SuperDrty
Quarry Creeper
I've been wanting to build a tow rig for some time now. My original plan was a crew cab long box 2008 F-250, but that would have been too easy, and I've messed with and modded a number of those Proline lexan bodies, I needed a challenge.
Chassis - Aluminum rails, designed and cut (with a band saw) by me
Axles - AR60s narrowed 28mm (already had them, off my mud truck before it's makeover), diff up front with 2.5 million weight "fluid" locked out back, stock pot metal gears
Suspension - 4-link front and rear, front: 4 Powerstroke scaler shocks, rear: quad coils (Losi Mini-T rear springs with 10-32 x 1/2" well nuts to secure, and act as bump stops)
Driveline - not sure on a tranny, but probably an old SCX tranny, mounted up front. Centered, and drop down 2:1 transfer case meant for a 1/14 semi, WB8-HD (tranny to tc) and classic Maxx shafts to the axles.
Electronics - BR-XL waterproofed (already have laying around), not sure on motor or servo yet.
Wheels - planning to make my own 2.2s to best mimic the ones on the real truck (RC4WD Militants don't have the look of the right offsets used on the 1:1)
Tires - 1.9 Proline Baja KR2's with the bead trimmed to mount on 2.2s. These have a similar tread pattern to a few of the tires ran on the 1:1, and in scale, are a closer match to those height-wise
Body - x2 Axial Ram Power Wagon bodies, cut and shut to a 6-door, long box with drw flares and full drop bed, FiberWerx front fenders. Clay modelling all the fenders and hood scoop, then casting those parts out of polyurethane resin to fit to the stretched body (may use that later as a master to vac-form the body pieces
I will also be making a flatbed gooseneck trailer to pull behind this thing, using a 1/14 Tamiya semi 5th wheel hitch, front super single wheels, and RC4WD 1.55 Rock Crushers (already have 4)
The 1:1
The bodies are in, trimmed one out to start modelling the front fenders and hood. Have the fenders started. Wheels are place holders for now, some old RC4WD 2.2s
I'm just getting started, and have a long way to go. Should be a good one though, and long as he!!. rough measurements so far put the wheelbase around 17.25"
-Derek
Chassis - Aluminum rails, designed and cut (with a band saw) by me
Axles - AR60s narrowed 28mm (already had them, off my mud truck before it's makeover), diff up front with 2.5 million weight "fluid" locked out back, stock pot metal gears
Suspension - 4-link front and rear, front: 4 Powerstroke scaler shocks, rear: quad coils (Losi Mini-T rear springs with 10-32 x 1/2" well nuts to secure, and act as bump stops)
Driveline - not sure on a tranny, but probably an old SCX tranny, mounted up front. Centered, and drop down 2:1 transfer case meant for a 1/14 semi, WB8-HD (tranny to tc) and classic Maxx shafts to the axles.
Electronics - BR-XL waterproofed (already have laying around), not sure on motor or servo yet.
Wheels - planning to make my own 2.2s to best mimic the ones on the real truck (RC4WD Militants don't have the look of the right offsets used on the 1:1)
Tires - 1.9 Proline Baja KR2's with the bead trimmed to mount on 2.2s. These have a similar tread pattern to a few of the tires ran on the 1:1, and in scale, are a closer match to those height-wise
Body - x2 Axial Ram Power Wagon bodies, cut and shut to a 6-door, long box with drw flares and full drop bed, FiberWerx front fenders. Clay modelling all the fenders and hood scoop, then casting those parts out of polyurethane resin to fit to the stretched body (may use that later as a master to vac-form the body pieces
I will also be making a flatbed gooseneck trailer to pull behind this thing, using a 1/14 Tamiya semi 5th wheel hitch, front super single wheels, and RC4WD 1.55 Rock Crushers (already have 4)
The 1:1
The bodies are in, trimmed one out to start modelling the front fenders and hood. Have the fenders started. Wheels are place holders for now, some old RC4WD 2.2s
I'm just getting started, and have a long way to go. Should be a good one though, and long as he!!. rough measurements so far put the wheelbase around 17.25"
-Derek
