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04-11-2006, 12:22 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: a place of settlement, activity, or residence.
Posts: 844
|  New scale trail rig... Finally getting around to building a scale rig to go with the 4runner (another future project). Went with a Bruiser body so the scale will be close to the 4runner. Alot of similarity to rbgerrish's courier on the frame, but I decided that I had to have a steel bumper with a roller fairlead. Although it doesn't function, it still looks halfway decent.The bumper is made from 22g sheet steel cut to shape and welded. It is stout. Got the body off ebay(where else?) from 3 different auctions and cleaned it up. Cut off the bed cap, and painted it with Tamiya TS-52 pearl green. Plans include an exo around the cab and along the bed, a canvas topper for the bed, winches front and rear and lights for midnight runs. All electronics are waterproofed as are the batteries. |
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04-11-2006, 01:06 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: a place of settlement, activity, or residence.
Posts: 844
| I hear ya! My built times are normaly measured in months, I threw this together in a total of about 14 hours. Most of that time was spent on prep/paint and scrounging for parts. I will have it ready by this weekend!!!! |
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04-11-2006, 06:58 AM
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| Pebble Pounder  Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: The arm pit of the universe
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| Sweet, I'm diggin' the Geo's. They add a nice scale touch with all of my trucks. |
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04-11-2006, 08:57 AM
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| Haters gonna Hate   Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: In the Basement building Hiluxs and shit
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| WOW, I like this alot. I cant wait to see more progress. Nice color choice as well. I must say I really like the look of that bumper too. MIke |
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04-11-2006, 10:45 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Creeping in the Dark!!!
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|  jay looks good!! when will you be done so we can go crawling |
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04-11-2006, 10:57 AM
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| 1 man, 2 sons   Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Recovering@ the hobby garage MT.
Posts: 7,414
| Jay, that looks awesome! I love the color, I may have to steal that idea for my toyota trail rig. If you need help with the cann-back let me know, I can steer ya in the right direction. Also, if you do a cann-back a MSD roof rack pkg would look awesome on it.  hint hint.  maybe even some MSD bead rings too, look at the bruiser on our vendor page, it looks awesome too! |
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04-11-2006, 11:27 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: a place of settlement, activity, or residence.
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| Thanks, I definitely want to get a set of rings for it, might take a while to spring for a rack though (back in school, tired of turning wrenches!). Heading down to the shop now and trying to get it done for this weekend. |
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04-11-2006, 11:53 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Bellflower
Posts: 166
| i like it. its simple and nice. could use a little more detail. but its nice. about how long is the w/b on those bodies? KEvIN |
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04-11-2006, 06:00 PM
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| Team *   Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Hellifiknow
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04-11-2006, 06:31 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Lethbridge
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| Looking good. Nothing like lime green on a toyota  |
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04-11-2006, 07:53 PM
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| I wanna be Dave   Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Hiding from Goodall
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| That looks perfect! I think a tube bumper out back would be the filling in the twinkie. |
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04-11-2006, 09:43 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Cedar Rapids
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| Nice truck! You have a flat get the jack out. We need to wheel our scale trucks mine is lonely. |
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04-11-2006, 09:50 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Crawler practice!
Posts: 2,110
| hahaha i just noticed the jeep grill on the cardboard in the second pic btw... nive truck got to love that color looks real nice and^^^he has it right you got a flat pull out the jack lmao looks nice man great work |
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04-11-2006, 10:01 PM
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| OCCUPY RCC!  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: I am the 53%.
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| Looks great!  I can't wait to start my scale build! Almost done w/ the Grunt. Then I'm on to my 1/18 scale Nylint project.  Then it's on! |
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04-11-2006, 10:05 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: wyckoff, NJ
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| Toyota quality. looks good |
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04-12-2006, 01:16 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: a place of settlement, activity, or residence.
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| Got some of the exo done, also started to fill in the bed where I cut the topper off. Hopefully I'll get the front part done tommorrow. Still trying to find a way to make the exo removable to get the body off but I think I might have it figured out... |
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04-12-2006, 10:47 AM
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| 1 man, 2 sons Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Recovering@ the hobby garage MT.
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| Thanks Jay, now I have to sit here and drool all day! |
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04-12-2006, 10:52 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Australia
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04-12-2006, 08:18 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Boston
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| Very Nice!!! I love the original Bed! love the Color. Body and tire balance looks so scale!!! |
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04-13-2006, 10:39 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Bellflower
Posts: 166
| jolly green apple... haha. sorry, i couldnt resist.  KEvIN |
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