ABADK9420's First Scale Build

[abadk9420]

Those are perfect.

Any thoughts on making it be a powerstroke? Could do a nice chrome tip out the side for the exhaust or do a stack.

Thanks Lloyd, never thought about it but that's a possibility, could you make a scale sticker for me? Also was wondering if you could come up with some stickers in various fonts that say the trucks name which is going to be either Lil Bastard or Little Bastard, he is the off spring from My Mistress LOL!!!! at least that's what the wife says, LOL!!:

 

[slowngreen]

lol nice. I dont have any of the stuff I made the scaler sticker sheets out of any more. I could try on the others though.

 

[HPIguy]

Wow, nice work. Every time I look through one of these threads, I want to do a scaler build.

 

[abadk9420]

Got some new scaler accessories in the mail today

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[slowngreen]

Nice accessories. Get to it!

 

[abadk9420]

A buddy of mine that has the nessecery tools is making me some rock sliders for it and setting up the panhard bar for me he has the things needed to get this done as well. Then I will put the finishing touchs on it.

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[abadk9420]

Well my buddy had some drama in his life and moved as well and got absolutely nothing done over the last 2 mouths except for to find me a aluminum 4-link truss for the rear axle, so over the last few days I got the truss installed as well as the panhard bar 3-link set up pretty well buttoned up. Still gotta get the sliders, body mounted and electronics buttoned up.

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[slowngreen]

Looking good bro. Id throw some black heat shrink over the steering link personally.

 

[abadk9420]

Looking good bro. Id throw some black heat shrink over the steering link personally.

Thanks and stop reading my mind, I just wanted to get it all dialed in before I put the shrink tube on.

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[abadk9420]

We'll in the last month I finally got my little bastard ready for its virgin trail run, lol. There are still a few things I want to do but that will come in the future.

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[slowngreen]

Looks great Curtis!

 

[HPI-Killer]

Oh man that thing looks MEAN! I gotta know how those Pitbulls stand tall compared to your average 1.9?

Where did you get those bumpers?! They are gnarly!

Looks good man great job!

 

[abadk9420]

Thanks a lot guys, the bumpers are by Rock Armor, the guy live here in my area and does some really nice work. still got some things to do to the scaler, but I took it to my last club comp to play around with it a little and it did pretty well, I do need to get a slightly shorter body for it though.

here is a link to the bumpers
http://www.rcrockarmor.com/main.sc


A few pics I took today

 

[HPI-Killer]

Looks better on the rocks Curtis nice job .

I'm still workin on that partial $ for the spare with ya.

 

[rollinlow]

Ur rig came out really nice :thumbup:

 

[abadk9420]

Thanks for the compliments gentlemen, I'm pretty happy with it for my first scaler.

HPI-Killer just let me know when your ready and we'll get those matching spare going.

 

[abadk9420]

What do you all think of this body as a replacement

http://www.rpphobby.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=PRO333600

it is a perfect fit in both length and wheel base and I have always really liked this body style.

 

[slowngreen]

Personally I dont like them compared to the hard body New Brights. And they have been done to death, I like your f series way better.

 

[abadk9420]

I really like the ford body to, it's just to long. I don't want to try taking a a section out of if to make it shorter. Guess I'll keep looking .

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[abadk9420]

We'll I was finally able to make my current body work with help from Sam from Rock Armor getting me some different length bumper mounts that he delivered himself since we live in the same area, I also fabbed up some new velcro body mounts that double as cross braces for the shock hoops, any way this is how it looks as of now.

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