RC4WD Beast 6x6 Reconstruction, Crawler/Recovery truck "Heavy Mental"

[BONDONUTZ]

Originally Posted by 17dean

Just watched the video and cant wait to see the next one with the body on it!

I'm going to have a nice long weekend coming up, hope to gets lots accomplished We'll see about that video ?

[BONDONUTZ]

I've ben asked by a couple people now via PM's and YT about why am I driving the truck backwards.

These 2 videos are examples of the intented target of my build is plus a few extra goodies and additions.

This driver and truck has the main inspiration of my build.
Tatra 813 6x6 truck trial (Czech republic) - YouTube

Truck Trial-Milovice 14.4.2012 - YouTube

Milovice Truck Trial 2012 Klinká.





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[17dean]

After watching the vids , I now see the direction of your build! Please pull it off my dude! By the looks already , you damn near there! Me being in 420 mode I thought you was driving the truck backwards! LOL... My bad!!!!

[BONDONUTZ]

Originally Posted by 17dean

After watching the vids , I now see the direction of your build! Please pull it off my dude! By the looks already , you damn near there! Me being in 420 mode I thought you was driving the truck backwards! LOL... My bad!!!!

It's all good Homey, I've ben asked on my other forums as well so I thought I'd explain a bit more for those whom never seen a rig like what I'm building. These comments are exactly why I chose this route, seems there's a handful of folks whom this confuses and thats all good in my eyes.

[701 Technique]

Originally Posted by BONDONUTZ

It's all good Homey, I've ben asked on my other forums as well so I thought I'd explain a bit more for those whom never seen a rig like what I'm building. These comments are exactly why I chose this route, seems there's a handful of folks whom this confuses and thats all good in my eyes.

I am in the middle of a build with the same reign k2-6 chassis and I thought about going the same direction with mine. Love the two forward axles look

[BONDONUTZ]

@ 701
Thanks Bro.

The last couple evenings I ben busy doing honey-doo's and relaxing but I did get the center consol/doghouse built and the dash board is made but need to make a bend befor installing. I found a driver and co-pilot but I kinda doubt a lot of the younger guys are going to know who the hell they are LOL Rather than buying seats I think I'll try to make my own. The action figures are from the Mid-80's so they don't articulate worth a shiz so I have a bit of work to do on them so they sit and fit correctly.

Not much much more to see right now but have a 4 day weekend coming up !
I'm going to drag a fridge into the hobby room and fill it with Beer and get to work !

Hope to have lots of progress pics soon !

[17dean]

I have been going thru the same , plus had jury duty. Now that a few things have cleared up I can get back to making it happen !

[BONDONUTZ]

Couple more hours and I'll be posting pictures of a complete drivers compartment.

Can't believe how time consuming this project has ben !

[PFC FNG]

Pics or it didnt happen

[BONDONUTZ]

Many many Beers have have ben sacrificed for the greater good of the RC Gods this weekend and a glorious thing it has ben, They all gave their little aluminum lives bravely for the sake of scale building. They will not be forgotten even tho they passed quickly into the porcelain afterlife and beyond.
Urp !

The drivers compartment is now 100% complete and sealed to not allow dust or water to enter. After building my Wraith and spending many hours on the interior and completely trashing it the first run out I hoping with some extra work this interior will always be clean ? To bad I forgot to clean the windows befor I glued the front panel on, finger print smudges all over. DOH.

I still have a loooong road ahead to complete the back half of the cab, I need to build a side wall, back panel and roof and make it all hinge for easy excess of electronics and battery swaps.

All the windows were scratch made and glued in with CA with a fine tipped screw driver, this took hours and chipped away at my patience but the result was what I wanted. I could have spent several more hours going crazy making gauges, instrument clusters etc etc but wanted to keep it somewhat simple. I only wished I had a couple futuristic weapons to put in the rifle rack rather than blunt skull primitive weapons.

The action figures Beldar and Primat are from the late 80's and did not articulate at all except at the shoulders and hips. I got creative with the hot knife and thick CA and the results are satisfactory. I even gave them a fresh coat of paint because they were pretty faded.

The beginning of the exterior roll cage can be seen in a couple of the pictures, I found the plastic bends nicely with a little heat of the micro torch.

The interior color will be the same for the exterior, It's a tan with a slight green tint I found by Testors at the LHS. I have another color slightly more green I will make splotches on and around the exterior for the camo pattern. The roll cage and window trim will all be painted with flat black so it should have nice contrast. Still undecided on a zebra pattern ?

On to the pics, enjoy.

[701 Technique]

Therefore, you will... NARFTLE THE GARTHOK!

[Big Mike]

Consume Mass Quantities.

Fiberglass insulation, insect strips, and beer...

Looking good man!

[BONDONUTZ]

Thank You gentlemen.

[BONDONUTZ]

Just a couple comparison shots for those whom aren't well versed on motor differences/sizes.

Left to Right
#1 is the tried and true 55T brushed
#2 the common 540 brushless/sensored motor, Viper 10.5T
#3 Tekin 550 brushless Tekin SC4X sensored 7.5T

And the new power plant, Big Daddy Tekin 4 pole 1400kv 2Y



The Tekin motor is roughly twice the size of the 55T and bolts directly to the RC4WD R2 trans w/zero mods.

[calcagno45]

Nice drivers! Love that movie!

Nice job on the dash, love the gauges! Good concept there.

[17dean]

Any updates bro?

[BONDONUTZ]

Ben busy, got hammered at a family get-together Saturday and today recouped and relaxed. I'll have more progress and pics this week.

[BONDONUTZ]

More progress !
I killed a case of Michelobe Ultra yesterday while working on this pig, the creative juices were flowing like the beer.





This is where the body was notched for spare tire, decided differently :rolleyes:







Front bumper/push bar/light mount/skid plate is done as well

[17dean]

Looking good!!! Was wondering what's going on!!!!

[BONDONUTZ]

A little more done today, I finished the skid plate shoreing it up with a couple braces and added more to the front grill and built the exo-roll cage.

I had planned on making the front assembly and exo-cage from brass ultimately decided on the much lighter plastic, this stuff is really nice to work with as well.

I have some finish work to do on the cage and maybe add a couple small things but I'm getting really close to getting it painted and I'm second guessing myself on the color/pattern again