Hard body love?

[Theekorr]

Finding myself more inclined to scaler looks for crawlers. I know performance takes a hit but a killer looking rig driving around really does it for me. I guess finding the balance between looks and performance is the goal. Anyone else find themselves leaning towards looks at the expense of some performance? Where is the love? . Defender body I am working on shown here. I did not want it to be like all the others I have seen so I am trying to make it full open top with a cage. Cage work to begin soon. Thinking I can fit a regular trx cage to it to save some top side weight.

 

[Xraycer]

It's definitely about striking a balance to your preference, in regards to scale and performance. Years ago, I was all about crazy performance, moa, comp rigs. Today, I'm mostly about realism. Scale looks and actually driving at a more realistic scale speed.

That chopped Defender is looking sweet already!

 

[Tunedfrog]

That looks awesome. I built a hard body crawler using the SCX10 platform and performance was terrible. It was far too heavy to keep her on her feet, she is seriously top heavy.
I am going to purchase regular body just for running and keeping the hard body as a shelf queen.

 

[Theekorr]

It's definitely about striking a balance to your preference, in regards to scale and performance. Years ago, I was all about crazy performance, moa, comp rigs. Today, I'm mostly about realism. Scale looks and actually driving at a more realistic scale speed.

That chopped Defender is looking sweet already!

Thanks

That looks awesome. I built a hard body crawler using the SCX10 platform and performance was terrible. It was far too heavy to keep her on her feet, she is seriously top heavy.
I am going to purchase regular body just for running and keeping the hard body as a shelf queen.

I have some concern about this. I do plan for this truck to be more a trail rig with some light crawling. My sport will be more performance oriented but still would like to hardbody it as well. Maybe a rc4wd half cab or something…

 

[Tunedfrog]

Mine is actually one of my favorites if it were judged just for looks. I really love it but performance is another question.

 

[Theekorr]

Mine is actually one of my favorites if it were judged just for looks. I really love it but performance is another question.

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Looks great. Have you tried adding weight down low to balance things out?

 

[Iowa crawler]

I am really falling for the hard body. They just look different. More details I don’t know. I am going to paint my next Lexan body on the outside. I think that helps.

 

[Tunedfrog]

Looks great. Have you tried adding weight down low to balance things out?

Not yet, I got busy with 40 other projects and this one kind of went to the back of the line.

 

[Doom!]

I keep eyeballing the hard body rigs too. I love the look. Currently mine all have lexan bodies. I try to spruce them up as much as possible, but I have seen some amazingly detailed hard bodies that I am super jealous of.