats on your Beetle purchase, I'm sure you will be very happy with it! As for the decals, I found they're actually very good. The only issue I had is around the headlights, the decals are quite thick and they need to be bent over the tops of the headlights. So they tend to lift in this area. Some clear Acrylic paint brushed over the edge of the decals can help or a small amount of glue. Then rest of the decals were fine for me, no issues at all. 👍
It is up the pipe, at 5:41 you can see the wire running down the back of the tube. But it looks like it's just dangling at first, I did that on purpose because I knew I had to put the ESC underneath it later. 👍
Hello, I discovered by chance on your TH-cam channel while searching how to paint my kysoho beetle. Very good video, and your channel is top!!! you must spend a lot of time to do all this. I wanted to ask you to confirm the paint job because this is my first RC body that I'm going to paint. I need two coats of yellow, let it dry, then 2 coats of camel yellow, let it dry, then one coat of white and finally one or two coats of black? Your pilot is very well detailed, I'm thinking of doing mine with a brush, is that a good idea? Continue like that on your constructions it's great!
Hi! Thanks for watching, I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Yes, that is the paint combination I used. For me it seems to work well and the colour matches the wheels nicely. Thanks. Painting the driver with a brush will be fine, it will look great 👍 Thanks mate! 👍
@@RCHobbyShed The problem with your videos is that now I want to mount the whole legendary collection 🤣🤣🤣🤣 But I was wondering if I let the yellow paint dry before putting the Camel paint, won't the two paints mix? and the shade will not be good? Sorry I'm a total beginner in body painting
@@DidyRacing41 Haha, have fun collection them all! 😁 No mate it will be fine as long as the coats aren't very heavy and wet, you want reasonably light coats just enough so it's not patchy. I tend to let each colour dry for around 5 minutes then hit it with the next colour. You can practice on the side of used plastic soft drink bottles first as a test. Good luck, I'm sure it will turn out fine! 👍
@@RCHobbyShed Hello, it's me again 😁😁 I'm about to order all the paint for my beetle and my turbo scorpion. I saw how you painted the pilot of your tomahawk, and I was wondering if the Tamiya Mini X paint ... would go to paint the pilots? because here in France my seller says that this paint can't go on it. I don't want to buy a lot of paint cans of different colors just for the pilots because you don't need much paint 😀
Great looking buggy. You did a great job. Can’t find these online now, at least in the USA. A few of the larger online distributors say they’ll get them again in late May but who knows if that’ll happen with all the craziness going on now. So, a few coats of yellow, then backed with camel yellow, then white, then black? How many coats of yellow did you do before camel yellow?
Thanks mate! I hear ya, there is a few buggies I'm looking for right now and not finding (without crazy prices). My girlfriend want a Beetle too so I hope they bring more out soon. Yeah, just a light coat of yellow then a good coat so it's all even, then back with camel yellow. You can leave it there, but I did another even coat of yellow just so the inside and outside were the same... Then if you want the black interior, you can do a coat of white (so the black doesn't come through), then a coat or two of black. 👍
How thick did you have the base coat of PS-6 before you did some coats of PS-19? Could you see through it still? I was going to try PS-6 and back it with 13 silver then black, but I like how yours turned out and would like to try it instead. Thanks.
Thanks mate! Oh yeah, it does take take forever. It was 2-3 days for this 12 minutes, I though I am kinda slow lol. I will message you about the panning shots, if I say here then everyone will be doing it. 😂🤣
I can't see any difference in them apart from the colour. Maybe the white ones are Teflon, so maybe smoother in operation, I don't know. There is no explanation in the instruction. 🤷♂️
hi bud beautiful build as always , just a question how did you do the tyre lettering, what do you use exactly? as they come up so clean and neat, now your going to tell me that they came like that yeah , hahaha i wish true as i know that the scorpion i got definitely didnt lol cheers bud.
Yeah, sorry to say, they came like that in the Goodyear version. Check out RCMart, I did see they had some with the letting a few weeks ago at least. 👍
@@RCHobbyShed ill have to get the paint pen out or order a shelf set from them cheers for the heads up but just ordered the last one of ebay selling like hot cakes these beetles now cause i want one,lol lucky to have bought the scorpion last week and today this beast , so the saga has now began towards the legendary 8 series,, 2 down 6 to go :-))))
This will fit in my small tamiya collection, this looks cool
Excellent, very good job and great rc from Kyosho. The Beetle model in all brands really looks great .
Thanks mate. That's right, I've never seen a bad version of an RC Beetle. 👍
@@RCHobbyShed 😊👍
😁👍 Looks like a BEAUTY!
