My Micro T is growing up.

I was in a Dollar General store the other day and I saw a really cheap RC that had a great body in 1/24 scale, or at least close. I thought maybe if I stretched a Miro T it would make a cool project. But I resisted, why spend the money when I have two projects in the works right now anyway? The, latter I was at the LHS and noticed they had some Micro Raminator wheels in the sale bin...I realized they would work great with the body from the Dollar store...SO, I have the chassis mocked up in styrene. It will be a pattern for a Lexan chassis, or maybe aluminum. I haven't decided, if I go lipo and brushless then the extra weigh of the aluminum would probably help to keep the thing planted, but for now I'll just go with what I have and use the lexan. Probably???

Anyway, Pictures:

the first plate, not trimmed, just to see if the wheelbase was right:



Next the top plate (note that the bottom plate is trimmed narrower):






I was woried about getting high-centered, and was thinking of making a raised chassis like on the High Roller, but I think this will be ok the wat it is:




I suppose you're wondering what the body is...I'll just leave it as a tease for now:




Well, that's all for now, I have an Xmod I'm working on too...I was going to get some pics of it up today but this build got me sidetracked so it will have to wait until I have the time to make it worth looking at.

Ha I already know what body it is, but I wont tell. Is it a diecast body or a plastic modelish body.

That's cool i need to make like a high rolling micro t lol and go brushless/lipo

btw musclecar pm me

NICE i want a micro im just broke >.< even tho i have over 1k posts on a micro t site i aint got one >.<

lol that is sucky oh well you should get $75 real quick and buy one

I thought musclecar might have seen it on another forum, maybe one or two others as well. It's a plastic body, pretty lite and flexible...which will make it hard to find paint sine the paint needs to flex too.

Bar suprised me, I didn't know there was a Micro T site...I guess I should have figured there was, but I never even thought of it.

If you watch ebay sometimes you'll find micro t's listed in the "toy RC' section by people who don't know what they have. I found one listed as "toy RC truck" with no gallery picture. I won the bid at $5.53 with $10 shipping. It was in pretty good shape, the battery was dead, but everything else was ok, it was in with a bunch of stuff that some woman was selling because her son didn't play with it anymore.

You should be fine with any paint, even if the body flex if you prep it will it should come out fine. It just takes 6 months to fully cure. Also try some of teh krylon spray cans with chip resistance for plastic. I heard it works good but doesn't give a very good paint job.

I've had some luck with the Krylon Fusion in the past because it penetrates the plastic, I just wish they made it for an airbrush instead of in a rattle can. The paints that are made for lexan RC bodies work good on poli-plastics but it's very soft and scratches easily. I may try dying the body so that I only have to paint a small section.

dont tease

Opps, sorry Joey, I got the body sitting on the chassis, did a few test runs and realized that wit the chassis stretched this much it needs more ground clearance...so back to the drawing board.

0o0o0oo0oo0o0o0o0o0o0o0o looks nice

Me likey!