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8 minutes ago, Jim85IROC said:
I haven't made much progress on Rosco's car, but I did swap the cool white headlights for much better looking warm white lights.
On the side I've also been working on an interior for the Kyosho General. I was lucky enough to find a really well made 3d model of a 69 Charger with a full interior. After some tweaks to the files, I was able to print the dash, door panels, seats and rear package tray. I printed the floor too, but quickly realized that I had to cut almost all of it away to fit over the chassis, so I wound up cutting the door panels and rear package tray so I could install a false floor that I made from a styrene sheet. After that I printed partial seats to work with the false floor.
Overall I'm real happy with the interior, but after all of this I think when I get time I want to redo it with higher quality prints and a much lower floor for the front seat area.
Here's the interior with the body off:
I cut down a Traxxas body mount and installed it in the front chassis plate:
At the rear I am sitting some tan painted washers right on top of the body post mounts. There are large holes in the package tray to fit over the body posts. The body itself holds the rear of the interior down.
Next I need to cut out the windows on the orange car. I used the gray one as my guinea pig to practice on. I also want to design and print the roll bar for behind the front seats.
Looks good
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37 minutes ago, Jim85IROC said:
Lots of progress on Rosco's car. The magnetic body mounts are installed, although I think I need to tweak the body height a bit. The chrome trim is painted, the light bar is installed, the LED headlights and taillights are in, and the taillight lenses are installed. I still need to install the headlight lenses, but I'm waiting for now because I want to swap the cool white LEDs for more realistic looking warm white headlights.
I've also been working on an interior for the car. It is a lexan interior intended for a crawler, but with a little work it fits decently. The driver and steering wheel are from Tamiya. In this pic the driver was sitting way too high, which tweaked the interior. I'm working on cutting him down to fit into the car, and hopefully leave enough room for a cowboy hat that I 3d printed.
Coming up I need to paint the side marker lights, install the decals and then come up with a solution for the front & rear windshields.
I almost had a heart attack right after I took these pictures. I grabbed the transmitter and must have squeezed the throttle. The car shot into the wall so hard that it dented the wall. I originally thought the car was unscathed, but I discovered a crack in the front fender above the wheel well. I glued that up and will need to reinforce that area to strengthen it.
looks good, thats to bad for the minor car crash, but considering how many police cars get rolled and crashed in the tv show, it just adds some character
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1 minute ago, Jim85IROC said:
Well, the car is white. I'm not thrilled with how it came out, but at least I didn't have all the issues that I had last time. The white coat started to lift the primer on the hood, but it was minor enough that I could sand it out prior to clear. The clear flowed well but still ended up looking dry once it set up. I'm going to do a minor wetsand and buff, but I'm not going to get crazy with it. It'll be fine for how I'm going to use it.
Next is to add the chrome details, get the headlights, taillights, mirrors and decals on.
Looks really good
- RogerDuke, Jim85IROC and Hobie Hartkins
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Looks good, very good.
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Just now, Jim85IROC said:
Yeah, the Kyosho has about 3-5mm per side at the wheel well openings, obviously less as you go further into the wheel well.
Ok, thanks, that body should work pretty much perfectly for me, thanks again for the measurements, I will probably get myself one of those soon.
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1 minute ago, Jim85IROC said:
Total track width on the Kyosho measures about 205-206mm front and rear with the 6mm offset wheels. Total width on the one with the RJ Speed body is 205mm front with 0mm offset wheels and about 215mm rear with 6mm offset wheels.
Ok, that is promising, and the wheels can still retract into the body when the suspension is depressed? (They aren't rubbing on the body)
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Just now, Jim85IROC said:
I'll check next time I go out to the garage, but I think the Kyosho and TBG bodies are just about the same width.
Ok thanks, because they do build in extra room, because the tires are 190mm wide, so they make the bodies a little wider so the tires don't rub, how much wider varies by manufacturer, but some definitely make it more then is needed, and all I really need is like 5 more mm!
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1 minute ago, Jim85IROC said:
Yeah, those are too wide for most normal onroad bodies. The RJ Speed body I just did should work with the right combo of 4-tec parts. Some of them had 274mm wheelbases, and some used a wider 200-210ish track width. If you can get a long chassis and swap the wide arms & axles it should be about right for the RJ body.
Yeah, I right now an using the team bluegroove body, which is supposed to be like 185mm so smaller, and I just cut out the wheel wells bigger with the wheels protruding, but as it's real world track is closer to 190/195mm, I was wondering if the "190mm"of the kyosho body might have meant more like 200/205mm real world measurements
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Traxxas 4 tec 2.0 vxl
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1 minute ago, Jim85IROC said:
The Kyoshos are a standard 190mm onroad width. I use wheels with a 6mm offset so my track width is a bit wider than normal.
Ok, just wondering as my RC car is 195mm front and 200 rear, if it did fit it would be really tight, like within 3-5mm
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ok, i am using the team bluegroove body, so lexan as well, and the only complaint that i have is that the tamiya paint is a little sparkly, not as flat chrome as it should be, but other then that it does look like metal/chrome bumpers, also how do you make pictures small enough to upload without cropping into nothing! haha
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Looks good, one thing I did on mine that worked out pretty well for the chrome is that I masked off the parts that needed to be chrome with painters tape, including around the windows with 1mm RC masking tape, then painted everything orange with white backing, then peeled all the masking tape and sprayed tamiya chrome paint on, ps 48, I think, which looked pretty good, one thing though, it seemed to eat at the sticky part of the window masks, which made them essentially fall off as the paint was drying, I saw that and fixed it in time, but only got one or two light coats of the chrome on, not as thick as I would have liked, but I then put some silver metal duct repair tape an the inside, and it looks great. I also fabricated a mirror from a paper clip and a hole punch from a thick piece of plastic that I painted with that Chrome paint
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Thank you for the Welcome, I have been a Dukes fan ever since I discovered my Dad's Dukes of Hazzard slot car set like 5-7 years ago, (10-12) I think my favourite character would have to be Bo Duke, and I have been into rc cars for roughly five years, but i have only used hobby grade ones for the last 2 years, with my General Lee model being my second hobby grade RC car, which I drove for the first time today. (definitely not a winter RC car!)
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I watched the YouTube videos as they came out, and those gave me inspiration to make my own 1/10 RC General Lee, with the Team Bluegroove body and a Traxxas 4 tec 2.0 vxl as the chassis not nearly as professional as anything posted here, with the main problem being that the is roughly 1cm to wide, so the tires stick out 5mm on each side, but they don't look to bad, definitely a different look though.
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No problem, as it was for someone in Europe, I figured the search engine might not figure out the error like it would for someone in Canada or even the USA