Element Ecto of Doom!

[WickedFog]

Best wishes for you guys bro. I hope she gets this figured out. Hang in there man.

 

[Greywolf74]

The wife and I will be prayin' for you guys

 

[Xraycer]

Fingers crossed

 

[Doom!]

Thanks you guys, Halloween, Thanksgiving and looks like Christmas have all been Meh, this year because of this, I just want her to be done with the pain. No not me...her other pain!

 

[Doom!]

Finally got tired of waiting for a clear body to come in stock, so I've decided to try something I've never tried, but have been thinking about, so here we go.

First up I sprayed the interior of the body flat black, and the exterior steel grey, really just wanted to get some layers over the yellow and figured if steel shows through any scratches it won't look as bad as yellow peeking through.

Speaking of peaking through, this is the next step. Coating the body with a base coat of rust before I give it a top coat. Been wanting to give this a try, we will see how it goes.

Beginning the first coat of medium rust.

 

[WickedFog]

Finally got tired of waiting for a clear body to come in stock, so I've decided to try something I've never tried, but have been thinking about, so here we go.

First up I sprayed the interior of the body flat black, and the exterior steel grey, really just wanted to get some layers over the yellow and figured if steel shows through any scratches it won't look as bad as yellow peeking through.

Speaking of peaking through, this is the next step. Coating the body with a base coat of rust before I give it a top coat. Been wanting to give this a try, we will see how it goes.

Beginning the first coat of medium rust.

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Nice! Are you gonna do the salt trick?

 

[Doom!]

Nice! Are you gonna do the salt trick?

I'm not sure yet, but most likely, that and some sanding.

 

[Doom!]

A little more work on my rust undercoat. been doing a little every day at lunch time while I'm at work.

 

[Doom!]

More progress, applied salt and first color of paint.

Still need to get the bottom salted, painted and some detailing done. Hoping to get that done tomorrow.

 

[Doom!]

Got body color number two on today, still needs some weathering and detail work. I colored the door handles with a silver Sharpie.

It was nice to have an extra day this weekend, I feel like it's been forever since I got some hobby time in.

 

[WickedFog]

That is going to look pretty dang cool man.

 

[Doom!]

That is going to look pretty dang cool man.

Thank you. I learned some stuff on this, it's not quite the overall effect I was going for and I know what to do different next time, but for a first try with the salt method I am happy with it.

 

[johnnydmd]

Got body color number two on today, still needs some weathering and detail work. I colored the door handles with a silver Sharpie.
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It was nice to have an extra day this weekend, I feel like it's been forever since I got some hobby time in.

Wow, I have GOT to learn how to do patina!

 

[Doom!]

Got to do some puttering today. A bunch of fine tuning after watching a bunch of you tube vids. There are quite a few free mods for improving performance. First up was moving the upper shock position to help lower the chassis cg.

Moved front shocks to upper attachment point .

Rear shock positions, had to flip the mount 180° so the three holes were to the left instead of the right, and then attached the shocks to the upper inside holes.

After adjusting the shock positions, the panhard rod position needed to be moved up one position to keep from hitting. The pumpkin.

Also moved the lower shock position over one spot on the trailing arms.

Rerouted the motor wiring under the battery tray, to clean it up a bit.

Trimmed 10mm off the front of the frame with my dremel to tuck the bumper behind the leading edge of the tires for better approach clearance. Wish I could have taken a pic of the process, the sparks were awesome!

Installed the home made grill into the body.

From here I am waiting on some more parts, while I wait, I still have some more weathering to do.

 

[cdstatz]

Doom, Great looking build. You might want to checkout Hardcore RC for an offset pan hard bar to help keep pan hard bar from rubbing on the front diff now that you got it lowered. https://hardcore-rc.ecwid.com/Element-Enduro-Offset-Panhard-p145908627

 

[Doom!]

Doom, Great looking build. You might want to checkout Hardcore RC for an offset pan hard bar to help keep pan hard bar from rubbing on the front diff now that you got it lowered. https://hardcore-rc.ecwid.com/Element-Enduro-Offset-Panhard-p145908627


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I will take a look, thanks for the heads up.

 

[Doom!]

Today I took a page out of @Flames77 play book. I rolled down a window.
Not perfect by a long shot, but not to bad for a first try.

 

[Doom!]

Next up, interior. I didn't do anything fancy on the interior, but I don't like to have an empty shell either. Since I didn't think dark tinted windows would go with the beat up farm truck look, I had to put something in there. I read the Element Gate keeper interior works with some modifications, so I gave it a try. Of course the gatekeeper interior has drivers with helmets, once again, didn't quite fit the theme, so I picked up some Axial driver heads. It all looks good if you don't look to closely. Just didn't want to spend the time getting too detailed in there. Anyhow, here is a photo with the interior in place..

Still more work to do, but it's getting there.

 

[Tunedfrog]

The talent you guys possess here just amazes me. Awesome work Bro.

 

[Doom!]

This, coming from the diorama king! Thanks, it's a learning process for sure.

The talent you guys possess here just amazes me. Awesome work Bro.