Nissan Hardbody

[R.Billy Rob]

The trucks looking good! I like the rear leafs. I wish I had made my own on my last build. They look much cleaner.

[balln]

Pulled this off the back burner and got some more work done to it the last few days.

[Jcplante]

That's looking awesome!! I should take mine out again. I mostly save the micros for the winter, but this makes me want to get going on it lol

[Slambaam]

that transfer case is beautiful...

[Jcplante]

I like the skid/mount you fabbed up for the transfer case. I might make up something like that for my jeep build

[desii3d]

is that a 3 link front? I like the way you're using the frame from the kit. I thought about doing that, but then deceided to try my hand at making a custom one. I'm not liking the way my custom one turned out so I may go back to trying the frame from the kit.

[Jcplante]

Any updates on this?

[balln]

Originally Posted by Slambaam

that transfer case is beautiful...

I wish I could take credit for it but it all goes to Jcplante. He did one hell of a job on it.

Originally Posted by Jcplante

I like the skid/mount you fabbed up for the transfer case. I might make up something like that for my jeep build

Thanks again for helping me out with the T-case. the skid was just a ruff idea and I ended up using it. Not really happy with it.

Originally Posted by desii3d

is that a 3 link front? I like the way you're using the frame from the kit. I thought about doing that, but then deceided to try my hand at making a custom one. I'm not liking the way my custom one turned out so I may go back to trying the frame from the kit.

Yes sir it is. I have tried several link options and none of them moved smoothly. This set up works pretty damn good and with the ball cap ends blended down I have lots of travel. I thought about a custom frame but I like using as much as I can from the kit and it was a good platform to start with.


I was able to get a lot done these last few days with mounting the steering servo and trans. They turned out ok but I need to figure out my steering linkage. All it needs is drive shafts and it should be moving. I will try and get pics posted up this weekend of it.

[balln]

Here is a few more pics for now till I get some of its current state. All the screws will be blended down and cleaned up in the end.

[Jcplante]

Its coming out nice! One of these days I will get back to mine lol

[balln]

Originally Posted by Jcplante

Its coming out nice! One of these days I will get back to mine lol

Thanks man and after seeing what you did with the transfer case I cant wait to see the rest of your rig.






Well I now have a runner. Pics aint the best.

[Sh0rtBus]

Wow man....great work! Glad to see a Nissan finally. Too many Hilux builds lately.

[balln]

Thank you. Yeah not to many Nissan's on here.

[Slambaam]

Originally Posted by balln

Thank you. Yeah not to many Nissan's on here.

haha theres not many 1/20th scale models out there thats why!

[R.Billy Rob]

Slambaam is right. It took me several months of watching eBay before I found one for under one hundred dollars! They are far more rare than the Hilux's. Don't worry though guys, as soon as I finish my S-10 Truggy, there will be another Nissan build on here!

[balln]

Originally Posted by Slambaam

haha theres not many 1/20th scale models out there thats why!

Not many Nissan truck models either.

Here is my micro Pathfinder build that's a lot smaller then 1/20
Nissan pathfinder

Originally Posted by R.Billy Rob

Slambaam is right. It took me several months of watching eBay before I found one for under one hundred dollars! They are far more rare than the Hilux's. Don't worry though guys, as soon as I finish my S-10 Truggy, there will be another Nissan build on here!

Yeah they get up there pretty high on ebay. With ebay and model truck pages on Facebook I have 5 total 1/20 king cabs. Three duallys and two regular 4x4 all under $40. I have several pathfinder kits and trying to get my hands on some extended cab 720s. My next Micro will be a 4dr Navara.

Cant figure out which route to go. Maybe both

[DSchulten88]

Sorry to resurrect the dead here, loved this build. Is the dude that built it still actively posting?

I'm bidding on a 1/20 D21 body right now for a micro build and bought a tyco bandit last night to see the dimensions of the body for maybe a 1.55" build? I'm not sure how big or small it is, difficult to tell.

[balln]

I haven't touched this rig in awhile. Not sure why but I dont have the drive to finish it. All that's left really is plastic work then build the model. I have a Bandit body also and they are pretty small. Not much bigger then this kit. If you search my threads I built a 1.9 lexan tamiya nissan king cab shell that turned out pretty nice on some mrc axles but the smallest 1.9s were still a little to big.

[balln]

Man its been awhile. Last post was in 2014. Well I dug this thing out of hiding and was messing around with it trying so see what still needed to be done to finish it seeing how I forgot all about it. After making the trans and servo mounts the front section of the cab doesn't want to fit so I need to fix that first then move to the dash and fire wall installation. Then ill need to dig around and see what I have for electronics and try and figure out how to mount them. That's the plan at least, I'm hoping this will spark a flame and get me back into it so I can complete this little rig.



















Decided to swap the wheels out for some I had laying around and also added some wheel wideners. What do you guys think?

[R.Billy Rob]

Good to see this one come out of storage. I wondered what happened to it.