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Cheers for the link. Im in Uk though, however is a great idea and there must be sites over here for it.
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So whilst I have been working from home the last couple of days thanks to some white stuff, I made a start on the Dark Blaster shell. Using 1mm ABS & some scale wire mesh I got tinkering. Bear in mind I have never done this before so im learning as I go. Window 1 partially blocked but allowing access for driver visibility: Went a bit crazy with the gorilla glue.... lesson learnt. Next up the front screen got the good news : And the other side window: I had no plan going into this but iv decided now that the passenger side will have an accessible turret above so I need to form that & block up the drivers side roof. I also need to do something else to the passenger side window as its a bit boring at the moment. I want the car to look a bit raw, like random bits of steel have just been bolted onto it as & when its been found. Hopefully by the end it will all come together & have the desired effect. Also on the list of things to do is start messing with the main body more, followed by painting (& maybe attempting some salt weathering) & adding some accessories.
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Awesome build 👍🏼
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Cheers @Badcrumble Had a bit of spare time in the last couple of days so built the chassis & put the body together. Iv also bought some ABS plastic & some steel mesh so im going to start letting my imagination take over for the body shell make-over Decided that as this will be the runner that id transplant the motor & ESC from my resto version. Ill replace them later. Body together but needs some creativity to turn it into a proper post apocalyptic monster Shelf queen resto next to its evil twin
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Next up was to primer and paint black everything not already black.
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So after restoring a vintage mudblaster for my neice & nephews to play with and then deciding that there is no way the little monkeys were getting their paws on it and destroying it iv decided to build a more user friendly version for them instead. This one though is not going to be a standard blaster but more of a post apocalyptic version. started out buying a couple of old wrecks which iv stripped, cleaned and audited for loss and breakage. Time to start emptying the wallet again
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Cheers, will have to order a set. The ones iv got are too thick and quite dull, especially next to the new bright red paint. Kinda lets the car down at the moment
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Completed car pics. Overall im please with how it turned out, just too nervouse to use it properly. Had a little go around the garden but thats it. was great fun building it and im properly addicted. Anyway its good enough for me and will now sit on a shelf and collect dust, so on to the next one which im building to actually use...... oh and the body was a new kit, the original was too far gone but will make a good donor for the runner. Got some decals from ebay but not particuarly happy with them.
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Loving the black and orange look.. im restoring another one aswell at the moment, going with pearlescent black with that, inc. spraying out the red chassis
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Nice rere collection... it does mount but you need to bend a few bits.... it doesnt fit directly to blackfoot post but there are plenty of mudblaster posts on ebay. I think they migt come with the brat kit anyway so you might already have them??!
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I forgot to take pics of the strip down & clean but here is the completed chassis with a few changes & upgrades. new high torque servo, centralised servo, 67mm 4/40 turnbuckles, cva shocks, tamyia esc, sport tuned motor, new wheels & tyres, fully ballraced, new rear cross brace, metal bumper (may replace with crp),
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I ordered and had delivered last week a front bumper so seem to still be in business.... although they sent the wrong one and iv had no response to my email
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Car as seen on ebay. fairly good condition but shell was wrong with poor paint job & various breaks and repairs. Chassis wise the rear post brace had been snapped and repaired and snapped again. it also came with transmitter/ reciever in working order but these were soon replaced just because.....
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Hello, iv been lurking for a while and seeing others great resto jobs i thought id start to share mine. i owned an original brat many many years ago along with a couple of others but as i got older these got sold and I hadn't thought about RC cars since.... until christmas when my neice & nephews were playing with some cheap little things which sparked something inside me. i started looking at re re brats & blackfoot, then thought maybe i could put a brat body on a blackfoot chassis, after some googling i found out there used to be a creature called a mud blaster & knew that i had to find one. Original intention was buy it & let the kids use it..! short ebay trip later and a runner was delivered but in fairly poor condition so first job was find original instructions for it and completely strip it down, catalogue whats good/ bad or missing then clean the lot. As it turns out everything was present with just some minor replacements required, however by now iv re-discovered model shops & started reading forum posts so obviously a big shopping list had been drawn up & my wallet started emptying. Im now utterly addicted to restoring/ upgrading the car & there is 0 chance the kids are getting to use it. over next few posts ill document whats been done & how its looking. Iv also just bought 2 more old, fairly complete ORV chassis from feebay which ill be turning into a usable mudblaster & maybe a beetle. Graham
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Just read through this entire topic & as a lot of others have already stated, this is an amazing build. Look forward to seeing progress on it.