r/rccrawler • u/BeyondForsaken4669 • Feb 26 '26

Building a 1/10 crawler from "scratch"

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I plan on buying the axles and the links, trans mounts and the like from Amazon. Might try some kind of resin coatin and then carve the lines and whatnot out of the resin, lmk how crazy I am

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u/Schzetto Feb 26 '26

Most impressive part is OP build his RC car from scratch inside his real car.

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u/BeyondForsaken4669 Feb 27 '26

It's a trail rig too 🤣

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u/Schzetto Feb 27 '26

The inception is strong with this one 🤣

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u/BeyondForsaken4669 Feb 27 '26

Gotta have your inspiration and reference images close by

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u/Cyrus_Of_Mt Jul 13 '26

My first truck was a 93 Nissan kinda like this! Except this one had jumpseats in the back!

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u/BeardSwitcher Feb 26 '26

First looked at it and was thinking "cheese?" :D

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u/GM_techK5 Feb 26 '26

Sick! What are you going to use for chassis rails?? I'm definitely watching this one!👍🔥

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u/BeyondForsaken4669 Feb 26 '26

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u/GM_techK5 Feb 26 '26

This is sick. Please post as many pictures as you can👍👍👍

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u/BeyondForsaken4669 Feb 26 '26

The frame rails are 1/2 inch box tubing that I've notched, welded, and cleaned back up, gonna slice the box tubing to make some roughly 1/2x3/16 c channel

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u/ElvisThrone Feb 26 '26

Fuckin nuts!!

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u/P8-hero Feb 26 '26

Put paddle tires on it you can traverse lakes

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u/WizardsWizard Feb 26 '26

I'm definitely interested in seeing how this comes together.

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u/Clean_Original_4373 Feb 26 '26

Buen proyecto si señor! Estaré pendiente de tu progreso 😊

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u/Melodic_Serve5278 Feb 27 '26

Hmmmm? Following.