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Project: ROCKSTAR!! (Silverado Truggy build)
- Thread starter Prime
- Start date
avengernut
Quarry Creeper
Fuel cell looks great.What did you make the bolt heads out of on top of it?Where's Flatwoods,Wv at?I know where Flatwoods,Ky is.Close to Ashland
juststartin
Quarry Creeper
I was wondering if you could do me a favor? Could you measure your body for me and tell me what the width, length, and height is? I have a chevy body buts its extended cab and Im going to cut it down to make it regular cab.
Thanks for the kind words about the fuel cell.
LOL Yes it has been a while sadly. I still have the truck but I have not done anything to it in a while. I have been working on my 1:1's so this is on the back burner now, but hopefully work will resume sometime early next month.
I will measure it the next time I am in the shop and let you know. "thumbsup"
whoa! long time no
LOL Yes it has been a while sadly. I still have the truck but I have not done anything to it in a while. I have been working on my 1:1's so this is on the back burner now, but hopefully work will resume sometime early next month.
I will measure it the next time I am in the shop and let you know. "thumbsup"
ColquittCustom405
I wanna be Dave
Looks good so far! I have this same body.
Tgreer
RCC Addict
Any more progress on this build?
Well it has been almost four years since I have touched this truck. I took a break from R/C, too many other responsibilities took center stage so RC went on the back burner. Now finally things are to the point I can once again pick up a controller and get back into my oldest hobby. And boy how things have changed, but for the better imo, over the last four years.
Is four years too long of a break in a build? Guess we will see.
Why the sudden interest in this old build? I never sold any of my trucks, they all just went into storage. As I got back into rc I got my Clod Flatty and the wife's Defender 110 out to freshen them up a bit and was running them around the yard. My 6 year old daughter wanted to give it a try and I let her drive mine. She loved it and said she wanted one. So I dug through my spares and made her a truck all from extra parts I had laying around.
Here is my daughters truck, not very scale but should be perfect for her. TM3 chassis, tlts, pede tranny and a 55t.
That gave me the bug to finish up this project. It was almost to the point of finial tear down and paint when I shelved it. So here we are back on track. Sorry for the delay but this one will be finished. "thumbsup"
I finished up the chassis and have it in primer.
The rear tube work is cleaned up and painted.
A couple of changes though, no longer going with a puller motor, instead just a pair of 55s for now.
Thanks again for looking, sorry for the long delay.
Is four years too long of a break in a build? Guess we will see.
Why the sudden interest in this old build? I never sold any of my trucks, they all just went into storage. As I got back into rc I got my Clod Flatty and the wife's Defender 110 out to freshen them up a bit and was running them around the yard. My 6 year old daughter wanted to give it a try and I let her drive mine. She loved it and said she wanted one. So I dug through my spares and made her a truck all from extra parts I had laying around.
Here is my daughters truck, not very scale but should be perfect for her. TM3 chassis, tlts, pede tranny and a 55t.
That gave me the bug to finish up this project. It was almost to the point of finial tear down and paint when I shelved it. So here we are back on track. Sorry for the delay but this one will be finished. "thumbsup"
I finished up the chassis and have it in primer.
The rear tube work is cleaned up and painted.
A couple of changes though, no longer going with a puller motor, instead just a pair of 55s for now.
Thanks again for looking, sorry for the long delay.
Coming along a little farther. I have the axles hung and I am getting the electronics sorted out. For some reason the Hi-Tech servo I had for the truck was acting up so I temporarily replaced it with the one out of my flatty scaler. I also made some inner fenders for the front wheel wells to hide the internals.
More to come. :mrgreen:
More to come. :mrgreen:
Welp, it is moving along. All the chassis pieces are painted and reassembled.
The chassis is complete and I got to drive it around the living room last night under it's own power. The shift linkage needs a little adjustment but will be an easy fix. Also need to make a y harness for the batts and an external jack for some type of winch controller.
Hope I don't have to remove a wheel anytime soon. I went ahead and mounted the center caps to these beautiful wheels.
I also mad a set of limiting straps for the rear. Made the suspension travel more scale like imo (plus I think they look cool).
Here is the colors of the body and panels. They are painted black with silver star decals added to them. Then covered with four coats of a purple clear coat. It's hard to see in the pics but it makes the black look like a real dark plum and it makes the silver stars match the bead lock rings.
And the body has it's second coat of black. One more coat and I will add the stars and start on the clear coat.
I will update more as I move along. Thanks for looking.
The chassis is complete and I got to drive it around the living room last night under it's own power. The shift linkage needs a little adjustment but will be an easy fix. Also need to make a y harness for the batts and an external jack for some type of winch controller.
Hope I don't have to remove a wheel anytime soon. I went ahead and mounted the center caps to these beautiful wheels.
I also mad a set of limiting straps for the rear. Made the suspension travel more scale like imo (plus I think they look cool).
Here is the colors of the body and panels. They are painted black with silver star decals added to them. Then covered with four coats of a purple clear coat. It's hard to see in the pics but it makes the black look like a real dark plum and it makes the silver stars match the bead lock rings.
And the body has it's second coat of black. One more coat and I will add the stars and start on the clear coat.
I will update more as I move along. Thanks for looking.
A quick teaser shot of the painted body. I still need to paint the bow tie, glue in the grill and lights, and paint the third brake light to finish off the body. and still have a few scale details to add to the rest of the truck. More pics to come in the future. 
scorpiondave
Quarry Creeper
I like the details you did on this. The fuel cell looks great. The limiting straps. The paint. All great looking. "thumbsup"
Thanks scorpiondave. "thumbsup"
Welp, I can now write this one off as finished, least for now :mrgreen:. It bothered me it was never finished now that it is done I can move on lol. It ran pretty good, a little top heavy, the axles/rims have not been weighted yet, that will make a difference. Here are the finial pics of the project. Thanks to everyone that followed along, sorry it took so long to get here.
Welp, I can now write this one off as finished, least for now :mrgreen:. It bothered me it was never finished now that it is done I can move on lol. It ran pretty good, a little top heavy, the axles/rims have not been weighted yet, that will make a difference. Here are the finial pics of the project. Thanks to everyone that followed along, sorry it took so long to get here.
