So ever since I got into crawling I've been a fan of the unimog. It didn't help that I used to crawl with a guy who had 2 amazing unimogs. He has since fell out of the crawling scene but his rigs will always be an inspiration.
Also someone I know said "everyone needs a mog in their collection" or something like that lol.
Now if you know me, I have several rigs and all of them (4) are hardbodied rigs so I tend to be a little more cautious with them when I crawl. Yeah I'll let them take a tumble or two, but nothing ground breaking if you will.
It was then when I decided I needed a lexan bodied rig or a "budget" build that I wouldn't care about falling off a rock.
Gonna be a long post as I didn't have time to write this as it was being built.
It started as a rolling chassis I got in a trade. Had some cool Stainless steel poison spyder replica bumpers, warn winch, heyOk controller, Losi shocks up front, dinky canitlever in the rear and stock axles.
Bought the Unimog body on fleabay and got to painting when it arrived. Decided to paint it on the outside desert tan. Surprisingly they don't make a lexan desert tan that I could find so I did my primer with a tamiya matte black lexan paint, then the tamiya desert tan on top.
Back to the chassis. I knew I wanted to run a CMS and at the time of this build I decided to go with the JCAD CMS/Battery tray/Servo winch combo and my trusty hands bros axle bracket. Only complaint about the JCAD kit, is the frame pan hard mount isn't very rigid, so it flexes under stress.
Added some VP 8* chubs/knuckles/knuckle weights, Robinson gears for the trans, CVDs, OD and UD gears on HR spools, R2J stainless links, gearhead 4link in rear, Hitec 7955 for steering and a HH Crawlmaster 20t for mock up. Removed the warn winch and added a hitec 625 with spool which I modified to be a servo winch.
A few parts later and I was done. Added a MMP w/ castle bec and a Holmes Revolver S 540 outrunner brushless motor and a few 3s lipos to run it. ALso slapped on my VP omfs with Proline TSL sx tires (non-XL size) with CI foams. Now you see why the word budget was in quotes earlier? :lmao:
For the rear section I piece mealed together the box out of lexan from the rear section of the cab. Couldn't have people seeing the trans. Added a dinky budget interior. Used Blue monkey RC rear axle weights and a spare axial beadlock with flatiron to the rear for weight balance.
Here she is in her maiden voyage glory!
She ran like a champ! Performed better than I would've expected since I didn't get much tuning time.
First thing my buddy myth619 said was "That's what you consider a budget build? I was thinking stock scx10 with a body..."
During our run she got the nickname "radio" due to the noises the outrunner motor made while drag braking and all the random blips and bleeps associated with the esc and outrunner. I considered getting the new HH BLE ESC to silence the rig since it ran quietly besides the blips and bleeps...but opted to keep the nick name instead.
"thumbsup"
This is just the beginning.
Also someone I know said "everyone needs a mog in their collection" or something like that lol.
Now if you know me, I have several rigs and all of them (4) are hardbodied rigs so I tend to be a little more cautious with them when I crawl. Yeah I'll let them take a tumble or two, but nothing ground breaking if you will.
It was then when I decided I needed a lexan bodied rig or a "budget" build that I wouldn't care about falling off a rock.
Gonna be a long post as I didn't have time to write this as it was being built.
It started as a rolling chassis I got in a trade. Had some cool Stainless steel poison spyder replica bumpers, warn winch, heyOk controller, Losi shocks up front, dinky canitlever in the rear and stock axles.
Bought the Unimog body on fleabay and got to painting when it arrived. Decided to paint it on the outside desert tan. Surprisingly they don't make a lexan desert tan that I could find so I did my primer with a tamiya matte black lexan paint, then the tamiya desert tan on top.
Back to the chassis. I knew I wanted to run a CMS and at the time of this build I decided to go with the JCAD CMS/Battery tray/Servo winch combo and my trusty hands bros axle bracket. Only complaint about the JCAD kit, is the frame pan hard mount isn't very rigid, so it flexes under stress.
Added some VP 8* chubs/knuckles/knuckle weights, Robinson gears for the trans, CVDs, OD and UD gears on HR spools, R2J stainless links, gearhead 4link in rear, Hitec 7955 for steering and a HH Crawlmaster 20t for mock up. Removed the warn winch and added a hitec 625 with spool which I modified to be a servo winch.
A few parts later and I was done. Added a MMP w/ castle bec and a Holmes Revolver S 540 outrunner brushless motor and a few 3s lipos to run it. ALso slapped on my VP omfs with Proline TSL sx tires (non-XL size) with CI foams. Now you see why the word budget was in quotes earlier? :lmao:
For the rear section I piece mealed together the box out of lexan from the rear section of the cab. Couldn't have people seeing the trans. Added a dinky budget interior. Used Blue monkey RC rear axle weights and a spare axial beadlock with flatiron to the rear for weight balance.
Here she is in her maiden voyage glory!
She ran like a champ! Performed better than I would've expected since I didn't get much tuning time.
First thing my buddy myth619 said was "That's what you consider a budget build? I was thinking stock scx10 with a body..."
During our run she got the nickname "radio" due to the noises the outrunner motor made while drag braking and all the random blips and bleeps associated with the esc and outrunner. I considered getting the new HH BLE ESC to silence the rig since it ran quietly besides the blips and bleeps...but opted to keep the nick name instead.
"thumbsup"
This is just the beginning.
