I'm primarily a fan of nitros, particularly HSP's models, and regularly buy replacement parts from aliexpress, which is why I noticed their 1:10 crawler being sold as a roller kit for $90. I had extra servos, a brushed 35T motor & ESC, generic truck body, and basic receiver / transmitter leftover & upgraded out from other builds, so I went ahead and picked one up.
It arrived as several bags of parts. The central gearbox was assembled, so putting the rest together was mostly a matter of assembling the axles & linkages. I unfortunately didn't take any pictures of the process, but I'm quite happy with the result. I cut out the wheel wells extra wide to accommodate the wheels at maximum suspension travel, and still think it looks pretty good. I'm impressed with the articulation, it can handle nearly 90 degrees of twist between the front and rear axles. It took me a couple hours to assembly mainly because you have to work from the exploded view - no procedure or instructions are included, and you have to request copies of the manual from the seller, which they email to you. If anyone wants, I'll pass those along too.
I've ordered another servo mount & steering link, which is all you need to upgrade it to 4-wheel steering, and modded a servo to run in reverse rotation, so I won't need a servo reverser. (I wish I'd taken pics of that too... a fun little half-hour job swapping the motor wires and desoldering a potentiometer, flipping the circuit board over, and soldering it through the opposite side so that the pins are reversed)
I live in the city so I haven't taken it to any good "courses" yet, but once the weather warms up I'll see how it handles some rocky landscaping.
I know it's basically a Redcat Everest-10, but it was fun putting it together, and cheap.
It arrived as several bags of parts. The central gearbox was assembled, so putting the rest together was mostly a matter of assembling the axles & linkages. I unfortunately didn't take any pictures of the process, but I'm quite happy with the result. I cut out the wheel wells extra wide to accommodate the wheels at maximum suspension travel, and still think it looks pretty good. I'm impressed with the articulation, it can handle nearly 90 degrees of twist between the front and rear axles. It took me a couple hours to assembly mainly because you have to work from the exploded view - no procedure or instructions are included, and you have to request copies of the manual from the seller, which they email to you. If anyone wants, I'll pass those along too.
I've ordered another servo mount & steering link, which is all you need to upgrade it to 4-wheel steering, and modded a servo to run in reverse rotation, so I won't need a servo reverser. (I wish I'd taken pics of that too... a fun little half-hour job swapping the motor wires and desoldering a potentiometer, flipping the circuit board over, and soldering it through the opposite side so that the pins are reversed)
I live in the city so I haven't taken it to any good "courses" yet, but once the weather warms up I'll see how it handles some rocky landscaping.
I know it's basically a Redcat Everest-10, but it was fun putting it together, and cheap.
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