Yes, I know it’s almost end of March, but I finally got around the finish editing the various clips together from the Xmas crawl at Bracken Rocks (2015). If you’re not aware Bracken Rocks is where the RRCI Scale Nationals (now known as RCCarZone Scale Nationals) is hosted, and the first G6 competition is to
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With work and other commitments, the D90 crawler project has come to a standstill, a lot of work has happened but we are still quite far from the finish line. Thought I would upload a number of images I have taken.
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Another Sunday so headed out early 7.30am just as the sun was coming out, light rain but nothing to bad. Went to some land nearby as we had not crawled there in a while. Was going well until I heard a branch breaking, turned out it wasn’t a branch and instead my drive shaft link
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After some searching on the internet I have found a number of Defender D90’s which use the van / box backend type of look. I really like the look of the environmental agency vehicles with their side sliding entrance sections. Decided I am going to be aiming for something based on these images with my
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Thought I would upload a damage report from the other week, simply put the truck looked like it had been involved in an explosion. Hope you like the images and video, was a good crawl but now back to the workbench. Since I need to piece the shell back together including strengthing the major cracks
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Today I am reviewing the PLUG-KING Multi-19 Mega Charge Plug Adapter from Hobby King, very interesting lead which allows you to charge 19 types of batteries. The plug king is a harness lead combining all those annoying cables into a single cable. You have to understand you cant charge multiple batteries on this cable at
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This was a test of a friend’s homemade servo winch to see how well it would coupe with a vertical deadweight lift, it did really well and lifted itself all the way up to the hook. Got a bit warm but no burning smells or fires, very impressed. This was a converted high torque steering
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Took the Land Rover D90 using a Vattera Ascender chassie out for a crawl last week, unfortunately there was an accident and the D90 took a bit of damage. I am now debating starting again and getting another D90 shell. Anyways hope you enjoy the video it was a good day and I would recommend
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Today the new front bumper arrived, big and chunky to go with the build and should fit in really well. Not bad for £30 off ebay, took a while to arrive nearly 3 weeks. I will be uploading a post shortly of how I will be fitting this, possibly bolt it to the stock bumper
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Been browsing eBay and found some awsum looking items from a seller called “DJ Designs”, email him enquirying he provided me with a link to his website. Got some awsum stuff for D90 trucks as well as other trucks and scale items. I will be placing a order very shortly for the project. DJ Designs
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