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Jeremy Kilburn « Havre De Grace, MD
Right here’s an unbelievable Final Scale Truck Expo (USTE) worthy rig that’s constructed by a well-respected scale RC-er. Jeremy received a Workforce Raffee D110 station wagon physique set at USTE 2022 and got down to customise it to convey to the 2023 occasion. “I thought of the way to customise it for fairly some time by taking a look at Land Rover web pages and located inspiration from an outdated army conversion to a dually pickup fashion,” Jeremy tells us. “Making a single-cab, longbed dually Defender D130 was daunting, as no such factor existed in the actual world or in RC. It took me about 5 months to plan and accumulate components.” Jeremy transformed it to a two-door single cab first, then created fender extensions from styrene layering to cowl the twin wheel adapters and twin tires. Further scratch-made styrene components have been added, together with a bed-mounted toolbox that additionally serves as an easy-access battery door, a bench seat for the cab, and a scale GCM Racing Toyota 22R motor. He appears ahead to operating and presenting this experience at USTE 2023 in Florida. We’re certain it is going to entice loads of consideration, because it’s a great-looking experience. Congratulations on the exemplary work, Jeremy!

BUILD HIGHLIGHTS
– Chassis: Growth Racing BRX02
– Physique: Personalized Workforce Raffee Defender 110 Wagon
– Motor: Citadel 1900kV Slate
– Pace Management: Citadel Mamba X
– Battery: Pit Bull RC 2200mAh 3S
– Wheels and Tires: Growth Racing wheels and Pit Bull Temco 1.9 x 3.65 tires
– Shocks: Growth Racing
– Axles: Growth Racing
– Radio System: Spektrum SR515 receiver and DX5 Rugged transmitter
– Different Choices: Customized-made styrene plastic equipment, GCM Toyota 22R scale motor, Reefs RC Uncooked 500 – Operation 11 Charlie version servo, Reefs RC micro 99 servos

F-250 Rock Crawler
Chris Kimmelshue « FALMOUTH, ME
Chris begins off by telling us, “As soon as I noticed CEN Racing’s lifted F-250 RTR, I knew I wished to show it right into a rock crawler.” With the intention to obtain his purpose, Chris added the a lot bigger and stronger Ryft axles. He additionally corrected the rig’s suspension geometry in an effort to optimize articulation and stability through the use of a mixture of Axial’s M6 stainless hyperlinks. He then rearranged the chassis mounts and braces to optimize the load steadiness and moved the battery tray to the entrance to profit in crawling. “I added RC4WD’s two-speed Wraith transmission for the truck to rapidly get to the rock piles and kit down for the ascents,” Chris provides. “To mount the gearbox, I made a customized Delrin skid plate and dropped the place of the transmission to decrease the middle of gravity.” One of many remaining touches was swapping the inventory entrance bumper for Axial’s Basecamp bumper, which he stories suits properly. The crawler bumper provides the F-250 an ideal method angle. It’s an incredible construct and we’re completely loving it, Chris, nice job!

BUILD HIGHLIGHTS
– Chassis: CEN Racing F-250
– Physique: CEN Racing Ford F-250 SD KG1 Version Lifted Truck
– Motor: Citadel 1412-3200kV
– Pace Management: Citadel Mamba X
– Battery: Powerhobby 3S 4200 mAh Si-Graphene
– Wheels and Tires: SSD Challenger 2.2 and Professional-Line Baja Professional X 2.2
– Shocks: GMade XD Diaphragm 103mm
– Axles: Axial Ryft AR90s
– Radio System: Spektrum DX5 Rugged radio and SR515 receiver
– Different Choices: Axial SCX10-III Basecamp entrance bumper, Vanquish Merchandise 2.2 wheel weights and hubs, Samix chrome steel pivot balls all through, NSDRC RS1 monster torque servo, customized MIP driveshafts, sway bar mount, torsion rod utilizing Reefs arms.

