These are one of my all time favorite Tamiya cars because they look like a legit 60’s 70’s vw buggy

Those wheels really do set this difficult built off. You should be mega proud of what you did with this.... and that bodyshell is *chefs kiss*

That's hard body shell to do. Looks very sharp. It definitely needs patience.

Absolutely beautiful, this is why tamiya called them model rc cars in the day, because they they were models also. ❤️

Beautiful! Thank you for sharing.

An absolute RC icon. Timeless and brings back lots of memories. A brilliant build!!!😃👍

Looking good, Glenn. That turned out a treat! 👌

It’s superb Glen.. love what you have done with that.. I know I go on back it just takes me back to those great day’s!!!! Brilliant👍👍👍

Yeah that looks great Glenn. I do agree there is something special about an srb build.

My LHS has had one of these on the shelf for a while and I keep staring at it.

ya brother, i'm with ya on the runnin part.... one roll and its all done, oooh what a feeling that is LOL!!!!!!

Great Result! The little Beatle came out great. And on grass in your Garden or on Sand at the beach there should nothing bad happen to the body. Enjoy your work, however it gives you the maximum joy, and if this means staring and dusting, so stare and dust, enjoy👍🍻

Looks spot on Glenn, l love everything about the Sand Scorcher! I always look at mine its such a classic looking thing! A must in everyone's collection!

The wheels are absolutely off the chart mate .. the racing White works perfectly.. and the rear engine bay....well perhaps revisit another day .👍🇬🇧😎

Too good. Thumbs up to you on this one Glenn.

Just got one ! It´s been pokin the back of my min for years ! I just love the scaleness the metal and the classic looks 👌😎

love it Glen! nice job my friend. greetz from Bavaria Germany.

This shows how you don't have to go crazy with the hop ups etc. Just a few simple additions have really lifted this car. If it was mine I wouldn't run it after all the effort you put into making it look that good. Just enjoy looking at it! Great job Glenn!

Looks awesome - run it on a sandy beach and it’ll stay pristine - Stinger exhaust rules man!👍🏻👍🏻

What "they're made for" is whatever you decide they're made for. For me, it's running them, but a lot of work has gone into that and if you don't want to run it then that's your business.

BOOM!!!!!! Awesome!

Wish I had your talent of doing up the body art on kits! I do mean art everyone you do is a piece of art work man! Great job

Looks amazing mate, love the rims !

I watched the build from the beginning. Cool to hear you made up and are happy with it . Masking for paint is alot of work . Really enjoyed this one because I'm a vw enthusiast. I always loved those wheels on real life vws . That company did a really good good reproducing those . Really good video . Thanks

It looks fantastic, and as I've just painted mine to box art, I can appreciate just how much time effort and, well, stress goes into it, it really is a challenge! You definitely need to take time to let each layer of paint harden before the next step. Tyre writing was tricky too! Well done, great video

Oh and some of them are just for looking at…….look at it…..look at it! 🤩

What a thing, that's proper Glenn! 😎 Would be interesting to see it with light buckets for the front bumper?

hi glenn looks awesome love the retro look and the wheels are killer great job buddy

Looks so nice Glenn love these 10/10 mate

Cheers mate thats a nice looking bug, I would run It, but I do get how you feel, keep up the good work!!! 👍

She's a beaut! Great job dude 👏

And this thing drives surprisingly well considering its design and age...All in all, one of the best. You got to love her from end to end, tons of caracter. Yours looks the part indeed 🙂

After seeing the pearl white you used I think it really sets it off and gives it a truly vintage look. I’m going to have to get some aluminum bumpers for my SRB cars too. Looks awesome.

Great job 👏 And each to their own 👍👌

LOVE IT!! I am getting closer to getting one for my collection at some point, possibly non box art, but Cracking Job young man!!

My first and favourite RC car back in the day. Those alloys just make your car look as good as any box art picture.

Awesome looking 😊👍.I have the same alloy wheel hubs and tires for my FAV as well, just need to get the scorcher/frog rims for it.

You had the sense to just do 1 , I for some reason did 2 at once 🤪🤪🤪 . I even added to the madness by adding a pinstripe between the colours . Glutton for punishment lol. Will drop you some pics Glenn. The alloy bits certainly finish it off really nicely. Try a Molotow chrome marker pen to paint wheel centres. Should make it a little closer to the rims . Your scorcher now looks very sweet indeed. Nice job fella. All the best from sunny Torquay

Love it! My favorite Tamiya by far! Looks great Glenn. I understand how you feel about running it. I ran my first Sand Scorcher right after I build it...and it rolled over...😳🥴🤣

Looks Awesome!!

