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  1. Great - didn't realise he ad a Flickr stream - thought he'd given up as his websites not been updated for a while. May have to attempt a copy - although mine wouldn't look half as good.
  2. I have just noticed this car on the rc-japan website (the banner image) - looks like some sort of hotshot http://www.rc-japan.de/ Does anyone know what it is, if its available or is it some ones custom work, or where i can get more pics. any pointers greatly recieved. ta.
  3. Didn't check that site well enough - they will print for you, but again it's very expensive - http://www.thinglab.co.uk/printing_costs.htm . They require STL format.
  4. I don't know much about this area - but as i am just learning some cad stuff i have come across 3D printers which print prototypes in 3D - although i would imagine you would still have to use it as a mold for vacuum forming. The price of 3D printers is also rather expensive - http://www.inition.co.uk/inition/products.php?CatID_=22 . I would imagine there are companies (or maybe universities) who will print a file for you if you give them some money, but god knows how much. I know you wanted to develop skills as a Cad designer for this but i would imagine, like mentioned above, that creating a mold out of some sort of soft stuff would be the cheapest and probably logistically easiest method of creating your own body - maybe using cad for visuals, scale and measurements. That is what i'm planning on and am currently building my own vacuum former. Like i say i'm no expert but i just thought i would add my opinion. Good luck and let me know how you get on.
  5. Point taken - i was going to build my own chassis any way, theres something more satisfying building your own rather than buying - not to mention cheaper. thanks
  6. I'm tempted to get a bowler shell and paint it like this i think. Yes the transformer wildcat is pretty cool - i don't think i'm capable of recreating that though.
  7. Now i know you are probably going to laugh at me here - but how about modding grashopper/hornet trans/axles - i know they'll need gearing down some how (has anyone tried this, or am i being plain ridiculous). Obviously i would have to mod them so i had some steering - but i can't see a problem in that, just the gearing issue - i have seen some grasshoppers with 4-link and was kind of considering something like that at both ends - to avoid a central transmision. i don't mind having it faster than a crawler needs to be as i am not going to compete - focus on budget! I want something that i can 'engineer' a bit more than a stick chasis. Any way lat me know what you think and if you can point me in the direction of any good grasshopper/hornet gearbox mods that'd be ace. Also if this is a ridiculous post , i do appologise. cheers
  8. Fully autonomous BAE systems wildcat - based on the Bowler Wildcat. Is under technologies (its a flash site so can't give full url). http://brains.baesystems.investis.com/flash.html
  9. well its an ongoing competition with a mate - it has to be budget and built and whatever is practically fabricated by ourselves - there is no timescale for it so i can spend dribs and drabs as i go on it - i prefer to come up with a plan and then make it to what is available (and cheap) no price limit as such - just cheap as poss. for this project it is very much out and out crawler - not bothered about scale looks, just want it to be fairly capable and i want to keep the centre of gravity low to stop it rolling.
  10. Thanks for the help. having thought about it maybe making my own axles etc is a bit unecessary - think i will go with something like the clod axles then, now to find some - i may do a bit of research and see whats available - i quite like having a bunch of random parts that have to be shoehorned together. Just a couple of questions at risk of repeating other posts - what are the prefered axles or setups for peoples crawlers - what is the advantage of a central gearbox with drive shafts to the axles? sorry for the questions which may sound obvious but i don't want it to be unecesarily over-engineered if i can do things simply. thanks again
  11. Hello i am looking to build a budget crawler - i have seen Mud4fun do some interesting stuff and i may use drill motors - i am not building anything to compete with but i do want it to be a capable basher. I have looked through old buggy parts and decided that i want to build nearly everything myself - including axles etc as i don't just want to lock up wish bones and diffs. First question is can a crawler be more ore less direct drive? I'm thinking about simplicity so its easy to keep it going and modify in the future (i want it to be an ongoing project that evolves) I was thinking of a dual motor crawler with a motor mounted on each axle as i want to keep the centre of gravity as low as is practically possible. I was thinking of building the axles casing out of a mix of Alu tube and alu sheet and maybe the gearcasing out of perspex sandwiche with alu sheet - similar to grahoos creations I kind of understand gear ratios but i do not know how to work them out - can anyone help i want somewhere in the region of 30:1 - 50:1 - i still want a little speed but not much, i also don't really get what pitch is on gears? i really don't want to get in to spending a lot on it as i said it is a budget crawler - but that doesn't mean i want it to look like something form a gcse woodwork class. Any advice particularly on gearing - even suggestions of gears to use would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks Matt
  12. Hi - I too am thinking of getting a dremel or similar. what do people reccomend or use i have loads of other standard drills etc but fancy something for the intricate work - maybe on carbon fibre etc. I have noticed B&Q do a rotary tool for 20 - is this any good or a waste of money?
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