So i finally prioritized to get myself a crawler, I wanted a “real” crawler after i got my lego crawler and saw how much fun it was.
I decided to go for the CR-01 with the Land cruiser body, since I have always thought that it’s a nice looking car.
Must say that I was amazed how big the box is, this car is going to be quite big.
The hop-up’s I’m going to use. (not the thundershot spoiler and BZ motor)
I didn’t like that the chassis beams were in plain metal color, since that is not the case in real life, so I painted them gun metal
before
after
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
I can’t wait to get some more building time, hopefully i will get some time today.
Didn’t get to much build time today, because I was with my mother in law looking and buying a her a new used car, a MG F. Gonna be fun to borrow it on a sunny summer day
Step 4
I forgot to mount the stabilizator stag on this one, so i had to take it apart and mount it one more time.
Step 5
Realized after I had built these ones that there is hop-up’s for these as well so I ordered them. They also has lock diff, which I think will be good for crawling, any experience with it?
step 6
After looking in the manual I saw that I was short of some hop-up’s since I’m going to make the car 4WS. I also needed 4 more king pins, I’m to used thinking the buggy way so i ordered only 4 the first time around In addition I also had to order a hi torque servo saver.
Still waiting for some parts, so decided to jump to some steps that I could actually do. So I built the hop-up dampers.
Step 17
Step 18
So today a package from Banzai Hobby was waiting for me 🙂 Didn’t get two aluminum servo mounts as i wanted, so one must do for now.
Now i should have all the parts i need to finish this build the way i want to, that said i got a very nice roof rack on the way to me via mail. I got the waterproof servos that I’m going to use from HobbyKing a few days ago.
Been doing some building today, since I got some new parts that should be used in steps I already have done I needed to redo step 5 and 6
Step 5
step 6
Step 7
Step 8
Step 9
Step 10
Pretty straight forward these steps, no other challenge than to find a bag with some of the parts
First of all just let me say that I’m sorry for the different quality of the pictures, I got a new phone this week and I’m struggling with getting good pictures.
So did some more building today.
Step 11
The trained eye can probably see that I have done something wrong on this step, but it have been sorted out after I took this picture.
Step 12
For now I’m gonna use these electronics, but I’m going to change later on.
Step 13
Step 14.1
Step 14.2
Got the last part’s for my build yesterday, I think this will be nice on the car.
Now I must find some time to get some building done
Build some steps today
Option version of step 15
Step 16
Since I already have built the damper’s I could go to step 19
Built step 20 yesterday
but I discovered that one of the moving parts of the upper damper mount go up into the frame, should it be like this?
Step 21
Step 22
Step 23
Step 24
Step 25
Step 26
Step 27
So now I must try to understand how to get this 3 channel receiver to work.
Not many step’s left before the chassis is done, and I can start on the body. I’m so looking forward to taking this one for a ride, I can’t wait.