My Crawler King

[Flying Dutchman]

Hello all. It's been a while but I thought I'd post some pictures of my reworked Crawler King. It's got a new lid. Hope you like it.





OH BTW, I would like to make a rear tire carrier so I need to get a hold of one more matching tire and wheel.

Does anyone have a used Scale 4 x 4 Sand Slingers 2.2 tire and HPI Crawler king wheel laying around? Thought it would not hurt to ask.

Thanks all.

[caymin last]

Good job, that looks fantastic!

[ped453]

looks great those mudslingers worked really good on that overall look...now go get some real winch

[Flying Dutchman]

Some more detail was added late Friday night. I drilled out the front grill and made my own interior grill insert showing a radiator and tranny cooler I made of styrene plastic and piano wire.
Also added window wipers along with permanently making the window kind of dirty by dulling outside of the window wiper path. Looks cool and I hear once you hit the trails and get a little more dust and mud on it that it really starts to look the part.
Also added a snorkel. May the BICK pen I had laying around rest in peace. ;D Then I added some other details like a AM/FM and CB antennae (yea okay, it's my bit of nostalgia okay).
Also I took the nubs off the outside and inside edge of the tires after reading that makes a huge difference. Boy does it ever. After tonight I'm sold on that little tweak.
Oh and I added all the light covers back on. Still though, I picked up a Axial front and rear light kit. I'm kicking around getting that ultra realistic Tamiya light and sound kit too. Brake lights, engine sound with gear shifting, head lights, tail lights and even a shaker module to replicate the engine vibrating.





Oh and I'm working on some rear view mirrors. Those should be pretty sweet once done. ;D

[OurJK]

Looks great, Wish my CK looked liek yours... Keep up the good work!!

[Flying Dutchman]

Yesterday I charged two batteries and the family and I headed to Golden, Coloado to mess around. Usually I like to run along the river banks but because of the insane runoff this year, I had to stick to the inner trails.





After almost an hour we had lunch, messed around in Golden some more and headed back home. I still had lots more run time on the first pack and never touched the second pack so on the way back they dropped me off at Mini Moab and I pillaged some more.







Then it was off into the wild where I traversed the 1/10th scale version of the Bolivian highway of death. Not a good time for a radio glitch. ;D






Then moved my way into the plains and desert. Okay it was a small desert.



Then as I made my way down into the valley, I was off along the rain forest river banks. ;)










After another hour and a half I decided to drive it home and on the way ran into this. ;D

[rcdave2260]

looks great man is that a lex body or hard

[unchained]

looks great :-)

[OurJK]

Looking good!!