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Xmod Semi Truck-6 wheeler 4WD
I know the body is just a box made from foam board-but you gotta admit it is sorta cute in a cartoon way? Anyway, the chassis is made from TWO rear gearboxes from Xmod Evo cars and both are powered by stage 1 RS motors. Battery power comes from two 650mah Lithium Ion 14430 size cells. Control is with a stock Evo circuit board. Front assembly is from an Xmod Evo car as well. The ladder type frame is made from two sizes of plastic square stock available at most Hobby shops or Hobby Town. An interesting feature of my design is that it is adjustable for length because of a telescoping feature. The tires are part# 70101 Tamiya Truck tires. They fit over stock xmod car rim and tire assemblies with double sided tape to build up the diameter. Anyway, this truck is really fun to drive and though I check out all the Xmod forums, I haven't seen anything like this....but I could be wrong? If I find a proper sized cab from a toy truck I will mount that for a more professional look.
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nice wheels lawl, i got the same onse.. nice idea tho!!
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thats so cool!!!!! i wish i had extra parts to do that!!
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haha that is awesome! Really nice work there man. Are those tires pretty soft, and do you know if they are bigger than aoshima super swampers?
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Thanks everyone...
No the tires aren't bigger than the super swampers...couldn't tell you how "soft" they are, but they really don't work that great on crawlers-but they do look cool and they are cheap. Thanks, Mike |
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Oh alright, thanks.
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good idea. I know it was either bondo or suicide star but one of them made a semi
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Anyways, very interesting design, the body is kind of cool. just need to make the trailer part
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Haha. I have to agree with you, Mike, the cab does look cute in a cartoonish way. Awesome job on the whole project, once again!
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trying to turn this into a crawler would be sweet.
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thats who it was! B1gdude! that the one i was thinking of...
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that is cool what you should do is do that to a truck chassis and use two hs55 for motors and turn it in to a crlawer that would be cool
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awesome project... i was gonna do something similar.. but no funds....
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Thanks everyone. I hope I can find those previous projects posted somewhere. Yes, I think this could be a really cool crawler project if it was designed a little different. Making it 6wheel drive would be real cool and having both rear pods articulate....
Anyway, I hope to find a premade truck cab for it at some point, I am not one who really enjoys the cosmetics of a project, more into the chassis and making the thing actually work and perform. Wish I could make a video of this thing in action...it actually hauls *** and I even can drift it to some degree! |
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Thanks for the link to that project. What a nice and time consuming conversion. I still would have done the dual motor thing, though the board would have to be fitted with fets to be able to handle the current required to turn those big diameter wheels...and might actually have been easier than fitting the 4wd shaft.
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Absolutely excellent work, and I'm diggin' the frame. Though I'd build a smaller, more scale looking body.
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Thanks Texan! You are right, and someone else mentioned it....I gotta make a smaller body or find one....went to Walfart and their toy section just didn't have anything that would work. I may make another smaller foam board cab with a little better detail and/or continue my search for a cheap toy truck body. Down here in GA there are also Hobby Lobby craft stores, but they are closed on Sundays, I will check their model section.....I have scored some nice Aoshima models on clearance there...maybe they have an appropriate scaled semi model.
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