What did you do today?

[K.O.M.]

if ya dont leave clearance for the motor its gonna get wide on ya just sayin

Thanks for the reminder! I'm using the stock width trans skid, so lots of room with any 540/550 jammed all the way to the stops. Definitely a check if I was designing another comp crawler--I remember the original Bender AX10 chassis was open on the motor side for a reason.

 

[Goro Majima]

The ToF VRD Carbon I won is getting a bobbed LC80.

 

[Goro Majima]

Used the portion I trimmed off for the bob to glue underneath to hold both body parts together. The paint will remain underneath as a conventional lexan job. The cut line will be pretty visible on top, and I'm totally ok with it. The bob amount is about 1.5". I'd love to finish this build by Sunday's monthly meet but with this glue drying tonight I won't be able to mask moldings tonight. This build is also going to be fitted with the VRD Carbon decals. Should be a pretty rad big tire 80 series.

 

[Gula]

Get some pinstripe tape for the gap/cut. It could help break up the hard line

 

[Goro Majima]

Unfortunately the body gets narrower on the corners of the roof, so there's a slight width difference which will be the most noticable. I'll take a pic when I get home.

 

[Goro Majima]

Not bad from this angle.




Pretty fat gap.




Here's the gap difference. The other cut line along the window molding, my intention was to trim out a faint V to bring the front side down more but unfortunately decided against it after I cut part of it. Masking for the black window molding is next so it'll hide that cut at least.




This one ain't gonna make Sunday's meet anyway since I decided I want to add decals that come with the Stance body (the blue set). Should look sweet on this Coral Gray color.