First - I discovered I'm all out of 5.5mm bullets so I can't even run this thing until I order more. Pulled it out of the box this evening and the color definitely caught my attention. I was expecting a darker red and white, but this is more of a pastel/neon light red/orange. Not quite pink, but it's noticeable. Still looks neat. My 9-year-old niece will be piloting it, mostly, so she'll really like the color, and I'll leave it at that hahaha. I pulled a water jacket off and there is not a single number or name on those little cans. Over on RCGroups.com an Aussie member was able to get one of these into the mid-high 40mph range on the included nylon 3-blades...which are crap. As expected (like most of these RTR hulls) the fiberglass layup is not extremely rigid. It would be suicide to drop in 4082's without a carbon inlay, new stuffing tubes, etc. But there's plenty of room inside for later upgrades and using Jeff Wohlt's .078 wiredrive with the 4mm-3/16" step-up stub shaft, the rinky-dink stingers can stay. The one thing I like most, since pulling this hull out of the box, is the hatch. It came with a nice foam seal and six really strong magnets set into a birch-ply subframe. Feels like the fiberglass hatch will crack trying to pry the lid up. I don't think any modifications to the hatch are necessary, That sucker is on there snug with those magnets. I bet the hull would crack in a flip, before the canopy came off. Anyway, the ride pads seem fairly uniform/straight. The rudder is pretty beefy, although it's only held on with two screws threaded into a glob of epoxy on the interior wall of the transom extension. But that's hard to see because of this odd recess that rises up from the hull floor and eclipses the transom from the inside. Anyone have a guess what that is about? Lazy design?
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