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Project:- ZXTruck
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Wed, 07/30/2008 - 17:23
Nope it's not a spelling mistake :) I honestly did mean to type ZXTruck.... anyways I need to come up with some more imaginative but for now here is the story, I had a Nissan Titan with custom lift on a chassis with custom tires and the off road lift kit but no ESC, I recently did a trade with Spoon Tunner for a couple of Mini-Z boards and last night was bored enough to attempt to put on in the Titan! Amazingly it worked.... :o I know I was surprised to! So without further ado I present my ZXTruck:
The ZXTruck current runs:
Mini-Z MR-02 ESC + Servo
4 x 100MAh AAA batteries
Custom body lift
RS Off Road Lift
Custom tires with Deep Dish Rims (2 sets of off road rims cut and glued together)
GPM Springs
Losi Pro-Controller
Stage 1 motor with orange gear setup (Team RedMade motor coming soon!)
I plan to do more to the truck, i.e. tidy up the wiring but this is basically a pre-cursor to another car I am working on so I needed to learn a new skill and this was my test bed.
Comments welcome on this some what stock but semi-pro truck :)
Thanks man! Needs a new touch ups but its getting there! I also might spray the chassis in black to off set everything.....
Looks really good.
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Not that its an excuse :) but the Titan has lots of really annoying places where it should be black but is actually red, for example the side bars for the truck bed they are black on one side and red on the other I didn't paint the red side because I expected once screwed in that it would be hidden but annoyingly it wasn't!
As for the windows I am a little annoyed by them I switched from my usual brand / type of masking tape and its bit more fiddly so they didn't come out quite as planned!
But I'll fix them up and some point! I still have to redo all the board wiring so when I get a free weekend I'll take care of everything!
Looks great, the paint could just use a few small touch ups in spots.
OK updates on the truck! It finally made it to paint!
I tried to be a bit fancy with the paint and attempted to use a textured / effect paint, however it didn't come out as planed and what I ended up with was a fairly stock looking paint job.
Now personally I think the paint job is the best I've ever done unfortunately I have to admit though that my taping skills have gone down hill a bit! In part due to the new type of tape I was using! I'll need to do some touch ups with a bit of black paint but otherwise I am really happy with how this turned out!
But anyway enough chit chat and on with the photos, oh and at this point I should point out that I can't take an indoor photo to save my life! I'll have to hope for sun rather than rain so I can get outside and take some decent snaps!