Killa Bee - First time building a kit

[xplan303ex]

Bought my first kit ever, an SCX10.3. Putting it together went without much problems, except burning the 2-speed servo right away, so it's stuck on low for now.


Electronics: Tekin 5-slot, 16T motor, HW1080 ESC, 35 kg DSSERVO, Castle BEC at 7.4V. Running at 3S.


Decided to go a bit wild with the body, designed some custom masks and had them cut at a local shop, the masking job took about 3 hours. The painting including the drying time for each color took almost a whole day. I'm working on the interior now, and some of the body details like window seals and stuff like that.

 

[B-MOW71]

Congrats on getting your first ever kit!"thumbsup" You picked a great kit to start with!

Cool paint scheme! Looking forward to seeing more!

 

[alexleblanc]

Paint looks really good, love the effort you put in it.

 

[Uncle Pete]

Very nice.....well done."thumbsup"

 

[Damion10]

Ahh Wu-Tang killa bee style.... nice

 

[VR6 BeelzeDub]

If you can figure out how to turn the driver into ODB there’d be no better tribute... or bigger effort put into ANY driver, ever lol!


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[talltee9]

Thats a dope build!!!

Sent from my SM-N975U using Tapatalk

 

[xplan303ex]

If you can figure out how to turn the driver into ODB there’d be no better tribute... or bigger effort put into ANY driver, ever lol!


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Oh I should have done that! I made the driver a mini me


Thanks all for the kind words!

 

[Rockin140]

Sweet rig!"thumbsup"


What kind of local shop cut the mask(s) for you?

 

[talltee9]

If you can figure out how to turn the driver into ODB there’d be no better tribute... or bigger effort put into ANY driver, ever lol!


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That would be legendary!!!

Sent from my SM-N975U using Tapatalk

 

[xplan303ex]

Sweet rig!"thumbsup"


What kind of local shop cut the mask(s) for you?

It's a digital imaging place... they do custom die cut stickers and stuff like that.

 

[xplan303ex]

Hey folks, so I have a pretty noticeable clicking noise in the transmission, which I know a lot of other people have too, and I checked and regreased everything. However my clicking noise is way worse going forward and almost unnoticeable in reverse.


Any thoughts what could be wrong?

 

[Plush]

Hey folks, so I have a pretty noticeable clicking noise in the transmission, which I know a lot of other people have too, and I checked and regreased everything. However my clicking noise is way worse going forward and almost unnoticeable in reverse.


Any thoughts what could be wrong?

Did you check on those pins? So they are oriented the correct way?
If one reads up on this issue that seems to be the problem... Misalignment more or less. Or poor building quality...

 

[xplan303ex]

Did you check on those pins? So they are oriented the correct way?
If one reads up on this issue that seems to be the problem... Misalignment more or less. Or poor building quality...

I did, I rebuilt the transmission and it still clicks. Annoying but I'll run it until it breaks and then see what can be done.

 

[GorillaDad]

I usually dislike wild paint jobs but this one looks great, well done!

 

[xplan303ex]

I usually dislike wild paint jobs but this one looks great, well done!

Thanks, much appreciated!

 

[Phildirt]

Just saw this over on SBG. You'll probably have to mount a TF2 body and make some little scale beer cans to get any love from that crowd haha.

 

[xplan303ex]

Just saw this over on SBG. You'll probably have to mount a TF2 body and make some little scale beer cans to get any love from that crowd haha.

haha I noticed that... I would have thought they were more receptive.


Maybe a scale bong? :ror:

 

[Phildirt]

Don’t get me wrong there’s some massive talent on display over there but they do love them some RC4WD. Don’t see a lot of crawling/action shots, a lot of builds and styrene and sanding...I lurk for ideas but tbh the scale detail thing is a rabbit hole to me, don’t want to go down it except maybe a paint job.

 

[Undead Jeeper]

Fine work. Fun seeing a WTC tribute vehicle.

Just saw this over on SBG. You'll probably have to mount a TF2 body and make some little scale beer cans to get any love from that crowd haha.

Empty “fohtys” would be better.

What’s SBG?