New scaler - Vaterra Ascender

[lappdogg]

here's the link to the manual!

http://www.vaterrarc.com/ProdInfo/Fi...023_Manual.pdf

[LRTd5]

VERY WELL DONE, Vaterra!

kit version !!!
incection moulded grill
panhard bar
nice steering ancle...
adjustable chassis




Regards
Wolf

[BJoe]

Curse you Vaterra!!!!!!!!!!!

[hellbounder]

And it's not a jeep !!!!!!!!!!

[Odd-M]

I'm willing to bet they'll sell a lot of those bodies in adittion the kits. Looks great!!

Might just have to buy one when they come out. The downside, I allready got too many cars and a huge pile of spares/upgrades for them. This is addictive.....

I'm satisfied Axial finally got some competition. This might bring development and be good for our hobby.

[OSRC]

Originally Posted by Odd-M

I'm satisfied Axial finally got some competition. This might bring development and be good for our hobby.

x2... I agree 100%.

[mudbeast2]

Great rig, I love the old K5's. Its on my Christmas list for sure!

[Harley]

I see some really good things in there.

I like that they have paid attention to real world 4x4 fabrication styles in the design of some of the parts, such as the design of the shock towers and knuckles.

The adjustable wheelbase is cool, 11" to 12.4" is a decent range and basically mimics what Axial has done with link sets rather than one chassis.

The axles look narrow which will appease many of the scale guys.

The differential size looks much smaller which will also be a plus to scale guys.


Overall, I'm looking forward to trying one and putting it up against the proven big boy on the block. I'm setting my prejudices of the Twin Hammers aside until after I own it

[mammoth]

Very nicely put together Vaterra! I will be ordering this body if not the kit to give it a good go over. Nice to see some competition for Axial and hopefully they up there game a bit as the scx10 is getting stale...

[Exocaged]

I'm not a CMS fan at all and the geometry looks a little off unless they just have the drag link proped up in the chassis somehow. BUT does anyone have a price on this? It may be my next purchase.


And I'm SOOO glad Axial has some competition now!!

[hellbounder]

Originally Posted by Exocaged

I'm not a CMS fan at all and the geometry looks a little off unless they just have the drag link proped up in the chassis somehow. BUT does anyone have a price on this? It may be my next purchase.


And I'm SOOO glad Axial has some competition now!!

319.99 I belive at horizon .

[stevem50]

https://www.rpphobby.com/ProductDeta...03023&CartID=1

[stevetate12]

I'm lovin this!

Sent from your moms house

[Highmark]

Love the skinny tubes on the axles - much more scale than axial axles. Looks like a removable diff cover too!

[JohnB]

Now listed on Vaterra's site as well:
Ascender 1:10 4WD Kit (VTR03023): Vaterra

[dna4engr]

Now I need to sell something so I can buy this

[racin707]

Wow, really sweet. Kinda neat that it comes with a lot of options and scale trick stuff out of the box. Now let's see what axial does to bounce back maybe hyper crawler drive with titanium magnetic wheels

[badhoopty]

big ol bearing on the pinion.

kinda weird that the pinion gear bolts to the driveshaft but it certainly looks like a much more solid design with driveshaft/pinion joint meeting right at that big bearing. very nice.

[Harley]

Originally Posted by badhoopty

big ol bearing on the pinion.

kinda weird that the pinion gear bolts to the driveshaft but it certainly looks like a much more solid design with driveshaft/pinion joint meeting right at that big bearing. very nice.

True, a big bearing. However, I don't know that you need that big of a bearing with those small of a gear set.

[Exocaged]

With the design the bigger bearings are required as it looks like they took a page out of a race truck design book. Plus the bigger bearings should not have the same failure rates of the axial designs. The more I look at this truck the more I like it.