Bondo's 6X6 Scale/Crawler recovery truck

[pinkpanda3310]

I just spent a few days in Exmouth visiting my Dad, he's a typical 'run for the sun' kind of retiree (I met lots of retiree's up there) and seeing this thread again makes me think 'I want to do that when I retire'. I don't want to mimick what you've done but to spend the hours making and thinking and re-making to create someting like you have would be an awesome feat big kudos buddy

[Bondonutz]

Originally Posted by pinkpanda3310

I just spent a few days in Exmouth visiting my Dad, he's a typical 'run for the sun' kind of retiree (I met lots of retiree's up there) and seeing this thread again makes me think 'I want to do that when I retire'. I don't want to mimick what you've done but to spend the hours making and thinking and re-making to create someting like you have would be an awesome feat big kudos buddy

Hey thanks PP, much appreciated my friend.
Building from the ground up like this has a personal reward unlike anything else I've done in RC befor even with fabricating all the misc one off parts I've done in the past. This level of scratch building far exceeds time involved anything I've done prior, the fun level has ben off the charts as well. I'm looking forward very much of starting my replica 1:1 build of my Grand Cherokee scaler, I will be making the frame and everything else from zero. Should be fun.

I've torn the entire 6X6 down to zero and have decided to reconfigure the axles to the standard o--oo axle layout, The #1 & #3 axles will steer only. I also stripped all the paint off the brass work and beefing up and lenthening the bed boom and the tow apperatus. I also have made a entirely new rear bumper thats much heavier duty and scale in size. Have plans for a crawl meet the 29th and hope to have it done and get video.

I will be posting another batch of pics sometime this weekend when I get the big pig back together, stay tuned !