Optic Kit Coming

[Timmahh]

I absolutely love this hobby, but not enough to drop that kind of bread just to buy a single rig. But if somebody were to offer a rig of such quality, Vanquish is the name and I like seeing this for the hobby. They've offered us budget friendly RTRs and kits the past few years and then release this behemoth. Whoever on here that also has a Ripper, be sure to take pics of both of them in a shot!

No Ripper. Missed out on that. Got back into rc in 2020, too much by them for me once I saw them.

I'm setting around 1800 on my H10 Optic Kit fitted with Reefs and HW AXE/2800 combo scale hardware etc. No Aluminum Cage, Panels, Knuckles (yet) etc. Htech is 500 for the cage and 280 for the panels so 800 more if I went that route (yes I'd have the stock parts to sell make another rig out of.. ) Ive saw a few people say they're already at 3G with their current optic.

So 3500 isn't really that 'CRAZY' considering all the parts that are machined aluminum. Only about 10ish parts are from the stock H10. maybe a few less than that even.
So if you were to take a rig and fully upgrade every part of it, you'd probably be close to the same funds.
Then there is its us aluminum and all those parts are made here in the states.
And it has a damn title for them. lol

It is a bit steep as it still needs electronics, wheels, stickers/details etc... But its all VP opposed to aftermarket, mostly out of Asia.


Overall its a buy, but if it turns out 1/2 of what the Rippers have in increase in value, it'll be up to 8Grand soon enough.
Especially for those that have low numbers.

 

[hnoroian]

And here I am struggling to lay down the cash for a new SCT and associated bits. I would still be sub $1k but dang…

 

[durok]

No Ripper. Missed out on that. Got back into rc in 2020, too much by them for me once I saw them.

I'm setting around 1800 on my H10 Optic Kit fitted with Reefs and HW AXE/2800 combo scale hardware etc. No Aluminum Cage, Panels, Knuckles (yet) etc. Htech is 500 for the cage and 280 for the panels so 800 more if I went that route (yes I'd have the stock parts to sell make another rig out of.. ) Ive saw a few people say they're already at 3G with their current optic.

So 3500 isn't really that 'CRAZY' considering all the parts that are machined aluminum. Only about 10ish parts are from the stock H10. maybe a few less than that even.
So if you were to take a rig and fully upgrade every part of it, you'd probably be close to the same funds.
Then there is its us aluminum and all those parts are made here in the states.
And it has a damn title for them. lol

It is a bit steep as it still needs electronics, wheels, stickers/details etc... But its all VP opposed to aftermarket, mostly out of Asia.


Overall its a buy, but if it turns out 1/2 of what the Rippers have in increase in value, it'll be up to 8Grand soon enough.
Especially for those that have low numbers.

It does come with wheels - Battle Born 1.9 X-Ray Beadlocks - I'll admit I hope they sell these separately as they are really nice. No tires, though.

Frankly I think they should include scale hardware where it would look best - especially for the wheels!

 

[HumboldtEF]

Hey Speedy-Tripple, why did you decide to go full clear instead of colors?

I wanted to have the ability to have the panels anodized or cerakoted later down the road. It does say 3 month lead as well.

I just wanted to throw this out there to you and anyone else with this idea. In order to cerakote you need to sandblast it so the cerakote has something to grab onto. I'm not sure about anodizing but I would assume you'd want to start off with raw aluminum, if thats correct you would need to strip or sandblast the clear anodizing off. I know stripping can eat away material in some cases.
Not trying to be negative, I just wanted to elaborate on what that might entail.

One thing they mentioned on the live stream today was that the 3 month wait time is due to the color choices, that also relates to the cost of colors.
The way they normally get stuff anodized is in big batches that meet minimum quantities (costing less). By offering color choices they are kind of forced into getting the anodizing done under that minimum quantity and paying more for the service. That also effects the lead time because they arent just getting big batches of all color choices knocked out, instead they are made/annodized to order one by one (or in small batches as orders pile up).
They said the wait time might not be 3 months and that they kind of had to thow out a long lead time as they simply dont know how long this one by one approach will take.

It does come with wheels - Battle Born 1.9 X-Ray Beadlocks - I'll admit I hope they sell these separately as they are really nice. No tires, though.

Frankly I think they should include scale hardware where it would look best - especially for the wheels!

They answered this on the live stream. These wheels aren't planned to be offered separately as they are meant to be special/unique to the Origin. They talked to the Battle Born guys about this project a year back and they responded saying they had a perfect wheels for the early bronco looks.