51WillysJeep
RCC Addict
Hey Guys, well for those of you who may not have known I was lucky enough to have been in the right place at the right time and bought 1BadJeepBruisers legendary "Chino Clone" Toyota Hybrid. ( For you "Newbies" reading this that may not be familiar with this truck Please check out THIS thread below....:mrgreen::mrgreen: )
http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/showthread.php?t=61313
This is "THE" scale truck that started it ALL for alot of people on here, including ME "thumbsup". At the time when Mike originally built this truck, there were only a handful of them around. There was NO such thing as the "re-release Tamiya Toyota Hilux" like everybody's familiar with today. You had to be lucky enough to FIND an OG Bruiser frame and OG body on Ebay, and then be able to build everything up on your own. This "hybrid" wasn't store bought, and the amount of insane small scale details that Mike included when building it is what makes it special.
Now comes the beginning of the second chapter in the "Chino Clones" life :mrgreen:. It is not going to change much at ALL from what you see below. If anything I will only try to ADD to this Awesome piece of Crawling History..
( MIKE - "1BadJeepBruiser" deserves ALL the credit for this incredible truck- I am just lucky enough to now own and drive it..)
When I bought it from him, heres how I originally recieved it.
Heres a shot of the OG "Clone" and the one I built up that very closely resembles it.. :mrgreen:
I ALWAYS remembered seeing pics of the Clone without the Canback and also LOVED the look with the original toolbox Mike had built for it. SO I re-installed it and also tried another set of wheels. These are a set of stock Axial SCX-10 rims and 1.9" Proline Flatirons .
I really liked the look of the new wheels and tires, but because this truck is now running the modified "Rummy Bruiser Axles", the offset of the axial rims made the track width WAY too wide.. ( which is why Mike had the narrow offset rims with the Trail Dr. tires on it).
So I tried a few other sets, and ended up choosing the set I originally had on my Hybrid. It is now running a set of painted RC4WD Truescale beadlocks with 62Pyro "Sally" beadlock trim rings and 1.9" Rock Crushers. Because of the narrow offset of the Truescale wheels, the track width is about right now. Plus the Crushers are a tad smaller then the Flatirons and Trail Dr's, which looks alot more scale on the truck IMO..:mrgreen:
Onto some NEW Wheelin' Pics- Enjoy "thumbsup"
I did do a little paint touch-up work along the drip edge because there was Yellow paint coming thru and it just didn't look right on the truck, so I went over it. I ALSO added a few 4 Wheelin' magazines in the interior :mrgreen:
Back out on the trails...
LOL - I already added a few NEW scratches of my own..!! :shock:
http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/showthread.php?t=61313
This is "THE" scale truck that started it ALL for alot of people on here, including ME "thumbsup". At the time when Mike originally built this truck, there were only a handful of them around. There was NO such thing as the "re-release Tamiya Toyota Hilux" like everybody's familiar with today. You had to be lucky enough to FIND an OG Bruiser frame and OG body on Ebay, and then be able to build everything up on your own. This "hybrid" wasn't store bought, and the amount of insane small scale details that Mike included when building it is what makes it special.
Now comes the beginning of the second chapter in the "Chino Clones" life :mrgreen:. It is not going to change much at ALL from what you see below. If anything I will only try to ADD to this Awesome piece of Crawling History..
( MIKE - "1BadJeepBruiser" deserves ALL the credit for this incredible truck- I am just lucky enough to now own and drive it..)
When I bought it from him, heres how I originally recieved it.
Heres a shot of the OG "Clone" and the one I built up that very closely resembles it.. :mrgreen:
I ALWAYS remembered seeing pics of the Clone without the Canback and also LOVED the look with the original toolbox Mike had built for it. SO I re-installed it and also tried another set of wheels. These are a set of stock Axial SCX-10 rims and 1.9" Proline Flatirons .
I really liked the look of the new wheels and tires, but because this truck is now running the modified "Rummy Bruiser Axles", the offset of the axial rims made the track width WAY too wide.. ( which is why Mike had the narrow offset rims with the Trail Dr. tires on it).
So I tried a few other sets, and ended up choosing the set I originally had on my Hybrid. It is now running a set of painted RC4WD Truescale beadlocks with 62Pyro "Sally" beadlock trim rings and 1.9" Rock Crushers. Because of the narrow offset of the Truescale wheels, the track width is about right now. Plus the Crushers are a tad smaller then the Flatirons and Trail Dr's, which looks alot more scale on the truck IMO..:mrgreen:
Onto some NEW Wheelin' Pics- Enjoy "thumbsup"
I did do a little paint touch-up work along the drip edge because there was Yellow paint coming thru and it just didn't look right on the truck, so I went over it. I ALSO added a few 4 Wheelin' magazines in the interior :mrgreen:
Back out on the trails...
LOL - I already added a few NEW scratches of my own..!! :shock:
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