Blackfoot restoration with aluminum hop ups etc...

[Cooltoys 129]

Since i love the blackfoots and having a few of them around. I decided to make one a little different to the ones i already have..

Clean up time first.. scrub scrub scrub...

Painted it a different color since all the other ones are all red. A little color to make it pop up a bit.

Wet paint..

Toasting at the fireplace..

Start of assembly

[Cooltoys 129]

Bottom underguard

Polished the speed control mount

Alloy front parts

Front suspension

Shocks might use this still deciding.. :-)

[Cooltoys 129]

A little bit more done yesterday..

Gearbox with

thorpe ball differential

thorpe gear

crp underguard

crp rear bumper

ball bearings

aluminum shock mounts

aluminum rear arms

[KEV THE REV 2310]

Looks stunning , love the alu hop-ups

[Shodog 1835]

Looks great so far. I like those front aluminum C hubs.

[biggamehunter 127]

love this build ! what paint you using for the plastic parts ??

[Shodog 1835]

With all that aluminum, a cool color for the chassis would have been Tamiya's brushed aluminum silver paint

[mtbkym01 4008]

Awesome, watching with much interest

[Cooltoys 129]

Looks stunning , love the alu hop-ups

Thanks... The alu hops ups are pretty neat looking..

Looks great so far. I like those front aluminum C hubs.

They are pretty well built.. I was deciding on polishing it or not. It might stay like this for now..

love this build ! what paint you using for the plastic parts ??

Just regular spray can paint.. Enamel i'm guessing.

With all that aluminum, a cool color for the chassis would have been Tamiya's brushed aluminum silver paint

Yeah that will be an awesome color.. Might do that on the next project..

[RichieRich 685]

Wow, that's pretty impressive. I didn't realize almost everything could be replaced with an aluminum part.

[SteveU30 1011]

Love it! Subscribed to this one for sure.

[Cooltoys 129]

Totally forgot about this one... Didn't notice its been awhile already.....😮😮😃

[J@mes 2326]

So where’s it at now @Cooltoys ? 😀

[Cooltoys 129]

Only added a couple of stuff on it..  i'll take a photo soon.