First time Crawler build.
 

So after years of playing with Nitro bashers, I had a couple friends convince me to look into a crawler. I did some research into what to get and made my decision on the SCX10. I than proceeded to trade my old HPi Super Nitro rs4 for a SWB Jeep roller. The truck was in pieces, so I started to rebuild.

Although the truck had most of everything to get it back into a roller I didn't like how the chassis was. So while waiting to get paid I started doing some work on the body.

I started by sanding the little lines left on the body from the molding process. It was already painted so I just went for it.
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Than got it into primer.
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While I was working on this I posted on a few places looking for a complete roller to use for this rig. I found one...bought it...and was awaiting its arrival.

In the meantime I decided to start painting the body. I let my Kids pick the colors for the jeep. My boy wanted red, and my daughter white. So I split it up.

I laid down the white first.
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Than after masking off the white, i put the red down. While masking the white off though. I got something on the truck that made the red not turn out good on the hood. Its ok though as this was a practice, and it kinda makes it look old. lol
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Than on Friday, my roller showed up. However...the truck is way to nice to be torn apart to be used for parts. So I will be keeping it together for now. And have to use whatever parts I got from the Jeep originally to build it.

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So I will be using this as parts for my Jeep. I put it together out of all the parts I got with the Jeep. The truck is just roller with T Maxx shocks. Bare bones roller.
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I than ordered whatever I needed to get this thing going.

Ordered:
STRC Short wheel base chassis
All the plastics for the truck.
Driveshafts

I also put the Falken body on the Roller I got. Ordered some parts for that and my Honcho also. The Honcho needs a rx/tx to run. Thats the one I will be using alot at first. Its been used pretty good. And was my 2nd purchase for a crawler. I have been reading and reading on here and the builds are amazing. Hopefully I can get one rig close to something on here. Lol.

A quick pic of all my rigs currently.

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Finally got around to getting my Chassis together. I ordered up the STRC chassis for it. Along with some WB8 driveshafts. Got it all together and now just gotta plan out what to do for electronics.

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I have to say, that rig looks amazing! Keep doing a really good job. Also, the paint doesn't look bad from the pictures. I think it actually looks pretty good.

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Man i wish i could have seen this one