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looks good but will it stand up to a bit of good old off roading?

agemax wrote:

looks good but will it stand up to a bit of good old off roading?

The exhausts are pretty vunerable (might have to have a bit of a rethink there), but otherwise it'll be as tough as the rear cage

those look like plastic suspension arms, are they?

zephyrin wrote:

those look like plastic suspension arms, are they?

They're really not ... I can only assume that in the 2nd pic, they're so shiny that they're reflecting the black of the back of the "engine" ?

Other than that - plastic isn't a bad material for a scale car in any case.
It is flexible and takes vibrations much better than metal.
Imagine that a 5cm bump in the road reflects half a meter in reality...
Assuming it's a 1/10 scale car.

bit of paint ...

lookin good Jonny

Realised the position of the aircleaner wouldn't let me put the licence plate on - so it needed moving - sliced it off, bent a bit off 4mm tube so the aircleaner can go vertically above the right cylinders ... also wrapped the cleaner in a bit off mesh, slapped on some Milliput which I'll sand flat once it's cured ... had quite a bit left over so I thought I'd try some less wussy looking exhausts - check out those bad Mother Hubbard's

Changed my mind about the wide exhausts - they looked a bit silly & too boyracerish really - I cut down the originals to 25mm, and seeing as they're 5mm - that equates to a 50mm (2") scale size - which is a fairly big pipe IRL...

Also changed my mind about the air filter location