ChitownRC

Here is my start



4wd Wheely King
Brand new Imex treads
A piece of 1/2 square tube
Proline c-10 long bed for revo

I want to build up a leaf sprung truck that looks and work much like the real thing. I want this truck to look like beat up old hillbilly truck.

Dude, that's gonna be sweet!! Scale truck right, since you're using 1/2" square for a frame right, i've got ton's of that square tubing too!

Jims not building this one?

Cool, should be a sweet build:popcorn:

very cool... I'll have to keep an eye on this thread...

squirrel Wrote:Jims not building this one?

lmao

Jim really needs to build this for us... I forwarded the last build around the office and the guys liked it... I said to my co-worker, looks like Jim is building a crawler, my boss who isn't into RC eye's lit up, he needs a thread

+100^^^^^^ I agree! He said he wanted an old hillbilly lookin truck! Why not have Jim's 2nd cousin Hillbilly Jim do the build, he'd know how them there Hillbilly trucks are done! Git-r-done!

nice i want to see the finished project

There was a hillbilly pro wrestler looking guy at Wal mart I saw. Maybe I will, nothing is more scale then a driver.

I did a build for Rick already.
http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/showthread.php?t=52768

And I catch crap from my wife for an hour of painting in the basement now and then....I need to have your wife talk to mine!!!

made a quick seat today from tire foams.


Pretty electric color, might need some grease stains to tone it down a bit later.

Im tellin ya John Goodman!

In profile, yea!

:bustingup :bustingup :bustingup

:bustingup Goodman

Bent the chassis rails today out of 1/2 square tube stock. Used my benzomatic propane torch and bench vice. I just started bending the tube with the heat and a little force.


I then cut the tube down the middle with my bandsaw spliting it in two.


Ended up with two identical chassis rails.


Got a good start, I made the chassis rails too long as so I can cut them later.

Sweet frame rails. Where did ya get the steel?

menards

Thanks ill have to look into some tomorrow
I take then everything else will be welded in?

Yep, good old MIG

Cool! Looks like a good start, now i've got to start one of those frames too!

Painted the body today and I must say it looks just like I wanted to.

First I sprayed the inside with Tamiya red brown.


I used my heat gun and hobby knife handle to push some dents into the lexan. No real wheeling rig has a clean dent free body.


I then sprayed Pactra sprint white and covered it with outlaw black.


I then painted the body Pactra chazoom Teal. After it was dry I went crazy with a scotch brite pad and dremel wire wheel.








Hope you like.;-)

thats cool as hell

Clean! Well....err...haha.

Very cool effect.

Thats prett cool.

I really like the tire/wheel combo too.