well after some trial and error i have a body that is ready for paint. From here i will continue working on my mold and i will be working on trying to make the body slightly more buggy like.

now i have already started gathering a collection of failed body attempts. i will be saving these failed bodies to use for paint practice. so even the bodies that can not be used on the buggy will have a use.

Well i finished my very first prototype body for my b4 durango. yes its ugly, yes it needs improvement.  made this body the same way that team durango made the bodies for these chassis back in the day.  as time goes on i will continue to modify and improve my mold along with my skill of forming these soda bottle bodies. my plans for the future is to get a vacuum former and start vacuum forming my own bodies. but until then i will work on my soda body skills.

well when i got the durango prototype chassis one of the first things i noticed was that the front end was tweaked pretty good. the nose plate was bent back and so were the front chassis posts. the front and rear posts were also threaded with a metric 3mm thread pattern. being in the states and having everything in a standard thread pattern i also wanted to change the posts over to a standard thread. well finding someone to make these little posts for me really started looking bad. i was getting quotes of $50 and more. it gets worse.. that was per post!

well i found a guy that was able to make them for me a good deal cheaper than that. here are how the new posts look. i am very excited with how they came out and how the car will look once i get it together. stay tuned!

i finished the storage drawer units in the  shop now. man do i have enough room to last me a little while at least. i also cleaned up the shop a little and sat out all of the rc fleet so everyone can see how it has grown. now to delays in posting the rc500 you see in the pics has been sold and is no longer in my possession. it has a new home with another collector.

a lot of people have said that the durango chassis is not worth using due to weight. well with lipo batteries and everybody  adding weight to their cars how is the few extra grams going to be a problem? i would much rather run a heavy buggy than a light weight one for the simple fact that a heavy buggy will feel more planted due to that extra weight.

anyway here are the different weights. carbon b4 chassis 119 grams, alloy durango chassis 169 grams. so there you have it. 50 grams. people are putting alot more than 50 grams of lead weight in their buggies so i just see it as saving myself a step.