Shelf Queen Mighty Bull

[stamatis]

Hi guys,

This project took quite some time (years) and many things changed, then changed again, but now finally it is completed.

Now only the bumpers, body posts, gears and shell are from the original Tamiya Mighty Bull.

So here it is:

The chassis came from Michael in Germany, gearboxes, wheels and tires and hook from RC4WD, arms, towers etc from GPM, shocks from Yeah Racing, CVD's from Topcad with all alloy parts re-anodized grey, 3Racing winch and so many other little parts it would take many lines to mention...

It features 4WS and two HPI GT550 motors and HPI GT 14.4V esc that make that heavy car to go really fast.

Of course it is so heavy and uncontrollable at high speeds due to 4WS that I do not even think of giving it a hard time outdoors...

So it will remain on the shelf probably for ever...

[kontemax]

Wow!!! More picts with the body on please!

Max

[bfst24]

another mighty bull,finally.

looks amazing .

thats a damann chassis right?

[Henk4Focus]

Wow that is heavy metal! That is one seeeriieeaaaas piece of kit. Very cool indeed.

Henk

[stamatis]

Thanks for your kind comments

Here are a couple of pics with the bodyshell on as Kontemax asked and yes this is a Damann's chassis...

Stamatis

[TXT-2.0]

wow awesome build man !

[SteelRat]

Very nice.

What is the point of all those performance upgrades if it's going to be a shelfer?

"Where it belongs" is out getting used and abused, not gathering dust on a shelf.

[Power Surge]

Interesting... that's the same body as the TXT.

[stamatis]

Thank you all for your kind comments

Well, no, this is not the same body with TXT. TXT one is much bigger, longer and a bit wider.

This is exactly a Twin Detonator body, but comes prepainted and assembled including the roll bar.

And I should mention that with all this metal and alloy parts that add a couple of kilos and definately no flexibility at all compared to plastic parts, so

I would not even dare to think of a jump, crush or giving it a hard time. This would cause many things maybe not to break but probably bend.

Alloy and metal parts are not always better then plastic ones. Could be a little stronger, but in case of impact they simply break easier as there is no flex.

I would say aluminum is rigid and better for precision parts and on the other hand

plastic is flexible and better for impact absorption