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This is a Clod I started building in the fall of 2018. I had been out of RC for about 20 yrs and decided to jump back in about a year & half ago with a tube chassis clod again. This one has taken a back burner a few times due to other projects. Actually finished up my 2nd Clod since getting back into Rc (one in my avatar) before finishing this one here. But I finally just got some motors and ESC for this one so figured I'd post this build here since I will be back to getting this one going soon.

I made the tube chassis all out of automotive steel brake lines which I bent and brazed together. Once the chassis was done I had a local shop powder coat it for me. The scale motor in it was from a 1/18 scale Muscle machines toy I pulled it out of an repainted. Lots of scale detail went into the building of this one. I have my other truck for speed/bashing so this one here I don't want to bash too hard so just got a pair of RC4WD 20T motors for it so it should be decent speed but nothing too crazy.

I'll post more as I get this one done but here are some pics over the past 15 or so months of it.

Very nice!

Your passion and skills are very evident here with this build. Very nice indeed.

There's some real workmanship gone into that , very nicely done .

That´s a cool build - well done

Wow!

Amazing Skills

I keep coming back to look at the photos and I see something new every time.
Engineering meets art. What an amazing truck!!!

Should finally have some time next week to get back to work on this truck again. Just made a change that I have been thinking about for a long time though. I built this truck pretty big with a 14.5" wheelbase and when I originally bought the JCT tires for it I was never satisfied that they just seemed out of place, as in on the small side for a truck like this. So just last week I sold the JCT's and I picked up a new set of Firestorms for it.

I also have a set of white Jconcept Tribute ordered which I plan to dye orange when they get here, and I have a set of the blue Jcon beadlock rings coming as well so I think the orange wheel with blue beadlocks are gonna look cool on it. And the Firestorms mocked up seem like a much better tire size for this truck now.

Way to get your feet wet again!

Tribute wheels came yesterday. I was thinking I was going to dye them orange and then use blue beadlocks. So I bought white wheels and blue beadlocks. Then after sitting the Firestorms next to it and getting a feel for how it looked, I decided I liked the look of maybe black wheels. So I went and bought some rit dye today and dyed the wheels black before mounting the tires. Also painted the planetary centers orange. I ordered some orange beadlocks then a couple days ago, but now I think I really like the looks of the black wheels with just the orange center, it just has such a tough look to it I think. So I might leave the beadlock rings off, we'll see.

Anyway here's some pics. I think the bigger Firestorms looks 10 times better than the JCT's did. I like the JCT's but with this chassis the size I built it (14.5" wheelbase) the larger Firestorms are just much more scale looking..

Steve where are you getting your limiting straps?

Here ya go - https://teamknkhardware.com/search?controller=search&orderby=position&orderway=desc&search_query=straps&submit_search=

I've always wanted a New Era M9dels or RCMidwest tuber back in the day. Unfortunately I never got one. Maybe I should try building one like you! Awesome work!

Thanks Bill. Good to see you here, haven't seen you around since the old days on CT. Nice to see ya back into the hobby again.