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09-18-2023, 11:04 AM | #1 |
Newbie Join Date: May 2021 Location: Linden, Alberta, Canada
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| Oldbear and his cub's crawlers
My son and I have been into rock crawlers for the past few years with our Axial 1/14th scale units. Fun trucks that work well enough outside and are great for crawling indoors during the winter and rainy summer days. We had been looking at getting a couple of 1/10th scale as they work better for "natural" terrain and are more entertaining to build scale trail trucks (IMHO). A good friend gifted us his Toyota 4Runner, his son's Jeep and his nephew's pickup. They had not used them for years. All are 1/10th and fairly detailed, with the Chevy truck begin a work in progress - mostly all custom stuff. We have been testing and tuning, making repairs and changes as we go along. I've had my 3D printer running full time making things for the crawlers (both scales). I'm printing a Rock Hopper camping trailer right now. Here are our units as we got them. I went through the copious amounts of spare parts (almost enough to build another rock buggy). I'll be documenting our progress here as we build and change things. |
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09-18-2023, 11:15 AM | #2 |
Newbie Join Date: May 2021 Location: Linden, Alberta, Canada
Posts: 11
| Re: Oldbear and his cub's crawlers
The 4Runner (which I have claimed) is a recreation of the original owner's RL offroad truck. I'm planning to keep this one very close to the way he built it. I will be adding an interior with covers for the motor and gear, inner fender wells that work as a battery tray and a skid plate to protect the motor. It came with a trailer that was close to his old trailer too. I'm building the offroad camper for this unit. It is a blast to drive. I am working on magnet mounting the bodies so we can add Lipo batteries to the system - all the batteries are currently NiHM and are set up to charge in the trucks. I like having a spare for each truck so you can charge while playing and I like charging in a Lipo bag or box to avoid the fires... I even got the Steve Irwin working again but he is destined to drive the Chevy. |
09-18-2023, 11:28 AM | #3 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Mar 2021 Location: SOCAL
Posts: 290
| Re: Oldbear and his cub's crawlers
those new additions look great, They seemed to be well loved and designed, I'm pretty sure the owner is happy that they will be getting used and enjoyed.
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09-18-2023, 12:13 PM | #4 |
RCC Addict Join Date: Nov 2017 Location: Austin Texas
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| Re: Oldbear and his cub's crawlers
Agree 100% with the above post ^^^. Nice work and tough lookin' trucks.
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09-18-2023, 10:08 PM | #5 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Here
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| Re: Oldbear and his cub's crawlers
I get this feel8ng that the jeep and chevy, once belonged to me. Not sure why
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09-19-2023, 07:42 AM | #6 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Douglassville, PA
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| Re: Oldbear and his cub's crawlers
Some nice looking rigs you've scored there. Really like the 4Runner!
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12-10-2023, 12:31 PM | #7 |
Newbie Join Date: May 2021 Location: Linden, Alberta, Canada
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12-10-2023, 12:33 PM | #8 |
Newbie Join Date: May 2021 Location: Linden, Alberta, Canada
Posts: 11
| Re: Oldbear and his cub's crawlers They had not used them in quite a few years so they gave them to us so they could keep being used. The trades have gone the other way too - One of the many hot rods he built had axles and other parts I had gathered for various cancelled projects in my shop.
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12-10-2023, 12:45 PM | #9 |
Newbie Join Date: May 2021 Location: Linden, Alberta, Canada
Posts: 11
| Re: Oldbear and his cub's crawlers
The steering linkage was just a threaded rod and looked less scale. The servo arm was stock and was too short so the angle of the drag link was causing steering issues - it's tucked up into the hard body of the Jeep to look more realistic. We found an extended-length servo arm (twice as long as stock) and I covered the threaded rod with heat-shrink tubing. I might still bend the lower drag link ball-joint mount to make it not as angled. I know that steering stabilizer shocks are horizontal but I like the look of this. The bellows are just a plastic bendy straw - dollar store for the win again. My son wanted a winch for his Jeep (like I have on the 4Runner) so his grandparents got me to order one. This collection came with a spare bumper (not sure which it was meant for) that we will be modifying to better fit the Jeep without being in the way. My son has also asked to repaint the Jeep - which it needs after I repaired a re-damaged/broken front fender. So all of this will be coming apart again. He will be getting a can of spray paint for Christmas - his choice of colour. I'm using this to teach him (12) how to teardown, paint and reassemble things. |
12-10-2023, 04:54 PM | #10 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2021 Location: Amherstburg
Posts: 708
| Re: Oldbear and his cub's crawlers
Looking good so far! I'm looking forward to seeing all the upgrades and changes you make to these rigs. |
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