MattScott
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I've been having so much fun with the Axial R/C cars we've had around the office that I decided to build my own. I chose to get the Dingo kit - it looks fantastic.
We've been having some serious fun; from videos:
To reviews:
http://www.expeditionportal.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/657-axial-scx-10-honcho-the-review.html
They have been the single most distracting thing to ever enter our office.
Clearly something needed to be done, so I decided to build their SCX-10 Dingo kit at home. It's a fairly complicated kit, luckily, I grew up around these scale models, so I had a fairly good amount of experience building these things.
My first impression was holy ****, this is a lot of work - it's literally like building an actual vehicle.
Here's to starting this build, which is definitely a side project with how busy we are around here, hopefully everyone can motivate me to get more work done on it!
This is Axial's Differential Locker, it's insane how similar it is to a real car.
The ring gear goes onto the diff carrier.
I opted for Axial's upgraded axleshafts, the factory units are strong, but these are a CV type and won't get lost if I run like they did on my HPI vehicles.
The mini-CV.
The building process continues.
The Pinion Gear
I opted again for the upgraded Axial part to replace the plastic carrier with an Aluminum piece of sexyness.
The front axle comes together.
Here's the start of the rear axle build.
The axles are complete!
We've been having some serious fun; from videos:
To reviews:
http://www.expeditionportal.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/657-axial-scx-10-honcho-the-review.html
They have been the single most distracting thing to ever enter our office.
Clearly something needed to be done, so I decided to build their SCX-10 Dingo kit at home. It's a fairly complicated kit, luckily, I grew up around these scale models, so I had a fairly good amount of experience building these things.
My first impression was holy ****, this is a lot of work - it's literally like building an actual vehicle.
Here's to starting this build, which is definitely a side project with how busy we are around here, hopefully everyone can motivate me to get more work done on it!
This is Axial's Differential Locker, it's insane how similar it is to a real car.
The ring gear goes onto the diff carrier.
I opted for Axial's upgraded axleshafts, the factory units are strong, but these are a CV type and won't get lost if I run like they did on my HPI vehicles.
The mini-CV.
The building process continues.
The Pinion Gear
I opted again for the upgraded Axial part to replace the plastic carrier with an Aluminum piece of sexyness.
The front axle comes together.
Here's the start of the rear axle build.
The axles are complete!
