Part 13: Body trimming


After a long, boring and hard search to find just the right body that I wanted for my build, I finally found it on a google image search, ending up in a random nitro forum that i''ve never heard of. It was like the "aaaahhhhh" angel music when I saw it, it was exactly what I was looking for to give "Frostbyte II" the sleek and yet powerful racy look I was seeking. Some of you guessed it after my teaser pic last week and you are correct, its a Proline SC Desert Rat Clear body for the Slash.

http://prolineracing.com/bodies/dese...and-slash-4x4/



Amazingly enough, I was surprised at how well out of the box the body looked on the Flux XL chassis, but I felt it needed a bit of smoothing out in the line flow department.





Not to much to say about this part except measure, double check, triple check and then cut/drill





Once I cut off one section of trim, I used it as a guide for the next side to help them match as evenly as possible





There, now that looks slick, mean, fast and powerful, all in one body and we haven't even painted yet! I love how the lines are a nice flow of curves and straight edges, its a personal preference of mine which made finding the right body with the right look so hard for me. Ironic considering this was made for a Slash but hey, ingenuity always wins out.










I'm very pleased with the body after the trimming so I think its pretty much done. Earlier today I placed my order for some special masking decals at my LHS after deciding on a rough idea of what I want the paint job to look like and I hope to have them by Friday and have the painting an decaling completed by the weekend if all goes well. Stay tuned in folks, same bat time, same bat channel!