Got bit by the twin hammers bug

[microcrawlers]

I guess its time to start a build thread. ive had this th for a while and just let it sit but i now finally have inspiration (and funds ) lets see
1. Sr Irie's full suspension and steering kit
2. Metal gears
3. OFNA front shocks (i think?)
4. Wraith rear shocks
5. Proline beadlocks and badlands tires
6. Hobby king 13.5 brushless motor
5. Hobby king brushless esc
6. Traxxas steering servo (when it dies i will be swapping in a solar d772)
7. stock rx/tx
8. stock shift servo (havent had any problems really)
9. Finally for now.. The proline baja bug body!

this rig will have a purple white and black theme.
pics to come later

[Sr.Irie]

Anxiously waiting the pictures Love the aircooled VW's

[microcrawlers]

keep the cage or not?

these gears are amazing

[Fallen]

Good luck on that Bug body! It'll require some creativity to get that thing on there, and I look forward to seeing how you do it. If you run into a wall feel free to ask me for direction, as I have that body on my Twin Hammers. I'm assuming that yours will come out awesomely different than mine, but if I can be of assistance, let me know. I'll be waiting for pictures...

[microcrawlers]

Originally Posted by Fallen

Good luck on that Bug body! It'll require some creativity to get that thing on there, and I look forward to seeing how you do it. If you run into a wall feel free to ask me for direction, as I have that body on my Twin Hammers. I'm assuming that yours will come out awesomely different than mine, but if I can be of assistance, let me know. I'll be waiting for pictures...

i decided on cutting off the motor section to allow the rear of the cage to come through. i saw a picture like that somewhere and love the way it looks. i will probably just trim the front fenders

[R.Billy Rob]

It's funny, but it looks like all us micro guys are building Hammers right now! Yours, Dan's, and I just picked one up on Father's Day! I also plan to go the Baja bug route. I've got a sand scorcher body on the way. I'll start a build thread when I get the body. I can't wait to see what you do with yours! I love Baja bugs. It was finding all the twin scorcher builds on the internet that made me have to have a twin hammers.

[microcrawlers]

Originally Posted by R.Billy Rob

It's funny, but it looks like all us micro guys are building Hammers right now! Yours, Dan's, and I just picked one up on Father's Day! I also plan to go the Baja bug route. I've got a sand scorcher body on the way. I'll start a build thread when I get the body. I can't wait to see what you do with yours! I love Baja bugs. It was finding all the twin scorcher builds on the internet that made me have to have a twin hammers.

haha yeah ive had mine sitting for a while and just started tinkering (:

anyways im going for a cross between this:


and this:


got the new motor and esc in:

works well but almost no power in reverse?.. hmmm...

[Fallen]

I ended up going more for the rock buggy look with mine because at full articulation of the rear suspension, the tires rub the fenders...a lot. I had to shave almost all of the rear fenders, or deal with the rubbing, which is a sound I hate. I took too much of the front fenders off of mine. I wish I had left a little more because of how cool they look, but oh well. Mine reminds me of those East Coast rock buggys, which I enjoy as my son & I watch a lot of those videos from the Southern Rock Racing Series.

[donnarebeca2]

Originally Posted by microcrawlers

I guess its time to start a build thread. ive had this th for a while and just let it sit but i now finally have inspiration (and funds ) lets see
1. Sr Irie's full suspension and steering kit
2. Metal gears
3. OFNA front shocks (i think?)
4. Wraith rear shocks
5. Proline beadlocks and badlands tires
6. Hobby king 13.5 brushless motor
5. Hobby king brushless esc
6. Traxxas steering servo (when it dies i will be swapping in a solar d772)
7. stock rx/tx
8. stock shift servo (havent had any problems really)
9. Finally for now.. The proline baja bug body!

this rig will have a purple white and black theme.
pics to come later

Good luck on that Bug body! It'll require some creativity to get that thing on there

[microcrawlers]

funny thing about the "east coast rock bouncers" my father actually has one im going to do a build of sometime in the future



(edit: this build is probably never going to happen)

[Sr.Irie]

Originally Posted by microcrawlers

If you pull this one off I am going to want it, this is one of my favorite Baja's ever. I got to see this bug in person some years ago, doing work and it is just awesome in function and forum.

[microcrawlers]

Originally Posted by Sr.Irie

If you pull this one off I am going to want it, this is one of my favorite Baja's ever. I got to see this bug in person some years ago, doing work and it is just awesome in function and forum.

do you happen to know the name of it so i can maybe look up more pictures/diff views of it

[Sr.Irie]

Originally Posted by microcrawlers

do you happen to know the name of it so i can maybe look up more pictures/diff views of it

I do not, this is the first time I have seen a picture of it since I saw it . It has got to be the same one though there can not be 2 of them.

I will look on my external hard drive and see if I can find more pictures of it. I know I toke many pictures at that time. It was so cleanly done inside and out, it was very impressive work. I have a Baja myself and wanted to copy some of the ideas.

[Sr.Irie]

I have not been able to find the pictures I toke of it, they were not this good anyway. I believe they may of been lost when my last external hard drive gave up (only buy solid-state my 2 cents). I do though have a hole folder of the pictures I got off the desert rides forum at the time. I have many more but they are of suspension and interior and such.

[microcrawlers]

that thing looks insane (:<
ditching the purple and white and going with the closest i can get to that beast
this build wont be as close as id like though because i have to start saving for my first car

[Fallen]

This could be considered blasphemy to say in this section of the forum, and I think you will successfully pull off the "desert bug" look with the Twin Hammers, but I think it'd be way less work to acheive that look if you started with an Axial Yeti. I've got the Pro-Line Bug Body on my sons stock Kit Yeti, and it looks waaayyy more "deserty" than my heavily modified Twin Hammers with the Bug Body does. That being said, getting the Twin Hammers to look like that would likely be a fun project.

[Sr.Irie]

I do not know about blasphemy but I agree completely to do a Baja with the Yeti is definitely much easier and they look good. As you say Proline makes a Baja body specifically for it. For me though the Yeti is just not as scale as I want.
As I have said I love VW's and have purchased 2 different Proline Baja bodies for one of my Twin Hammers. The reason I have not put either one on is I do not think the scale is quite right. They look good and I have seen some done very well but to me they look just a little off. I think some of the best Hammer Baja's I have seen have been done with the sand scorcher body. I may end up with a sand scorcher body but I wish Proline would make a WIDE EYE Baja body for the Twin Hammers.
HINT HINT Proline

Thought if I gave Proline much love they may listen.

[microcrawlers]

i have a yeti but it needs so much money to get a full pack through i put it on the backburner for a while lol

[W1ck3d0n3]

The bug body, is it 1/10 or 1/16? The only reason I ask is cause I want to use a 1/16 slash body for mine and I want to know if it will fit the wheelbase.

[Fallen]

The Bug body for the Twin Hammers is made by Pro-Line to fit "1:10 crawlers." It's a different Bug body than the 1:10 short course Bug body, and the Bug body made specifically for the Axial Yeti. So it seems Pro-Line makes at least 3 different Bug bodies, and only the one for 1:10 crawlers fits the Twin Hammers. You might want to get your hands on that one and see how it compares to the body you're hoping to fit.