No more shelf queen (Final version of my JK)
 

Hey guys, I thought I would share my latest, (and hopefully - Last) iteration of my SCX-10 JK... The orange one ("Crush Recovery") - While really cool looking, just wasn't doing it for me in the scale realism dept. While it made a Sweet shelf queen, I wanted to run a jeep that looked more like one the average guy would build out of a factory JK... Not a "show" truck... So I went with Gun Metal Grey (Tamiya PS-23)

I also added a chick, a dog, and a butt-load of Proline scale goodies, including proline bumpers and Floorpan... and replaced the 3 racing winch with a bulldog winch, and changed the links and steering linkages to axial aluminum.


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I have also made 2 new high quality videos of my rig in action. you can watch them on youtube.

watch this one first: SCX-JK - YouTube

and this one second: SCX-JK II - YouTube



Also feel free to enjoy my others if you havent already, and let me know what you think!

These videos were filmed in 1080P and uploaded in 1080P, but my pc will only play them in 720... if anyone knows a solution to this please let me know... When I stream them through my Apple TV they seem to be 1080, so if anyone is able to view them in 1080 please let me know...

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killer rig i like the JV 32 plate

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Thanks... When my brother John died (Wicked Jeep enthusiast) The manufacturing company he worked for laser cut a bunch of pins we could wear. they also laser cut two real license plates out of diamond plate. They put one on his 1:1 YJ and compleately overhauled it to give to my nephew when he is old enough. The other is on my 1:1 JK.

I had two of the laser cut pins, one I had polished to a mirror finish and wear on a chain, the other i used to make this scale plate for my Axial, to honor my Brother. JV is his initials, and 32 was his age. I started building these trucks after he died, cause I knew he would have loved them, and we couldn't wheel or work on our Full scale crawlers together anymore...

Sorry... Long story behind that plate...

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Looks like you have everything packed you could ever need in your rig. Nice Job! "thumbsup"

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I liked the video's. Sorry for your loss.

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Outstanding Rig! I wouldn't have thought of the color combinations that you have, but they look great!

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kool heep... nice editing...
enjoyed the video...

but the music selection brings deh suck for me.

maybe if I were a kid 1?

nah... I doubt I'd have any appreciation even as a kid.
But I suppose you'll find like minded saying otherwise.

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you did it right! The chick in the passenger seat looks like a cross of Jillian Michals from biggest loser and a "cholla", lol

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Thanks guys! Yeah, the music sucks, but Its hard to find decent royalty free music. I started using only the royalty free stuff after having some of my videos either removed all together or having ads placed on them. I still think almost any music is better than nothing though.

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Some wrestling chick... "AJ Lee Divas" I guess... not a wrestling fan, so I have no Idea who she is, but I spotted the figurine at Target one day and thought she would be a good fit.

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Where in CT are you? I'm in stafford springs. The tamiya gun metal is probably my favorite color for lexan bodies! And then the tamiya copper is 2nd!
What did you use to mount the hi lift to the hood? I have mine on my roof rack on my JK, I do however need a bigger rack. Will probably just go with the proline one as well.

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I'm in Salem- right between Waterford and Colechester... For the jack I wanted to mount it to the hood hinges like my 1:1, so I just used some spare axial screws and spacers and backed the screws with the small plastic hex nuts that were spare on either my scx or wraith extra parts trees. You can screw through the jack just by drilling out two of the holes a hair bigger. Just don't over tighten the mounting screws, cause the hood has a slight curve to it and the jack will look bent.

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Nice Videos, I like the epic rap battles music in there. Cracked me up