Bought this in mars, but haven't had the time to work on it until the last weeks.
The build was pretty straight forward. Some good solutions prior to scx10s. The frame is a lot stiffer, and the steering angle is way better than stock scx.
The K5 is long and wide. The body is huge, and gets hung up in a lot of things. My G6 scx10 is a lot better in thight corners.
The Ascender is better at climbing up, and seems to get more traction, to get those front tires to attach and get up som pretty steep and hard climbs.
It almost feels like it has more spin in the front wheels, it doesn't flip up so much as the scx10.
The panhard is cool and work well here I think.
I like the metallic blue and silver colour, so I went with that. The paint job went ok, but not as good as I was hoping. Tried to paint the window walls with a silverpaint pen. I have troubles with paint not sticking to the lexan. Used lexan paint.. not shure what happend..
I tried with some wheels from Asiatees, but I got to much bodyrub, so I had to change it to som Axial 8 holes and 1.9 flat irons. I bit to small, but it really climbs great.
The torque twist is huge, so I tried to tighten the back dampers 3/4 of full, and it was a lot better. Drilled up the holes in the shock piston, wich smotthen things up a bit.
I run a 35 turn motor on 3s and with the 1060 esc. Works great. Not as fast as my scx10 with 35 turn, but slow and steady.
The sidehill is a challenge. I thin I have to lower it a bit.
All in all, I'm really imprest with this thing. Can do some lines with this, that I just can't do with my scx10s.
Plans for the future is to get a front mount engine, and fit the yello Jeep hardbody I boght from Asiatees.
Think that has to be a winter project..
Edit: I have some complains about the steering rod. Where the servo rod is connected to the steering rod, the plastic there seem to bend pretty easily. Anyone else noticed that?
Also when I have max steering angle, there seem to be a slight hangup.
I also noticed that the lower links are a bit soft. I bendt them on the first run. Is is just mine, or do others have the same experience?
Here is a few images of the rig.
<blockquote class="imgur-embed-pub" lang="en" data-id="a/pkJDe"><a href="//imgur.com/a/pkJDe">Ascender K5</a></blockquote><script async src="//s.imgur.com/min/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
The build was pretty straight forward. Some good solutions prior to scx10s. The frame is a lot stiffer, and the steering angle is way better than stock scx.
The K5 is long and wide. The body is huge, and gets hung up in a lot of things. My G6 scx10 is a lot better in thight corners.
The Ascender is better at climbing up, and seems to get more traction, to get those front tires to attach and get up som pretty steep and hard climbs.
It almost feels like it has more spin in the front wheels, it doesn't flip up so much as the scx10.
The panhard is cool and work well here I think.
I like the metallic blue and silver colour, so I went with that. The paint job went ok, but not as good as I was hoping. Tried to paint the window walls with a silverpaint pen. I have troubles with paint not sticking to the lexan. Used lexan paint.. not shure what happend..
I tried with some wheels from Asiatees, but I got to much bodyrub, so I had to change it to som Axial 8 holes and 1.9 flat irons. I bit to small, but it really climbs great.
The torque twist is huge, so I tried to tighten the back dampers 3/4 of full, and it was a lot better. Drilled up the holes in the shock piston, wich smotthen things up a bit.
I run a 35 turn motor on 3s and with the 1060 esc. Works great. Not as fast as my scx10 with 35 turn, but slow and steady.
The sidehill is a challenge. I thin I have to lower it a bit.
All in all, I'm really imprest with this thing. Can do some lines with this, that I just can't do with my scx10s.
Plans for the future is to get a front mount engine, and fit the yello Jeep hardbody I boght from Asiatees.
Think that has to be a winter project..
Edit: I have some complains about the steering rod. Where the servo rod is connected to the steering rod, the plastic there seem to bend pretty easily. Anyone else noticed that?
Also when I have max steering angle, there seem to be a slight hangup.
I also noticed that the lower links are a bit soft. I bendt them on the first run. Is is just mine, or do others have the same experience?
Here is a few images of the rig.
<blockquote class="imgur-embed-pub" lang="en" data-id="a/pkJDe"><a href="//imgur.com/a/pkJDe">Ascender K5</a></blockquote><script async src="//s.imgur.com/min/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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Body and paint look good from here, it will get scraped up anyways and you can paint it on the outside a different color if you still don't like the way it turned out.
