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Old 02-11-2021, 12:16 AM
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A few progress pics after some paint work.




Lesu rear suspension and some other aluminum goodies. I also should've installed the rear center caps. D'oh!






Scale hardware for the win!
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That's good looking. I see you have lots of patience You're hired
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Very sharp looking truck!
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Are the leaf springs you used tempered..?? I saw you drilled new holes, did you have to anneal the spring or something... I haven't had any luck drilling leaf springs, any tips would be great.
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Old 02-15-2021, 11:35 PM
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Are the leaf springs you used tempered..?? I saw you drilled new holes, did you have to anneal the spring or something... I haven't had any luck drilling leaf springs, any tips would be great.
I doubt they're tempered and I didn't temper them myself. They're just stock F350 springs and yeah, it was a pain to drill through them.

So we got a bit of snow on Sunday here in Austin, Texas. That's not a common occurrence for us so I figured I'd take the opportunity to take a few pics and see how it drives in some icy conditions. Well, it did great!


Then last night we got some real snow. Like....."are we even in Texas" kinda snow! Depending where you measured, we easily got 4-7 inches, which is crazy for us. Well, of course I had to test out the truck in deeper stuff today. Overall, it did really great and had plenty of traction. The limitation, as one would expect, is the low hanging front bumper and the overall low right height. Nonetheless, I was pleased!


I also got some Lesu steps for the frame, but only have one installed at the moment.


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Tamiya 9805522 is the part# for the rear leaf spring of Tamiya 4x2 trucks which are pre-drilled with the 12mm spaced holes, it may be an easier option?
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Tamiya 9805522 is the part# for the rear leaf spring of Tamiya 4x2 trucks which are pre-drilled with the 12mm spaced holes, it may be an easier option?
Oh, mine were drilled, but I wanted to move the axle forward a bit so I drilled new holes.
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Oh, mine were drilled, but I wanted to move the axle forward a bit so I drilled new holes.
Ah my bad!
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Might be a long time before you can take winter pictures again Looks good in the snow!
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Old 02-22-2021, 08:42 PM
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I knew I'd want custom plates for this truck and rather than spend money on some custom ones, I decided to try my hand at making some. Being 1/14th scale, they're only about 1" long so it won't be obvious if they're not perfect. And it costs me nothing to try so why not? I went online and copied a few JPGs of license plates I'd want. I printed them and then trimmed them out. Here's a super close-up of what my mediocre printer could do:


Then I adhered them to some .015" styrene with some glue.


Then I trimmed them out with some clear tape applied over them to protect the ink.


The thin overall thickness feels pretty realistic and from a short distance I think they'll look just fine.

Another thing I've been thinking about lately is the front bumper. I haven't found an aluminum one that I like so for now I'm going to use the stocker. I cut off the two "buck teeth" from under it to help the approach angle.


I like weight in my scale RCs. They perform more realistically that way. In fact, I'm rather disappointed the Pete is only weighing in at about 9 lbs so far. So I decided to add some weight in the form of touring car weights glued into the front bumper. I Dremeled out some room inside the bumper, glued the weights in, and will paint them silver so they're less obvious. Those 80 grams really gave the bumper some heft!
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Weight is good! Interesting way of making plates
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Old 02-22-2021, 11:53 PM
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I agree! And ideally I'd like to apply the plates to some super thin aluminum, but I just used what I had around.....for now.
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Snow pics look great

Soda can or aluminum disposable oven cookware (tooling foil) can make pretty good license plate backing.
Commercial rig with Vanity plates? (The LA plate took me a second to get.)
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Soda can or aluminum disposable oven cookware (tooling foil) can make pretty good license plate backing.
Commercial rig with Vanity plates? (The LA plate took me a second to get.)
What can I say? The owner/operator is a vain guy! Great idea on the can for an aluminum source! I'll give that a try soon. Thanks!

I popped some holes in the dash today in preparation for backlighting the dash similar to how Bob at Hobby Concepts does it.


And with paint and my marker job it came out looking like wood grain. Perfect!!


Primed/painted some other bits today, too. Ignore Cletus. I think he sniffed too much spray paint today.
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Old 02-26-2021, 11:08 AM
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I picked up a pair of super single Michelins from RC4WD in hopes of maybe running them up front. Holy crapola, they're gigantic!


I mean....sure, technically they fit, but that wheel is way too narrow so these will be used another time. It's a bummer because they look amazing and are so much softer than the rock hard Lesus.


I also started working on painting the driver. Never painted a person before so it'll be interesting to see how this dude turns out! But how do I mount him into the seat?


Not gonna lie. This felt a bit awkward.


But I had my reasons to violate poor Cletus the way I did!


See? I told ya. This wasn't just for my own personal enjoyment!


Finally getting around to doing some detailing of the cab, too. Rolled the windows down to make it easier to see the interior.


Got the orange lenses fitted to the cab clearance lights and painted the visor.


I also painted the wipers and some window trim.


Lastly, I picked up a Gear Jammer fifth wheel slider and a Lesu fifth wheel and did some painting along the way.
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Old 02-26-2021, 03:09 PM
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Lookin' good over there. I did shorten the front axle 19 mm. and moved the springs further in, a little tight for the gearbox. It looks pretty cool.

[IMG]IMG_5576 by Bo Wallen, on Flickr[/IMG]
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For super-single steers, probably consider making a set of cut&shuts? You'll need some Rubberized CA glue normally used for mounting racecar tires. I'd take off the parting line tread block, and maybe the one next to it.

We're not gonna judge you about what you were doing with the driver, if you're both concenting adults, be yourself.
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Old 02-28-2021, 10:10 AM
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Lookin' good over there. I did shorten the front axle 19 mm. and moved the springs further in, a little tight for the gearbox. It looks pretty cool.
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For super-single steers, probably consider making a set of cut&shuts? You'll need some Rubberized CA glue normally used for mounting racecar tires. I'd take off the parting line tread block, and maybe the one next to it.

We're not gonna judge you about what you were doing with the driver, if you're both concenting adults, be yourself.
Thanks, guys! I've got a set of 30mm width wheels coming from Semi Joe. We'll see how they fit. I've done cut-n-shuts back in the day, but it's been well over 10 years. I may consider that, but we'll see...

As far as Cletus goes, things were a bit awkward between us for awhile, but we're all good now.

I'm happy to see the interior taking shape the way I'd envisioned.
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