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03-15-2008, 05:38 PM
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| Let me 3D Print that...   Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Concord
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|  Indoor Crawling Spot in Salem, VA
With the blessing of our local hobby store, several of us have been working on an indoor crawling facility for folks in Southwest Virginia. The course is mostly made of natural rock stacked onto a series of platforms that step up and down. There is a challenging V trough along the back of it as well. There are some other man made elements with challenging terrain that can be easily move around along with several bridges. For the time being the terrain is mostly suited to 2.2 comp syle rigs and "capable" scale type rigs. As terrain gets added in the future, we are going to try and balance things a little more for scale and 1.9 trucks. We get together "offically" on Friday nights and stay until about 11pm, but the course is open for use any time the store is open for business. Last night we had 5 trucks running and had 3-4 stop by that were not ready to run yet. I expect 10+ truck turnouts in the near future. Here is the Location: Crossroads Hobbies and Crafts 1104 W. Main Street Salem, VA 24153 540 387-3414 Here are some pictures of the course so far: |
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03-15-2008, 06:16 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: VARCOR
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Nice!. looks great
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03-15-2008, 07:08 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Chester VA
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All them there rigs look so shiny and new  Looks like a cool setup maybe a little easy for a 2.2 comp, can you post pics of it after a comp with the gate markers still up? |
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03-15-2008, 11:10 PM
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| varcor.org   Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: 757
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nice... pretty jealous...
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03-16-2008, 09:01 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Dark Side of the Moon
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looks cool  wish it was closer
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03-16-2008, 10:01 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Hopewell
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Nice setup. That's a lot of rocks, bet you guys had fun lugging those things into the store.  I'm interested to see it set up with gates too.
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03-16-2008, 10:17 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2006 Location: Arlington, VA
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Looks like a kick ass place for rock racers. No kidding, I'd hate to be a part of setting up and removal of that course!  |
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03-20-2008, 10:24 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: New River Valley
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Good grief Jeff!!!!!!! lol You guys weren't kidding when you said you were going to bring in some rocks! We'll have to slide up that way tomorrow and check it out. Looks like fun.
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03-21-2008, 03:30 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Pulaski
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|  looks good I cant wait to try it out
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03-22-2008, 10:12 AM
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| Let me 3D Print that... Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Concord
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Last night was fun. We had a total of 9 trucks show up and play. At one point we had a 7 truck follow the leader mach going on. I guess next we need to try and lay some courses out. It should be easy to mark some out that will make most men cry... I tried my 1.9 scaler out on the course last night as well. It got nowhere fast on the rocks. It is not as easy as it looks in the pics guys. |
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03-23-2008, 11:49 AM
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| I joined the Band! Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: vinton
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sorry i missed you guys again,but our car club was hosting a carshow at the civic center sat so we had to take of some final stuff for that.
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03-26-2008, 03:30 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Windsor, VA
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I used to go to that hobby shop a lot when I was in college. Definitely some nice people to deal with.
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04-04-2008, 03:37 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Roanoke, VA
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I hope to make it out there tonight. My father has been sick, so I haven't had much time to do anything at all recently. The course is coming along very nicely...
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04-04-2008, 07:40 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Roanoke
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I just ordered an AX-10 today, I will be joining you guys soon I hope. BTW, I went to Walrond park wednesday with my super. That place is a good spot, a bit narrow for a super but still cool. I only managed to bend a suspension link, steering link, broke an axle tube and ripped the body post off of the front. Not bad for my first time at "LIL Moab".....LOL
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04-04-2008, 09:46 PM
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| Let me 3D Print that... Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Concord
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Obviously, I missed you guys tonight...I am down at VIR for a track weekend...got to love wireless internet in the paddock. Hopefully I will catch you next week.
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06-01-2008, 07:16 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Roanoke
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the course looks good, I did not even know you were building it in the back. I'll have to stop by and see it. I haven't stopped in in a while. I used to race 12th scale and monster trucks in the back.
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07-16-2008, 04:54 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: manassas/radford
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very nice maybe ill start coming in on fridays once i get my rig all done. wish it was kinda closer tho.
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07-27-2008, 07:43 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: floresville, TX
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looks sweet to bad im 4 and a half hours away
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09-02-2008, 09:44 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Roanoke, VA
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The crawling still going strong up there? Been a busy summer for me, so I haven't had a chance to get up there. Things are slowing down now, so hopefully I can get back into the swing of things soon...
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09-02-2008, 10:10 AM
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| Let me 3D Print that... Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Concord
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I don't think that a lot of folks have been going up there regularly. Once the weather cools down the Friday night crowd will be back in. Also, I'll bet that there are a lot of Losi Minis that show up...
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