**Under Construction**

So recently I have been delving into the crazy and wild world of RC Rock Crawling. While it can get expensive and time consuming you'll quickly find out how much fun they are. I've always been interested in getting into RC trucks and cars but never really had a budget large enough to afford it....or so I thought. After getting hyped up over it I began searching around on Craigslist and found a "Axial AX10 Scorpion Rock Crawler" for a $150. The guy also through in a $80 sidewinder module and $80 radio for free! Even more exciting than that the AX10 is a perfect chassis base for my long term goal of building a scaler.

For those of you who don't know what a "Scaler"  is, I'll explain. Creating a scale rc truck or car is when you tune and dress your RC to look and perform like the real thing. As I have detailed on my other pages I used to own a 1980 toyota hilux, but sold it and have been kicking myself in the ass ever since. I figured I'd build a scale hilux as an alternative to buying another real truck, its more cost effective and my wife kick me in the head for it lol.

Anyways on to the good stuff.

This is a picture of when I first got the crawler. I hadn’t even played with it yet. The guy I bought it from didn’t have an extra charger for it so I had to cruise on over to the local hobby shop and pick one up. Normally I would have been a little frustrated by this but since he threw in $160 in extra gear I let it slide ;)

These pictures are of a mod I decided on about the 3^rd day of owning it. Using a hobby sized sheet of tin I hand crafted two triangular covers to attach on the Y braces on either axle. The purpose in doing this is to give myself some space to mount everything when I get around to redistributing the weight later on.

Soon I will be custom making a tuber cage for the chassis that will be removable for easy access and will also render the truck much more efficient when rock crawling. In building a tuber cage the wheels will not encounter any obstructions from the stock plastic body that normally accommodates the chassis.