I'm with you on the choice to run the car. I always build my cars with the intention to run them but, honestly, after I've invested countless hours trying to make them as close to perfect as I can, they almost never touch the ground. So they'll go onto the shelf and I'm on to the next project which, of course, will definitely be a runner (yeah, right). Anyway, another great build series, thanks for posting your videos Glenn.

Looks superb as always Glenn. The cage, bumper and wheels really finish it off. Don't run it. I can see it now sliding upside down on the roof...😬

Nice vid...I really like the SandScorcher...great build my friend. In fact, just earlier tonight I was wrapping up my build of the very same car! I added all brushless electronics and lipo 2s battery. Very challenging to get all the modern electronics to fit. Can't wait to take it for a spin around the track.

Bloody blood lovely Glenn, I would actually say the paint job is perfect, and those hop-up alloy parts are unbelievable, I like how they are bling but it's not really in your face bling, it kinda looks like it should of come like that, I really love it. Totally with u on the not mad keen on running it yet,yes they are ment to b ran but I'd be exactly the same with that build, the devastation if something happened would be terrible 😢, great video Glenn and superb build 💯👌👍

Looks great Glenn 👍

Absolutely stunning 😊👍

Awesome. I did have my sand scorcher up for sale due to moving house but now seeing that im going to order a set of them wheels to finish mine off and run it, already have the bumpers etc but them wheels really finish it off, nice work as always mate 👍🏻

Looks too good to run in my opinion! Great job Glenn!!!

Looks good , love the wheels 👍🏻

Looks amazing, I think the cage should always have been like that. Those wheels and bumpers look great too, just reminds me how you used too feel the first time they roll over though. Some gentle running on a low grip surface, if you feel brave. I'd get another body, leave it unpainted and I've seen some stickers on ebay for the blue bits.

Looks fantastic. Another one I want

Superb Glenn👍 I did my scorcher metallic green with Matt black roof and racing white and it's the racing white which makes it pop! No you don't need to use them IMO😉 and the thing is with the scorcher it just loves to pirouette on its roof even with the ball diff!

Looks awesome! You need to get yourself some extra body kits and have a few more goes at it with some different colours..! 😉😁 Keep this one on the shelf, use the rough rider chassis as the runner with some different bodies on it. That is what I have now, 4 kits (two each still sealed), 10 body kits 5 of each, one shelf chassis with the 3 style srb bodies, one runner chassis with 3 bodies that I got used, so if they get damaged, just repair them. 😎😎

Definitely one of tamiya's best classic's. Really not a lot of point in running it ..it will roll without a diff unless you are on sand...but she looks pukka.. I built one in the winter and I love it...I will not be parting with mine for sure...👍 Keep doing what you do. And good luck with the move ... Cheers Glenn.

Awesome!

I’m with you all the way on running vintage/ collectables. I have specific cars for driving and most sit there and look pretty 😂. The devastation of flipping/ crashing something you spent ages on 🤯

Awesome Glen

Sensational build Glenn👌🏆 I'm with you on this one, way too nice & too much work to get it looking that good to risk a roll over mate, all of our Tamiya's are on the shelf pretty much plus I once they get a few metres away from me I can't see them and will crash anyway😂 The wheels look absolutely spot on mate👍🦘🇦🇺

Superb, it is your collection do what you want. i would put it in a cabinet and just look at ii.

Awesome Glenn, just a quick tip for future builders of the SS or hard shell bodies in particular when it comes to the painting.....after spending time masking and then spraying, including the black separating pin stripe lines on the roof(if you put them on like i did)....after finishing spraying the colour coats, make any slight adjustments needed, by scraping and touching up using a very fine brush dipped in the left over spray paint..rather than spraying again, and then flatten the whole body off using the very finest wet and dry you can find 2000 grit or higher 4000???....what you will end up with is a very dull body but very smooth and that also includes where you touched the paint up or made adjustments, once you've flattened off....and a dab of water helps if i remember right, thoroughly clean the body off of dust, dry cloth, damp cloth and let dry completely so its extremely clean, then and only then apply the stickers which will also be protected by the next step.....then get some clear coat laquer, and in perfectly dry and dust free conditions blast the body with a couple of coats of clear coat laquer allowing it to be touch dry between ooats............and boooom......you'll have a gleaming body where the colours look really deep but also shine like the sun like a million dollar sports car that had been wrapped and waxed with the finest products!!

