Land Rover Defender 90

[spoo76]

[leftcoastminis]

what do you mean by "Air dampened shocks"?
Also, where do you buy the parts for the chain drive? I'd like to give that a try...
Awesome job

[Shape_Shifter]

Awesome Sauce! My bottle is pretty much used up

Originally Posted by leftcoastminis

what do you mean by "Air dampened shocks"?
Also, where do you buy the parts for the chain drive? I'd like to give that a try...
Awesome job

Air dampened, you know, as opposed to viscous or friction dampened. I run the Hot Bodies in the front and those short ones in the rear. I also resprung the rear shocks with CSC C-660 springs cut to length.

Chain links and sprockets can be found at robotics stores or stock drive products.

[SlickRockSpider]

Your build makes me smile. It dosen't get any better.

Thank you Shape_Shifter

Evan

[Shape_Shifter]

Originally Posted by SlickRockSpider

Your build makes me smile. It dosen't get any better.

Thank you Shape_Shifter

Evan

Thank you Evan. That is one of the nicest compliments I have recieved. Laughter and smiles are powerful things.

[spoo76]

Originally Posted by Shape_Shifter

Awesome Sauce! My bottle is pretty much used up .

I think this build has earned you another bottle

[Mav68erick]

what kind of lathe you got shape? Really like your wideners, but the lathe at work is a little big and I dont think the chuck will go down enough to clamp 7mm hex, let alone the brass, was thinking of getting a HF 8 x 12 and this would be a great reason to have it, normally at home I was making a body jig to work on a 68 camaro ( was laid off ) had to sand 1/32 off some 5/8 hands bolts by hand to use as locator pins sucked. even a small lathe woulda helped.

anyway looks good

[Shape_Shifter]

Originally Posted by Mav68erick

what kind of lathe you got shape? Really like your wideners, but the lathe at work is a little big and I dont think the chuck will go down enough to clamp 7mm hex, let alone the brass, was thinking of getting a HF 8 x 12 and this would be a great reason to have it, normally at home I was making a body jig to work on a 68 camaro ( was laid off ) had to sand 1/32 off some 5/8 hands bolts by hand to use as locator pins sucked. even a small lathe woulda helped.

anyway looks good

Now see this is the kind of question I'd like to see more of. And milling stock by hand to get the right size is the world I live in

I have a Taig lathe with a Sherline 3 jaw chuck. I also have a Sherline mill but did not use it on this build.
http://www.taigtools.com/mlathe.html
http://www.sherline.com/

However, I cheated on the hex size. I could not find 7mm hex stock without a 3 month wait time. I used 1/4" hex and shimmed it to 7mm with aluminum tape.

For the brass barrel nuts, I used an old trick a ship modeller once showed me; I took K&S telescoping brass hex tube and soldered 3 or 4 consecutively smaller pieces inside each other to make one almost solid hex of brass and solder. The I.D. of the smallest piece in the middle, I tapped to 2mm. I did not even need to drill a center hole. To cut the shoulder on the barrel nut, I did use the lathe but people could do it with the hex chucked up in a power drill and could cut the shoulder with a file. I used this "poor mans" lathe for years. Just be slow and careful. It might help to take a couple of shots of Awesome Sauce before you start.

[dockman]

You got some nice equipment, I am planning to get my own once I have the space and money for it. I normally would just do things by hand as you have in the past but a tremor and some nerve damage make it more than frustrating to do. That and the fact I am missing the tips of 2 of my fingers lol.

[Shape_Shifter]

I made some micro bungees.

[Ty@Tekin]

Holy cow this thing is total inspiration for me to start my Jeep build back up!

Ever though about selling those chassis? That thing is awesome, I would LOVE to have one for my build!

[Shape_Shifter]

I am having discussions with RC4WD about manufacturing the chassis.


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I added some Land Rover badges and a license plate. I also made some luggage and an ice chest for the roof rack.





I went on a micro adventure and finally got it dirty.

Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ldWoqSMkKI

[bouncingbabyboy]

That is impressive.

[murdock]

very nice work!!!

[Crawlernoobie]

damn thats a nice micro scaler

[Big Mike]

That D90 body is so sweet. It is plastic right? The detail is incredible.

This build is one of the best micro trucks I've ever seen. Stunning, especially the brass work...

[Shape_Shifter]

Thanks guys! I look back at this build and I cant believe I actually did all that work.

The truck still runs great!

[sim]

Wow. I think I remember seeing your Tamiya wooden educational truck converted to RC on one18th.com years ago. It was my favourite mini build. Now this one is my favourite. Great job!

[Stormin2u]

One of the best micro builds todate.

[spoo76]

Originally Posted by sim

Wow. I think I remember seeing your Tamiya wooden educational truck converted to RC on one18th.com years ago. It was my favourite mini build. Now this one is my favourite. Great job!

haha I remember that site! then one day i tried to login and it was gone.. I got an Email once saying there was a comeback but I only checked it out the one time.