One of my lockdown toys was a RC car. Well, more than one, but thats another story for another day.
The car in question is an Arrma Kraton 6S BLX -
https://www.arrma-rc.com/kraton/ - a completely mental tonka.
Anyway, this particular one I lent to a friend, and I'm guessing I'm never gonna pry it back out of his mitts, certainly not any time soon.
A couple of weeks back, I'd had an arse of a week (not that my luck has improved since
), so bought the stronger version of the Kraton, called EXB.
As with all Arrma stuff, although it comes prebuilt (sadly), its wise to strip it and rebuild it properly, and throw away any important screws and get decent ones.
So, yesterday it was like this:
and soon became:
As is often the case, heat was needed on a lot of the screws that went into metal. One needed a dremel.
So this afternoon, I started putting it back together:
To protect the rear suspension components from being sand blasted from the front wheels, I was going to redesign some protectors, as the rear wishbones are different on the stronger EXB, but happened to find some on Thingiverse, so printed them off, then got Mrs TheBoy painting in the logo:
More coats needed methinks
. Not that the paint will last long, as the rear takes a real beating from what the front throws its way.
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