Two bad builds at the same damn time!

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Somehow I ended up with two 1.55 projects on the workbench at the same time. I can barely finish one rig at a time but these two will be built together. A little time on one, a little time on the other, and hopefully we'll have something worth looking at before too long.

1st is the Yota. This rig will be built leaning more towards performance. Longer WB, better articulation, bigger tires and more steering. It'll hopefully still look the part though.

SCX based
Hand bros. steering
Powerstrokes
1.55 steelies/growlers
Mojave body
built axles/trans













So far I've bobbed and lengthened the bed and trimmed the fenders to accept the S.D.I flares. Still a lit of filling and sanding left on the bed. Right now the two rigs are sharing a set of wheels/tires, but I've got an order incoming from RPP with lots of goodies for both rigs.


On to the Blazer.......

I just recently scored this rig in a trade and its a stunner. I think it was originally built by summitcrawler. This will be my only rig with a WB under 12" so its going to be a challenge setting some things up. I want to build this one as more of a super scale "show" rig. Kind of my entry to the WOW thread.....hopefully.

Its SCX based but I think I want to eventually swap the axles out for some K44's with leafs. Interior is in it and usable but it was built out of some really thin styrene. Maybe .20? I will either rebuild or reinforce parts of it.

The stompers will be at home on this rig once the pits show up for the yota.





















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[rc crawler builder]

Very nice man. That blazer is sick looking

[STANG KILLA SS]

good to see the blazer. i recently tried to get my hands on that thing!
love it!

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Originally Posted by rc crawler builder

Very nice man. That blazer is sick looking

Thank you, The blazer is for sure a nicely built rig. The more I look at it, the more I think it needs leafs though.

Originally Posted by STANG KILLA SS

good to see the blazer. i recently tried to get my hands on that thing!
love it!

I'm looking forward to building it up. Aside from figuring out the steering, most of the hard work is already done. I was raised to hate the color orange though (in state college football rivalry) so thats the first thing that needs to go.

I'm always up for trade's.

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Got the pits in and mounted them up.







I also mounted up the rear bumper. It sits a little bit too high but I can live with it.

[CM9000]

Pits are lookin good. im also digging your rear shock setup, that's gonna help the flex a lot!

[Rok Out]

Looking sweet bud

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Originally Posted by crawlingman9000

Pits are lookin good. im also digging your rear shock setup, that's gonna help the flex a lot!

Thanks, The shock setup is a Gear Head relocation kit from RPP.
Gear Head SCX10 Rear Shock Relocation Kit

I ran a setup just like this on a rig years ago and really liked how it performed so I decided to go with their kit on this one. I did have to limit the rear shocks internally about 6mm to bring the rear down level and notch the chassis slightly to get full articulation.

Originally Posted by Rok Out

Looking sweet bud

Appreciate it brotha, gotta build something until the wrexo gets here.

[rc kraver]

man that was a summitcrawler rig before he went MIA... looks like he does GREAT work hope to see my truggy chassis and body some time... but that is a WAY sick blazer and cant wait to see how it turns out sub'd

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Originally Posted by rc kraver

man that was a summitcrawler rig before he went MIA... looks like he does GREAT work hope to see my truggy chassis and body some time... but that is a WAY sick blazer and cant wait to see how it turns out sub'd

Yea, sucks he turned out to be such a flake. Looks like he did clean work.


I haven't done much with the blazer. Just kinda been trying to get the stance right. It needs some narrower axles but I think this is the height that looks the best.

[summitcrawler]

I love the way the Klod-5 is coming along, K44 axles would look brilliant under there... and really set it off! I can't wait to see where it goes!

[summitcrawler]

how's the blazer doing?

[lets go jeep]

hahaha where it goes he don't even have it anymore i don't think . It's here in Washington

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Yea ScaleReady got it off me. Last I heard it was getting a new front bumper. It wasnt going to get built for a while if it stayed on my bench.

I got a killer little TF2 that he did a few trick touches to. I've been upgrading and beating the hell out of it since.

Still working on the longbed lux. Its ready for paint. The part I dread doing.

heres a few pics of the TF2.....









I added electronics, a set of junfacs, a few decals, swapped in a hilux grill and built a batt. tray. I also have a pretty badass anti-wrap setup coming to me soon. It came with f/r ScaleReady built bumpers, a custom skid with SCX trans. and flipped front shackles with super soft leafs all around.












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Few pics of the skid/trans. mount.

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Added some black steelies, a stout damn roll bar, a toolbox and some "noob" inner fenders.

The "Swamp Thing" is starting to look like something now.