Freeze's Savage Flux "Frostbyte II" build thread

Originally Posted by Finnster

It cuts very easily too, so you can use a very light hand to do the cutting. Leads to straighter lines and easier shaping. Tape you really have to cut thru.

One trick I learned was to jusy hold the xacto blade just at the very end of the handle and with just your pointer finger and thumb. You just drag the knife where you want it to cut and let it do the work. Much easier to get consistant flowing lines, rather than holding like the knife like a pencil and trying your damnedest to draw a straight line, cut deep enough to get thru the tape, and not so deep you really score the lexan.

Yeah, I cut a little too hard and deep into the body, i'll have to try that suggestion next time.

[Finnster]

Originally Posted by Freezebyte

Yeah, I cut a little too hard and deep into the body, i'll have to try that suggestion next time.

Don't get me wrong, looks good. Just something you pick up.

One of my first tape jobs I did was on a thin body and I nearly cut thru it. You pretty much have to press hard on tape. The LM is much softer and can get away w/ a light touch.

Update: Body changes


With the project wrapping up at long last, I had to settle on my final ideas one way or another. After some research at the LHS, I determined the amount of work needed to tint the bodies windows isn't worth the further expense and time needed to complete it, so that idea was scrapped. I did decide to go ahead and use as much Shoe Goo as possible to help reinforce the likely weak area's on the body I felt that would be subject to cracking under bashing conditons, due to the wide and long nature of the body orginally designed for a Slash, not a MT. It's hard to see the Goo, so I outline the area's were I put it on the body


I also went ahead and put on packing tape on the sides of the body to help prevent the paint from being rubbed off from the battery trays during crashes and heavy landings. A simple but effective idea I felt.

FINAL STEP: COMPLETION!


What else can I say, but after over a month since I started, "Frostbyte II" is FINALLY done! I'll let the pictures do the rest of the talking!


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[pinkpanda3310]

Great job Freeze! It looks great and looks like it handles well. BTW when did you lease it for it to become unleased?

Originally Posted by pinkpanda3310

Great job Freeze! It looks great and looks like it handles well. BTW when did you lease it for it to become unleased?

Grrrr.... I need to correct that.

[Nard Cox]

It turned out great Freeze! But I'm shocked the motor moved from that little tumble .... I've put my flux through way worse than that and my motor never mooved an inch. I saw someone here on RCM put some ty-rips around the motor to prevent it from sliding, I believe it was jahay.

EDIT: MuggyDude, but you also found it yourself.

Yeah, put on some red loctite and really cranked those mount screws down so We'll see if that holds. My first Flux never had this issue

[Nard Cox]

Perhaps it's an issue with the ''newer'' Fluxes? I've had mine for over a year now and never heard of this problem until recently. Oh well, nothing a small fix can't help.

Hope you'll enjoy your truck ;)

No idea, i'll need to keep eye out for zip ties or something that will prevent it again if this fix doesn't work.

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Truck came together nicely, looks great and handling seems ok now. Nice little bashing area too.

[Jahay]

looks great.. running great... nice job mate!!!

I cant believe your motor came loose.. just tighten and loctite a little more and should be fine...

Do you feel anything else is needed for the truck? are you happy with the way its performing

[thzero]

Nice action shots. I wouldn't use the red locktite, just blue, but yeah crank those screws down.

Gotta say the only two things I miss about Bozeman would be the skiing, and the potential bash sites!

[reno911]

I absolutely love that last picture, Freeze thanks for the build, it was fun. Everything turned out great. In fact more than great that thing is insane. I hope it brings you hours of fun. I imagine you will keep us updated on any tweaks and such in the future! I look forward to many more videos.