Thanks mate. Love these chassis, so simple yet functional. Stay safe mate! 👍
Super nice super clean very good. Paint came out great good job.
Thanks mate! 🙂👍
I love how the Kyosho cars have the metal frames and gear boxes. You can see the quality without even running it .
You are correct! They're like a work of art. 🙂👍
Looks amazing
Thumbs up bro just as it was loading going to sit back and watch the show 👍👍👍👍
Cheers mate. Hope you guys are going well in these strange times. 👍
Superb build and video. Good day, from Leeds UK!
Thanks and good day to you too. 👍
AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks!! 👍
Very good Video. Excellent job. Thanks for sharing. Greetings from Indianapolis IN.
Thank you! Thanks for watching. 🙂👍
Nice job. Picking up mine tomorrow.
Thanks Andy. Oh nice, congrats. You're gonna love it, they're a great buggy! 👍
It looks amazing.
Thanks mate! It was a nice build. 🙂👍
Thanks a lot for the shoutout mate! You did a great job there. 👍🏻
Cheers mate. Was going to msg you on insta but didn't get to it. lol. Just subbed to your YT channel, in case you post videos in the future. 👍
I’ve got mine today I can’t wait to get started
Really been enjoying watching all your Kyosho build videos. I plan to buy a load of them this July.
Very awesome job on the build of this classic RC! I use those shocks on my Scorcher. 👊😎
Thanks Mike! 👊👍
Iol its rc law to give them a sniff!
Great car l do love this Beetle! Very cool!
Nice job!
Looks great nice vid again mate.
That is correct! lol. Thanks mate, I love the Beetle too, actually the whole series. 😍👍
@@RCHobbyShed yeah totally agree with that it's a superb series! Cheers mate.
That's an awesome buggy! Now I want one also, ha ha! And like the others commented, your footage is really top notch! You set the standard for videos worth watching more than one! Looking forward to the run video, too!
They are a cool looking beast, also really nice to build. I say go for it, you'll love it!
Thanks, I appreciate the great feedback. Hoping to get this beast out over summer for a run on the sand some.
Have a great new year! 👍
Wow awesome build,great video
Thanks mate.👍
Sweet work on this build
Thanks mate. Hope you're keeping safe! 👍
Thumbs up Mick.
Thanks mate! 👍
And with a snif of the tyres, crack of the knuckles n a flip of the hat.... BAMMM she's done 😃
That turned out bloody nice mate! 👌
I wasn't a fan of the lack of mudguards on the body but it looks trick!
Thanks for the video mate 👍🦘🇦🇺
Lol that's how it happened. Thanks mate, I'm happy with it. The body looked strange to me at first but I think instead of a scale body you'd find on a Sand Scorcher and Monster Beetle, I think maybe they were aiming for the look of a full fibreglass body of some race buggies. I dunno, looks good though! 👍
@@RCHobbyShed
Definitely looks great! 👌
From memory if you unbolt the front & rear guards on a beetle that's what they look like.
The colours ets on that beetle are a nice touch.
Such a cool buggy, just reminds me so much of looking through the Mini Kyosho catalogue back in the day. Luckily however I have one arriving in a couple of days :) My Christmas build along with a Javelin!
They are one cool looking buggy, that's for sure! I hear ya, I also spent countless hours looking through those mini catalogues. Awesome, between the Beetle and Javelin builds, you're gonna have a great Christmas! 👍
This looks great, the wife just painted a body for her bad bug. The thing looks beautiful, I rebuilt the diffs and it's a beast. She just bought a 6s Kraton so I'm going to get a Kyosho or a Tamiya. Just put badlands on the losi 8ight and that things so fast on 6s it's a laugh. Better start looking for a Kyosho or a Tamiya. Take care mate and thanks for the build.
Thanks mate. Sounds like her bad bug is ready to rip now, nice! 6s Kraton, also very nice! Let me know what car you go with, Kyosho or Tamiya. They should both be pretty cool! Stay safe mate! 👍
@@RCHobbyShed The choice is so hard, they all look great and go quick enough for some fun. Biggest worry is I won't be able to stop building these beautiful cars and I'll need a second garage . Rc cars are very addictive and the fun is too good. Kyosho has always impressed me with the quality and they look great. Better check your videos again unless you have a recommendation for a nice beast. Thanks for teaching us mate ,I learn a lot from you.
