Well, not so much a "build thread" but more me wanting to share my experience.
I thought I'd share my Bomber "experience" with everyone because, as the title states, what started as a new build for me a couple months ago turned into my better half wanting her own. As some (if not many) of you guys out there may already know/experience it's a rarity for our wives to take interest in our addiction let alone jump right in and join in the fun! Long story short, for me it's been nearly 10 years of marriage and countless builds before (finally) one comes along that "turned" her to the dark side, lol! I guess maybe I should give some credit to Axial for this turn of events, true but I also have to credit Michelle at Krawler Konceptz for providing some inspiring (and kick ass!) graphics that proved to be like putting a kid in a candy store.
"His" Bomber...
I chose the route of "just buy it" with mine as I've never taken the initiative to "just buy" what I want (on any of the rigs I've put together). It's always budget, budget, budget. I started with purchasing my first set of VP Curries (ever), which I can finally agree with all out there, yes they are a work of art! I loaded them up with FI Spools, LURC bearings, HD gears and Incision Axles and topped them off with VP steering parts. I chose to go with Blue Monkey Ti links and trailing arms as after seeing/watching Bilinvic's builds over the last year and a half had to try these out for myself. Which by the way are so worth the money and wait time! Wheels had to be the blue DCW's. Added LURC wheel wideners, rings and hardware wrapped in CI DD Comp Cut Medium foams and Pitbull RBII's. So far I've kept the suspension straight forward. Went with Traxxas big bores, 30/35wt oil and stock springs and a UCFab sway bar. Not sure about the set up yet as the key pieces are yet to come...
My Castle MMX is waiting to be paired with a HH Puller Pro 540 3500kv enroute to me as I type. Stock trans/gears for now with a Robinson slipper and VP motor mount. All that transferring power with MIP drive shafts. Outside of that, I did some "dress up" with some aluminum panels to start, RC4WD fuel cell and soon to come, a DMG spare mount. For 2 months I've been staring at this rig (after a very short stock test run) waiting to run it again and she's almost there...
And now "Hers" Bomber...
So this one (was not planned) was supposed to be just a "basic, stock" rig. Leave it to a woman to start "shopping"! The first addition (was actually started before the second Bomber was even purchased) was the custom panels from Krawler Konceptz. Which I have to thank Michelle for an amazing job! New "shoes" (do I really need to explain this one?) were obviously a must for her. The new VP Rockstars were an easy pick wrapped in RC4WD Iroks. I kept things simple with Incision SS links and a set of Supershafty trailing arms (in the mail as we speak). VP Stage 1 in red, Incision axles and Dlux axle trusses rounded the rest of the upgrades out. I still haven't decided if I'm going to run the front truss yet (I need to let her drive it first). Everything else has remained stock with the exception of swapping out the AE-5 ESC for my preferred AE-2. Both rigs are running Castle Bec's set to 7.4v for the Solar D772 servos. That's one thing I can't pull the trigger on! I've had great luck with these servos over the years and I just can't beat the price! Anyways, again a couple more dress up items for her and she'll be good to go..."thumbsup"
Now we just need to go and get them dirty already!!!
I thought I'd share my Bomber "experience" with everyone because, as the title states, what started as a new build for me a couple months ago turned into my better half wanting her own. As some (if not many) of you guys out there may already know/experience it's a rarity for our wives to take interest in our addiction let alone jump right in and join in the fun! Long story short, for me it's been nearly 10 years of marriage and countless builds before (finally) one comes along that "turned" her to the dark side, lol! I guess maybe I should give some credit to Axial for this turn of events, true but I also have to credit Michelle at Krawler Konceptz for providing some inspiring (and kick ass!) graphics that proved to be like putting a kid in a candy store.
"His" Bomber...
I chose the route of "just buy it" with mine as I've never taken the initiative to "just buy" what I want (on any of the rigs I've put together). It's always budget, budget, budget. I started with purchasing my first set of VP Curries (ever), which I can finally agree with all out there, yes they are a work of art! I loaded them up with FI Spools, LURC bearings, HD gears and Incision Axles and topped them off with VP steering parts. I chose to go with Blue Monkey Ti links and trailing arms as after seeing/watching Bilinvic's builds over the last year and a half had to try these out for myself. Which by the way are so worth the money and wait time! Wheels had to be the blue DCW's. Added LURC wheel wideners, rings and hardware wrapped in CI DD Comp Cut Medium foams and Pitbull RBII's. So far I've kept the suspension straight forward. Went with Traxxas big bores, 30/35wt oil and stock springs and a UCFab sway bar. Not sure about the set up yet as the key pieces are yet to come...
My Castle MMX is waiting to be paired with a HH Puller Pro 540 3500kv enroute to me as I type. Stock trans/gears for now with a Robinson slipper and VP motor mount. All that transferring power with MIP drive shafts. Outside of that, I did some "dress up" with some aluminum panels to start, RC4WD fuel cell and soon to come, a DMG spare mount. For 2 months I've been staring at this rig (after a very short stock test run) waiting to run it again and she's almost there...
And now "Hers" Bomber...
So this one (was not planned) was supposed to be just a "basic, stock" rig. Leave it to a woman to start "shopping"! The first addition (was actually started before the second Bomber was even purchased) was the custom panels from Krawler Konceptz. Which I have to thank Michelle for an amazing job! New "shoes" (do I really need to explain this one?) were obviously a must for her. The new VP Rockstars were an easy pick wrapped in RC4WD Iroks. I kept things simple with Incision SS links and a set of Supershafty trailing arms (in the mail as we speak). VP Stage 1 in red, Incision axles and Dlux axle trusses rounded the rest of the upgrades out. I still haven't decided if I'm going to run the front truss yet (I need to let her drive it first). Everything else has remained stock with the exception of swapping out the AE-5 ESC for my preferred AE-2. Both rigs are running Castle Bec's set to 7.4v for the Solar D772 servos. That's one thing I can't pull the trigger on! I've had great luck with these servos over the years and I just can't beat the price! Anyways, again a couple more dress up items for her and she'll be good to go..."thumbsup"
Now we just need to go and get them dirty already!!!
