Beautiful In Blue

As nice as it has been looking at shiny aluminium, it was time to get Drumroll painted up and I reckon the chassis looks even better with a lick of metallic blue:



Also gave it a quick spin-up. Looking at how much my charger is currently putting into the battery pack, it must've been running low in the video. Thought the drum didn't sound as fast as it usually did. Should have a bit more kick on full charge:



Sounds a bit rough compared to spin-up videos of other bots. The rattling noise is coming from the flanges of the motor pulley; they're still in place but rotate around the pulley quite freely, and the needle-roller bearings need a bit of oil put in them. This'll be the third big event they've done and there have been a few hard hits in there so they're probably getting a bit goosed. Should be smooth as jazz when I get the new drum made.

So that's everything done besides a bit of superficial paintwork and charging of batteries. Drumroll is ready to wreck, Carcinus is ready to get wrecked and Onyx mad, Onyx SMASH!