Well I made a very slow start on Friday evening. Having dragged all my old RC stuff down from the loft, I started stripping down the donor car - a CAT XLS (which I always thought was a ProCat, but seems I was wrong).
Then I made a start at learning my way around Solidworks and fully modelled a rear wheel. Hopefully I'll get quicker as I do more, as I intend to model up the entire design so I can work out all the packaging, linkages and fixings before actually butchering any aluminium or carbon fibre.
Just feels good to have finally started doing something towareds making this thing a reality.