Mat's Ascender / Wraith mashup!
 

Being a lucky boy and having the Ascender kit for xmas, but not being a big fan of the huge Blazer body and wanting to do something a little different, I cannibalised an ongoing project to try and mate a wraith frame/body to the Ascender chassis. My one rule was to not mod the Ascender in any way that I couldn't go back to stock if I wanted to.

A quick mock up......

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...ps66wq6408.jpg

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Pleased on how it was looking, now figure out how to mount the sucka!

Not wanting to do too much fabing up of parts, I tried my best to use most of what was either on the Wraith frame or in the Ascender kit.

Rear mount sorted...the body posted are from a Losi crawler....

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...psgga65hfb.jpg

The front took a lot more thinking about but a simple solution was eventually found. Parts from the Wraith frame and Ascender body posts.....

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...psrs1s0nvt.jpg

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My next challenge is the fitting the wraith interior. Looks like some hacking to be done! :shock:

Re: Mat's Ascender / Wraith mashup!
 

Awesome "thumbsup""thumbsup"
That looks great, can't wait to see more....
:mrgreen:

Re: Mat's Ascender / Wraith mashup!
 

I was wondering when you would get one,
the cage looks good on it.

Re: Mat's Ascender / Wraith mashup!
 

Had a great hack session last night hacking the interior to bits :shock:

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...ps55kdscs0.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...ps77i0emvk.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...psnlzquxso.jpg

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Next to try and mount some sort of bumper

Re: Mat's Ascender / Wraith mashup!
 

Man, this is super cool. I have an SCX-10 w/ a chopped up Exo Terra cage on top of it to make a KOH style buggy, and I've toyed with doing something like this on an Ascender too. I'm excited to see how this build works out for you...

Re: Mat's Ascender / Wraith mashup!
 

Agreed, that looks great! Wheels look so much better with the chrome removed as well.

Re: Mat's Ascender / Wraith mashup!
 

Wow great job that looks awesome

Re: Mat's Ascender / Wraith mashup!
 

Thanks for the kind comments guys "thumbsup"

OSRC- I just gave the wheels a few coats of Matt Acrylic lacquer on top of the chrome ;-)

Managed to use the Wraith bumper, tucks in nice around the servo mount. Mocked up a mount to see how it would look. I will make a nice mount out of ali soon.

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...psvanwqfoe.jpg

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I can fit a winch in too

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...pswxqwi31f.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...ps8exlrure.jpg

Re: Mat's Ascender / Wraith mashup!
 

This is a super cool build man. Any updates on this?

Re: Mat's Ascender / Wraith mashup!
 

Awesome..

How you liking them KING shocks with this?

Re: Mat's Ascender / Wraith mashup!
 

Yes, very cool I like how it all bolts together cleanly and the "body' can be removed by pulling couple body pins. "thumbsup"