RC Bashers

Hey guys.

I had started a Jeep body for my Losi Micro crawler and was going to put it on a Blade SMC chassis........but then I figured.....every man and his dog has a Jeep, i want something a little different. I've recently been inspired by a few millitary/Dakar style truck builds I've seen and thought time to get in some of that action. I couldn't find any plastic model kits of the right scale or that grabbed my attention, so you know how it is.....if you can't buy it...make it yourself! Cue the styrene!

This is kind of what I'm basing it on.




Here's what I've done so far.

this is gonna be bad@ss

Man your like the jamus of cutting boards with this styrene lol, sure its gonna be awesome

What, no 6x6? Still awesome, everything scratch built is awesome. Just say no to RTR, haha.

oooh i am def keeping both eyes on this one. awesome pick on the next build!

RTR - READY TO REBUILD!

Sweetness. Always like your stuff. Looks like another sub.Let the Styrene fly.

Thanks guys. yeah im treating this as a warm up for a 6x6. unless i change my mind along the way!

Have made a bit more progress. Doesn't look like much...mounting the front shocks turned out to be a real PITFA, trying to mount them on the chassis without binding with the links or the servo. Wheel wideners are on the way from CrawlerX.

looks like a lot of work!

keep going!

Slow progress!!


This side was done first, not as good as the other side i think. Normally there would be a spare on this side, but the way that I mounted the chassis didn't allow the room. I have seen pics of 1:1 trucks that don't have the spare here either so it's still relatively scale!







Still needs work on the wheel arches.

My first go at bending styrene heating it with a flame. I first tried some strip, then square tube and finally ended up using rod.

Spent a bit of time doing an exo cage.

Great styrene work. Can't wait to see it complete.

Got the rear axle mounted. Used Mini T links. Doesn't articulate quite as freely as it should. The trouble is that because I've made my own chassis and linnk mounting points, both sides are not identical. This has played havoc with the link geometry......at this scale, every millimetre of intolerence shows up in volumes! It took me so much tweaking of the link lengths to get it to move freely and it's still not great,, but should be good enough. At one point I did contemplate ditching the stock chassis under there and throw the cab on top of a Blade SMC chassis with leafs, but it's come out OK in the end. We'll see what happens.











Oh and by the way........did someone earlier on mention 6x6?!!!!

that is nuts, you must have a ton of paitence with all that tiny styrene work

Decided to get it ready to add another axle and go for 6x6!




and started work on the box for the back. It will be held on with magnets for easy access to the battery.

Been a bit slow lately....I ran out of plastruct and there was some kind of delay with the importer so none of the hobby shops or craft shops or anyone had any! I ended up getting some from fleabay, so had to wait for shipping. But back in business now.

Got the roof on, hotes for LED's done and started finishing of some of the finer details on the cab. I used a single piece for the roof and scored and bent it without snapping completely to get the 3 sections. It worked out really well as I didn't have to worry about matching up the joins across the top of the roof (which I most certainly would have got uneven otherwise!) This way it's turned out super clean across the roof.



Have to finish filling in all the gaps and tidying up the rough bits....more like this....

very nice work.

nice job! its coming along nicely.

Wow that's some great work, must be patient lol

More progress.......











Not related to this thread at all, but you have to check out this vid if you haven't already seen it....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ7XDqS6rHE

lookin good man! You have a gnack with styrene bub.

holy cow, nice job on the body man. that looks awesome.

sweet!

you guys are all so crafty..