Hi from a newbie tackling a crazy custom 1/7 crawler build over the past year!

[G4Discovery2LE]

The story thus far, this was built essentially by eye, to the nearest 1/8" in most cases!  The balsa wood body shell is the model for a later aluminium shell, basically the pattern, which is all done from photos. The obvious difference from the real thing is the ride height, but I wanted as much flex as possible, but it is more or less 1/7 scale.

 

[Stormbringer]

Now that is different 

[wolfie1]

Its not every day that you see someone making everything completely from scratch in the rc car world, good effort, does it go good?

[Redback]

That a yeti transmission with 2 speed? Love the chassis, the amount of copper pipe on the sliders may shift the cog pretty high. Usally they are kept light as its sprung weight. Very keen to see it running. Epic build.

[G4Discovery2LE]

1 hour ago, wolfie1 said:

Its not every day that you see someone making everything completely from scratch in the rc car world, good effort, does it go good?

So far it has only run on the flat with a doorstep in the way, which wasn't an issue, terrified my brothers husky with it, but in true Land Rover style it corners like a big ocean going oil tanker.

[G4Discovery2LE]

17 minutes ago, Redback said:

That a yeti transmission with 2 speed? Love the chassis, the amount of copper pipe on the sliders may shift the cog pretty high. Usally they are kept light as its sprung weight. Very keen to see it running. Epic build.

Transmission is 2 speed with front dig, the sliders are actually quite light weight for how they look, I have used weighted wheels to help with the cog.

[G4Discovery2LE]

As you can see from the pic, I'm currently working on making the spotlights to go on the front 'A' frame, getting a flat piece of ali sheet to make a bowl is quite the task, not having a lathe sufficient enough to spin them, and after that will be attempting the headlight cluster. But I have found one saving grace, 1/10 scale spotlights will work for the fog lights.

[ad456m]

This is cool man, look forward to seeing the body come together!