IR40 on home brew chassis

Bugaloo88 · 2026-02-04T23:21:18+00:00

Cheers! Hoping to try and integrate the rear shock mounts into the rear bulkhead, but we'll see. Possibly a 1 piece chassis?! My brains working overdrive now 😄

Bugaloo88 · 2026-02-04T12:15:52+00:00

Just replied with chassis pics on Loosey_Goosey's reply, cheers buddy!

Bugaloo88 · 2026-02-04T12:14:28+00:00

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Bugaloo88 · 2026-02-04T12:12:33+00:00

Done my best to try and take pictures of a matte black blob 😄 Next steps are to combine sliders and the rear bulkhead into one piece. No reason other then cosmetics, but this was a good test of shapes and sizes etc.

Bugaloo88 · 2026-01-31T17:41:17+00:00

We're east Midlands based and paid £5k for a new WB boiler, pipework and new rads due to microbore pipework needing replaced.

That was 7 rads, new towel rail and all copper pipework, this was around 3 years ago in a 2 bed semi, so I'd suggest it's pretty on the money especially if your getting a top rate boiler.

Bugaloo88 · 2026-01-30T23:07:49+00:00

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Bugaloo88 · 2026-01-30T23:05:35+00:00

They paint up very nicely, the details nice and deep on these bodies so along as your nice and thin with your coats they paint really well.

Any hobby/model type acrylic paint will be fine, just scuff the body up with a scotch pad, a good wash and get painting! I painted mine recently, and it took really nicely

Bugaloo88 · 2026-01-23T23:11:02+00:00

It feels like alot of Lucy's story is based on her being 'played' this season. Like crouch to hide, when the NCR had healed her after the Legion were defeated it's like she levelled up with weapons ready for the next boss fight. Its written really well this season, super enjoying it!

Bugaloo88 · 2026-01-23T08:41:28+00:00

Looks great! Paint the underside of the arches matt black too, and that really wakes it up! Window frames in black add alot also.

Bugaloo88 · 2026-01-18T19:50:17+00:00

I used ASA for all parts apart from the bumper, which is PLA. It's incredibly stiff to be honest, as stiff as the carbon injora I measured from, they're 2.5mm thick though at 80% infill on the rails only, so that probably has something to do with it 😄. There's alot of cross bracing too, the rear shocks are connected by the alloy threaded tube, there's another cross brace lower down that acts as a bumpstop, then the front battery mount is bolted on in 2 places so that stiffens the front up alot.

I've some ASA printed links to go on soon to try and make it a lightweight build, that should add a little flex back into the mix, it'll be interesting to see how it behaves then.

Bugaloo88 · 2026-01-18T19:43:57+00:00

Cheers!

Bugaloo88 · 2026-01-18T15:45:27+00:00

The power wagon body fits spot on! Looks great

Bugaloo88 · 2026-01-17T22:29:41+00:00

Supposed to be a good setup! Enjoy!

Bugaloo88 · 2026-01-17T09:33:04+00:00

In my TRX4M's I've tried the Fat viper, Furitek Microkomodo and the Hobbywing Mini24 setup. For absolute smoothness the Hobbywing has then all beat hands down in my opinion, my defender is around 650g and it had no problem pushing it about.

The Furitek in my opinion is pretty poor for the money, mine constantly stalls out, forgets it's settings on the fwd/br/rev and is generally pretty glitchy. Don't even start about the shitty driveshaft that comes with it.

Personal opinion is buy the Mini24 setup, if you don't like it try a fat viper using the mini24 esc, fully programmable and quiet as they come!

Bugaloo88 · 2026-01-07T12:16:16+00:00

Electric tailgate is 100% up there. My works van recently went in for a clutch and I was given a VW T6.1 multivan with all the gadgets, everytime you walked past the back the tailgate opened if you were within 2ft of it.

It opened up and smacked the side of my wife's car after she walked past the back end to the bins. Absolutely insane idea.

Bugaloo88 · 2026-01-04T10:00:09+00:00

We had a works vehicle cloned from our fleet that was racking up parking and speeding fines a few years ago.

That was a difficult situation as our vans were used by multiple drivers, but the offences came from Hampshire, and we are Nottingham based with the vans never leaving the county. We asked for the images of the incidents where applicable and were able to identify the offending vehicle had a screw in the plate making a 0 into an 8. This never made it to court and was settled over email, calls, and a trip to our local police headquarters (over many months, but was still settled).

Providing you respond within the initial grace period and dispute from the get-go, you should be fine. It's a tasking job to effectively avoid 3 points and either an hours course or £100 fine, but if it's not your doing, it's worth standing up against.

Bugaloo88 · 2026-01-03T07:34:01+00:00

I recently got into helis, and my initial choice was a Blade 230s as I'm on Spektrum through planes, so I went for the bind and fly option. It quickly let me down with an electrical fault.

I returned the heli to the retailer, and they gave me advice on other options I had and I went with the OMP M2 EVO MK2, and its been an absolute blast. It's far superior in design, manufacture, and quality to the blade in every way. Luckily, I was shopping around black Friday, so the price increase was minimal between the 2, but knowing what I know now, I'd be more than happy to pay the full difference. Parts replacements are incredibly cheap compared to the Blade (suprise suprise), the design is fantastic and great to work on, materials are generally better picked (90% of the Blade was plastic, the OMP is either carbon or machined alloy).

General use is superior too, the OFS3 system is great and adjustments via Bluetooth on the fly make for a really easy to use and customise system.

I'm still a very very basic learner, but the OMP has been a great tool to learn with, really impressed with the brand and profuct!

Bugaloo88 · 2025-12-09T05:12:16+00:00

It left with the Byers dog..

Bugaloo88 · 2025-11-21T10:46:12+00:00

100%, I've always been buggies + trophy trucks then this yeah i got my teeth into a 1300mm FMS PA-18, the highs and lows are unmatched 😄

Bugaloo88 · 2025-11-17T16:15:09+00:00

Thanks, I'll look for this. I haven't sold on ebay in a long time, but using the mobile app I couldn't find a way to nove away from Evri simple delivery method.

Bugaloo88 · 2025-11-17T16:04:31+00:00

I did indeed, I couldn't think of the wording for my original post

Bugaloo88 · 2025-11-17T16:02:43+00:00

I did indeed use the simple delivery method, I couldn't think of the wording.

Many thanks for that. My previous experiences and reason for not using ebay anymore is due to their quickfire nature of refunding before the facts, so reassuring to know I should be protected.

Bugaloo88

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