Just Enough Engineering to Perform:mini Jeep scale 1/16 bruder &VMG

[SilverRidge]

Hi, folks here's my last scale VMG with a Bruder 1/16 Jeep Wrangler2004 body hope you'll enjoy

the original toy :

I started to cut the fake chassis to get the fenders and the front bumper

making some headlamps glasses and a mesh grill for the engine cooler, unfotunately had some blooming with the ca glue on the right headlamp

get off the plastic motor

to put in place the lipo battery (2s1200mah kokam)

in the dashboard

with the hardtop

you can see the motor under the passenger feet
the servo is next to the motor, I couldn't put it on the front axle cause of the rearward grille
it seems that the radio could fit under the seats

the flex pic

other pics out when the sun gets back

 

[cuban b]

What wheels and tires are those? That jeep is the perfect size for a VMG build. I may have to get one.

 

[SilverRidge]

the tires and wheels are from a kyosho Half 8 Light Armored Vehicle

I would like to change them but there's not many wheels with an 8mm hex

I'd ran the jeep a few and I changed the motor for a mabuchi '9r'? and even with 11 teeth instead of 8 it has more torque than the stock motor

 

[SilverRidge]

There's a guy here on our local forum that told me the nylint 1/18 wheels could be fine , but I didn't find any information on the spare wheels
so if anyone could give me the dimensions of the rim and tire and if there's an hex in those wheels it 'll be appreciated

 

[SilverRidge]

I re-made the vid there was part missing and other in double in the first one ,also more psychotic ending, and this one is slightly better in quality

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=HsVTfInoMl4

 

[SilverRidge]

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=UplxT7GcZek

a new video with more rock

 

[crazy_kanaka]

Nice, that looks real good. If you manage to get the little nylint tires to work show us a picture. That would really improve the overall looks.

 

[bigflex]

pretty sweet. Just curious though why didn't you lock the diffs.?

 

[SilverRidge]

well, it's not finsihed yet I have somme details to work on and I wanted to know how it works without the diff locked cause I locked my other VMG out of the box and it has poor turn radius and as the suspension was not so fine tuned it aslo has less traction in the rocks and too much torque twist...

working on one thing at time give a better result here

 

[SilverRidge]

just a try with hpi rims that need to do something for the hex fitting and rally block tires but the kyosho tires looks better

 

[BJoe]

Dang it man, makes me want to get off my duff and build that VMG/Lunchbox Quigley Van I've been toying with!

That is very cool!