I would of painted the inner white wheel bit in the blue body colour possibly ...excellent build as always Glenn and have a great weekend 😎👌🔥🔥🔥 if you do decide to take it out find a beach much safer and cooler for the photo shoots ect

Excellent say no more 👌

Awesome car, love the wheels

Looks brilliant! Well done. I understand about not running it, but I’ll give you a fiver to take it over the BMX track 😬

It looks absolutely awesome mate, it's one of the best looking RC cars of all time! And as for running it, do you really want to? If you don't. then don't, whatever you do do not bow down to pressure from other people just to please them. Personally I'd run it, but I'm not you, and I don't have one of these, so if your viewers don't like it then it's tough poop!! Awesome video as always, please keep 'em coming👍👍

Those top it off nicely 👍🏼

That is awsome mate, seriously I could not run that car after spending all that time on it, Tamiya for me these days is about modelling and not about bashing, I now collect.. those wheels and cages really are the finishing touch and I hear what you say about that white paint, it does make it look old, love it 👍

Looks dope.

Good job

Looks Great 😎👍🏻

Looks so much better with those add ones. Looking at the box art you’d think it would come like that as standard.

G'day Glenn yes don't run it they don't run as good as they look and your one looks so dam good mate 👍

Looks mint glen 👍

Sweet 👍

Friggin awesome…

I understand about not wanting to run it. All that time spent making it look just the way you want it to and the risk of driving it around and ruining it can make it be just a display piece. I used to be a a shelf queen hater years ago but the more cars I get and spend the time on making them look good the more and more I am fine with just enjoying the building and collecting part. Running it just to make folks happy isn't worth it. If they want to see one run that bad they can spend a week building and painting their own!! It looks great and I love the slightly off white look, it does give it that old kit vibe!

looks, good, you could use a chrome pen for the centres maybe? I have to white pen the writing on my project soon.

Looks vary good. Wheels look time period.

The sand scorcher and rough rider were the first tamiya models a saw. I could only afford a hornet. I now have a 🐸 frog.

I know the feeling. Looking at an absolute mint Dynablaster I just finished thinking how do I run this and not do any damage.

Bruiser paint is simpler, but has so many parts that I'd say is up there with the sand scortcher in terms of complexity. Xr311 took me a long time to build too, lots of fiddly pieces

Wee belter👊

Second body Glenn. One to run and one to display.

I Love it totally awesome 😎 I have a very tatty Rough Rider that goes out every now and again as I don’t want to break it.i agree with you if you do run it I would do it on grass as the look amazing but handle not great. I found on grass it does a C lot less damage if you get carried away. You could get a second body . When you are in your new place then maybe you could improve the lighting.

Love your vids!!!! Keep them coming. A question…… why haven’t you done a blitzer beetle?

I usually do two body sets one to run one to display That being said IDK if I’ll do a second body for mine still deciding unlike my Anniversary Porsche I’ve never driven a sand scorcher/ rough rider/ etc. I also picked up a set of same size front and rear alloy wheels for it but that builds still on the back burner my Optima Mid finally showed up & that’s the next build I am not only planning to run it I’m going to do at least one indoor carpet race with it just for 💩’s & 🤭 unlike the Sand Scorcher I have raced the OnRoad Touring Car version of the Optima Mid back in the day and have plenty of vintage hop-up hopefully they fit

I have the NIB rere kit stored up in the attick. Not sure when I will build this iconic Tamiya model...The driver could use some muttonchops and a few stickers on the helmet, I´d say.

Premier! Wow! Lol

Fantastic car👌👌 Could you give some input og a brushless combo suited to this car,???

Looks the business..

That looks way way way way way way way better 😍 do not run it! Nope! Build another one for running? the added weight and the unprotected arms🤔 the white is perfect and I love the new bumper 😍 p.s. I hate the old bumper, real hate?

Im sure 8 commented on one of the earlier videos, check out the inner wheel arches you can get. They look brilliant

what a fantastic job you have done Glenn mate it looks awesome loving the ally parts spot on mate👍😎😊🇬🇧👊

Neat job on the tyre lettering Glenn. What pen did you use exactly for that? I restored an original one of these recently and I agree it's a special build. Slow as you like and crappy steering but it's just excellent despite all that.

Glen can you mention what paint pen you use for tire writing please... It really makes the tires pop...

such an iconic rc it doesnt have an actual dif.

A Chrome paint marker may give you a better paint color match for your wheels.

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Hi, I'm looking to replace the wheels along with the the front and rear bumpers with alloy versions. Did you have to pay import taxes on your purchases? Cheers.

Excuse me, what brand is this front bumper？