Hi, me again, sorry for the double post but it's early lol. Not a morning person. Was just going to say that I came from RC Car back ground and am rubbish at fabrication. I basically build wooden boxes with scoops on of one form or another, but have got to the stage where they are doing reasonably well. I've been entering the beetle stuff but been looking to have a go with the feathers again as the beetle events have been non existent here oop norf.

I don't have a problem with with the electrics as its basic, just battery, speedo, receiver and motors just the same as in my losi buggy except there's two motors coming out of the speedo instead of one. I have two main bits of advice for you to be honest that I **HAD** to tell you lol. The first is build a pusher/wedge/bulldozer for a first time round, and the second is that which ever drive train you decide to use, order it as a package. By that I mean if you are useless at machining and fabricating accurately then making your own hubs is hard.

I have aspergers so I don't have the accuracy to make hubs up, so I order gearmotors, hubs and wheels almost as a package and it's been really reliable. I used to use drill motors and then by the wheels that fitted, but since they've stopped doing them I struggled making my own. I'm building a feather using some untested low powered motors as my new robot is a thwack bot and doesn't need much shove. I like the beetle class because it's huge in america so all the stuff is readily available off the shelf. You can even by a kit for a drum robot for a couple of hundred and it comes with most of the stuff you need.