Build One, Get It Right, Part It Out, Do It Again !! Life & Times of a Crawler Newbie

[Gee]

Sound pretty cool. Thanks for the info. I'm finding there's a lot more to these crawlers then meets the eye.

[RCShocker]

Well, the crawler is 98% ready for its first shakedown run. Kinda tough being that it will be at a #1 of 6 series Comp. I will know after the 9th how she turned out runnin' with the medium to big dogs.

Gotta get some rock rash on that "Murder of Crows" Grappler body.

[Gee]

That just looks plain out Bad Ass! I am impressed, I mean all your RCs turn out great (and their always clean) but I think you might of out did yourself on this one. Good luck!

[RCShocker]

Originally Posted by Gee

That just looks plain out Bad Ass! I am impressed, I mean all your RCs turn out great (and their always clean) but I think you might of out did yourself on this one. Good luck!

Thanks for the kind words. Too bad it didnt make into the running for Crawler Build of 08'.


I put this crawler build right up there with my very first E-Maxx build. Definately got the time and money in it as well. This 2 month build felt like 6 months because I really like to crawl ALOT!! And my shafty was GONE!!!




Well guys, I took her to the first comp today. The only issue I had was mostly from what I was anticipating. Still need a more articulation with a softer sprung suspension. Not much though.

Got a good bit more tweaking to do but as I headed into Course #3 today I was 4th place with only consistent top finishers in front of me AND a couple behind me.

A couple of bad decisions and the limited articulation bit me pretty good on #3 and pissed me off pretty good. Although it was a tough course that many had trouble's with. I'm still waiting on overall results to be posted.

I'm also trying to convince myself I had a decent day and be happy that NOTHING broke and I didnt suck a$$ and finish at the tale end of the 20-man field.

Oh yeah, everytime I got on the rocks someone had something cool to say about, for lack of better term, how freakin good my rig looks.

So that was kinda nice.

[TDC57]

WOW Doug..

looks GREAT... so when are you going to post some video??