I ended up using SMS paints metallic Gun metal

@@105thArmoury Thanks.

I ended up using the Louise World CR-Champ Super soft crawler tyre 1.9" LT3345VB They are a tiny bit big so you will need to shave a bit of the side steps off so they can make a full turn, you will also want to upgrade the steering servo steering saver as mine just blew up because of the stress of turning the bigger grippier tires. I'm now using the servo saver from a 1/14 scale Tamiya Truck. The tires can be bough from most RC hobby stores but I got mine from RC Hobbyland In Sydney.

@@105thArmoury your the bomb!!! Thankyou. I really want these things to be usable. My bruiser is so good and these are just disappointing

The satin black was airbrushed and satin clear applied and taped off so the body colour and gloss clear could be sprayed, it ended up being much easier this way

Most are from a hobby store called Hobbies direct here in Aus, though some are off ebay and amazon, a couple are 3d printed or scratch built

Thanks :D the recovery boards are 2 brands, one is GPM rock crawler recovery boards, the other are some 3D printed maxtrax off ebay. The boxes are Kingsea luggage case 3pc set off amazon, same with the cargo net, the other items are all Yeah Racing, Pro-line or GPM accessories, the only odd ball is the antenna which is actually a tamiya 1/14 truck antenna set covered in heat shrink to give the effect of a UHF antenna.

In the Instructions that the shell or full kit came with it should show you which parts to paint on the headlight buckets, if memory serves most of the head light buckets need to be painted black, so best course is to look at the manual and tape off all parts that need to stay silver/chrome then spray the buckets black

basic tools would be plastic nippers, hobby knife, plastic model glue, filler putty and sandpaper would be a good start for kits like this, a few more would be some good paint brushes and some fine pointed tweezers

@@105thArmoury for the putty and glue do you have a specific brand you use i also saw you using files when building the A10A from academy.

@@Venom-rr3lc tamiya is my preferred brand but deluxe materials and Mr hobby are 2 other great brands that i also use. as for the files i only use them when i need to remove a lot of material, in most cases sandpaper will do, but if you need to use a lot of filler as i did in this kit then a the tamiya micro files will be of great help

@@105thArmoury Okay cool thank you for the tips. This A10A will be my first in years since I built an aircraft.

Thanks :D it's a great build, Once I had the kit I knew I had to go the realistic route, it just begs for it, with the MCF-01 and all the lights and sounds

CA glue or as its more commonly know as super glue :) the 2 best brands are deluxe materials and zap-a-gap

@@105thArmoury OK, thanks man

yer the moulding on this was dodgy as well, took a lot of filler and sanding to get it back to shape, it is a real old kit that needs some new tooling

thats one of the few things academy have been a bit light on with information, especially with their older kits, they haven't really updated up them... ever.... I have started to use deluxe materials liquid gravity, much easier to get the correct weight when guessing XD

yer the decals are garbage on this kit, I tired to turn them but all they did was split so I have to leave them as is, though this kit wasn't all that great, lots of warping

D10 slides on under main piece 50 on the joint, it looks like its meant to go on the side but it goes underneath, that is a bit of a strange piece

Just some warm tap water

@@105thArmoury thanks

yes that will hopefully be changing, the music was used as it was royalty free at the time.

mistakes were made.....

yer it was not a happy chappy when I came back and the clear coat had crinkled, I do intend to do this again properly at some point, already have the kit a waiting for me to get to it