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JimInMiami

I noticed MST doesn't get a lot of love around here, so in hopes of boosting its prospects thought I'd share some pics of the recent build I did for the Misses who's a huge Toyota fan.

Gotta say, of all our rigs this one turned out the cutest.



As usual I brushed on acrylic custom mixed to match this 1-1.



The kit was a fun build and went together really well.



Tried to dress up the cage with some accessories and painted the light bezels silver



It’s box stock for now except for the wheel/tire combo. I wanted to try my modified SCX10 III tires with every other center nob removed, but will probably install SSD steelies and Hyrax clone tires eventually.




My impression is that this is a first-rate platform with solid design and engineering.
The only substandard part are the tires that are so hard they can support the truck WITHOUT the foams installed, here’s proof:



And that’s with a heavy NIMH battery sitting in the back! IMO the tires are only good for display purposes and one’s already gracing the back of my UMG10 as the spare.

Speaking of Mogs, I really like that the body/cage rotate up and out the way for service.



OK, but can it climb, you ask?? With the remnant of Hurricane Zeta hitting South Florida this weekend, we weren’t able to take it out for a test drive. But that didn’t keep us from using our cat furniture to test it!!

https://studio.youtube.com/video/uDYxvjxRw3Q/edit

Let me know what you guys think??