Manda’s (Amachan) RC Adventures

Earlier this year I was planning a little upgrade to my RC truck and I carved this bit of foam out of the foam packaging that the Desert Lizards came in. I wasn’t able to do it back then due to a lot going on in my life. Over the last days, on good moments, I have finally been able to put it together.

I glued this foam onto the brace that goes in between the shock mounts on the chassis using 2 part epoxy glue.

I then glued a strip of hook-and-loop fasteners on top of that and a strip in the body of the truck. This will certainly help keeping the body on when I roll the truck, the magnet that comes on by default is just not enough.

We finally had some snow last week so here are some of the pictures that I made while running my RC truck through the snow and puddles.

There might not be much content for my RC hobby for a bit, just being busy with the renovations in my apartment and it is easier to focus on the miniature painting hobby at the moment.

I went for a bit of a rock crawl and failed…. So, I then just went to play in the sand, without much success either… Have I been to ambitious?

Just a run through the local park, it was very windy out and didn’t feel like finding another interesting place to crawl. But on the plus side I finally made it up that hill that I keep trying to climb. Also, you might notice that one of the tires is coming off of the beadlocks again… I really need to get some new wheels, don’t worry they are on the list as soon as I have some money for them. For now I think I am just going to put the spare from the back on there, that will do for a little while.

I went for a bit of a trail run this time, but I came across some rock and couldn’t resist trying to climb them. Sadly, my new front suspension modification is a bit too stiff for rock crawling, so I will have to look at that. I will probably just undo the modification for now.

Here is an unorthodox mod for my RC truck. I used one of the springs from the Desert Lizards inside the springs of the original front shocks in order to stiffen them up a bit.

Sand is always a great challenge to drive through, so I decided to go up a horse riding trail onto the dunes until I hit the walking paths and then try to follow the sandy bits on the side to try and get up the dunes. I didn’t really get on top all the way as I was limited on time and I was lollygagging on a small sandy mound for a while….

I got some new lizards, these are not for Warhammer, they are for my RC truck. These are 90mm Yeah Racing Desert Lizards with an internal spring rather than an external spring that coil-over shocks that came with the truck have. For 90mm shocks they are a bit longer than I expected.

Initially I went for the single hole piston head on the piston, rather than the 4-hole one that was installed by default. Mainly because the original shocks also had 1 hole. I removed the bottom and top spring that was installed by default with a medium longer top spring for a sprung setup. A sprung setup is basically your traditional setup. I chose that spring because it felt just a bit stiffer than the one from the original shocks do. Filled it with the same 500 cst oil that I used before and then I got these installed on the truck, but it was feeling very stiff.

So this was way too stiff, after some fiddling around and testing stuff later I settled on a droop setup (where the suspension is basically limited by its travel down by another spring) using the lightest springs included. I also changed the piston head to a 3-hole piston head and these are working like a charm.

So I went out for a test drive until I broke something again…. Easy fix this time though. I am really loving these shocks they are working great and I really need to get some for the front as well.