Hirobo Bearcat SS - Let's start something else...

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Small step again... Really need to think how to make this driver figure...

Not sure yet about colours and decoration (yes I procrastinate )... But this is required anyway.

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I did prepared the paint yesterday evening... But I just noticed that my black PS can was almost empty...


Today, once back from work, I decided to gamble on the fact that the can content was enough to do what I need and that was the case as the end... And the can is now really empty...

Few minutes later the paint is over...





I will perhaps add a few stickers, but I really like it this way...

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Some cars really need a driver , just finished it off nicely, I like it as it is as well .

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There was something missing on this car...

Added lettering on the tires, but was still unhappy...


So I decided to add leds, and I designed led holders... The side one is printed in TPU, the rear one in ABS (and it relies on the same principles I already used in the past)....




It's much better with leds... But somehow this is missing a wing...

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Finishing touch...



Ready to run

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As mentioned somewhere else, I got a second Bearcat SS today...


It came with a box, the original driver, a few missing bits (steering rods - but I need to check inside the box), a broken bumper... Speaking about the bumper, there is an home made one made from a metal plate (3mm thick) which is quite nicely done but very heavy...




Maybe a way to reduce the willingness of the car to go wheelie with the sbsolute power of its 540 silver can

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I had the TPU in the printer, ready to roll (and dried as I just printed a sample of 44B rock'n Vega Bumper), so I thought about printing a Bumper to replace the missing one for the Bearcat SS n°2.



The overhang makes it is not perfect...


But for a runner, that will do the work...

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Previous runs were short, promising but short... The first one was vey shorten by a loose pulley (the intenal one), the second by some escaping pivot balls... I solved the ones which were identified as difficult and was impatient to try the car again, as the short runs look promising...

I ran it quite a lot... No Belt skips, the car is easy to control, silent and shocks worked quite well, and overall the car is quite easy to control... I made jumps during quite a few laps, and at the end of the second serie of laps, I snapped one the pivot balls again (but this time, not on the wheel side, but on the chassis side - I'll have to work out a solution for this). The video is short again, and don't show any of the jump, unfortunately, but still, nice to have one, as it is a rare car on a track...