Took a look back in time.

[jwalker]

I was going through all of my pictures on my computer when I started painting for people on RCC and damn has it changed alot. Have you ever went back and looked at your crawler pics back in the day and looked at todays, times have changed. Here are 2 pics of bodies that I have painted at the beginning and now, there is about a 3.5 year difference lol.

[Postclanker]

Wow, that bug is nasty bad ....old or not

[jwalker]

The bug was painted bag in early 2010, it was one of my first bodies as a vendor, the Ford Truck body was done here recently this month. I found a pic of my first 2.2 comp crawlers based off of TLT axles and nickle battery packs with traxxas wheels narrowed and glued on Moab tires lol.

[STANG KILLA SS]

Originally Posted by jwalker

I found a pic of my first 2.2 comp crawlers based off of TLT axles and nickle battery packs with traxxas wheels narrowed and glued on Moab tires lol.

hell yeah that's what I wanna see pics of!

[jwalker]

My 2.2 Comp TLT with Moabs and a stick battery pack, back in the days (2007) when we had to build our own stuff. The chassis was my design to save weight but everyone was like "It is too light, we need weight for comp crawling" and look at where we are at now lol. Narrowed Pede wheels, droop suspension, hell yea.

[crash]

For those of us who started in the TLT days--oh ya....

[mtdriver]

Go back a few years to the Clod based crawlers and you'll be somewhere...120 degrees of articulation! Hell yeah!

[jwalker]

Oh I remember them, i didn't get serious into crawling until 2007, but i started back in 04 and my buddy had a clod. Things were different back then.

[wings_of_fire]

jwalker,

The toyota paint job is a beauty.

[badhoopty]

i still got my first 'scale' rig. i was just running it around in the house a few days ago... updated the tires a few years back and put digital hitecs and a bec in it, other than that its just as it was.

[Duuuuuuuude]

I've got pics of my first 2.2, and before that, my TMaxx based super. Both from '07-08. Scary stuff, especially the super in its early form.

[jwalker]

Originally Posted by wings_of_fire

jwalker,

The toyota paint job is a beauty.

There isn't a Yota body there, there is a VW and a Ford F650 body but thanks anyways.

[Highmark]

Great progress jwalker - you do some really nice work.

Here's my junk through the years:
2001 - 2002ish
Pajero on 2.2's. This was pre-TLT stuff. Pretty much everything back then was clod, pajero or robbe based.


2004
First TLT.




2005
One of my first weird suspension design experiments - no suspension.




2006:
Torsion clod - took it to nationals


2007 or so :
I had the yellow jeep (torsion)


Then I had to get out while I was in college.

[wings_of_fire]

Originally Posted by jwalker

There isn't a Yota body there, there is a VW and a Ford F650 body but thanks anyways.

I have to agree. I had written ford before but got confused and edited it later. Kind of hard for me to differentiate between them since I don't see those models here.

But the bottom line is, your work is top notch I was checking your album and was amazed at the color blending work you do on bodies.

[jwalker]

Originally Posted by wings_of_fire

I have to agree. I had written ford before but got confused and edited it later. Kind of hard for me to differentiate between them since I don't see those models here.

But the bottom line is, your work is top notch I was checking your album and was amazed at the color blending work you do on bodies.

Thanks, you should go check out my Facebook page. I am building it up a little at a time, did not realize I had so many pics. Here is the link to it https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jwalk...21487334539173

[STANG KILLA SS]

funny part is we all ran those white plastic traxxas yokes on the DS. and hardly ever broke them.
of course we were running integy motors and moped esc on 6 cell nicads/nimh. the "crazy" power setup was to run 7 cells at 8.4v

[wings_of_fire]

Originally Posted by jwalker

Thanks, you should go check out my Facebook page. I am building it up a little at a time, did not realize I had so many pics. Here is the link to it https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jwalk...21487334539173

Excellent work. Very creative
The detailing you do is fantastic.

You should paint 1:1

[cartronicshn]

awesome work jwalker

a pic from around early 2006

[badhoopty]

Originally Posted by Highmark

Great progress jwalker - you do some really nice work.

Here's my junk through the years:
2001 - 2002ish
Pajero on 2.2's. This was pre-TLT stuff. Pretty much everything back then was clod, pajero or robbe based.

i remember this rig from clodtalk.

[War Pig]

My first rig, summer 2006. Yes the chassis is made of brass..



I think this was late 2006/early 2007







Dig anyone?