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Here's my 1/24 MAN 6x6 crawler built from Redcat Sumo electronics, Losi drive shafts, and some other parts from salvaged parts.

The body is a complete styrene, scaled, cut and fabricated to form this truck.
the leaf spring suspensions are made from a traxxas recoil spring and the chassis is a aluminum channel, which was cut from a 1"x1/2" rectangle tube.

The weight was an issue on the truck as it wasn't pulling itself on steep slopes, so that was taken care of by using a innovative new method in crawling.
I have ran multiple coats on the body, hence the paint isn't appearing to be what I intended, I will strip the body down and sand it over again to give it a fresh coat of Desert Camo or a Matte black tone.

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Nice build  :thumbsup:, can we have some more pictures and videos please  :)

awesome dude, PLease share some good videos...

Thanks man!!! I will upload some pictures by tomorrow...i got a nice video of it crawling on d couch..ill try and put that in too...

 (:|~

It looks great!



Could you shed more light on this please?(I think I'm missing something)

AFAIK, Traxxas cars never came with leaf springs.

superb built. some build log pics please.

Excellent build MAN.... Keep it up  {:)}  {:)}  {:)}

I wondered why one one asked about it..
here you go.

Traxxas 4076 Recoil Spring TRX .12
http://www.amazon.com/Traxxas-4076-Recoil-Spring-TRX/dp/B0006O5LZ4 (http://www.amazon.com/Traxxas-4076-Recoil-Spring-TRX/dp/B0006O5LZ4)

Thanks for your inputs guys, I will paste in a video later today!!

Wow, I've never seen one of those.

Dorwin, old friend, your precision craftsmanship is getting to be boring, annoying and inspiring all at the same time! :hatsoff:  (:|~

haha! thanks VC, the build was exactly the same! now she crawls on my pillows like there's no tomorrow!!

 :banghead: :-\Sorry man! I'll try to post whatever pictures I have!! yesterday was hectic..gold prices are down, wife took me for the gold rush!!

Ha Ha, ve to keep Wife happy all the time.

you bet..or else my hobbies will be fossilized!

 {:)}  :salute:

There is no build log, but I stumbled upon these pictures while posting pics for the trains thread..
Making of the chassis!!

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Superb Sir. Really Hard n Smart Work. ll you please post some pics of the axle, I mean how you ve attached the wheels.

the axles come with a .....aaah..picture illustrations are better right???

This way you'll get a better understanding!!  :salute:

I had 2 redcat crawlers one had a dead receiver board, so I made a center axle with 2 normal axles..
the center axle looks like this after joining 2 separate axles..(second picture for reference)

to make the center axle, this simple illustration may give you an idea!

Thanks Sir, that means we ve to go for readymade assembly. should meet u in order to understand the things completely. Thanks again.

= its not rocket science!! everything is available everywhere!!

Yes Sir completely agree with you. But there are certain things which can be understood only after looking them live rather than in pics.

Hi

Waiting for your pillow crawling video  ;D ;) and some more pictures of just the frame/body you built.

Sahil

I posted my train pictures just yesterday and to tell you, it was a huge task to copy, resize, and post those pics on the forum as time is a killer.
I will surely try and get at least some video of the crawl!

Video's uploaded!

http://youtu.be/tPyOZq7-L98?list=UUYT5eOP0haHb9pT2Tj4oT8w (http://youtu.be/tPyOZq7-L98?list=UUYT5eOP0haHb9pT2Tj4oT8w)

http://youtu.be/u28B2PCwHRU (http://youtu.be/u28B2PCwHRU)

there you go...
your profile picture is always makes me look at it closely man!! I'm sure others feel the same!! looks like a girl with the shirt buttons opened rather then her holding her teddy/tiger..hahaha!!

good videos

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