Mat's Ascender / Wraith mashup!

[mat]

Being a lucky boy and having the Ascender kit for xmas, but not being a big fan of the huge Blazer body and wanting to do something a little different, I cannibalised an ongoing project to try and mate a wraith frame/body to the Ascender chassis. My one rule was to not mod the Ascender in any way that I couldn't go back to stock if I wanted to.

A quick mock up......





Pleased on how it was looking, now figure out how to mount the sucka!

Not wanting to do too much fabing up of parts, I tried my best to use most of what was either on the Wraith frame or in the Ascender kit.

Rear mount sorted...the body posted are from a Losi crawler....



The front took a lot more thinking about but a simple solution was eventually found. Parts from the Wraith frame and Ascender body posts.....











My next challenge is the fitting the wraith interior. Looks like some hacking to be done! :shock:

 

[martoediefroets]

Awesome "thumbsup""thumbsup"
That looks great, can't wait to see more....
:mrgreen:

 

[perfictsib]

I was wondering when you would get one,
the cage looks good on it.

 

[mat]

Had a great hack session last night hacking the interior to bits :shock:









Next to try and mount some sort of bumper

 

[metalry101]

Man, this is super cool. I have an SCX-10 w/ a chopped up Exo Terra cage on top of it to make a KOH style buggy, and I've toyed with doing something like this on an Ascender too. I'm excited to see how this build works out for you...

 

[OSRC]

Agreed, that looks great! Wheels look so much better with the chrome removed as well.

 

[tacocat]

Wow great job that looks awesome

 

[mat]

Thanks for the kind comments guys "thumbsup"

OSRC- I just gave the wheels a few coats of Matt Acrylic lacquer on top of the chrome ;-)

Managed to use the Wraith bumper, tucks in nice around the servo mount. Mocked up a mount to see how it would look. I will make a nice mount out of ali soon.





I can fit a winch in too

 

[metalry101]

This is a super cool build man. Any updates on this?

 

[SMFtwstdHICK]

Awesome..

How you liking them KING shocks with this?

 

[Natedog]

This is a super cool build man. Any updates on this?

Yes, very cool I like how it all bolts together cleanly and the "body' can be removed by pulling couple body pins. "thumbsup"