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- Arrma RC's
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Allow me to explain the premise for my latest build… spend a bunch of money on another car I definitely don’t need.
Around Christmas time I stumbled upon what I thought at the time to be a pretty decent deal (not so much anymore with all of the Arrma/Horizon sales) Used Outcast 8s roller, no motor, receiver or esc but it did include the stock Spektrum servo.
After little thought I haggled them down to $500 bucks shipped to my door (again in hindsight I’m an idiot, I know) and waited anxiously. At this point I was busy building my 8s Kraton exb and hybrid 1/7ish Outcast thing so I didn’t really have any intentions of buying, let alone building a 1/5 Outcast but I knew my brother was interested in getting into the 1/5 scale game so I bought it with the plan of selling it to him. (Subconsciously already building it in my head) It showed up in an EXB box and appeared to be used but taken care of. I’m kind of thinking the previous owner bought it, had some fun and then bought an EXB and swapped the electronics over to it before selling the carcass to me.
Long story short, it showed up, he didn’t want it (Yes!) and now with all of the sales and it being worth less than what I paid for it, I pretty much have to build it. I feel like I spent a good chunk of change on my last two builds to make them fairly bullet proof, and decided I wanted to do this one as cheap as possible and try to weed out as many upgrades as possible for my style of bashing, but still upgrade it to an extent. The truck is short a motor, transmitter/receiver and an ESC so rather than replace with factory parts I decided to upgrade those right off that bat. And because they were available at the time and I don’t like to follow rules too closely, I grabbed a Raminator servo to replace the stock Spektrum servo that came with the truck.
Around Christmas time I stumbled upon what I thought at the time to be a pretty decent deal (not so much anymore with all of the Arrma/Horizon sales) Used Outcast 8s roller, no motor, receiver or esc but it did include the stock Spektrum servo.
After little thought I haggled them down to $500 bucks shipped to my door (again in hindsight I’m an idiot, I know) and waited anxiously. At this point I was busy building my 8s Kraton exb and hybrid 1/7ish Outcast thing so I didn’t really have any intentions of buying, let alone building a 1/5 Outcast but I knew my brother was interested in getting into the 1/5 scale game so I bought it with the plan of selling it to him. (Subconsciously already building it in my head) It showed up in an EXB box and appeared to be used but taken care of. I’m kind of thinking the previous owner bought it, had some fun and then bought an EXB and swapped the electronics over to it before selling the carcass to me.
Long story short, it showed up, he didn’t want it (Yes!) and now with all of the sales and it being worth less than what I paid for it, I pretty much have to build it. I feel like I spent a good chunk of change on my last two builds to make them fairly bullet proof, and decided I wanted to do this one as cheap as possible and try to weed out as many upgrades as possible for my style of bashing, but still upgrade it to an extent. The truck is short a motor, transmitter/receiver and an ESC so rather than replace with factory parts I decided to upgrade those right off that bat. And because they were available at the time and I don’t like to follow rules too closely, I grabbed a Raminator servo to replace the stock Spektrum servo that came with the truck.