Greetings and happy new year RCC! I thought I'd kick off the new year with a thread of my GK build (yet another - hope you don't mind).
Introductions 1st - my name is Joah [ig: autorista], and this kit is also a re-introduction to the hobby. It's been 30 years since I pulled a throttle trigger and I've been seeing a lot of reissues of the kits I grew up with (Tamiya, Kyosho, Schumacher) so I decided to dive in again. Much has of course changed and rather than go with the same 4wd buggies I had, rock crawlers seemed to have the most "just go out and have fun" spirit. Why the GK? Honestly the Associated name (all the cool kids had RC10s back then), but looking deeper it's built on an established Enduro platform with great factory and aftermarket parts support, tons of user feedback but the GK had some newness to it to explore as well.
About that research, one thing that did not exist a while back are all the resources readily available such as this forum, youtube, etc. and that certainly made the reentry learning curve much easier. Thanks to SOZE and OSRC with their build threads which should still be the go-to for any GK builder. My intent here is to share some build notes and hopefully contribute something.
So this started with me making the most out of Black Friday deals and I've been building since, give or take with work, waiting for things to arrive and holiday stuff. I also don't follow the exact build sequence in the manual, preferring to layout and do some test fitting first (plastic model kit habit). And sorry for the terrible work surface.
Introductions 1st - my name is Joah [ig: autorista], and this kit is also a re-introduction to the hobby. It's been 30 years since I pulled a throttle trigger and I've been seeing a lot of reissues of the kits I grew up with (Tamiya, Kyosho, Schumacher) so I decided to dive in again. Much has of course changed and rather than go with the same 4wd buggies I had, rock crawlers seemed to have the most "just go out and have fun" spirit. Why the GK? Honestly the Associated name (all the cool kids had RC10s back then), but looking deeper it's built on an established Enduro platform with great factory and aftermarket parts support, tons of user feedback but the GK had some newness to it to explore as well.
About that research, one thing that did not exist a while back are all the resources readily available such as this forum, youtube, etc. and that certainly made the reentry learning curve much easier. Thanks to SOZE and OSRC with their build threads which should still be the go-to for any GK builder. My intent here is to share some build notes and hopefully contribute something.
So this started with me making the most out of Black Friday deals and I've been building since, give or take with work, waiting for things to arrive and holiday stuff. I also don't follow the exact build sequence in the manual, preferring to layout and do some test fitting first (plastic model kit habit). And sorry for the terrible work surface.