Everybody’s Scalin’ – Big Truck Driver
Hey everybody, what’s up? Happy Thursday!
Today we aren’t precisely speaking monster vans, however we’re speaking a few truck that’s monstrous!
So final 12 months I made a decision to get a Tamiya Globe Liner semi truck to transform to an off-highway log hauler. Well, as I discovered the Tamiya actually wasn’t the software for the job. I went wheeling with some buddies over the winter that used some actually heavy obligation rigs. As it seems they had been from Cross RC. I wrote about it here.
That lead me to purchasing a Cross RC HC-6. I’ve probably not talked about this truck a lot, however I’ve been engaged on it. And man, what an excellent construct it’s been!
For these unfamiliar with the Cross RC model, they make some VERY good stuff. I’ve gotten to see most of their navy truck kits in motion and it’s fairly loopy the quantity of abuse they will take.
They just about all function machined, nicely, all the pieces, together with exhausting our bodies utilizing ABS plastic and styrene. Many even include lighting or sound modules (the HC-6 has lights). They are true builder’s kits.
When it was time to choose what to get, I went with the HC-6 as a result of I’m an enormous fan of traditional US navy iron. The HC-6, which is unlicensed, is a little bit of a mixture of a number of old-fashioned rigs, and I believe it bares most resemblance to an M809.
The HC-6 comes with a cargo mattress, however I wished to do one thing a bit completely different and provides it the configuration of a civilian log hauler. Something like possibly you’d see within the Pacific Northwest from a small logging firm that took certainly one of these vans and transformed it over.
As she began to go collectively I spotted I wished all the factor to be painted to present it that industrial look.
I did the chassis with an undercoat of a rust trying paint, after which went on prime with an orange yellow. That means, when the truck begins to get dinged up, the paint will chip to point out rust….giving it a weathered look. It turned out superior!
The truck includes a cab with a full inside and it appeared like it will be a missed alternative to not give it a driver….so after some modification I bought a big GI Joe that I discovered on the native division retailer to suit simply tremendous!
I then completed portray the cab and the small print, in addition to plumbing the included lighting package.
Up up to now, all the construct was by the instruction guide. I wished to do a logging truck, so the included cargo mattress wasn’t going to work. And no cargo mattress meant no place to mount the battery field (which itself appears like a toolbox, which may be very cool!), as is within the manufacturing facility config. I exhausting mounted the battery field to the body by means of 4 small screws into the body rail. It labored!
The wheels/tires had been final. They are all beadlock, and so they go collectively just like the favored RC4WD Wagon Wheel. That means A LOT of screws! I wound up placing the wheels on backwards which provides the truck extra offset for the crawling I plan to do with it.
With the truck collectively, it was time for a shake-down.
Oh hell yeah, what a monster! It feels heavy, however in a great way. Despite having a full leaf spring suspension, the truck is kind of adept at crawling varied terrain. For the final word check, I took it by way of a creek. The ol’ woman had no points.
This is my kinda truck, of us. Sometimes you want the best software for the job, and the large HC-6 positive looks like it. I’m very impressed.
I’m now engaged on getting a fifth wheel connected to it, and determining a trailer. I’ll speak about that once I get it performed and begin hauling logs.
Until subsequent time, hold it on all 4’s!