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WOW! YOu must be an engineer or something from looking at your drawings and the end result of the tube work. Much props! This thing is gonna be huge and off the hook!

liked this truck from the movie glad to see some one is building one... Very nice tube work and att. to detail in the build...

Dude! I wanna see Fast Five now!

Fast Five was a good movie, now we have to wait and see whats next....

Right ON!!! When my wife & I saw that movie she said I should build that... I'm to lazy so glad someone is. She'll laugh when I show her.

I DIG IT!"thumbsup"

Glad to see you're back working on this one. I look forward to seeing it in person"thumbsup"

lol...this is a killer rig, great job with 1:1 scale size.
love it...I will keep watching this build thread.

by the way,
what tool did u use for cleaning up those joint points??

Looks like an awesome build so far!! Look at the left rear wheel on the truck in the video when they are driving it....the wheel is totally bent to crap!

so envy u at this moment, when i first saw it i said to my self i would build dis. but this is way better then wat i would of made. BIG"thumbsup""thumbsup""thumbsup"

WOW , this thing is going to be huge. Love the comparison to the Mog :mrgreen:

Thanks everyone for your kind words. Friday is sushi bar night but was able to make a bit more progress. Cut and bent some of the upper tubes. The main spans are 4130 and the smaller(brighter pieces) are SS. Not brazed yet though - off to dinner!
http://gallery.me.com/prifral/100165...13228790990001

Amazing work as usual. If you don't mind me asking, where did you get your 4130?

man,this is going to be awsome!...great work so far on the front cage.

Are you going to mostly crawl with it or you going to make it fast?

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Originally Posted by Metal Masher (Post 3413495)

Amazing work as usual. If you don't mind me asking, where did you get your 4130?

I've been getting my 3/16" cromoly tubing from McMaster.com last I checked it was $20+ for 6 feet.

This build is awesome, your brazing is simply artful. I'm gonna have to watch this for sure.

Amazing tube work good god..:shock:

Nice work so far cant wait to see the finished rig. Cool how close the full scale rigs suspension is to most rc scale setups...

Just seen this thing in the movie it's nuts. You'll have to take some scenes from the movie and replicate them with this that would be sick.

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Originally Posted by Metal Masher (Post 3413495)

Amazing work as usual. If you don't mind me asking, where did you get your 4130?

Ive bought 4130, believe it or not, from Amazon. There are a couple of local places nearby also.

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Originally Posted by GREEDY GENIUS (Post 3413549)

man,this is going to be awsome!...great work so far on the front cage.

Are you going to mostly crawl with it or you going to make it fast?

Though it will be a challenge with the long wheel base, I really want to make it crawl first and foremost. Fast is not really my style but I'm not ruling it out at this point:)

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Originally Posted by adamargue (Post 3416621)

Just seen this thing in the movie it's nuts. You'll have to take some scenes from the movie and replicate them with this that would be sick.

Yes! Would love to recreate some of the jump scenes from the movie.

Dont know where the weekend went but this is all I got accomplished on this guy in the past 2 days.
http://gallery.me.com/prifral/100165...13230608020001
http://gallery.me.com/prifral/100165...13230608170001
http://gallery.me.com/prifral/100165...13230608250001
Though the cab wont be done yet, after a couple more triangulations to ensure all stays square from this point on, I will be ready to figure out the mounting system to attach this cab to the frame. The tube cab has to be totally removable so that the Oshkosh cab can placed inside it. I'm thinking along the lines of a bolt on system much like my previous Unimog build but on a bigger scale - not just a removable tube roof.

Wow. I wanna grow up to be just like you. "thumbsup"