Surfinburd
New Member
First post, so please excuse any mistakes I make.
So a month or two ago, me and a couple of friends all went to one of our houses and watched the new Mad Max movie. I'm a big fan of motor vehicles, and also a technology enthusiast (although I had no prior experience with RC cars and such besides just playing with them.) So I was in love with the movie and all the vehicles in it, specifically the war rig. Not the trailer(s), but the truck itself, here's a photo for reference.
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So I went home, and I went onto a crafting kick, and built a model of it out of chipboard and hot glue, then spray painted it black. It was pretty cool, but it definitely had it's problems.
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So then I built an erector set frame underneath it and attached the 6 wheels to it, but I wasn't exactly satisfied with it just rolling around. Under the suggestion of one of my friends, I decided to build an RC chassis for it to get mounted to. I tore apart a cheap rc car from goodwill and had it running on a chassis the right size, made of erector set pieces. Unfortunately, it was two much weight for the little drive axle, and it wouldn't even go forwards
So I went back to the drawing board, and bought a larger rc car from Ocean State Job lots. Then tore into that, pulling out the drive axle and the steering mechanics. I then designed the chassis in sketchup and ended up 3d printing it. Unfortunately, I printed it a bit too large and it ended up a little too long, but it turned out pretty well.
Then I realized that the chassis was way too nice for the model I had built. The model was light but flimsy, didn't have a lot in the way of detail (missing bevels, the cow catcher wasn't movie accurate, the blower heads looked like crap). So I decided to rebuild it. This time using heavier chipboard and some scrapbook material to make a heavier duty, more detail oriented and cooler looking model. Personally, I liked it without paint, but no one else did.
New model: one on the right. I painted it black, then went around it with white and brown spray paint, spraying the floor an inch or two to each side of it, to get that "driven through a desert" look.
And I gotta say, it looks mean. So then a friend came over and convinced me to finally mount it to the chassis. I had waited a month to do it because there was a little more in the way of electronics, so I was trying to think of a temporary but solid mounting system. But I threw the idea out the window and ended up just hot gluing it to the 3d printed chassis. Forgive my ignorant friend.
The weight of the model on the back tires cause it to grip better, so it actually goes pretty quickly. I'm fairly happy with how it came out. I routed the RC antenna through one of the smokestacks, and now it's pretty happy. So all I have left to add is the horn, and I'll see about adding a video fairly soon.
So a month or two ago, me and a couple of friends all went to one of our houses and watched the new Mad Max movie. I'm a big fan of motor vehicles, and also a technology enthusiast (although I had no prior experience with RC cars and such besides just playing with them.) So I was in love with the movie and all the vehicles in it, specifically the war rig. Not the trailer(s), but the truck itself, here's a photo for reference.
View attachment 561163
So I went home, and I went onto a crafting kick, and built a model of it out of chipboard and hot glue, then spray painted it black. It was pretty cool, but it definitely had it's problems.
View attachment 561164
So then I built an erector set frame underneath it and attached the 6 wheels to it, but I wasn't exactly satisfied with it just rolling around. Under the suggestion of one of my friends, I decided to build an RC chassis for it to get mounted to. I tore apart a cheap rc car from goodwill and had it running on a chassis the right size, made of erector set pieces. Unfortunately, it was two much weight for the little drive axle, and it wouldn't even go forwards
So I went back to the drawing board, and bought a larger rc car from Ocean State Job lots. Then tore into that, pulling out the drive axle and the steering mechanics. I then designed the chassis in sketchup and ended up 3d printing it. Unfortunately, I printed it a bit too large and it ended up a little too long, but it turned out pretty well.
Then I realized that the chassis was way too nice for the model I had built. The model was light but flimsy, didn't have a lot in the way of detail (missing bevels, the cow catcher wasn't movie accurate, the blower heads looked like crap). So I decided to rebuild it. This time using heavier chipboard and some scrapbook material to make a heavier duty, more detail oriented and cooler looking model. Personally, I liked it without paint, but no one else did.
New model: one on the right. I painted it black, then went around it with white and brown spray paint, spraying the floor an inch or two to each side of it, to get that "driven through a desert" look.
And I gotta say, it looks mean. So then a friend came over and convinced me to finally mount it to the chassis. I had waited a month to do it because there was a little more in the way of electronics, so I was trying to think of a temporary but solid mounting system. But I threw the idea out the window and ended up just hot gluing it to the 3d printed chassis. Forgive my ignorant friend.
The weight of the model on the back tires cause it to grip better, so it actually goes pretty quickly. I'm fairly happy with how it came out. I routed the RC antenna through one of the smokestacks, and now it's pretty happy. So all I have left to add is the horn, and I'll see about adding a video fairly soon.
