MST CFX-W J45C Kit build Part 1

MST CFX-W J45C Kit build - Part 1.
Reedy 5-Slot 14T 550 Brushed Crawler Motor
Reedy SC480X 80AMP Brushed Crawler ESC
Generic 25kg Metal Gear Servo
Generic Metal Servo Horn
1.9" Injora Metal Beadlock Wheels
Custom Made LED Lights
Body Colour Paints:-
Core RC Metallic Graphite (Top coat for cab)
Fastrax Spa Silver (1st backing coat)
Tamiya PS5 Black (2nd backing coat & fenders)
Kit Includes
- FRONT AND REAR MPA PORTAL AXLE
- TC80 ALUMINUM SHOCKS
- PLANETARY GEARBOX
- DUAL SLIPPER CLUTCH
- ALL METAL TRANSMISSION GEARS
- SCALE MG TYRES
- ALUMINUM 4-LINK SUSPENSION
- FULL BALL BEARINGS
- HEAVY DUTY CVD SHAFT
- STEEL C-CHANNEL FRAME
- GEAR RATIO : 1:36.3~1:53.4
- TYRE WIDTH/DIAMETER : 40 X 120mm
- PINION GEAR
- MPA CVD'S
- LENGTH : 458mm
- WIDTH : 230mm
- HEIGHT : 250mm
- WHEELBASE : 313mm

[@MarkBryanRC]

Nice build, mate! This kit oozes quality and it looks like you are having a great time putting it together. Congratulations on the bodywork, it looks fantastic! I hope you are doing OK my friend, it's been a while. Thank you so much for the Christmas card, it was a lovely surprise. I did thank you and read out the card in my Christmas Day video and was hoping you would catch that! All the best, as ever. Cheers from Mark...

[@hollyhillrc]

Hi Mark. Thank you very much my friend. I really did enjoy building this kit and I've wanted one since it was released a few years ago. I've got a big soft spot for these old style Toyota's and I have a nice collection of them now. I also have the MST CMX chassis which was MST's first crawler chassis release and I really like it. It has a wheelbase which is adjustable to the 3 different lengths of the Tamiya CC-01 chassis using different length suspension links which were included in the kit. So I've been using my Tamiya CC-01 Pajero Metaltop Wide & Isuzu Mu & Toyota Land Cruiser 40 bodies on it. When it was first released it was known as "the CC-01 chassis Tamiya should've released" and nicknamed the CC-02. I haven't been very active on social media for a couple of months and I will pm you on Facebook about it. Thanks for watching Mark. Take care mate 🙂👍🏼👍🏼

[@satorrotas]

Really very good job to mount this CFX, Mst is really a great brand. Can't wait to see more 👍

[@hollyhillrc]

Hi Pascal. Thank you very much my friend. I really enjoyed building this kit. I will upload Part 2 and Part 3 soon 🙂👍🏼

[@satorrotas]

@@hollyhillrc I will be sure to watch them 😉👍

[@hollyhillrc]

@@satorrotas 😀👍🏼👍🏼

[@CarminesRCTipsandTricks]

Derek... I have always loved the MST CFX-W. I've had the HARDEST TIME getting on in the U.S., for 8 years!!! Of all the Bodies, this is by far my favourite!! 👍👍 You've done a fantastic job on it, as usual. Cheers my Friend, have a great Weekend! 👍👍🥂🍺🍺🍺🍻

[@hollyhillrc]

Hello Carmine. Thank you very much. I totally understand your frustration. I have wanted one of these since they were announced It is also difficult to find new MST crawler kits or RTR's in the UK. There are only a few UK RC hobby sites that stock them and they usually sell very quickly. There is one company in the UK called Drift Manji RC that sells MST Drift car products and they actually had a few of these crawler kits for sale on their eBay site last year so I bought one as soon as I saw it. The other options for buying MST products are Asia or Europe, mainly Germany, and since the U.K left the European union we have to pay the usual charges and shipping costs from both continents.

[@CarminesRCTipsandTricks]

.... I got to experience your VAT when I bought Mark those Kits... ONE of them was $110!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 I've never heard of that kind of tax before! Buying from Asia won't be an option, at least until Covid is over. AsiaTees wants $210 to Ship here!! Eventually....

[@RCBirds]

Very interesting build. Nice the body can be done before or parallel to the chassis. Looking forward on your next videoabout this rig.💪👍

[@hollyhillrc]

Thank you very much. Part 2 will be uploaded in a few days 🙂👍🏼👍🏼

[@BasBoyRC]

Good to see the kit being built. One thing I noticed with the design is to work on the gearbox you need to split the chassis.

