Axial Capra

[mond]

Originally Posted by Brake Weight

4 screws doesn’t look very promising. RPM plastics would be nice.

The Horizon guy said it's made in the same place as TLR, with TLR materials and I'll take TLR plastics over RPM's all day long. The disconcerting thing is the design. Most of the pressure is on the screws themselves. Looks like they'll eventually wear around the screw holes.

[Brake Weight]

Originally Posted by rnagenetics

Official Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zh_MifN2zk&t=8s

I like it. $630aud is about $430usd. Not too unreasonable. It’s like a smaller Wraith that’s pinched F/R with more clearance.

[HumboldtEF]

Have to hand it to Axial they fiinaly made a good video.

The scale of the body seems tiny compared to the axles, I wonder how it looks next to other 1/10 scales?

Heres RPP's listing https://www.rpphobby.com/product_p/axi03004.htm

Originally Posted by Brake Weight

I like it. $630aud is about $430usd. Not too unreasonable.

Its actually listed at $329.99

[dezfan]

I’m in! 👍🏼

[GA Dawg]

I like how compact this is as opposed to a large spur gear.

[Jay-Em]

Hmm..

Bit underwhelmed afa scale looks/proportions go. Bit like the Bomber. There’s something off between bodysize/wheelbase/tiresize.

I had hoped for an absolute scale-true appearance. Alas.

It seems that performance came a bit before scale, and it is significantly more catered to hard-core crawling than, say, a Bomber, or a Wraith. For the hard-core crowd that must be quite satisfying, because they whined a bit that, said, Wraith and Bomber were too fast and more geared towards bombing over tracks through speed, instead of technical driving at a snail’s pace.

I have to admit that I dó like the gearbox, and hope it will be offered loose.. permitting the posts fit every other Axial bottom plate. Could be a good one for an SMT10 v2. ( that quite possibly never will be released, given the lacklustre sales of the SMT10)

I guess the more technical crawling people are going to snap this one up like crazy. I mean.. a dig as standard, metal links everywhere and portals, so far less hanging-up the pumpkins on those wide axles. Axial should have gone a tàd further, though, and add a baggie of stick-on wheel-weights, since about èveryone adds those to their rigs. Would have been jùst that little ‘extra’ in a kit.

But. Well. It’s not for me. I just cannot get over those ‘off’ looking proportions. That’s just me. Most people interested in crawling couldn’t care less if stuff was a little ‘off’ as long as the performance was there. And that seems to be the case here, seeing the video. ( Trujillo said he added some wheelweights to the one shown in the vid. And that was it. All stock for the rest of it.)

[OvrKll]

Looks promising to me.
Here's hoping there will be ID/OD gears for those portals.

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[JatoTheRipper]

Originally Posted by OvrKll

Looks promising to me.
Here's hoping there will be ID/OD gears for those portals.

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OD gears confirmed by Rich here: http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/gener...ml#post5961798

[goobs]

Originally Posted by Jay-Em

I have to admit that I dó like the gearbox, and hope it will be offered loose.. permitting the posts fit every other Axial bottom plate.

I can tell just by looking at it and the bottom view of the skid it wont work.

[OvrKll]

Originally Posted by JatoTheRipper

OD gears confirmed by Rich here: http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/gener...ml#post5961798

Sweet! Thank you Jato.
These axles will eventually find their way into my Scx10 Gen1

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[JatoTheRipper]

Originally Posted by OvrKll

Sweet! Thank you Jato.
These axles will eventually find their way into my Scx10 Gen1

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You're welcome!

I think these axles are going to find their way onto a lot of builds.

[Brake Weight]

I want one now. More so than before lunch today. LOL.

[MaX-D]

Originally Posted by Brake Weight

I want one now. More so than before lunch today. LOL.

Yeah, it's growing on me too....LOL

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[dezfan]

Just placed my order with the LHS, should be here around the 26th of the month. 🥳 🎉

[Brake Weight]

Hmmm. These two kinda favor each other.

[SlidePanda]

Originally Posted by GA Dawg

I like how compact this is as opposed to a large spur gear.

Interesting. Looks like any gearing changes are really going to be limited to the pinion only

[Brake Weight]

Originally Posted by SlidePanda

Interesting. Looks like any gearing changes are really going to be limited to the pinion only

Yes. Motor turn and pinion teeth. Maybe they’ll release some different gearing for the portals as well.

[JatoTheRipper]

Originally Posted by Brake Weight

Hmmm. These two kinda favor each other.

That's kind of a stretch IMO. The Capra looks much more similar to a Bomber to me, but don't dare say that on Facebook where all the "geniuses" live.

Originally Posted by SlidePanda

Interesting. Looks like any gearing changes are really going to be limited to the pinion only

Confirmed by Rich.

[johnnyluv]

Originally Posted by JatoTheRipper

That's kind of a stretch IMO. The Capra looks much more similar to a Bomber to me, but don't dare say that on Facebook where all the "geniuses" live.

Oh, man, I was going to say the same thing, about bewaring of posting any such comment making a comparison to the Bomber on Facebook, on any of the Capra product postings, because you'll get flamed. I'm not sorry to say, at first glance, it looks like a Bomber. I'm not saying, "It's just a smaller Bomber", but only that the appearance is reminiscent of the Bomber...aesthetics.

Looking at the design comparisons does reveal a disparity between the two, and I'm impressed after looking at the close-up shots. Will I get one? Not sure, but, like others have remarked, I might potentially get one just to cannibalize the drivetrain for another rig. Seeing that the axles are wider than AR44's, it would work great for a type of Wroncho setup!

[Sneetches]

I'm getting one since it has the appeal of the Gmade R1 to me but updated more for today's standards. I wonder if most of the appeal for something like this is for those of us who run at spots which are pure rock like something of a WE Rock event in the first place, otherwise for most people just driving woods trails they might not make too much sense. I definitely plan to compare it to the 1.9 Wraith since I feel like that's a closer relative than the Bomber is.