Will it be Pink? I havent seen a pink one yet.
Thanks for taking the great pics and posting!
Thanks, I figured the world couldn't have too many well documented VS4-10 builds.
We'll call pink Plan D, Plan A has already failed and Plan B is iffy at best so I'm inching ever closer to a pink truck.
With that, allow me to document some more building.
Today will be a small, although important, update and the first real deviation from the kit.
Wheels!
You knew it was wheels right?
The VS4-10 includes a set of the Incision plastic wheels.
Yeah, I know. Blah, blah, cost of kit, blah, blah, plastic wheels, blah, blah, and some other stuff I wasn't listening to; I'll assume that rant ends up with something about the moon landing being fake.
The Incision wheels are perfectly fine wheels; they look awesome on my Honcho.
Unfortunately, perfectly fine doesn't cut it for me on a kit of this caliber. I have been holding on to a special set of wheels and this seems like the right time to break them out. Also, save your attempts at humor with your "so what color Methods are they?" comments, I wouldn't want you to strain yourselves with that heavy mental lifting.
Enter these Super Shafty 1.9 UpperHafty wheels.
Why are they special? Well, they are super light, have a deep center channel to keep your foams in place, come in some different color combinations, and they haven't been available in over a year. I believe this was one of the last few sets they sold from the last batch that was made. Nothing makes a fancy ass truck say "I'm better than you" like a rare set of wheels.
For anyone that is social media inept/evasive/incompetent, this is important information. Others that spend their life on (insert social platform of choice), can go back to that for a few minutes because you probably already heard.
Some people are having trouble getting their Vanquish tires mounted because the bead ends up getting pushed out of the wheel channel. I figured most people were just the "Proline tires are impossible to mount" set of morons that didn't know how to mount a set of beadlocks. I proceed to go at the wheels and tires only to have the bead on the backside pop out a few times.
Part of this is caused by the foams.
You can see how this could be a problem when mounting the tires.
I took a tip from Dan Wilson at Vanquish about trimming the foam around the bead. I don't really know if he was the person that came up with it but I bestow the Vanquish office bragging rights to it upon him.
Much better, now the bead has some room when the rings get tightened down.
A couple resettings of the rear bead were still required but nothing too difficult and we get here.
"thumbsup"
Locked Up scale hardware is a must: this is an iron-clad, indisputable fact.
All 4 wheels were mounted up and a set of 350 SLW hubs were bolted on with more Locked Up hardware. Hey, what are those behind the wheels?
Oh, you mean those super awesome looking brake discs?
They are a set of Beef Patties given several baths in Birchwood Casey brass black and rubbed down to give them a dull gray coating similar to EBC brake rotors.
I'm not a huge stickler for scale accuracy but one thing I can't take is the huge expanse of brass shining through the spokes of the wheels pretending to be a brake rotor. Now my Beef Patties are comp legal but I still can't run because my beadlock screws are brass colored, at least that's how I gather the the whole thing works based on the SORRCA facebook group (when your done here, hop on over there, read the comments, and try not to spit out your morning coffee at the sheer ridiculousness).
We close today's update with a live look into my garage where the paint on my inner fenders is drying.
Scintillating.
You keep an eye on that, I'll be back later.
