I might actually be coming to the point where it's starting to look like something.

You see, I seem to have picked up this rather frustrating habit of continuously improving the design during, or after, construction. This saw me do the usual Design > Cut > Assemble routine, but with an added "Gee that looks good... but it would be even better if - " which would lead to a repeat of said cycle.

So here's a timeline for you guys - I started off with this, the chassis from the last update:

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"Oh Gee, those front prongs just seem a bit flimsy. Why not beef those up?

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"That's better. Now the mounts for the wedge have twice as much plastic and twice as many screws. Approved."

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The beauty of interlocking construction occurred to me again - this H profile isn't held together by any screws (the nutstrips are bolted to single pieces of plastic but do not to protrude into others), but just by slotting the plastic together in such a way that it's snug. Once again I threw this through the room, and it didn't budge.

But then there was the matter of the back-end. That was going to be simply screwed on, but now I had the hang of interlocking stuff, why not go all the way?

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*sigh* allright then.

I made the side rails a bit longer, and cut out a slot big enough to accommodate both the back end and the wheel guards. This way, also the wheel guards would be locked in place.

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And wouldn't you know it, it worked. Not a single bit of glue or metal, and yet room-throw proof. Solid as a rock.

With all this going on, I also got delivery of some of the innards, which led to some weighing. First, the chassis, bolted up and everything.

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Oh ain't life grand. With wheels, motors, servo, ESCs, receiver and the like added the tally is 726g, which gives me about half of the weight limit left for, titanium top- and baseplate, wedge and lifter mechanism. Things are well and truly getting interesting now.

When it comes to the lifter though I'm still very much in doubt as to how it'll go about. I like being able to drive upside down, and if I were to join the Front Hinge Master Race that would be a more likely possibility than as a Rear-Hinged Peasant. Given the notorious amount of spinner evilness lurking around these lands I'd rather not open up my juicy innards to one of them every time I open it up.

Anyway, after some further deliberation I finally did a proper mock-up. using some paper cut outs as Titanium stand-ins.

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Don't be mistaken though - the end result will not be as much as a blanc canvas (or tabula rasa if you're posh) as this. When it comes to the theme, I'm very much sticking to the one discussed at the start of this thread. I've sketched a bit over the past week, and the retarded cackling spawned by my maniacalities disturbed my SO and sibling to such an extend I hope you Brits are going to enjoy the end result in two and half months.

Crikey it's just two and a half months. Best get going then!