Any FTX Carnage/Bugsta non standard shell pictures?

[Nickarla]

If you have a Carnage or Bugsta with a non FTX shell could you post a picture please? Oddly for a popular car, I am finding it hard to find one that fits and looks good. All the Proline shells are quoted with a wheel base of 320mm, 250mm or 270mm, Killer Bodys do some amazing looking preprinted shells but come in 325mm and I have no idea what this would look like on the 295mm Carnage chassis.

[lennylogknob]

Got this on mine...
 

https://www.modelsport.co.uk/pro-line-1966-ford-f-100-clear-body-1-10/rc-car-products/380477

 

...fits a treat and has lasted me ages (unlike the original shells which, erm, didn't).

[Nickarla]

That could look good but isn't the wheel base a little short? Do you have any side on pictures?

Edited May 1, 2018 by Nickarla

[lennylogknob]

[Nickarla]

That works surprisingly well. Nice Bugsta. Thanks.

[lennylogknob]

I would've been nice to find another Beetle shell to fit but I couldn't find one that was anywhere near the right dimensions.

 

I must've got through half a dozen Bugsta shells in 3 or 4 months. I think they're made of prawn crackers.

[Nickarla]

I take it there have been no durability issues with the proline one then?

[lennylogknob]

It's a bit battered now but it's had a hard life.

I've Gorilla taped the inside which has certainly helped but there's a huge difference in quality and thickness between the Pro-line and the original shell.

Worst smash was absolutely flat out into a concrete fence post. Broke the front bumper, most of the front suspension, and snapped the chassis but the shell escaped with a 10mm crack.

It's spent so much time sliding along the road upside down that it's worn the back corners through though!

[Aaron Kinsey]

Anyone know any 3rd party pre painted that fit cheers 

[Lone-wolf]

I will be fitting this same shell to my carnage 2.0..........thought i was gonna be first to do this but as usual late to the party, mine is gonna be sprayed gloss black, should set of nice with the newer chrome wheels. Seeing that this little "Haymaker F100" fits i should think most of the similar shells would go on

Edited October 1, 2020 by Jack Reacher

[Lone-wolf]

And here it is all painted and fitted

[Stormbringer]

Looking really smart 🍻

[Fat Freddy]

This started life as a Vantage, I put on carnage wheels, and a cheap trophy truck body from a Himoto something or other. Never really liked it, then one day, well, what can I say, I got carried away.

Fits awful, but I quite like it. I am using it as a template for another half arsed, badly executed body shell project..... watch this space.

 

 

Yes, I know. I should clean it before taking pics.

Edited January 11, 2023 by Fat Freddy
Deleted pics to make space

[Nickarla]

As a rather late update I went with the Proline shell. I’ve since sold it on though. It complemented the FTX chassis really well.