Hi guys I've been looking at the rock crawler trucks and they seem really interesting I found this deal from ebay just wondering what you guys know about this truck an rock crawlers in general and if you think its a good deal?.

Cheers.

Only guy i know who has one of these scorpions is Mikeekim but he hasnt been on here for a little while :( i will try and email and see if i can get his input on them

Hi monty yeah my new job has kinda robbed me of all my time but its all good :) agdr the scorpion is a great truck, its a nice quality chassis, easy to build altho the beadlock rims are a bit fiddly but look and work great. i'm not a huge fan of the supplied shell but will give it a great scale look, i prefer the monster look so opted for a 1/12th scale shell its currently wearing a lexan lunchbox shell. so yeah its a great truck but i wouldn't say its competition ready tho as there are a few mods which are kinda necesary even tho i haven't done them to mine i will be very soon ;) these are the 4wheel steering kit and replacing the standard stick pack battery with a smaller lighter battery pack which you can position on the front axle, axial supply parts for doing both of these, also they offer some kinked lower arms which increase ground clearance, however do you think i can find any of the after market parts in the uk :( as for the price, my girlfriend bought me mine and paid £189 for the kit alone. i use stock futaba 2ch radio an lrp truck puller 2 motor i went for the 12v so i could play with the battery power a bit, and at the mo i am using a tamiya teu101 esc which works fine, i am on my third servo however, as although you get a servo saver in the kit it can stop you steering in tight places as it will do its job and take the strain, the servo i am using at the mo hasn't broke and is working good, its a hitec hs322hd i think? so yeah the package on ebay looks awesome value mate. i will try and upload some pics for you and if there are any pics you want or more info let me know. nice one Mike :thumbs_up:

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nice one Mike

Mike, if you need spares and Tower do them in US let me know, still trying to piece a decent order together from there :thumbs_up:
Tim

Wicked post mikeekim thanks :thumbs_up:

ohh yeah thanks monty for e-mailing your buddy :)

here's a couple of pics of my scorpion, hope you like :)

and tim i'll check to see if they do the parts i need, but that sounds like a plan :thumbs_up: :banana:

Thanks mikeekim really cool pics :drool: I think I might get an early birthday prezzy :gone_mad:

LOVE THAT :clap: :clap: :clap:

was it much work to get the lunchbox shell to fit :)

that looks ace :drool:

ohh damn it that deal was just for US customers :(

what deal?
:D

This one LINK from ebay but maybe This kit without electrics could turn out to be as good or the same deal for $14 more but with beadlock wheels.


or were you being sarcastic purpletimbo? lol I'm sleepy its hard to tell :a_head:

$205 is a good deal
http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXRXH6&P=ML
$64 cheaper than tower unless he stiffs the postage, and factor in 17.5% of the price plus postage together, pplus £8 fee for parcelforce, only way anything form US gets here, no dodging it from there, or not enough chance to take anyway.
http://www.jespares.com/index.php?page=sho...uemart&Itemid=1
http://www.modelsport.co.uk/?CallFunction=...on&ItemID=28665

cool they have redy to run models too "redy to run kit A" and "redy to run kit B"

i got mine from modelsport, i was tempted by the cheap american deals bought have been stung before by the extra charge when the parcel turns up :(

the rtr deals models port offer are good value but not well suited to the truck, a low turn motor would be wasted in this truck as it would simply twist and contort with any sort of speed. you want a high turn slow motor, really good choice is the integy 55 turn motor you'll find them on ebay, i have two of them in this monster



this is my clod based twinset chassis, the wheels are ho bao, it has a locked rear axle but open front, i am having probs with the steering as at the mo i am using a y lead, would prefer to have 3 ch radio. the shocks are tamiya tgm-04 and are awesome apart from the one has a leak and needs rebuilding :S its a bit bigger than the scorpion



i still find myself using the scorpion more tho maybe its because it easyier to transport and the battery last for ages i will get a 45 mins from a 2000mah, anyway back to the scorpion.

what i did agdr was order the chassis kit and the motor but used old radio gear and old esc. i figured the motor is the main part and the other parts are standard fitment, save you some honey ;)

let us know what you decide mate

heres another shot of my mod clod in the nude :jump:

agdr i just looked at the deals you have found on ebay and they look really good, i'd be really tempted by the more expensive one tho. it is hard to get the parts in the uk and unless you plan on fabricating them yourself you will run the truck stock and not to its full potential, a bit like me :thumbs_up:

Thanks big time for the help mikeekim I'm really close to putting in an order for Kit C you pics are really cool I like the one of the scorpion being run over lol

just ensure if u do buy from the states that the radio is on a uk legal frequency!!

ive been stitched up twice getting 75mhz radio that i cant bloody use !!!

ohh right I'll make a note of that thanks monty top tip :thumbs_up:

you'll have to let us know when you get your scorpion mate, post some pics of it and if you're ever in the midlands and i find some minutes in my day we could go crawlin :thumbs_up:

I'll definitely let you know buddy thanks for the help I've sent the ckrccrawlers.com people a question about shipping and I'm down in Essex but it would be cool to meet up and go crawling (rock not pub hehe) :clap: :rc_car: