My Rs10 scale(ish) attempt

[Cmmcginnis86]

Hey everyone I'm new to the forum and to rc crawling in general. A few months ago, after doing A TON of research, i bought a Rs10. I was very happy with it but quickly caught the bug of modding and upgrading. Anyway, long story short, I ended up with THIS!!!

my 1:1 toy


before paint


painting complete


side view


a few shots on the work in progress faux rock course




I recently added a Tough Armor Trail Finder 2 front winch bumper but I dont have any pics of it on yet. Now I'm waiting on the mail man to bring my 2.2 super swampers.

[lee250]

Very cool. I love mine and the modding never ends.

[Cmmcginnis86]

Haha I've realized that. I was playing around last night and noticed the steering gave out followed by a nice plume of smoke. No big deal, OR SO I THOUGHT! I walked over and noticed a glow underneath. Picked it up and the servo literally had fire coming out of the back. I pulled the body off and shut it down and had to blow out the fire! So now it's time for a servo upgrade and lock out the rear steer.

[IQLogic]

Nice body But I think that it is little bit high, try lower the body and move shocks close to axles

Everything is OK after fire? Beside servo of course

[Cmmcginnis86]

Luckily everything was fine after the fire, except the servo haha. I definitely want to lower the body and move the shocks to the axles and inline with the wheel wells. I need to get some materials to make new links though because when I tried it my wheelbase got waaaay to long. Thanks for the positive comments guys!

[Cmmcginnis86]

Last night I did a little tweaking on the height of the body. Decided to go with a droop setup to try to keep it from looking to "Monster Jam-ish". I think it looks much better. Need to get some longer screws to mount shocks next to links. Ill get pics up later tonight.

[Cmmcginnis86]

Took a few pictures tonight, need to resize before I upload. They'll be up tomorrow!

[Docwolf]

photobucket takes care of the re-sizing for you ;)

[Cmmcginnis86]

Lol you learn something everyday! Here I was uploading onto my computer, resizing and then uploading on photobucket. Thanks!

[Cmmcginnis86]

Thanks to Docwolf, here are the most recent as promised!

Tough Armor winch bumper

And this is how it sits right now with droop

Front of the body is a little higher than the rear, the front shocks need to add weights or move battery forward a little to compress fully

[Cmmcginnis86]

It rubs a bit in the front wheel wells. The rear I trimmed and fully flexed I have about 1/8" gap. I'm pretty happy with it so far. Waiting on hardware to move shocks to the axle