** Build of the Month Contest - July 2023 ** - Winner - dinglem

[scr8p]

Open To Any Manufacturer!

OK, this will be the thread for the July 2023 Build of the Month Contest.

Refresh yourself with the rules before entering - http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=98&t=35923

Please remember, no chit chat until all of the entries are locked in so they can stay grouped together.

GOOD LUCK!!!

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** Place Holders **

If you would like to enter the contest, create a post as a "place holder". DO NOT POST ANY PICS. You have until the 5th of the month to lock in a spot (10 entries max). You will then have 2 days to edit your post and attach the pics of your entry. The poll will be started on the night of the 7th. If you have not submitted your pics by then you will be removed from the contest.

[LoboNYC]

Wild Willy with a shaky head pilots this crawler. This is my RCP Wreckluse steel crawler chassis. For the running hardware i used an Axial AX10 Scorpion XC1. It sports Yeah Racing front strobe headlights and regular rear lights. It has locked diffs and four wheel steering. It can crab walk as well. RC4WD shocks handles suspension duties. Dick Cepek aluminum beadlock wheels along with Dick Cepek Mud country tires mounted on all four corners.

[carloco8]

RC10T 17.5 runner "M.I.P."

This truck started out as a mid run 10t ebay junker I picked up about 15 years ago initially to salvage it for the plastic parts. The left over nose plate, nose tubes, and chassis were all bent. When covid hit I decided to do something with the left over chassis parts and build a runner. The nose plate was straightened and trimmed. The chassis was straightened as well but had a good sized servo access hole on the side so I decided to go to town on it and tried to uniformly swiss-cheese both sides of the chassis. Just about all the parts are cleaned up used spare pieces I had except for new arms, graphite towers/trans brace/batt hold down. Powered by an older blinky LRP brushless 17.5 system and reedy shorty lipo. Rolling on JC rulux wheels/tires. Topped off with a T3 body and custom rear mount, painted with a "MIP" theme.

[JosephS]

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This is my T3 built up on a hand made carbon fiber chassis. It was a challenge to make a 1 piece CF chassis that had both the front brace mount and the rear integrated bulkhead and mount. I see why there wasn't every a 3rd party version.

Build thread is here https://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=48371

Mostly stock since everything was in such nice shape. Changed just a few things bushing to ceramic ball bearing, LRP runner to Novak Super Rooster ESC and dogbones to CVD. Kept the stock 27Mhz radio,20 turn silver can, steering servo,body and blue shocks.

[juicedcoupe]

My Futaba FXT.

Mostly stock with a few small upgrades.

It has Schumacher silicone nitride diff balls, Tamiya CVD's, turnbuckles, and upgraded servo saver. Swapped the rear tires for Schumacher VEE-2's.

All Futaba electronics, per manual: R112 receiver, S148 servo, and MC 210 esc. I added a Pro-Trix 552 motor and changed the gearing.

Thanks to R6cowboy, Frankentruck, and GoMachV for parts and information that allowed me to complete this thing.

Click on pics for better resolution.

[dinglem]

Original 'Race Prep' AYK Radiant Mid conversion – one of the rarest cars in my collection I would think. They produced less than 50 of these 'Race Prep' conversions (according to Steve Dunn) before AYK approached them about making it an official kit, thus bringing about the Pro Radiant. The '87 Romsey car was actually one of these conversions with the fibreglass dyed black. There are several differences with the Mid Radiant when compared to the Pro Radiant cars. The front tower has multiple shock location holes for both 0.56 and 0.71 short Associated front shock lengths, the rear shock tower has a different profile, the chain idler/roller is unique for the model being a ball-raced orange sprocket, the wide front rims actually have one-way bearings built into them rather than in the hubs as seen in the Pro, there is a steering mod which uses Associated bell cranks, the rear tie rods joins at the rear of the uprights rather than in the middle, the upper radio tray plate is different which means the battery cut outs on the side plates are also unique, it has orange-ended Race Prep dog bones and the ultra-rare optional Race Prep slipper clutch. One of only a handful known to have survived and very fortuitously has retained all of the listed items unique to the conversion. As such I absolutely had to opt for the original Radiant bodyshell as per the Mid Radiant mag review car and then really went to town on the paint scheme design. I think the metallic orange with Rising Sun side panels really suits the shape and hence why I am using two shell-on pictures here. You need to click on the pictures to see the paint scheme really pop!

That RCCA Mag review along with some ‘as found’ and body off shots and more detail of the paint job can be found here:-


https://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=121&t=47233&p=540857&hilit=radiant+mid#p540857

[mtbkym01]

Original Wild One restored with a twist.

[THEYTOOKMYTHUMB]

I always swore I'd never enter a car that loses a second time, but when you've lost as many times as I have it's hard not to. 10LSO. I just really like this car.

[Frankentruck]

Throwing in my wild child 10L with Novak SS5300 motor. It needs better gripping tires. At part throttle and 25mph, grabbing full throttle causes the tires to break loose resulting in an immediate 'reversal of fortunes'. I probably need to find a longer running area so I can creep it up to a higher speed before gunning it.
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[scr8p]

Poll is up. Good luck!

[Dadio]

Hot Dinglemy dog it's easy this month ! I like pan cars but know nothing of them , had an original Wild one and fond memories of it , i like crawlers , sadly I'd be lying if I said I like Truggys ( sorry guys) , and Dinglems AYK just smashed it out the park

[Frankentruck]

There's a lot of entries I'd like to vote for this month. I know the AYK has really nice bodywork, but I really think not showing the underbits is not doing it justice. Sure there's a link, but I would like to have had that view of it here. Hopefully it has an AYK motor under there.

[dinglem]

There's a lot of entries I'd like to vote for this month. I know the AYK has really nice bodywork, but I really think not showing the underbits is not doing it justice. Sure there's a link, but I would like to have had that view of it here. Hopefully it has an AYK motor under there.

I did deliberate about posting a topless shot (!)

...and yes, in there is a ceramic shaft AYK motor no less!

[coxbros1]

There's a lot of entries I'd like to vote for this month. I know the AYK has really nice bodywork, but I really think not showing the underbits is not doing it justice. Sure there's a link, but I would like to have had that view of it here. Hopefully it has an AYK motor under there.

I did deliberate about posting a topless shot (!)

...and yes, in there is a ceramic shaft AYK motor no less!

I really wanted to see it topless!

[1911Colt]

I really wanted to see it topless!

I say that a lot