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Since no one I know in real life cares about this stuff I thought I’d share this non Arrma build. (Mods can move this to general chaos if applicable)
The trx4 kit is really nice. Great instructions, no errors and all around good quality. Body is the same as the sport but comes with some scale parts, roll cage light buckets and better body details.
Standard low budget crawler build for the most part. Using my gt5 radio, 20kg amazon servo, hw 1080 esc, and Holmes hobby crawlmaster sport 10tfor electrics. I did not use the battery tray or receiver box. Since the body on this is much heavier than the standard sport I wanted the battery up front for sure. I moved the esc to the opposite side to offset the weight of the motor and moved it up and closer to the center. Receiver is placed in a balloon and held down to a little kydex mount I made. Reversed the bumper mounts and only using the supports to reinforce the body (no bumpers out side the body...). The supports key the body nicely and protect it well enough. Raised up the sliders 3/8” with some homemade spacers and trimmed the doors. Battery mount is a piece of kydex I molded to the ovonic 2200mah 3s packs I like.
Painting the body did not go well. I mixed up a can of “ts” tamiya paint and used it instead of “ps”. Only when I backed it with black over white did I realize my mistake. It ran into the blue...Just going to run it until the paint starts to flake off then paint the outside. (Tip: if your crawler has no fenderwells back the body with black. Seeing the color of the body from underneath is just awful...)
Put a couple bashers in the back for pics...I’ll see how it performs against my other crawlers. Heavy body will make it less capable than the original sport but should still do pretty well. Anyone jonesing for a crawler and wants to build a kit, this is a decent one. All together, not counting radio gear, I have maybe $340 in it.
Btw I see a lot of guys wanting a rig for young children. The trx4 sport will kill two birds. Bird one, you will now own a crawler. Bird two, put a 2s pack in it and turn off the drag break and let your 5 year old have at it. Really tough little trucks. The plastic servo horn (kit comes with a metal one!) might break but that’s about it.
Here’s a hilarious video, that show a trx4 as a pretty tough basher...
The trx4 kit is really nice. Great instructions, no errors and all around good quality. Body is the same as the sport but comes with some scale parts, roll cage light buckets and better body details.
Standard low budget crawler build for the most part. Using my gt5 radio, 20kg amazon servo, hw 1080 esc, and Holmes hobby crawlmaster sport 10tfor electrics. I did not use the battery tray or receiver box. Since the body on this is much heavier than the standard sport I wanted the battery up front for sure. I moved the esc to the opposite side to offset the weight of the motor and moved it up and closer to the center. Receiver is placed in a balloon and held down to a little kydex mount I made. Reversed the bumper mounts and only using the supports to reinforce the body (no bumpers out side the body...). The supports key the body nicely and protect it well enough. Raised up the sliders 3/8” with some homemade spacers and trimmed the doors. Battery mount is a piece of kydex I molded to the ovonic 2200mah 3s packs I like.
Painting the body did not go well. I mixed up a can of “ts” tamiya paint and used it instead of “ps”. Only when I backed it with black over white did I realize my mistake. It ran into the blue...Just going to run it until the paint starts to flake off then paint the outside. (Tip: if your crawler has no fenderwells back the body with black. Seeing the color of the body from underneath is just awful...)
Put a couple bashers in the back for pics...I’ll see how it performs against my other crawlers. Heavy body will make it less capable than the original sport but should still do pretty well. Anyone jonesing for a crawler and wants to build a kit, this is a decent one. All together, not counting radio gear, I have maybe $340 in it.
Btw I see a lot of guys wanting a rig for young children. The trx4 sport will kill two birds. Bird one, you will now own a crawler. Bird two, put a 2s pack in it and turn off the drag break and let your 5 year old have at it. Really tough little trucks. The plastic servo horn (kit comes with a metal one!) might break but that’s about it.
Here’s a hilarious video, that show a trx4 as a pretty tough basher...
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so I looked at crawlers as something different, read about all the various brands Axial, Traxxass, Element etc and decided on the Axial SCX10 III, in hindsight I should have probably gone with the TRX4 but hey I still enjoyed the build. I went with it set up 2 speed with dig, HW1080, Holmes Hobbies motor all running off a DX5c..
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