200mm body better looking than monster body?

[flomofo]

Some people running scorpians locally have 200mm bug bodies on their cars and right now I'm putting mine together and trying to choose a body that will look pretty scale or at least good on the truck, so is this a better choice than say a savage/maxx body?

looking to put on a truck or blazer type body

 

[metalry101]

Some people running scorpians locally have 200mm bug bodies on their cars and right now I'm putting mine together and trying to choose a body that will look pretty scale or at least good on the truck, so is this a better choice than say a savage/maxx body?

looking to put on a truck or blazer type body

The Blazer would look like crap because the idiots at Pro-Line make them for the T-Maxx and not for Savages or crawlers. They're narrow, with small wheel wells, and about an 11" wheelbase or so. Obviously that's not going to look so great, good, or even decent, on a rig running a 12.5" wheelbase.

Personally...I like the big truck body look, but apparently I'm weird because there were only two people at the UT State Champs this past weekend running basically unmolested bodies. I ran an HPI Bronco body on my Scorpion, and my friend ran a trimmed Bushwacker on his Jefferson. Oh...and there was one dude running a bone stock AX-10 w/ an uncut stock body...but other than that, every rig there was either a tuber, or a chopped stadium truck (like the Blackjack), or a bug, and it seems like the bugs nowadays aren't even bugs any more. They're getting to be as slammed as the stadium trucks it seems.

 

[flomofo]

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Ya I really want a nice scale like apperance for my truck so I might go for the parma c-10 body. Is that one that will fit and look good on it? Its either a c-10 body now or the hpi bronco body if the c-10 wont work.

 

[alias]

I'm one of the many running the bug bodies... However I run the HPI baja bug untrimmed... I like running the bug just for the fact that I'm still learning and it rolls on the top half the time. I do agree with metalry101 though on the scale look. His Bronco body looks great on the Scorpion. There are a lot of different choices for the C-10 body out there though... I'd say just go shop around at the LHS and look at what bodies they have and size them up...

 

[colonelangus]

blazer

the truck is scale .just the wrong scale.i had a k5 and i put 3 inch body lift along witha mild spring lift just to put 35's under it,without rubbing.so why would the mini version be any different. my son has the proline blazer and i have the fj bushwacker they both suck ,and whats with the 11 inch wheel base:-(

 

[metalry101]

Ya I really want a nice scale like apperance for my truck so I might go for the parma c-10 body. Is that one that will fit and look good on it? Its either a c-10 body now or the hpi bronco body if the c-10 wont work.

That Parma C-10 should work well. I'm pretty sure I've seen a few rigs running it, and it looks sharp. If you like that look, you might look into the Pro-Line version for the 3.3 Revo. The wheel wells will still be small, but they can be expanded easily enough, and the wheelbase should pretty damn close.

 

[flomofo]

c-10

cool thx I'm gonna try that one then. Also out of curiousiy, anyone know someone who paints these things well for a resonable price. I've been thinking of having a body painted for a long time.

 

[metalry101]

cool thx I'm gonna try that one then. Also out of curiousiy, anyone know someone who paints these things well for a resonable price. I've been thinking of having a body painted for a long time.

There might be someone on the board who does paint...but it's probably going to cost a lot to ship a body back and forth, so I'd try going local first. I'd hit up your local hobby shops and/or racetracks. Someone at one of those has to paint, or know someone who paints.