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01-20-2010, 05:02 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Canada
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|  LR Mountain Rescue II - RC4WD Gelände Bangers & Mash - Mountain Rescue II I've taken a few runs at this project but it just keeps slipping away from me... Not this year guys! Got my order in for the new RC4WD Gelände kit today as soon as I caught wind of it. I think it's going to be perfect, my buddy Don (Toytruk) hooked me up with an old Series III body that I want to try before I do a D90...thinking a modern spin on an old classic. This was the inspiration for #1...this time we're getting a little more aggressive!    |
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01-20-2010, 05:03 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Canada
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This is the SeriesIII body...so tempted to use it but I'm pretty sure I'll be doing a custom build around it this spring  Should be making fairly quick work of this one...want to take something scale down to California in April D90 should arrive late next week around the same time as the chassis. |
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01-20-2010, 05:03 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Canada
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Thank you Mr. Courier man! My Gelände kit showed up today along with another package, got my Landy body molded in white....time to get crackin! The kit looks fantastic and comes almost fully assembled. I'll be mounting the tires on the beadlocks so I can get the body on tonight. Just want to stare at it for a short while and check clearances. Man I'm so stoked!  |
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01-20-2010, 05:22 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Gualala CA
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definitely keep us posted on this build,i will be doing a D90 aswell as soon as i finish the other 2 project's  shop is looking good! You need a HOT babe sweeping or doing manual labor  |
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01-20-2010, 11:21 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: santa monica
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01-21-2010, 05:19 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: May 2008 Location: los angeles
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01-22-2010, 05:06 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: clarksburg
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Im going to be watching this till the end!! Im sure it will turn out awesome considering your past builds...
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01-22-2010, 07:29 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Canada
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Thanks for the comments guys Spent some time early this morning getting the tires mounted. i must have missed the part that the wheels were beadlocks...lovin these! I'll note that the holes in the wheels are slightly offset and you need to rotate the two halves until your lug holes ad vent holes line up. The tires go on super easy and are the combo looks amazing....my favorite yet. I'm still debating whether or not to paint the wheels orange to match the roof, going to mess around in photoshop later so I know for sure. The black looks rugged and it would be a shame to cover over the powder coating.  Body's on just to have a look...  Some other detail goodies I had here....got to get to the exo-cage work next.  | |||
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01-23-2010, 05:03 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Germany
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The white shell looks sooo good with the black rims - I´d stick with this combo Btw: all the time a nice presentation in your workshop - looks cool |
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01-23-2010, 07:23 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Chester VA
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Very slick |
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02-07-2010, 09:03 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Canada
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Thanks guys, the shop's coming along well now I think. They're here!!!! Matt sent these over the other day.... K&M Ambulance attendants...even painted in some of my tats for me. M's arms are recreated so she can navigate instead of drive and gave her a little hand held GPS unit. These two will get detailed along with the interior  |
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02-07-2010, 09:03 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Canada
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Shut off the phones this afternoon and locked myself in the shop. After a few weeks of being too busy for shop time I really needed to chill for a while. Got the front rol bar and lower portion of the roof rack laid out and tacked together.  Second later and supports...tomorrow I'll get the brass up top complete and start on the ladder and other tube work  Mounted the Rockountry front bumper and cut up a 3 racing winch to mount it to the bumper. The cable passes through the fair leads and bumper and will eventually have a direct route into the back to the real winch.  The ends of the bumper will get smoothed out so it looks like one piece.  A mock up shot...tried the disposable lighter emergeny light thing and it's pretty cool, building the actual mounts tomorrow...  |
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02-07-2010, 09:04 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Canada
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Checked yesterday, flux is lead free, says nothing about acid free...does it make that much of a difference? Anythhing that would make things easier I'm liking the sound of. Very happy with yesterdays progress... Made the ladder for the rear  Finished the main roof rack, mount for the emergency lights, sign mount...  Got them in primer and paint last night. Will be heading back out for more in a little while, hoping to get the orange on the roof after a few final bars go on. |
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02-07-2010, 09:12 AM
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| Custom Carbon Fiber   Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Connecticut :(
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those are gonna look great in there but uhhmm is her right hand backwards? | |
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02-07-2010, 10:12 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: babylon, long island ny
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looks great. ill be watching!
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02-07-2010, 10:51 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Germany
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Where can I get a pair of those drivers ?
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02-07-2010, 12:12 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Calgary
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Your looking at the palm of her hand, notice where her thumb is. | |
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02-07-2010, 02:24 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Canada
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The figures are by Toymaker73 (On CC and Tamiya Club) The arm with the GPS you're looking at the inside...made me double check though! More progress... The racks with paint on them and some grab/utility bars in place  Getting ready to drill in the holes for the blue flashing LEDs  Ladder in place  Starting to get the grill area mocked up, drilling for signals, opening grill (will have emergency light buckets hidden behind) and figuring out the brush bars  |
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02-07-2010, 02:30 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: St. Cloud
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Man this is gonna be sweet............as usual from you. Can't wait for more. |
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02-07-2010, 03:04 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Canada
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Thanks bud, was fun to get out and build again. Not totally happy with the shade of orange, might re-tint and spray it again tomorrow night. Always like oranges with more yellow in them. I'll put the bars on tonight and take a look in different lighting. Did make all the progress I was expecting though and am stoked on the build so far. After seeing the color, I've considered red for the roof and going to a red cross theme....  Some more pics   |
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