Building the BATTLE TRUCK..

[jhautz]

Now we all know why he built that concrete bunker in his backyard. To hide from the rocket fire. LOL



This thing sounds more like a BattleBot than an RC. I'm interested to see how it turns out. Make sure you have some video running for the maiden run. Somehow I foresee some serious carnage due to some sort of misfire.

[What's_nitro?]

Originally Posted by lincpimp

Damn good idea, I will be doing that to my employees! (Imagine having to work for me, scary huh?!?!?!)

What exactly do you do for work, lincpimp? Just make sure they all sign the waiver that morning....

[jayjay283]

when I was about 15 I took those rocket engines and ground all the inside up into power, whats it magnesuim and gun powder and threw a match in there and 15 ft cloud of white smoke. My eyelashes never did grow back right

[lincpimp]

Originally Posted by What's_nitro?

What exactly do you do for work, lincpimp? Just make sure they all sign the waiver that morning....

I own an auto body and paint shop. We mainly do collision repair, and sometimes custom stuff and restos...

I have a running joke that if anything happens to anyone at work we will throw them in the ditch across the street, no liability if they are off the property! And my word against their's!

[jayjay283]

Originally Posted by lincpimp

I own an auto body and paint shop. We mainly do collision repair, and sometimes custom stuff and restos...

I have a running joke that if anything happens to anyone at work we will throw them in the ditch across the street, no liability if they are off the property! And my word against their's!

Shoud move to Cali, they really do that with day laborors. Not speaking of any actual events I witnessed or will ever speak of.

[What's_nitro?]

Originally Posted by jayjay283

when I was about 15 I took those rocket engines and ground all the inside up into power, whats it magnesuim and gun powder and threw a match in there and 15 ft cloud of white smoke. My eyelashes never did grow back right

I did that once (note the key word there). I ground up 4 smaller engines and tried to pack them into a cardboard tube to make a larger engine. When I ignited it, it just exploded. I was at a safe distance and so unharmed by the shockwave that blew the wing off of the Radio Shack RC car that I had attached the engine to. Those are the heavy, ABS plastic wings, so it was quite a blast.

Originally Posted by lincpimp

I own an auto body and paint shop. We mainly do collision repair, and sometimes custom stuff and restos...

I have a running joke that if anything happens to anyone at work we will throw them in the ditch across the street, no liability if they are off the property! And my word against their's!

Just don't forget to throw some lime in there with them. Then it will just be YOUR word!

[thephilonator]

i just had the funniest idea, take this truck to a race, then when you're loosing or winning or whatever, randomly stop, spin around and wait for the other racers to come around, then fire at them.



one question tho, what are the gullwing doors going to be made of?, are you just going to cut the doors out of a lexan body?

[TDC57]

Originally Posted by thephilonator

i just had the funniest idea, take this truck to a race, then when you're loosing or winning or whatever, randomly stop, spin around and wait for the other racers to come around, then fire at them.



one question tho, what are the gullwing doors going to be made of?, are you just going to cut the doors out of a lexan body?

Well..
I’ll be taking a page out of the Rock Crawler book of customizing; I’ll be using small tubing soldered as the frame and skinning it with ligt but durable alu, painted to math the existing body of course..


BINGO..
YOU”VE GOT IT!!! and Unfortunately so will the boys at our So-Cal bashes, that is until someone else builds one too..

I like the way you think!!

OOOo by the way, Welcome to Monster!! this place is GREAT.. lots of extremely bright and helpful people full of great and unusual ideas

Have a great one..

[thephilonator]

Originally Posted by TDC57

Well..
I’ll be taking a page out of the Rock Crawler book of customizing; I’ll be using small tubing soldered as the frame and skinning it with ligt but durable alu, painted to math the existing body of course..


BINGO..
YOU”VE GOT IT!!! and Unfortunately so will the boys at our So-Cal bashes, that is until someone else builds one too..

I like the way you think!!

OOOo by the way, Welcome to Monster!! this place is GREAT.. lots of extremely bright and helpful people full of great and unusual ideas

Have a great one..

thanks for the welcome, i can already see some wonderful people.

be sure to keep us informed and post lots of pics and vids.

[TDC57]

Not a bad next project haa Jordan.. :) It's almost as cool as your build..

[jordan...]

lol thanks Shaun. One thing, how did you know i was going to post even before i posted ^^thats phil

Cant wait to see this thing come together, a brushless truggy with missiles, machine gun and gull wing doors I don't know why anyone hasnt thought of this before

have a good one!

[BL_RV0]

You should put tracks on it. That'd be badass, if you could take them off. Maybe build or buy some tracks and use some 40 series mulcher tires to keep them on?
Edit: It's BATTLE, not BATTEL. Might want to change your sig.

so who wants to take this to ROAR? I tihnk we can give a compelling presentation

its kinda like speed racer

[brushlessboy16]

Originally Posted by Andrew32

so who wants to take this to ROAR? I tihnk we can give a compelling presentation

its kinda like speed racer

ProjectX Class- drivers stand would need a bullet proof glass enclosure

[Finnster]

Ha ha. I saw that swivel joint thing at servo city Arct1k linked a while back and it gave me ideas of doing the same thing. However, I wanted to mount the rocket pod onto the swivel and have the gun hard mounted onto the cab frame with a camo Hummer truck body. I didn't think servos would hold up to small arms fire too well, but then again I was dreaming up the greatest YouTube RC vid of all time, with a panning paintball gun firing at a victim Radioshack car, then nailing it with exploding rocket. Then I realized I was 31 with kids and my wife would F#$%#g kill me if I made such a thing. Oh well, lots of luck to you.

I know ServoCity has non-centering 360* servos (continous spin) for helis that would work great w/ the turret. I was thinking of using Estes mini rockets. The small ones that use the 1/2A series engines. You could go soviet ICBM style and use a big engine bastard too. lol. Rocket ignitors are really easy and useful for setting all sorts of incendiary devices off with.

I also had a ton of estes rocket engines as a kid. I took a bunch apart and kept the powder to make my own fireworks (CO had strict fireworks laws, you may have seen the giant smoke snake episode of South Park and I know what I mean.)
One of the best was the powder in a cardbord container mixed with cut-up match heads. The powder would explode making a great big smoke mushroom cloud with flaming match heads flying out in all directions. These could also be fired into the air with a slingshot and detonated midair with great effect.

Rocket engines also found their way into all sorts of projects and toys. Rocket tyco RCs, a rocket RC boat, even a rocket Pinewood derby car. That had a bigass D engine too. In its one and only run, it set the landspeed record pinewood derby cars, as well as highest flying PWD car after it hit a sloped curb down the street, and lastly most obliteratied PWD car when the engine exploded to deploy the chute (there was none.) It rained matches and toothpicks. lol
[btw: Booster stage engines can be used to ignite other incendiary devices in the upper parts of the rocket. I'm just saying.]
Good luck and don't kill anything. Don't aim that thing at children or pets.