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My first vanquish!

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Interior done, i decided to do a touch of grey as i had a can of metallic gun metal on hand. I think i might actually use this grey as my accent colour on the body instead of black.
At this point, its just body paint, lighting, and battery tray.

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Interior done, i decided to do a touch of grey as i had a can of metallic gun metal on hand. I think i might actually use this grey as my accent colour on the body instead of black.
At this point, its just body paint, lighting, and battery tray.

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Touch of Grey... Jerry would approve!👍😎
 
Done for now! Waiting for some more led’s to arrive, then I’ll finalize the lighting and do some wire management.
Didnt have any 10mm led’s on hand for the headlights, so i prrinted some adapters to fit 5mm LED’s in the hole. Also made some rock light mounts for the rear of the truck, but waiting on led’s to make the light housings.
I did have some cheapo amazon rock lights (trx4 style housing), but sure enough, after spending way too much time making a nice wiring harness for them, i plugged them in and two burned out immediately, and two were only running half power. Two in the front work fine. Once my 5mm LED’s arrive, ill just make my own housings to suit them.

Trimmed the fenders a bit, and put a 3mm bump stop on the shock shaft to try and minimize the tire rub at full bump/articulation.

Set all the servo endpoints etc. everything rins and shifts smooth. Running dig on ch4 and overdrive on ch5 of my flysky gt5. Managed to get the dig setup 3 positions, which i struggled with when i set my capra up.
So with both shift servos setup as 3position, i have 4wd min OD, 4wd max OD, RWD, FWD, and front dig.
Also learned that a guy should refrain from applying window decals after several whiskey’s on new years eve haha. They turned out ok, but definitely not perfect!

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Got some 6mm wide hubs coming for the wheels (least offset available). I only had 9mm on hand and would like to tuck the tires in a little more.
Ordered up some aluminum center sections for the diffs, they were about a third the cost of the vanquish units, so we’ll see if that bites me haha!
Hoping to get the crawlers out later today for a maiden voyage.
 
found a few 5mm white led’s deep in the drawer and printed up some little rock light housings. Got the 4 in the rear installed and tidied up the wiring a bit. Id like to get some woven loom to cover the bulk of the wiring.

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Printed some tpu inserts over the last few days. My printer is not the right choice for printing tpu, soni have to print slow, these take about 8hrs a piece to print.
but now that i have the design dialed in, its a piece of cake to scale to diffrent tires, and modify for different stiffness.

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