Project Lovell Racing

[Harley]

Always love the Lovell's cars. Always clean

Doing a great job on this one, the body work will really pull it together in the end.

[XSRCdesign]

So much awesome!!!!!!

Great lines on this rig.

[dirk379]

Originally Posted by Szczerba

Very nice proportions. Rig looks great.

Thank you, that was my focus so i'm glad it's noticed

Originally Posted by Gimp

Ugh, perfection! I love those Lovell Ranger buggies.

Thanks, me too they are a work of art, it's a shame i couldn't pull their ranger skins off but i still tried to make it have the same shape, for example i took those pointy tundra body lines out of the fenders to try and give them that round bulgy look of theirs. The bedsides are also buldged out, hard to notice right now hopefully the paint makes em' pop.

Originally Posted by tunnalram

now we need a pic of that light bar in action in the dark

Well you're lucky i wanted to try out the new front steering link i made ,

snapped a couple pictures for ya. Wasn't completely dark, but they are super bright i was quite impressed the first time i powered it on.

Originally Posted by mmatthews

Great build. I'll be watching. I scored a RCP Bastard Jr chassis today. I want to build a similar rig.

Thank you, it's super addicting and fun building it, so hopefully it wont be too long. Build it with the right wheelbase and they look good!

Originally Posted by Harley

Always love the Lovell's cars. Always clean

Doing a great job on this one, the body work will really pull it together in the end.

The end feels so close yet so far Thanks harley

Originally Posted by XSRCdesign

So much awesome!!!!!!

Great lines on this rig.

Thank you, many of your builds have helped give me the inspiration to do this

[Gimp]

Any interest in trading for a Brute lol?

[dirk379]

Originally Posted by Gimp

Any interest in trading for a Brute lol?

If your brute is a 1:1

[Gimp]

Originally Posted by dirk379

If your brute is a 1:1

hahaha yea

What color combo are you planning on?

[Forresto]

awesome build and i like how you drew it out first i gotta start doing that. subing for sure

[CarterFab]

What's the wheelbase set to?

[dirk379]

Originally Posted by Gimp

hahaha yea

What color combo are you planning on?

I'll have to wait and see how i feel about it when it's at that stage but I'll most likely get some single stage automotive paint from the local paint supply store. I'd like to find the paint code the lovell's used and match it that way, part of the cage is painted with it as well on the 1:1 so that would be cool to do as well.

Originally Posted by Forresto

awesome build and i like how you drew it out first i gotta start doing that. subing for sure

Thanks, yeah it makes life a lot easier.

Originally Posted by CarterFab

What's the wheelbase set to?

Good question, when i drew it out i set it for 12.5", i just measured it and under it's own weight it's at 12.6".

Well, i hope no one was too attached to that chopped up tundra front end. It was bugging me, so I've gone mad and this thing is going to look like a ranger in the front. I couldn't envision the hood going down flat to the top of the headlights/grille. So a few hours later, the fender's are filled in (still need sanding) and the tundra light buckets are chopped up to look like the rangers. They had too much depth for the front of this, so i brought the main lamp closer to the corner/running lamp. The design between the 2 is quite similar. The 1:1 hood should be pretty easy to make, grille shouldn't be too bad either. I've created lots more work, but it will be worth it.

Time for bed

[CarterFab]

Could I big you for one more measurement?
How wide is your body? I ask as I am fixing to start a build based on the same general design as their trucks. Trying to get everything together and we are using similar size parts in way of axle width and tire size. Which is really helping the visualization easier on my end, haha.
My front clip is 6" wide at the center line of the fenders. I did not do the typical pinch, just narrowed it.

Thanks and keep up the nice work.
Clay

[mjderstine]

really well done man. this should turn out rather perfect when all said and done.

[dirk379]

Originally Posted by CarterFab

Could I big you for one more measurement?
How wide is your body? I ask as I am fixing to start a build based on the same general design as their trucks. Trying to get everything together and we are using similar size parts in way of axle width and tire size. Which is really helping the visualization easier on my end, haha.
My front clip is 6" wide at the center line of the fenders. I did not do the typical pinch, just narrowed it.

Thanks and keep up the nice work.
Clay

Haha well i'm glad i could help ya out, i'd love to see more of these style scale rig's out there. That bottom ford body would look really good on a tube chassis with panels/bedsides. I'd dovenose it, but that's just me. I drew out the dove nose on mine, welded it up, got the fenders on, and realized the small amount of angle i put in it wasn't enough to make it noticable at this scale, it made the rig still look like a long rectangle. So i ended up going in .25 narrower on each front top rail. It also helped clear the tires, which clear at full tuck/turn after the narrowing. I sooo wish someone would make a set of scale spider 9 axles, with the same c's/knunckle/panhard set up as the real deal, or even a steel kit with the housing complete, and we could weld on the c's, link mounts, and pan hard mount.

Originally Posted by mjderstine

really well done man. this should turn out rather perfect when all said and done.

Thank you, we'll see.

[CarterFab]

Originally Posted by dirk379

I sooo wish someone would make a set of scale spider 9 axles, with the same c's/knunckle/panhard set up as the real deal, or even a steel kit with the housing complete, and we could weld on the c's, link mounts, and pan hard mount.

Say what

[dirk379]

^ drooled over them many of times. i'd like to pony up and buy the rc4wd black widow axles someday. maybe if this turns out as good as i'd hoped for i will reward myself with a set, to go under this.

[CarterFab]

If you get some ill get you a set of steel tubes that accept axial outers and axial shafts. They would complete the truck for sure.

[Soulo747]

Hey dirk, pm me when you get a free moment...

[Soulo747]

And then?

[dirk379]

Hey there!

It's not forgotten, progress is just moving a lot slower than i'd wish for. Mainly a lack of time, and my lack of building speed. For instance, GPS unit took me a good 3-4 hours to make/paint last night. Many hours of body work has been done that's not really noticable. I shaved the axial seats and cut the weight of each one in half. This stage is tough to really show "progress". Especially all those hours spent staring at the interior trying to decide how to build it so it can be romved, etc.

Still a long ways to go, but it's getting there

Edit- I should have the new axial maxxis 1.9'ers to try on her today. Ive been thinking about a set of Locked UP r/c trail ready style wheels but i'll worry more about it when i have money to spend, and when it's closer to being done.

[dirk379]

Well, i got home from work and instantly went to work on this thing. But before i did anything, i had to mount the new trepador's and i must say i am very impressed by them. They mounted up super easy, the dimensions are spot on, and the compound seems very sticky-can't wait to run them. Once i got them mounted, i noticed how far back the rear tires were. So i shortened it up .25" and my new wheelbase is 12.25.






Finished sanding the seats smooth. Cut the weight of them in half.


I also got my issue squared away with the side panel's holding the bend. Not sure why i didn't think of this from the get go.


Hopefully i can get this body work wrapped up soon

[chino63]

This things looking sweet, the Trepadors look great on it!