35T or 550 can 21T both with 3S and Hobbywing wp1080.
That's it Natedog. AMain had a site-wide 10% off today so the HW 1080, HH Trailmaster 35T, a 3800 3S lipo shorty, and Savox 0231 servo is on the way. I thought I would try the lighter (reads: cheaper) servo with the built in BEC and see if I can stand it. If I need more servo power I'll get a stronger servo, a CC BEC, and HH splitter.
Body will be here this week - got a killer deal from Tower - the Proline Rubicon 2-door Wrangler with 300mm WB. So I'll build the Ascender chassis to WB3 which is 302mm - I only gotta find a silly millimeter on each wheel well on the Jeep Wrangler body. Should be close enough. K5 Kit is on the bench. 8)
I checked my paint shelf and sure enough, I have some left over automotive acrylic enamel in 'BRONZE MIST' from another paint project. It will be so close to the khaki metallic as to be indiscernible from the full size. Can't wait. I want to tint the windows, or black them out, I'm not building a hard-body or an interior - it's all about the crawl. ;-)
And since it has a hardtop but my 1:1 was a soft, I'll make up a black canvas convertible top fabric and glue it to the proline body. Will make a good representation of the original.
So I'm getting excited to start building. Have a list of more parts to get to finish it. I'm considering putting some Class-1 tires on it - for SORRCA scale rules since the rest of it will conform. What do you guys think about that? Or should I just go for Class 2 or 2.5, bigger tires - that seems to be the only difference for this build. I guess I'm not that clear about the sorrca classes.
I'll have to see what that body looks like once I get the chassis built and start mating it up. See how the tires fit and stuff.
On another note, I was tinkering on the K10 a bit and decided to try moving the front bumber in and up, and sure enough, by re-drilling the mounts and reversing them, I gained several mm in and up from stock. There's a pic of it mod'd in the pic above with the paint. The ones below I took before I changed the bumper. Oh, dropped the body a couple of holes on the front, and made some neoprene washers for the hood mounts so it doesn't rattle going over rough terrain.
Here are some close-ups with more detail of my flatbed with beer cask and crate - this is all scratch-built stuff just off the top of my head. I re-purposed some of the old cage when I cut it down to make the flatbed. They used to call this 'kit bashing'. [shrug]
I've added black Axial 8-holes and RockBeast tires, the scale ones - wished I'd have known to get the 'alien komp' version instead of the 'scale version' with 'komp' rubber. They're not very clear about all that when you go to order them. In any case, I think they work better than the RTR TSL's that come with it. And the cheesy chrome rims are, well, kinda cheesy. :ror:
I snapped these pics before I mod'd the front bumper. Really pleased with how that worked out.