@@petergoodwin2465 It is a hard choice. If you're looking at the Tomahawk, Beetle, Scorpion or Turbo Scorpion, they're much the same buggy. Apart from the Tomahawk having the radio deck instead of the tub like the others. The Ultima is awesome too, but totally different to the others. It is probably the best of the bunch although it doesn't have so much of the scale look that the others have. I don't think you can go wrong with any of them. MAYBE as far as reliability goes, the Ultima might be a little better and there's less metal parts to come loose. Of course if you keep an eye on the others and keep things tight that won't be an issue. All I can say is, Just Do it✔ 🤣👍
Great build video, liking your style, Mick! I like your trick with the servo wires mate, very neat. Well the Beetle came out awesome, looks like a sweet bit of kit. It's gonna be awesome bashing this little beauty! :)
Thanks Mark! I probably should have shortened the servo wires for a cleaner look but I got lazy. lol. They're a great buggy to build, great quality. Oh yeah, it's gonna be fun to run it... If we're ever allowed out to play again! 🤣
@@RCHobbyShed Haha - yeah Mick, we might get let out for a Christmas run! :))
Absolutely love this kit great build 👍🏽
Thanks 👍
I don't know how I wasn't subcribed... I do remember subscribing..
Oh man this build brings me back, very enjoyable. Good stuff. 😎👍
Yeah, some TH-cam trickery I assume lol. Thanks mate. 🙂👍
She looks epic bro 👍👍👍👍
Thanks mate. 🙂👍
That looks absolutely awsomme dude. Everything about it is awesome. Top stuff 👍👍
Thanks Tibster! They are a really nice buggy! 👍
Nice job Mick, apart from the Ultima, this is the only Kyosho re-release I don't have.
Thanks mate. It's a must have if you have the others. I still need a Turbo Optima, can't see it happening for a while now due to me not working and the current state the world is in... At least it'll already be vintage when I get it. 🤣
Hey man im a new sub to your channel and I just want it say I love your video quality and extra things like the end montage. (They just help please the viewer that much more.) making your vids more enjoyable. Much love for your channel from NZ across the Tasman
Hey bro! Sorry mate, had to lol. Thanks for the nice words and of course the sub, thanks for your support! I just subbed to you also and checked out some of your videos, great channel you have there. Great unboxing on the Kyosho MP9 and the track run, what a beast! Keep up the great work mate! 👍
RC Hobby Shed thanks for returning the favour man! Have actually sold my MP9E was sad to see it go but I now have an axial Capra as I’m moving more to the crawler side of the RC world. Really appreciate thanks man!! I love your workshop and vintage tamiya collection! They really pop on the shelf
@@coolasrc No probs at all mate. I would have been sad to see the MP9E go too, it was awesome. I only have one little HSP crawler, so I'm really a complete noob to crawling. There are some sick rigs out there though! Thanks mate, it took a long time to get the room that way, now it's too small lol. Keep up the great videos mate! 👍
how can the driver to be paint so beautiful? By brush? By can? Need Masking??
I used a brush on the inside for the drivers body and a brush for the drivers face. I only masked around the drivers visor area. 👍
tidy and beautiful build. I just bought it yesterday. My friend has one too but he told me that the decal quality is not as good as Tamiya and the they could not stick on the shell firmly. Do you have the same problem too？
Thanks Charles. Congrats on your Beetle purchase, I'm sure you will be very happy with it!
As for the decals, I found they're actually very good. The only issue I had is around the headlights, the decals are quite thick and they need to be bent over the tops of the headlights. So they tend to lift in this area. Some clear Acrylic paint brushed over the edge of the decals can help or a small amount of glue.
Then rest of the decals were fine for me, no issues at all. 👍
Great build can’t wait to see it run. I’d like to know how that motor goes
Thanks mate. Don't know when I can get it out for a decent run due to current circumstances but might end up giving it a quick run in the driveway. 👍
Would you consider uploading some run footage of this?
I'm planning to take it out for a run soon. It should have been done already but then whole covid thing happened... Coming soon! 🙂👍
@@RCHobbyShed Sweet! Thanks!
The antenna wire didn't go up inside the pipe, was there a reason for that ?
It is up the pipe, at 5:41 you can see the wire running down the back of the tube. But it looks like it's just dangling at first, I did that on purpose because I knew I had to put the ESC underneath it later. 👍
Hello, I discovered by chance on your TH-cam channel while searching how to paint my kysoho beetle.
Very good video, and your channel is top!!! you must spend a lot of time to do all this.
I wanted to ask you to confirm the paint job because this is my first RC body that I'm going to paint.
I need two coats of yellow, let it dry, then 2 coats of camel yellow, let it dry, then one coat of white and finally one or two coats of black?
