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04-12-2006, 03:32 PM
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|  Old School Scale Crawler?
Has anyone ever thought about building this old school toy into a crawler... ?  Just thought it would be kinda cool.... Here are some more pics for the older guys here:        |
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04-12-2006, 03:37 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: G6'N
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I would love to do that project, problem is finding a 80's vintage GiJoe troop runner or missle gunner.  got one you want to donate to Montana Scale Designs?
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04-12-2006, 03:48 PM
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theres a grip of them on ebay for 15 Bucks ... shipped! does anyone have the wheelbase measurments on this thing... looks like you might be able to use Nylints 1/18th stuff under it?maybe? Last edited by TwistedXT; 04-12-2006 at 03:51 PM. |
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04-12-2006, 04:00 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: G6'N
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Ebay links????
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04-12-2006, 04:07 PM
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04-12-2006, 04:08 PM
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04-12-2006, 05:04 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Ashville, Pa
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I had one of those trucks and thought about making it a crawler but I can't seem to locate it in the attic. If anyone has one measure the wheelbase and track width for us. I'm thinking bruiser axles.
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04-12-2006, 05:54 PM
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| Debunking old stereotypes  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 1st and Amistad
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My brother has the whole GI Joe collection he saved from when his oldest was a youngin, he's also got the whole Star Wars collection, some figures are prototypes that were never released, my dad was director of drafting for Kenner Toys back then. Anyway, I'll take some wb and other measurements on a few of those pictured vehicles when I get over to my bro's place in the next day or two, if knowone beats me, I'll post them up. Damn I feel old, my memories are of the good ol 40lb steel Tonka trucks made right here in Minnetonka Mn.  Lesley/Matchbox car/trucks. Barrel of Monkeys, also made here in Mn ( my dad worked for them also) and ect ect. Last edited by freetimecrawler; 04-12-2006 at 06:02 PM. |
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04-12-2006, 06:29 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Southern Maryland
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wow you were lucky to have a dad who worked for a toy company, did you get them free?
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04-13-2006, 11:45 AM
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according to this pic:  it looks kinda small... i just picked up one of these:   im thinking that the chassis might work great for this:   i'll start a build up thread next week after my Vamp/Stinger shows up... (i really dont know whats its supposed to be called) |
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04-13-2006, 12:19 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Bethlehem, GA
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I have done many old school 1/6 scale GI Joe bodies into crawlers BUT the smaller stuff like in the pics just don't have enough room under the body to stuff the electronics under and suspension to make it look scale. I tried with a Flynt Steel truck 1/18th scale and it almost worked but not quite. Also tried a flynt military Jeep. That almost worked too.    http://www.rcpics.net/out.php/image....14f252d0356d2c |
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04-13-2006, 12:27 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: a place of settlement, activity, or residence.
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That would make a sweet trials crawler. I would have no problem molesting that thing. | |
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04-13-2006, 12:30 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Crawlifornia Uber Alles
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04-13-2006, 02:39 PM
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I am planning on using the front and rear axles and suspension from  on a couple of other boards for mini rc's and mini z's i found a bunch of guys using this Iwaver02Pro reciever/esc board  some guys are using the Mini z'a Pots for the steering modded in, but im not that good... so im going to run an Iwaver Steering servo  |
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04-13-2006, 03:40 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Rochester
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Hmm... I might have to look in my mom's basement... :-)
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04-13-2006, 04:06 PM
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oh.. i didnt mention, the boards up top, make it full proportional... throttle and steering  and you get to use your HG remote! If this thing turns out pretty cool... im going to have to bring it to the next comp.... not like it'll do good, but more to see what it can do. |
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04-14-2006, 09:23 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Pueblo West
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if ya do the rocked laungher truck you should buy some of the "Whistler" bottle rockets , to launch , and set it up with modle rocket igniters and have a scale battle  |
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04-17-2006, 10:25 AM
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man... i hate ebay.. last minute outbidding punks. I was bidding on 2 of them, couldnt get to the computer at time of auction close and i got schooled... oh well... time to hit yard/garage sales. this is what i was bidding on  |
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04-17-2006, 10:39 AM
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The one I use is ezsniper.com. | |
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04-21-2006, 03:12 PM
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Heres some more info on them while it try to find one locally. GI JOE Archives It looks like they reused the mold and made a new one called the rattler in 1998  Last edited by TwistedXT; 04-21-2006 at 03:18 PM. |
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