Team Health & Safety - First Time Builder

[Zenith]

It seems the gaps between updates seem to be of an increasing nature. I guess it just builds on the hype.

The past few months saw the development of me entering the realm of stepfatherhood, and with it, also initiating the subsequent indoctrination of a 6 year-old into the art of robotic combat. Attacking mommy's slippers with the Viper apparently fed the bug to such an extent that the good lad wanted an R/C car for Christmas. Good thing I've got a direct hot line to the North Pole.

You see, apparently the good folks at Nikko have used the past twenty years of my absence to figure out tank drive on their concoctions, which played perfectly into my scheme. Tank drive is the be-all-end-all of our little world.

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To make a long story short, mommy's slippers no longer suffered the brunt of the attack. It did occur to me though that whereas I know how to fix the Viper, fixing the Nikko tank might be a tad more impossible given how everything is made of that famous CORF (Crack Once Regret Forever) plastic.

So time to avert my attention again to my own build (because well, that's why you're here isn't it?). I took the time inbetween the training sessions to get a schematic worked out and get the necessary tools lined up. I like figuring out stuff myself, which in turn also sparked the interest of our little raskal.

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Either that or my drawings are just hilarious. Feel free to point out mistakes and I'll try not to be offended.

Just wondering what might be a good servo to use for a beetleweight. I noticed that the one in the Viper may very well do the job, but for now, all that counts is getting a driving platform.

Design wise, I'm looking at a lifter which hides between two scoops up front - with all them spinny thingies out and about in beetleworld I'm not so keen on them munching away at the party piece; as it is, I have no plans to make my lifter out of birthday cake.

I could put one of those unblowable candles on top though and rename it The Cake Is A Lie, but I guess that breaks FRA regulations.