Your pilot is very well detailed, I'm thinking of doing mine with a brush, is that a good idea?
Continue like that on your constructions it's great!
Hi! Thanks for watching, I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Yes, that is the paint combination I used. For me it seems to work well and the colour matches the wheels nicely.
Thanks. Painting the driver with a brush will be fine, it will look great 👍
Thanks mate! 👍
@@RCHobbyShed The problem with your videos is that now I want to mount the whole legendary collection 🤣🤣🤣🤣
But I was wondering if I let the yellow paint dry before putting the Camel paint, won't the two paints mix?
and the shade will not be good?
Sorry I'm a total beginner in body painting
@@DidyRacing41 Haha, have fun collection them all! 😁
No mate it will be fine as long as the coats aren't very heavy and wet, you want reasonably light coats just enough so it's not patchy. I tend to let each colour dry for around 5 minutes then hit it with the next colour.
You can practice on the side of used plastic soft drink bottles first as a test. Good luck, I'm sure it will turn out fine! 👍
@@RCHobbyShed Hello, it's me again 😁😁
I'm about to order all the paint for my beetle and my turbo scorpion.
I saw how you painted the pilot of your tomahawk, and I was wondering if the Tamiya Mini X paint ... would go to paint the pilots? because here in France my seller says that this paint can't go on it.
I don't want to buy a lot of paint cans of different colors just for the pilots because you don't need much paint 😀
Great looking buggy. You did a great job. Can’t find these online now, at least in the USA. A few of the larger online distributors say they’ll get them again in late May but who knows if that’ll happen with all the craziness going on now. So, a few coats of yellow, then backed with camel yellow, then white, then black? How many coats of yellow did you do before camel yellow?
Thanks mate! I hear ya, there is a few buggies I'm looking for right now and not finding (without crazy prices). My girlfriend want a Beetle too so I hope they bring more out soon. Yeah, just a light coat of yellow then a good coat so it's all even, then back with camel yellow. You can leave it there, but I did another even coat of yellow just so the inside and outside were the same... Then if you want the black interior, you can do a coat of white (so the black doesn't come through), then a coat or two of black. 👍
How thick did you have the base coat of PS-6 before you did some coats of PS-19? Could you see through it still? I was going to try PS-6 and back it with 13 silver then black, but I like how yours turned out and would like to try it instead. Thanks.
Marvelous work! Both the Beetle but also all the filming and editing. Must have taken forever 🙂 Been meaning to ask : how do you do the pan shots?
Thanks mate! Oh yeah, it does take take forever. It was 2-3 days for this 12 minutes, I though I am kinda slow lol. I will message you about the panning shots, if I say here then everyone will be doing it. 😂🤣
try putting your camera on a towel, drag the towel.
RC Hobby Shed Ahh, it’s okay if it is your own little secret ☺️ I just looks so good.
@@NordicRC Too late, the secret is out 🤣. Check your Instagram messages.
RC Hobby Shed Thanks, bro 🙂🥰
there s some difference between the red and the white shock pistons kyosho add in theyr instructions ?
I can't see any difference in them apart from the colour. Maybe the white ones are Teflon, so maybe smoother in operation, I don't know. There is no explanation in the instruction. 🤷♂️
Cool video. I just bought one of these and I'm going to run a 540s brushless motor, what oil/grease should I use in the gear? Thanks :)
Thanks. Awesome, they're a great, classic buggy. I didn't use anything special in mine, only the grease that was supplied with the kit. 👍
2WD is it?
Sure is! 👍
hi bud beautiful build as always , just a question how did you do the tyre lettering, what do you use exactly? as they come up so clean and neat, now your going to tell me that they came like that yeah , hahaha i wish true as i know that the scorpion i got definitely didnt lol cheers bud.
Yeah, sorry to say, they came like that in the Goodyear version. Check out RCMart, I did see they had some with the letting a few weeks ago at least. 👍
@@RCHobbyShed ill have to get the paint pen out or order a shelf set from them cheers for the heads up but just ordered the last one of ebay selling like hot cakes these beetles now cause i want one,lol lucky to have bought the scorpion last week and today this beast , so the saga has now began towards the legendary 8 series,, 2 down 6 to go :-))))
Nice build mate. I notice before and after you got a haircut?
Thanks mate. Good eye for detail! Yes, I had shot the video over a few days and in the time the hair had to go. lol
Woow bro . Salut my friend super car super video subscribe subscribe ...
Thank you so much 👍
shell looks very goofy compared to Tamiya - does not capture the beetle at all !! I have owned a real beetle and a monster beetle .