Shodog's RC10 Tube chassis build

[Farabomb]

Fantastic work, it reminds me of my first experience with RC cars. A long while back when I was at summer camp one of the councilors brought his tube frame gas 1:5? scale to camp. It was huge, loud, all tube framed and quite fast and it got me hooked. This must have been the late 80's as I was still in grammar school and I just tuned 40. It was the highlight of my summer camp experience.

[pastimesteve]

Wow, one of my favorite builds on here. Excellent work, as always.

Steve

[shodog]

Thanks for the compliments. this never got finished out because overall I wasn't happy with how it turned out. I'm going to switch out all the silver aluminum Dhawk parts for gold plated ones and change the wheel centers to gold also. Ultimately I may change the body out to something more low slung.

[pastimesteve]

Well, whatever you do, keep the top part of the cage exposed. That's my favorite feature of your build!

Steve

[shodog]

Well, whatever you do, keep the top part of the cage exposed. That's my favorite feature of your build!

Steve

I agree the exposed cage looks great. I made a roof and haven't decided on using it or not.



I would need to cut the roof out of the andys body and I'm not sure how it would look

[jwscab]

stick with a fresh updated trimmed protech and add a roof panel. I think that will look awesome.

[yellowdatsun]

Use the lower half of the body, and leave the upper roof parts exposed, and use your roof section....just like real buggies.

[shodog]

Updating this thread to show some of the changes I’ve made. I wasn’t satisfied with the renegade body.



I wish it sat lower like the Protech body does.



Andy was starting to paint the Protech bodies and I picked up this one.



I used an unpainted body to make a template to cut the Andy body with.







The front wheels looked too small so I tried a different set Tecnacraft wheels with a larger front rim.




This I what I came up with.



Took it to the beach for some BOTM pics.

[KidAgain]

BADASS........................................

[DropDeadKustoms]

This is so killer! I've always wanted a tube sand rail since I saw that one in RC action that had the cooler and cup holders!!! That's was the 90s!