battlecat test run

[funkytechnician]

hey guys, well I finally got everything together, and took it outside (in some the of the most in-hospitable conditions) and put it through its paces, and it all worked nicely, the wind was ridiculous and caused some weather-vaneing in the missiles after they left the rails, but their design was stable enough to keep pritty true. the turret trailer kept getting slathered with slush spit up from the back wheels, and it was building up pritty thick and I had to clean it off a number of times, I was starting to worry about the missles ignition systems getting too wet, because I was driving around for a while bashing, the missiles I used are just dummy missiles with simple firework based report, nothing dangerous, the real missles are not for the yard:nuke: other then that it all worked as advertised, so hears the video (i added music for a more dramatic atmosphere!!)

 

[funkytechnician]

its working now

 

[black4x4]

whoa that looks cool but whats it do shoot fire works?

 

[marauder]

Tech, that's badass man!

Keep the videos coming, very good editing by the way.

 

[funkytechnician]

whoa that looks cool but whats it do shoot fire works?

It fires actual missiles powered by model rocket engines, for these missiles in the video, being only for testing and messing around, I used some guts out of a firework just to make them harmless but cool looking when they explod, I have other funtional missles used in rc combat, but their dangerous and only used out at the quarry where theres lots of space, i have some more video of just bashing around the yard I'm gonna post too, but I have to get home to upload it, I'm visiting my parents for the holidays right now.

 

[alpinehyperlite]

Mud flaps.

 

[funkytechnician]

well, i sapose it was just a matter of time, I was out bashing again today and ended up smashing into a telephone pole at a pritty high speed, luckly the only thing that broke was the trailer hitch, and it didn't really break, just got bent up, so no real fix other then bending it back (which I couldn't do on site because the aluminum is too thick to bend by hand with no pliers), and I of course got it on video

and hears the bent trailer hitch:\

 

[Austin]

EXCELLENT job on this...this...setup? I don't know what to call it but it's BADASS. And good thing nothing really broke when you hit the pole or you'd be in trouuuubbleee

 

[LosiLST]

What kind of radio do you use?
This thing looks bad ass

 

[funkytechnician]

What kind of radio do you use?
This thing looks bad ass

I use a really old 6ch airtronics AM aircraft remote for the turret trailer, and the stock traxxas remote for the front

 

[LosiLST]

Oh, so you run two radios? That would seem to get confusing.

 

[GH Racing]

cool videos!
and nice looking set up

 

[Rolex]

That first video was just great, and an EXCELLENT choice of soundtrack.

 

[Tmaxx96]

sweet setup its bada$$

could you post just a pic of the tmaxx plz

 

[funkytechnician]

sure!