updated vmg sniper

[mrrc]

heres the updated version of what my vmg is going to look like looking for any constructive critisism.

[willyrocket]

Looks good, but I dont know about them tires.........

[mrrc]

there just drawn that way to show what it will look like with the tires on it i will be cutting and trimming the stock tires fir real. im going to make the tires so that they look like the full scale version of this truck you can see it at http://www.avalancheengineering.com/

another pic

[Grizzly4x4]

Looks cool mrrc, but it dont look anything like a Sniper. :?

http://www.rccrawler.com/postlite1751-sniper.html

Nice CAD werk.

[rbgerrish]

Looks cool, but I dont think I'd run pink servos or purple axles. That's just my 2 cents though.

[pedesrule]

it doesnt look much like a sniper. and you cant really assume that you will have that much articulation unless you acutally have links. Shock locations will also limit articulation.

[mrrc]

first off i know its not alot like the sniper but thats the kind of theme that i was going for aka(high articulation rock buggy). the main reason that i referenced the sniper was because when i first thought of building it thats what came to mind. second the articulation photo is just an estimate i just thought it would look cool to have some sort of action shot for it, for kicks, if you look closely at the picture of the articulation youll see that the links and shocks dont even go near the axels. thanks for your coments :P

[Plays_with_Toys]

Looks good. Do you have two vmg's on order? Or how exactly are you planning to have rear steer? Do you have any tube frame experience? I would strongly suggest you start practicing now on some other smaller things before trying to make a full on buggy with bends and everything.

Also, for the sake of keeping your project's information in one place, I would just keep updating this thread, instead of making a new one everytime you have an update. If you edit your first post, you can change the title, so when you have an update, put "TITLE yata yata (UPDATE: 0/00/04)"

[RocJoc]

You need to change the green part of the cage it does not go with the rest of the frame work it is to squard off it dont look right. Thats my two cents

[mrrc]

I plan on doing the rear stearing buy replacing the rear axel with another front axel and makeing an on axel steering adapter i do have some tube frame work experience ive been doing alot of practice stuff . the reason that it does look alitle square on the top is because its a pain to do bends in auto cad. when i actualy buld the frame its going to be more rounded off on the top. thanks for your comments as allways

[jordanator62]

how wide are the VMG axles????

jorDANK

[mrrc]

beats me, the dimentions on that are just a guess. from that photo the axels are about 3 inches wide the whole thing is going to be about nine inches long. i took the dinmentions of the truck that i found on the venom website did alittle math and made an educated guess

[Vegerito_HALO]

you will prolly end up having weight problems with all that tubing, even with just mine its a bit on the heavy side, depending on what side ur going to use, it might be heavy

[mrrc]

Im using 1/8 inch brass for the chassis and I made a mock up of it and it seems pretty light im not worried about the weight as much as I am getting it reight and fitting well. im not sure yet thoug. if it needs to be less I can allways trim some stuff