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Ultima Pro - Aluminum chassis

Nice new wheels too. Trinity right?
They are not so strong though. Especially the front ones had a tendency to crack from hole to hole.

Thanks Mr. ED -
IIRC the wheels came from bags with CRP headers?

You're right. My mistake. Andy's front arms with crp axles and tamiya fox or wild one wheels were a very common combo in belgium. I think ee stretched super shot tires over them.

So Dennis, can you tell us more about the aluminum Ultima Pro chassis in green? Is it a reanodize, or a new from pargu anodized in green or something...

Oh, it´s a quick sanding covered by Tamiya TS paint.
I had been planning on rebuilding this one for a while, but was held back by the scratches underneath - so I took a deep breath, painted the chassis and have been praying for solace ever since.

Painted a body for the Pro (blue and orange) and one for a Ultima II (green and black)
And yes, they are simple

I'm really digging the Ultimeister.

Coelacanth wrote: ↑Tue Sep 26, 2017 4:50 pm I'm really digging the Ultimeister.

me too...only thing that keeps distracting me on that one is the 5 spoke fronts and the 6 spoke rears...I know, I know...what a dick . Really loving the green wheels though with that paint. It might be simple but it keeps from the annoying distraction of a billion things going on at once in a paint scheme.

Todd

Okay - I´ll cut out one of the spokes on the rears

DennisM wrote: ↑Sat Sep 30, 2017 12:17 am Okay - I´ll cut out one of the spokes on the rears

DennisM wrote: ↑Tue Mar 15, 2016 5:22 am This is how it ended up
Kudos to Jeff for doing the towers

Looks good. You should upgrade it to Ultima Pro specs (motor guard, stabilizer bars, ball diff, etc).

There´s three different Ultimas in this thread - Two Ultima II (kelron chassis) and one Ultima Pro (Blue and Orange bodied)
IMO, upgrading the Kelron Ultima´s is a waste of money (If You can talk about wasting money, like it was a sin, when dealing with this hobby )

I think he was just making a post count run anyway