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02-22-2022, 05:21 AM
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| Newbie Join Date: Mar 2020 Location: PARAdiSE
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|  Mojave ii bodied Redcat SixtyFour 90s style mini truck lowrider build
Current project I’m working on RC4WD Mojave ii bodied SixtyFour chassis Did a 4Runner front end swap & made a custom phantom grill out of styrene. Also made a custom camper using styrene cuz I’m not trying to spend $160 on a camper top from the UK. Bed was chopped to get it low enough for the look I wanted. Filled in the tailgate, body mount holes, door handles & mirror holes for that shaved look. Swapped in some positive camber c hub knuckles & bought some low pro Redcat wheels for the time being since Jevries True13s are on back order for a couple months. Modifying another Bluetooth speaker to fit in the bed for some sounds while she hops. Bought an interior but still need to figure out how I’m gonna use it considering how the chassis is setup. Chassis itself was cut 1” on both sides, front fenders were cut about 3/4”, rear fenders were pretty much completely cut out & the front & rear portions of the chassis were trimmed to fit the body. Sprayed the body with a whole can of Rustoleum glitter spray paint & cleared with a can & a half of 2x clear. Waiting on paint to cure so I can wet sand smooth & start spraying the DupliColor Metalcast anodized purple paint. Ordered some KandyNChrome engraved stickers as well as the chrome front upper & lower arms, toe links, steering link, C hub & rear axle. Trailing arms are staying stock & just getting wrapped in engraved stickers. Still got quite a bit to do, but this is something I’ve wanted to build since I was a kid with a RadioShack lowrider Impala.           Last edited by kANAkSz; 02-23-2022 at 06:40 PM. |
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02-22-2022, 08:58 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Mar 2020 Location: PARAdiSE
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| Mojave ii bodied Redcat SixtyFour 90s style mini truck lowrider build  Already have a replacement bumper since the masking tape I used to mock up the front fascia to the body pulled off some of the chrome plating Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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02-22-2022, 10:20 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jun 2016 Location: Austin
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| Re: Mojave ii bodied Redcat SixtyFour 90s style mini truck lowrider build
VERY nice work!  |
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02-23-2022, 06:43 AM
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| Newbie Join Date: Mar 2021 Location: Bel Air
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| Re: Mojave ii bodied Redcat SixtyFour 90s style mini truck lowrider build
Love it!
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02-23-2022, 09:16 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Indy
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| Re: Mojave ii bodied Redcat SixtyFour 90s style mini truck lowrider build
Sweet!!! I'd been wondering when somebody would try to do a Redcat mini-truck. Love that grille and shaves. Are you going full kandy purple, or going to layout some tape panels first? Might be able to save some of your chrome with a ''Molotow liquid chrome" pen. It's not quite perfect chrome plated look, but its really good Not sure what kind of BT speaker setup you're planning, but if it doesn't work might want to check out some build videos from 'VGB Speakers' on youtube. 3w and 2 speakers was enough to get a little 1/14 scale rc Benz thumping Those old Radioshack lowriders were pretty cool and had a lot of room for upgrades. Last edited by frizzen; 02-23-2022 at 09:19 AM. |
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02-26-2022, 10:07 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Mar 2020 Location: PARAdiSE
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| Mojave ii bodied Redcat SixtyFour 90s style mini truck lowrider build       Painted her up last weekend. 6 coats of DupliColor Anodized purple. Was a little too much purple for me, so I broke up the color with the 64 side engraved stickers from KandyNChrome on the body line & threw some aluminum tape on the bottom portion to add some contrast. Would have loved to do a lowrider style paint job, but I’m not that skilled. Haha. Swapped suspension parts to the chrome ones I received & wrapped them in their accompanying engraved stickers. Tonneau cover also came in for when I don’t feel like using the camper cover. Ordered some real steel 13s on 520 tires from 3DScaleParts & the interior for the Mojave just came in today to see what can be done. Still figuring out what I’m gonna do for lighting. I know the rears are gonna be all red. Might do purple bumper fogs/signals & may or not do a RGB style headlight setup or RGB halos for the jeep crawlers. https://youtu.be/p1eUs5-rvA0 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Last edited by kANAkSz; 03-03-2022 at 02:18 PM. |
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02-28-2022, 03:19 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: May 2021 Location: NorCal
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| Re: Mojave ii bodied Redcat SixtyFour 90s style mini truck lowrider build
I love it!
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03-02-2022, 09:50 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Indy
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| Re: Mojave ii bodied Redcat SixtyFour 90s style mini truck lowrider build
That's looking killer! The purple really works, should pop once it's in direct sunlight! Since you were already doing a Flake and Kandy paint job, you were already about 75% there. Lowrider panel paint jobs are mostly just tape work once the flake is level. Make lots of narrow tape strips, lay out stripes on body. Shoot some kandy, peel some tape, more kandy, peel tape, more kandy, peel tape...Each time you shoot kandy, it get darker, so last tape peeled is lightest or base color. Might need a car club plaque to fly in the back? Can't wait for the next update |
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03-22-2022, 07:08 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Nov 2015 Location: Raleigh
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| Re: Mojave ii bodied Redcat SixtyFour 90s style mini truck lowrider build
This is awesome, great work Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro |
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