Ladies, gentlemen, scallywags, thieves, scoundrels and other creatures of the Arrma Asylum, it is with great excitement and honor that I present to you, Rackham’s Revenge! First, the money shots!
The car started life as a Senton 3S. She is a full time beach basher, so on went the following
I then went over the fishing line with IC-2000. I put them on with the treads directing sand towards the middle of the tire to trap more sand, rather than move it out of the way and dig deeper.
From there it was time to fit the body to the tires, and paint the body. I will direct you to my paint and body thread on that.
I’ve only had one bash, but it is running great now. It used to slam the chassis into ruts or over jumps and slow down, throwing sand everywhere. Now it just hops right over them. The wider tires don’t sink into the sand, and stay on top of it. It’s even harder to roll now. Very stable with the not too tall, but wide tires. It is still running on the hot side, though it doesn’t help it’s 85* here. I may need to go down to a 13T pinion. I am also going to remove or make holes in the side guard extenders. They are just inhibiting airflow at this time. This body is great for air flow BTW. No front or rear allows air to go right through. I still need to get some bumpers. The rear one really doesn’t look good on it.
Time to blast!
The car started life as a Senton 3S. She is a full time beach basher, so on went the following
- Dusty motors dust cover, which I have switched to a Raiden racing cover
- Shielded bearings from Jims
- taped up my power module
- Hot racing 30mm motor fan
- 15T pinion
- DumboRC X6 with Gyro
- HR Pivot balls
- Zoskay 25kg servo
- Kimbrough 124 servo saver
- Topped off shocks with oil
- Duratrax Hatchet MT DTXC5258
I then went over the fishing line with IC-2000. I put them on with the treads directing sand towards the middle of the tire to trap more sand, rather than move it out of the way and dig deeper.
From there it was time to fit the body to the tires, and paint the body. I will direct you to my paint and body thread on that.
I’ve only had one bash, but it is running great now. It used to slam the chassis into ruts or over jumps and slow down, throwing sand everywhere. Now it just hops right over them. The wider tires don’t sink into the sand, and stay on top of it. It’s even harder to roll now. Very stable with the not too tall, but wide tires. It is still running on the hot side, though it doesn’t help it’s 85* here. I may need to go down to a 13T pinion. I am also going to remove or make holes in the side guard extenders. They are just inhibiting airflow at this time. This body is great for air flow BTW. No front or rear allows air to go right through. I still need to get some bumpers. The rear one really doesn’t look good on it.
Time to blast!
