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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.