The greatest slow crawl video ever??

Its been 2 yrs since I became interested in off road RC'ing and I remember how influenced I was when I came across this particular video. The custom builds and the super slow crawl spoke to me. Ever since then... I have been a HUGE fan of the slow crawl.

Thanks Mikey Sylvestri

1:1 inspiration

Now and then I come across some images on the web of real off road vehicles that truly fire me up and make me wish they were mine. Sadly, they cannot be unless I strike it rich so... that's where RC off road vehicles come into play. Pun intended. We can build our own RC to look like a 1:1 sized toy and play to our hearts content. Below are some of my favorite 1:1 pictures I have come across so far. Clampy the Toyota being my most favorite as is evident by the amount of pictures of it in this collection. :)

I hope these inspire your future RC builds.

Scotty

Building a Rat Rod.

The HPI Cup Racer is often called "True 1/10" but really its more around 1/12. I picked one up awhile back and spent a bunch of time building up a really nice 1972 BMW 2000. Picture below.

I have been yearning to build a rat rod for some time now using this body and yesterday I dove right in doing that. I picked up the Pro-Line Rat Rod body and it was a damned near perfect fit. Just needed a tiny bit of trimming behind the front wheel wells and that was it. Here are the pictures of the build step by step below.

The Pro-Line Rat Rod as shown online

And today I finished things off with some rod to support the soft top... some racing stickers on the body, some interior graffiti art, bit of hand written "FORD" lettering on the back end and bullet holes plus oiled up the wood slats. Now I'm gonna go outside and drive it. :)

Sorry about the damned dog hair on the body in the pic below. Things are everywhere.