[@hollyhillrc]

Thanks Mal. Good point. Hopefully I won't have too many reasons to work on it 🙂👍🏼👍🏼

[@friderc]

Ooooh my GOOOOOD!!! U got one👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 I also love this Rig...😅 The Gears looks verry nice! Thumbs up Brother

[@hollyhillrc]

Thank you very much Mike. It's a very nice build 🙂👍🏼👍🏼

[@madsrcbuggy]

Looks like a nice build! I love the addition of a planetary gear stage, I'm sure it will have awesome torque! Nice pleasant slideshow, easy to follow along. I need to try find time to watch parts 2 and 3 also now, I am behind with this, he he!

[@hollyhillrc]

Thank you very much my friend 🙂👍🏼👍🏼

[@tiborvon]

Excellent part 1 Derek gona be a cool build 👍👍

[@hollyhillrc]

Hello mate. Thank you very much. It's a very nice kit and I've really enjoyed building it. I hope all is good with you my friend 🙂👍🏼👍🏼

[@tiborvon]

All good this end, thank you

[@hollyhillrc]

@@tiborvon 🙂👍🏼

[@3TRCGarage]

Very nice Derek. The body came out great. I really wanted one of these kits when they came out. Like you I’m a big fan of the classic FJ body. The chassis and components look pretty good so far👍🏾

[@hollyhillrc]

Hi Paul. Thank you very much my friend. It's a very nice kit and good quality too. I enjoyed the build very much. Parts 2 and 3 will be uploaded soon 🙂👍🏼

[@rctraildriversuk-lone-wolfvide]

Derek, this is looking to be a very nice build and love the choice of paint, so many folk tend to go with powder blue colour, the dark you have gone with works well

[@hollyhillrc]

Thanks very much Julian. The paint choice was purely down to budget. I already had it on the shelf so decided to use it for this But I'm very pleased with how it looks. 🙂👍🏼👍🏼

[@PeteWylieRC]

Hiya Derek. Great video. It's paced fast enough to watch as general interest and has enough detail that people building the kit could pause it at the relevant steps. Looks like such a well engineered kit with all the metal gears and bits. Also the body looks really good and detailed. Hope you are OK mate. Maybe a get together when we stop having storms! Best wishes 🙂

[@hollyhillrc]

Hello Pete. Thanks very much. I started my Lunchbox today and I 'm detailing the body first while I'm watching the winter Olympics. I will start building the chassis soon. I expect it will be done in time for a meet up 🙂👍🏼

[@islandrc-duke1972]

great video and nice build so far

[@hollyhillrc]

Thank you very much 🙂👍🏼👍🏼

[@BITTERFLEA]

Cool build going on here. Thanks for sharing.

[@hollyhillrc]

Thank you very much for watching 🙂👍🏼👍🏼

[@antrc]

Nicely done! Never tried this brand but really I should. A

[@hollyhillrc]

Thank you very much Andrew. It's a nice build and the instructions are easy to follow. 🙂👍🏼

[@Del350K4]

As I'm building a CC-02 at the moment, I found this video particularly interesting. It's always fun to compare different designs. I love the colour you chose for the (gorgeous) body!

[@hollyhillrc]

Thank you very much Del. What do you think of the CC-002 build ? 🙂👍🏼

[@Del350K4]

@@hollyhillrc Hello, Derek. I like the relatively forward-positioned motor on the CC-02, and I was puzzled that the instructions say that only the rear diff can be built in the locked configuration. As I was building mine with the low gearing and a 45T crawler motor (ordered before you told me about 5-slot motors) I wanted to lock my front diff. I thought about securing the 3 pinions to the star-shaft with cyano, but then realized that parts bag C (the gift that keeps on giving) actually does contain sufficient bits and bobs to build it locked, whatever the instructions say! I like the oil-filled shocks, and don't understand why they don't include them in more of their kits, particularly M-cars. Though the wheels and tyres look great, I'm frustrated to see how hard a compound Tamiya have used - the chassis can't manage my bsck-garden test track at all. It just spins. I've got a Tamiya Bruiser driver figure for it, and am making a very basic interior. I've ordered some different tyres, too! This MST looks supremely competent, and the instructions are nice and clear, by the looks of things. I hope the build was as much fun as it looks!

