TrikeKid
Junk Hoarder
I don't have enough shit going on so I started on this tonight. I've had this Proline Ambush 1/25 since they came out, about 6 months after that Proline completely orphaned them. It's a steel frame (flat rail), worm drive axles with leaf springs... it is/was/should've been the go-to small scaler platform but it was dropped in a hurry. I did some things like a flat belly, weighted the stock wheels, trimmed lots of BS off and it crawled decent but it won't hang with an SCX24 for outright capability.
Being short and leaf sprung I wanted to build a flat fender on this chassis, but the only "1/25" scale flat fender I could find turned out to not in any way be true to scale, so that was out.
Found some old forum builds with 1/20 scale plastic model bodies and ended up settling on a third gen Toyota from AMT, width is right but we need some wheelbase
This thing is leaf sprung and the rear of the chassis is flat so wheelbase adjustment is relatively simple, I poked a couple holes about 3/4" back for a 5 1/4" wheelbase which seems to line up reasonably well for the look I'm after. Need to stretch the rails back so the shackles have somewhere to hang and figure out some cross members then I can get onto building/mounting the body. Test fit shows my existing electronics (Flysky 3 channel receiver and a Furitek Lizard ESC) will fit under the hood, SCX24 sized battery should fit nicely under the bed between the frame rails. These won't be the tires/wheels but they're close enough. It'll be on RC4WD Rock Lox and likely their steel beadlocks.
A quick comparison with the SCX24 to show how much easier this would be on that chassis
Being short and leaf sprung I wanted to build a flat fender on this chassis, but the only "1/25" scale flat fender I could find turned out to not in any way be true to scale, so that was out.
Found some old forum builds with 1/20 scale plastic model bodies and ended up settling on a third gen Toyota from AMT, width is right but we need some wheelbase
This thing is leaf sprung and the rear of the chassis is flat so wheelbase adjustment is relatively simple, I poked a couple holes about 3/4" back for a 5 1/4" wheelbase which seems to line up reasonably well for the look I'm after. Need to stretch the rails back so the shackles have somewhere to hang and figure out some cross members then I can get onto building/mounting the body. Test fit shows my existing electronics (Flysky 3 channel receiver and a Furitek Lizard ESC) will fit under the hood, SCX24 sized battery should fit nicely under the bed between the frame rails. These won't be the tires/wheels but they're close enough. It'll be on RC4WD Rock Lox and likely their steel beadlocks.
A quick comparison with the SCX24 to show how much easier this would be on that chassis
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