Absima Sherpa Scale Crawler

Nice looking rig,  spoilt only by crappy jeep (ish) looking shell.

 

but honestly, I don’t like to comment on crawlers and such much now as there are far too many more people who know everything. Good on them.

 

my opinion is this, until something comes along that completely blows the Trx4 out the water, I’ll stick with what i have and extremely happy with.

 

micro crawling is a big positive for me though, can’t beat having a decent layout on a pallet lol.

On 27/06/2020 at 09:04, TWINSET said:

Anyone else old enough to only associate 'Sherpa' with these? 😆

 

Only a month late but.... I once had to put a starter motor in one of these... held in by two bolts, one metric, the other imperial, both different sizes and different threads. The original starter motor was missing entirely and I got the “new” one from a breaker,  without the necessary bolts. Took f’ing ages to figure out why I couldn’t fit the ******* in there.

British Leyland eh? Can’t understand where it all went wrong..........

sadly i backed out of the pre order, its pretty much unknown model and have to say i really like my FS racing SCX clone so sticking with that as my main crawler

1 minute ago, Jack Reacher said:

sadly i backed out of the pre order, its pretty much unknown model and have to say i really like my FS racing SCX clone so sticking with that as my main crawler

 

That's a shame, I've been hearing really good things about these. Thinking about getting one myself.

Yesss! These are due in stock tomorrow....hopefully I’ll have mine for the bank holiday weekend 

Modelsport have just emailed me to say my order has been processed and will be with tomorrow  😀

Edited July 28, 2020 by tomr

On 28/07/2020 at 11:45, tomr said:

Modelsport have just emailed me to say my order has been processed and will be with tomorrow  😀

 

They look fantastic.

 

2 hours ago, Nick said:

 

They look fantastic.

 

 
Thanks Nick 

 

It ‘s actually much better quality than I imagined although I haven’t had the chance to run it yet .Im hoping to get out for an hour tomorrow.

On 30/07/2020 at 19:06, tomr said:

 
Thanks Nick 

 

It ‘s actually much better quality than I imagined although I haven’t had the chance to run it yet .Im hoping to get out for an hour tomorrow.

 

What's your thoughts on this @tomr?

I'm reviewing a few atm as want a newer, cleaner scale rig and this is defo on that list....

 

8 minutes ago, DartmoorTrails said:

 

What's your thoughts on this @tomr?

I'm reviewing a few atm as want a newer, cleaner scale rig and this is defo on that list....

 

It’s definitely  decent truck I’m pleased I bought it,I’ve not had any problems with it so far (about 20 hours run time ) .

it needs the usual things doing   like adding weight upfront ,tyres etc 

A few people have had the pin fall out of the front cvd ,not had that problem myself  but sounds like the pin On a few cvd’s might have been a mm or 2 too short From the factory? 

Theres a couple of Absima owners groups on facebook that’ll give you some good feedback .👍

 

3 hours ago, tomr said:

It’s definitely  decent truck I’m pleased I bought it,I’ve not had any problems with it so far (about 20 hours run time ) .

it needs the usual things doing   like adding weight upfront ,tyres etc 

A few people have had the pin fall out of the front cvd ,not had that problem myself  but sounds like the pin On a few cvd’s might have been a mm or 2 too short From the factory? 

Theres a couple of Absima owners groups on facebook that’ll give you some good feedback .👍

 

nice one, cheers

Well.. Neighbour and i are ordering one each as well. It looks decent enough, the Sendero is nowhere in stock, and there's not much around at this price point that I'd consider worlds better. We stick to blue and orange though, not 100% sure why the grey and olive one only have window stickers rather than clear windows like the blue and orange one.

 

Don't think you can go wrong with this one, judging by the videos I watched.

2 hours ago, m4inbrain said:

Well.. Neighbour and i are ordering one each as well. It looks decent enough, the Sendero is nowhere in stock, and there's not much around at this price point that I'd consider worlds better. We stick to blue and orange though, not 100% sure why the grey and olive one only have window stickers rather than clear windows like the blue and orange one.

 

Don't think you can go wrong with this one, judging by the videos I watched.

It’s the Matt finish on the grey and olive body’s that make the windows look frosted 👍

17 minutes ago, tomr said:

It’s the Matt finish on the grey and olive body’s that make the windows look frosted 👍

 

No, it's not.