Salut, Gilles! VilLEneuve’s FeRrari 312T3
Evan Lee « Strathroy, Ontario, Canada
We don’t see almost as many ’70s-era F1 builds, so it’s a delight at any time when one is submitted to Readers Rides. Evan fills us in on this great-looking racer: “This construct was a collaboration with one other TamiyaClub member (alias speedy_w_beans), who designed, printed and painted the customized 3D-printed components. I constructed a shallow cockpit from scratch, together with entrance and rear rollover pylons, gauge cluster, steering wheel, and instrument wiring. The cockpit form was modeled after pictures of the 1:1 scale automobile in addition to 1/20 scale fashions and replaces the molded package components. The seat belt is a generic 1/10-scale 5-point harness, and the motive force is a closely modified Tamiya 4×4 determine with a Tamiya Rally Cockpit helmet. This construct is a tribute to that Canadian icon Gilles Villeneuve, and a celebration of the uncommon crossover between Tamiya and Canada. And regardless of the added weight of the dimensions particulars, it’s quick!” We consider it! Incredible job, guys, thanks for sharing it!

BUILD HIGHLIGHTS
– Chassis: Tamiya F104W
– Physique: Tamiya Ferrari 312T3
– Motor: Tamiya Sport-Tuned 27T
– Pace Management: Mtroniks Sport 20 ESC
– Battery: Reedy Wolfpack 7.2V NiMH 2400mAh
– Wheels and Tires: Tamiya F104W rubber tires on customized 3D-printed wheels
– Paint: Tamiya TS-8 Italian Crimson, TS-26 Pure White, assorted Tamiya brush paints for element components and cockpit
– Decals: Tamiya
– Radio System: Spektrum DX4C radio and SR-315 receiver
– Different Choices: Customized 3D-printed entrance brake ducts, rear wing mount, rear motor case panel; scratch-built cockpit with modified Tamiya
4×4 driver determine

Dillon’s Outdated Faculty Excessive Path K10
Benjamin Garron « Hallstead, PA
Benjamin’s 9-year-old son is a big fan of outdated iron and traditional 4×4 vans and had been asking Santa for one among these vans for months. To not disappoint, Benjamin repainted a set of JConcept wheels and tires he had left over from one other undertaking and moved them to the truck you see right here. Of the undertaking, he says, “After just a few hours of trial and error with some match and end, we had it dialed in the place we wished it. I used 1/4 aluminum spacers to make a physique raise and lift the facet steps to match. We additionally mounted the bumpers on to the physique to shut the gaps and make all the pieces look as manufacturing facility as doable. The truck has an superior traditional 4×4 look now with the dimensions efficiency to match!” Nice job on delivering this great-looking old style pickup in time for Christmas, Benjamin!

BUILD HIGHLIGHTS
– Chassis: Traxxas TRX-4 Excessive Path K10
– Physique: Traxxas 1979 Excessive Path K10
– Motor: Traxxas 21T 550
– Pace Management: Traxxas XL5 3S
– Battery: Venom 2S LiPo
– Wheels and Tires: JConcepts 2.2 Midwest wheels and JConcepts Rangers tires
– Shocks: Traxxas
– Axles: Traxxas TRX-4 portals
– Radio System: Traxxas TQ
– Different Choices: Customized 1-inch physique raise, customized bumper mounts and facet step relocation

King Nothing
DION ROPER « WEST ALLIS, WI
It’s not usually that we get to see customized paint jobs on large-scale RCs, such because the one seen on this Arrma Felony. From what we are able to discern, the Felony’s ample 1/7-scale physique was hydro-dipped and painted by Pitdawg Hydro within the firm’s Nightmare patterned graphics and is backed by a rust-colored paint. The look is additional enhanced with a set of Powerhobby gold wheels which might be mounted with Powerhobby Gripper belted tires. Nice-looking experience, Dion!

BUILD HIGHLIGHTS
– Chassis: Arrma Felony
– Physique: Arrma Felony
– Motor: Spektrum
– Pace Management: Spektrum
– Battery: Spektrum
– Wheels and Tires: Powerhobby gold wheels mounted with Powerhobby Gripper belted tires
– Paint: Pitdawg Hydro
– Decals: Pitdawg Hydro
– Radio System: Spektrum