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Not got a huge amount to show for my work this weekend, so I thought I'd add a retrospective build thread for my Budget Bruiser, which has been a regular feature at local and national scale events for the past couple of years. I acquired it back in 2015 as an RTR from a local hobby shop that no longer exists (or at least, no longer sell much in the way of RC cars). I had no interest in the Scout (or any comp crawler / rock bouncer style car, if I'm honest, I disliked them then and I still dislike them now), but I needed something I could put under a hardbody for my wedding in April. The plan was to build a hardbody pickup and have the rings driven down the aisle by a friend of mine. I had originally planned to use a KBF-bodied CC01 (see other recent build thread) but was let down by two problems: a) I had lost the tailgate and couldn't complete the body in a tidy manner and 2) the future wife looked at the truck and said "that's ugly, that's not coming to my wedding." I had an unpainted Super Clod body, and planned to use is over the Maverick Scout chassis. I figured I could make a suitable runner in a single weekend. Besides mounting the body, all I needed to do was make some shorter straight links, lower the shocks and fit some smaller wheels. However I ended up abandoning that project, too - I used some TLT axles, an Axial transmission and a TCS X-trail chassis for that project, and although it ran down the aisle on the wedding day, it was far from finished - it was 2wd only, the suspension was rock solid and the rear prop was made from two UJs and a piece of allthread - it was way out balance and had no sliding mechanism, so there was no rear suspension at all. It looked good but has languished in the box pending a complete rebuild (and having parts stolen from it) ever since. For a short time the Scout got used as a light runner, using an old Parma El Camino body with the arches cut out, but I never liked it much. After a while that body got repurposed onto a Traxxas E-Maxx, and the Scout rolling chassis was dumped in the spares pile. It was early 2016 when I realised I had a good selection of bits that I could use to make something interesting.
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Hi guys. Ive been wanting to do a scaler project for a while after seeing some amazing builds and vids on youtube of them going over the trails and going over various obstacles such as water, mud, logs, rocks and everything else they throw at these trucks. The model Ive been looking into using for this build was the axial ax10 or scx10. The price has been putting me off though. I then came across lots of builds and info on the maverick scout. Everyone that has had them seem to love them and as it is basically a copy of an axial ax10 and built by Hpi I thought for £119 rtr delivered I can't go wrong. Here's the scout when it arrived. Everything laid out and ready for fun. My long term plan is to buy the scx10 chassis and transfer all the running gear over to it. Firstly though I need to change that scout body! So I ordered a pro-line jeep rubicon body shell. Someone mentioned the scouts wheelbase as 330mm and I tried to confirm this but went for the jeep rubicon shell anyway as it's listed as 330mm. Unfortunately when the scout arrived it had a wheelbase of about 315mm (I'll update when I measure it). So I cheated the arches on the jeep shell and over trimmed the front of the back of the arch and the back of the the front arch. The wheels now fits nicely in the centre of the arches. Here you can see the body mounts pushed out by the white washers we all replace with bearings. They were just to short for the jeep shell. I knew those washers would come in handy sometime! Now I'm happy with how the shell sits on the maverick I masked it all up and decided to do the main body gun metal grey and the roof, front and rear bumper and arches black. Here it is and my favourite part of doing the body work, the removal of be protective film! And finally the last bit of the body work for the moment which is stickering it up. I'm used to tamiya cutting out my decals. The pro-line ones need you to be handy with the scissors. I think it looks soo much better than the scout body. So that's how it sits at the moment. I have to admit when I used the scout I loved the articulation on it. Nothing seemed to be able to get in its way. I suppose it's a crawler after all. I like it so much in fact I want to hold off on the scx10 chassis for a while and have it as a jeep rubicon 'high lift'. So it will have more articulation than a scaler but less than a crawler. I'm going to do this by fitting some rubber tubing on the shock shafts to reduce the shock travel and prevent the wheels hitting the shell. I've heard there are lots of free and cheap mods which can be done to the maverick to increase its performance and abilities so as I do them I'll put them in this build thread so others can see how to do them. There are also many compatible axial parts so I'll look into which of these work with the scout. Body wise I'd love some scale items on there such as a snorkel, wing mirrors, spare petrol tank, roof rack etc to make it more realistic. I'd like to do an interior too with driver. I wonder if pro-line do interiors too?? Seats, dashboard, steering wheel would look so much better than a bunch of wires. Thanks for looking and I'll update it again soon.