 

In all videos i watched where there's a grey or olive one, the window looks exactly like that.

 

edit: nevermind i'm stupid, only now understanding what you mean. Well.. They should've put on window protectors or something, that looks stupid. I'd prefer grey over blue/orange, but not with these windows.

 

Do like the looks though, already have a 1080 and Crawlmaster Pro sitting here ready to go, plus a new radio. And, probably, my Pitbull Rock Beasts too, so far all the videos i've seen, the tyres seem to be pretty awful?

 

 

Edited September 29, 2020 by m4inbrain

18 minutes ago, m4inbrain said:

 

No, it's not.

 

In all videos i watched where there's a grey or olive one, the window looks exactly like that.

 

edit: nevermind i'm stupid, only now understanding what you mean. Well.. They should've put on window protectors or something, that looks stupid. I'd prefer grey over blue/orange, but not with these windows.

 

Do like the looks though, already have a 1080 and Crawlmaster Pro sitting here ready to go, plus a new radio. And, probably, my Pitbull Rock Beasts too, so far all the videos i've seen, the tyres seem to be pretty awful?

 

 

Yeah I swapped the wheels and tyres out pretty quick they’ve got a short course Wheel type Set up ,where the inside diameter is larger than the outside .

Ive got the grey version .......frosted windows FTW 😂 

Nah, i'm planning for a cheap and nasty interior, no need to do that if i can't see it.  

 

We'll see where i'll go with it, just need something to faff around with in winter, this seems decent value.

If you really want the grey or olive I have seen people in the Facebook Sherpa groups clean the frost of the windows pretty easily.Not sure what they used but one even took the full Matt finish off the body.

1 minute ago, tomr said:

If you really want the grey or olive I have seen people in the Facebook Sherpa groups clean the frost of the windows pretty easily.Not sure what they used but one even took the full Matt finish off the body.

 

Nah, i'm not that bothered with a blue body to be honest. Not my first choice, but still decent. Got enough work to do on it, cba faffing around with alcohol wiping the windows clean or whatever too.

 

As a sidenote, how big is the receiver tray - is there, lets say, space for a normal receiver and a smaller one? Or is it close to flush with a single receiver?

3 minutes ago, m4inbrain said:

 

Nah, i'm not that bothered with a blue body to be honest. Not my first choice, but still decent. Got enough work to do on it, cba faffing around with alcohol wiping the windows clean or whatever too.

 

As a sidenote, how big is the receiver tray - is there, lets say, space for a normal receiver and a smaller one? Or is it close to flush with a single receiver?

Can’t remember buddy but I can take A pic tomorrow if you want one .

1 minute ago, tomr said:

Can’t remember buddy but I can take A pic tomorrow if you want one .

 

Would be nice - the radio i wanna use doesn't have "big channel receivers", so it's using a 4ch receiver with a 4ch expansion.. thingie, to make it 8ch. But, of course, it's gotta fit in the receiverbox. 

1 minute ago, m4inbrain said:

 

Would be nice - the radio i wanna use doesn't have "big channel receivers", so it's using a 4ch receiver with a 4ch expansion.. thingie, to make it 8ch. But, of course, it's gotta fit in the receiverbox. 

Will do 👍

Measurements are from the inside walls of the box so you exactly how much room you have to play with 👍
45mm length 

28mm wide

28mm deep 

 

First time I’ve looked in RX box ,looks like the receiver and light kit are a 2in1 unit 

 

Edited September 30, 2020 by tomr

Cheers pal, doesn't look like my shiny radio is gonna fit, that's pretty tight. 

 

Harumph.

 

edit: do you, by chance, know what weight the shock oil is? In some videos, or in some situation, it looks a little "stiff legged", i wonder if that's due to the internal springs or if the oil is a bit too heavy for my liking.

Edited September 30, 2020 by m4inbrain

50 minutes ago, m4inbrain said:

Cheers pal, doesn't look like my shiny radio is gonna fit, that's pretty tight. 

 

Harumph.

 

edit: do you, by chance, know what weight the shock oil is? In some videos, or in some situation, it looks a little "stiff legged", i wonder if that's due to the internal springs or if the oil is a bit too heavy for my liking.

Sorry bud no idea  

I'll be having a faff around with it, can't be that hard to figure out.