Toyota Land cruiser CR-01 build | Odd-Arne Bjørklund

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)

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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

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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.

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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

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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.