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07-13-2008, 07:00 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Mt Blanc; France
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|  Just Enough Engineering to Perform:mini Jeep scale 1/16 bruder &VMG
Hi, folks here's my last scale VMG with a Bruder 1/16 Jeep Wrangler2004 body hope you'll enjoy the original toy :  I started to cut the fake chassis to get the fenders and the front bumper  making some headlamps glasses and a mesh grill for the engine cooler, unfotunately had some blooming with the ca glue on the right headlamp:(   get off the plastic motor   to put in place the lipo battery (2s1200mah kokam)  in the dashboard   with the hardtop   you can see the motor under the passenger feet the servo is next to the motor, I couldn't put it on the front axle cause of the rearward grille it seems that the radio could fit under the seats  the flex pic       other pics out when the sun gets back Last edited by SilverRidge; 07-13-2008 at 07:11 AM. |
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07-13-2008, 07:25 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Pleasant Grove
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What wheels and tires are those? That jeep is the perfect size for a VMG build. I may have to get one.
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07-13-2008, 01:18 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Mt Blanc; France
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the tires and wheels are from a kyosho Half 8 Light Armored Vehicle  I would like to change them but there's not many wheels with an 8mm hex I'd ran the jeep a few and I changed the motor for a mabuchi '9r'? and even with 11 teeth instead of 8 it has more torque than the stock motor Last edited by SilverRidge; 07-13-2008 at 01:31 PM. |
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07-14-2008, 01:45 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Mt Blanc; France
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There's a guy here on our local forum that told me the nylint 1/18 wheels could be fine , but I didn't find any information on the spare wheels so if anyone could give me the dimensions of the rim and tire and if there's an hex in those wheels it 'll be appreciated |
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07-14-2008, 12:42 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Mt Blanc; France
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I re-made the vid there was part missing and other in double in the first one ,also more psychotic ending, and this one is slightly better in quality http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=HsVTfInoMl4 |
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07-16-2008, 10:56 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Mt Blanc; France
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07-16-2008, 11:09 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: May 2006 Location: Volcano, Hawaii
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Nice, that looks real good. If you manage to get the little nylint tires to work show us a picture. That would really improve the overall looks.
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07-17-2008, 03:10 AM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: drillin Holes for the man
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pretty sweet. Just curious though why didn't you lock the diffs.?
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07-18-2008, 12:18 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Mt Blanc; France
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well, it's not finsihed yet I have somme details to work on and I wanted to know how it works without the diff locked cause I locked my other VMG out of the box and it has poor turn radius and as the suspension was not so fine tuned it aslo has less traction in the rocks and too much torque twist... working on one thing at time give a better result here |
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07-31-2008, 04:57 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Mt Blanc; France
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just a try with hpi rims that need to do something for the hex fitting and rally block tires but the kyosho tires looks better  |
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07-31-2008, 08:11 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: We-Go, Chi-Town, Ill
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Dang it man, makes me want to get off my duff and build that VMG/Lunchbox Quigley Van I've been toying with! That is very cool! |
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