[@hollyhillrc]

@@Del350K4 Hi Del. My Tamiya WR-01 Firestone Big Foot (ex Wild Dagger) only has the rear diff locked and it handles things very well all things considered, so I decided to leave the front open on my CC-02 Unimog before I started the build. (To be honest I didn't realise the instructions say you can only lock the back diff. I will have to dig out the instructions and have another read). It works well for my light trail running. I don't like the kit tyres at all, but I tried a few different ones, including a set of KRT K1 90mm diameter crawler tyres and a set of Fastrax Kong 90mm diameter tyres without success. The main problem was the inside edge of the front ones rubbed against the steering knuckles. I was very disappointed because I run both of these tyres on my CC-01 chassis and they are far superior than the usual concrete compound Tamiya offerings. So I've resigned to using the kit ones until I find something that fits without rubbing. To be fair they don't do too badly in the woods but they do limit it's performance. I guess an adaptor could be used to bring the wheels away from the knuckles but that would make the axle wider and I think it would lose it's scale looks with a wider stance and I don't want that. That's just my personal opinion and taste of course. I will be interested to hear if the tyres you've ordered fit ok. I still have to fit a driver to the Unimog and I need one for this CMX-W as well. This build was a joy and the only thing I had trouble with was deciding whether to have a chassis or an axle mounted servo, because you have the option to do both. So I watched Matteo's build video and he went for the axle mounted option, so I did that. The MST instructions are very good and easy to follow. They're much like Tamiya's instructions. All the parts are drawn to scale, which really helps selecting the correct screws for instance. I've also got an MST CMX kit chassis which was MST's first crawler chassis released in 2016. You can adjust the wheelbase to the same three settings as the Tamiya CC-01 wheelbase using different length suspension links which are included in the kit. I've been using my Tamiya CC-01 Pajero Metaltop Wide body & CC-01 Isuzu Mu body & CC-01 Toyota Land Cruiser 40 body on it. When it was first released it was nicknamed the CC-02 and people said it was "the CC-01 chassis Tamiya should've released". Thanks for your excellent reply Del. See you in part 2 😀👍🏼

[@Del350K4]

@@hollyhillrc Hello again! My wife and I often fit fat, knobbly front tyres to our onroad motorbikes, and find ourselves having to trim the knobbles on the outside edges to stop them from rubbing against the mudguard stays. I anticipate having to do some similar surgery to get my new rubber to clear the steering knuckles on the CC-02. When ordering them I confess that I allowed myself to be guided by scale-looking rins more than anything else, and didn't consider clearance at all! I think the CC-02 is a reasonable try on Tamiya's part, but the similarly-sized Team Associated/Funtek CR-12 performs far, far better, and costs less despite coming with bearings, dedicated crawler electronics, excellent tyres and a radio, as well as being fully assembled. In terms of value for money I think it beats the Tamiya hands down. I must check out the MST "CC-02", and watch Part 2 of your build!

[@hollyhillrc]

@@Del350K4 I really like the Team Associated CR12 with the Blue Ford F150 body but I think they're discontinued. I love my MST CMX. It's like a small version of the first Axial SCX10 chassis and still much better than the CC-02. These are a some of my videos of it. Pajero kzbin.info/www/bejne/iXWQapileap0a5I & Isuzu Mu kzbin.info/www/bejne/aXiVqZawlM9nhc0 & FJ40 kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5qsoWWNrZiZrLM

[@NordicRC]

Good relaxing build, Derek! Looks great that body and real quality gears. Do you have any other MST’s?

[@hollyhillrc]

Hello Mikael. Thank you very much my friend. 🙂👍🏼 Yes I've also got an MST CMX kit chassis that I bought in 2018. It was MST's first crawler chassis which was released in 2016. I bought it because you can adjust the wheelbase to the same three settings as the Tamiya CC-01 wheelbase using different length suspension links which are included in the kit. I have a new Tamiya Amarok body and decals which came with it but I haven't got round to cutting it out and painting it yet ! 😄. So I've been using my Tamiya CC-01 Pajero Metaltop Wide body & CC-01 Isuzu Mu body & CC-01 Toyota Land Cruiser 40 body on it. When it was first released it was nicknamed the CC-02 and people said it was "the CC-01 chassis Tamiya should've released". I have some videos of it on my channel.

[@NordicRC]

Ahh, yeah, I remember that chassis and Matteo’s videos introducing it. Would love to see it compared side by side with a real CC-02 now 😊