Show us your crawlers and scale trucks
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Show us your crawlers and scale trucks
I've never been into crawlers much but since I like big 4x4's and mud I built a semi scale version of my 1:1 truck. Also with scale crawlers starting to really take off here some of them look really quite good, so lets see yours.
Here's mine that I built many moons ago when scale crawlers were in their infancy. It's a Bender based comp crawler with TLT axles and home made links. It uses a (dare I say it) Traxxas Stampede gearbox and early Titan 550 motor out of an Emaxx, which is perfect. The chassis has been modified to accept the full body and run the shocks more upright. To predate the current trend the ESC is a Novak XRS, XXL receiver and Tamiya 1700 Ni-Cd.
Here's mine that I built many moons ago when scale crawlers were in their infancy. It's a Bender based comp crawler with TLT axles and home made links. It uses a (dare I say it) Traxxas Stampede gearbox and early Titan 550 motor out of an Emaxx, which is perfect. The chassis has been modified to accept the full body and run the shocks more upright. To predate the current trend the ESC is a Novak XRS, XXL receiver and Tamiya 1700 Ni-Cd.
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Re: Show us your crawlers and scale trucks
You really need to adjust the camber on that truck and the back axel is completely bent:) Awesome scale truck.
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Re: Show us your crawlers and scale trucks
Here's the first Creeper I built:

A friend painted the body (yep, all paint) and now it's now my son's. I built a second one for my daughter and a different guy painted this body for it:

Hers has still not been run.
I have some sort of Losi hodgepodge I got from a local crawler that I need to get going again. The weather right now is perfect for crawling... no bugs. 

A friend painted the body (yep, all paint) and now it's now my son's. I built a second one for my daughter and a different guy painted this body for it:

Hers has still not been run.


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Re: Show us your crawlers and scale trucks
Love that 70's ford body on the Booby Bouncer. I don't have any crawlers but I do have a few scale trucks. Here are a few of my favorites
Tamiya mountaineer

Tamiya Hilux

Tamiya highlift

Juggerlux

Trail finder jeep edition

Tamiya mountaineer

Tamiya Hilux

Tamiya highlift

Juggerlux

Trail finder jeep edition

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Re: Show us your crawlers and scale trucks

Here is mine, a Tamiya Hi-Lift with mountaineer repro decals
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Re: Show us your crawlers and scale trucks
Here's a CJ5 I built a long time ago. Kinda regret selling it now.

Couple screenshots of it in action


Here's one of my comp trucks.

Was cool to see Axial use my truck for the picture at this event.


Couple screenshots of it in action


Here's one of my comp trucks.

Was cool to see Axial use my truck for the picture at this event.

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Re: Show us your crawlers and scale trucks
Not got any scale trucks, but here's my competition crawler. Berg axles, 35T motors, Mamba Max ESC, Mayhem Eng. wheels Del Monte chassis. BTW it's currently for sale.


My Clod based Super


and my Clod based 2.2




My Clod based Super


and my Clod based 2.2


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Re: Show us your crawlers and scale trucks
A pair of Tamiya Pajeros:

The blue one has all kinds of custom modifications to the chassis and suspension. There are very few places on my property it can't get to under its own power. The red one is all stock except for ball bearings and a Novak 55t motor.
The blue one has all kinds of custom modifications to the chassis and suspension. There are very few places on my property it can't get to under its own power. The red one is all stock except for ball bearings and a Novak 55t motor.
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Re: Show us your crawlers and scale trucks
I'm currently trying to sell a bunch of stuff on ebay to fund an RC4WD Trail Finder 2. I've owned a few scale and crawlers over the years. When I lived in NJ, I designed a Clod based crawler chassis and John Boyer built it, this was it. Now that I'm in Iowa with tons of places to crawl, I really wish i still had it.
One more. When the Tamiya F350 came out, I had to get one. This is how I built it up:
Then I went wild on it, adding an RC4WD Bruiser chassis, clocking the tranny, 4 linking the rear end, Toyota body, aluminum axles, etc. I spent a lot of time and money on this one but ended up selling it because I was living in Brooklyn at the time so it was basically just a shelf queen. WIsh I still had it. That's why I'm trying to fund a Trail Finder 2.
One more. When the Tamiya F350 came out, I had to get one. This is how I built it up:
Then I went wild on it, adding an RC4WD Bruiser chassis, clocking the tranny, 4 linking the rear end, Toyota body, aluminum axles, etc. I spent a lot of time and money on this one but ended up selling it because I was living in Brooklyn at the time so it was basically just a shelf queen. WIsh I still had it. That's why I'm trying to fund a Trail Finder 2.
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Re: Show us your crawlers and scale trucks
I have two crawlers, both of them Losi. Unfortunately I can't give you any pictures of the main one... it has 'confidential' modifications
I would love to find someone with more experience close by to examine it... but I don't want to post any pictures on the web just yet, the cat must stay in the bag!
And I have a micro trail trekker... that looks like every other one around
Chris

And I have a micro trail trekker... that looks like every other one around

Chris
Losi - Jrx2, Pro, Jr2, Pro SE, JrxT, JrT, LXT, NXT, XXKE, XXTG+
Mini - T, LST, LST2, Crawler
Micro - Trekker, SCT, T
Crawlers - Trx4 Defender, Bootleg Bruiser Shelf Queen
-Bashers under contruction- Jrx2
Mini - T, LST, LST2, Crawler
Micro - Trekker, SCT, T
Crawlers - Trx4 Defender, Bootleg Bruiser Shelf Queen
-Bashers under contruction- Jrx2
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Re: Show us your crawlers and scale trucks
Haven't built a crawler in forever! The few I built predated me owning a digital camera
They were scratch built rigs based on TLT axles since there was little to work with back then.
Soon after I built this little bastard in the "SSMT" hay day. Long before there was any 1/24 crawler on the market. Anyone else build a SSMT based 1/24 crawler back in the day??



They were scratch built rigs based on TLT axles since there was little to work with back then.
Soon after I built this little bastard in the "SSMT" hay day. Long before there was any 1/24 crawler on the market. Anyone else build a SSMT based 1/24 crawler back in the day??



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Re: Show us your crawlers and scale trucks
Thumbs up for the Boobie Bouncer...RC10th wrote:I've never been into crawlers much but since I like big 4x4's and mud I built a semi scale version of my 1:1 truck. Also with scale crawlers starting to really take off here some of them look really quite good, so lets see yours.
Here's mine that I built many moons ago when scale crawlers were in their infancy. It's a Bender based comp crawler with TLT axles and home made links. It uses a (dare I say it) Traxxas Stampede gearbox and early Titan 550 motor out of an Emaxx, which is perfect. The chassis has been modified to accept the full body and run the shocks more upright. To predate the current trend the ESC is a Novak XRS, XXL receiver and Tamiya 1700 Ni-Cd.
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Re: Show us your crawlers and scale trucks
X2!REMJ666 wrote:Thumbs up for the Boobie Bouncer...

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