BisforBadger
Newbie
So I have decided to build a crawler, and I was lost for a finished look. Until I was watching an old episode of Roadkill and saw stubby bob! I started looking for details and reference materials and this is what I've found.
Stubby Bob is a 1950 Ford F-6 dually with a wheel base of 104 inches and is on 20in wheels with 8.25x20s on them(38.5 inch diameter). On a 1/10 scale that means 10.4 inch wheel base, and (new to the hobby so it's 2 inch wheels but do they make those?) either 1.9 or 2.2 wheels.
So there are the basics of the idea. I was planning to use the axial builders kit(for cost reasons) to build from and that has a min wheel base of 11.4 inches. I would be building a custom body for it as they don't make any Ford F-6 bodies that I've been able to find.
I guess what I am looking for is some guidance into accomplishing my goal. I used a reference picture of the original and compared to some tires/wheels I have from an ECX AMP MT which are 2.2s. It puts the wheelbase at 10 inches, which is even shorter and more of an issue.
So questions:
Do they make a bigger wheel/tire than 2.2 that I could use to stretch the scale up and fit the 11.4in wheelbase of the axial builders kit?
Could bigger tires make up for the size instead of a bigger wheel?
Would larger tires/wheels be an issue for the 1/10 kit?
If I want to roll around with other scale rigs, should I shoot for the same scale as them or just the scale appearance?
Does looking like a scale version of a modified truck count as a scale rig even(I did look at the section that laid out the guidelines for scale rigs, so I think I know this answer)?
Is a dually crawler a bad idea?
Has this been done before and I'm not seeing it in my searches?
Would making the rear axle leaf spring mounted be bad?
Encouragement/advice for this build?
I have a limited budget(stay at home dad) so I can only spend/save $100 a month(I get an allowance to use at my discression) to invest in this build, so it will be slow unless I get to spend tax-return money on it to speed the build process.
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Stubby Bob is a 1950 Ford F-6 dually with a wheel base of 104 inches and is on 20in wheels with 8.25x20s on them(38.5 inch diameter). On a 1/10 scale that means 10.4 inch wheel base, and (new to the hobby so it's 2 inch wheels but do they make those?) either 1.9 or 2.2 wheels.
So there are the basics of the idea. I was planning to use the axial builders kit(for cost reasons) to build from and that has a min wheel base of 11.4 inches. I would be building a custom body for it as they don't make any Ford F-6 bodies that I've been able to find.
I guess what I am looking for is some guidance into accomplishing my goal. I used a reference picture of the original and compared to some tires/wheels I have from an ECX AMP MT which are 2.2s. It puts the wheelbase at 10 inches, which is even shorter and more of an issue.
So questions:
Do they make a bigger wheel/tire than 2.2 that I could use to stretch the scale up and fit the 11.4in wheelbase of the axial builders kit?
Could bigger tires make up for the size instead of a bigger wheel?
Would larger tires/wheels be an issue for the 1/10 kit?
If I want to roll around with other scale rigs, should I shoot for the same scale as them or just the scale appearance?
Does looking like a scale version of a modified truck count as a scale rig even(I did look at the section that laid out the guidelines for scale rigs, so I think I know this answer)?
Is a dually crawler a bad idea?
Has this been done before and I'm not seeing it in my searches?
Would making the rear axle leaf spring mounted be bad?
Encouragement/advice for this build?
I have a limited budget(stay at home dad) so I can only spend/save $100 a month(I get an allowance to use at my discression) to invest in this build, so it will be slow unless I get to spend tax-return money on it to speed the build process.
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