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Goro Majima

Realizing I haven't made a thread on this yet, here's #9, this 80 series Land Cruiser of the 10 Toyota lexan crawlers.






I've had the kit built and tested it out but I put it to the side after fitting the body to complete a few other builds that came beforehand which also need updating. I haven't crawled it yet as I want to do so when the body is completely decaled and fully painted but I know this will be really fun to drive especially with having the smaller 4.35 Proline BFG All Terrains (probably my favorite 1:1 truck tire). I have a white tire marker to paint the letters so that'll be a nice scale touch.



Other than the tires, here's the rest of the parts I used/to be installed:
- Boom Racing S100 beadlock steelies (kinda resemble an OEM wheel)
- Yeah Racing Hackmoto brushed 12T (newer and inexpensive product so figured I'd try it out)
- Castle Sidewinder 4 ESC
- Stock TRX4 pinion
- Stock servo (I have a few other kinds of new ones on hand to test out once this one breaks)
- Red ARB diff covers front and rear
- Window visors
- Spare tire mount (will house a plastic black steelie with another BFG A/T)
- HPI Venture white springs (rear doesn't have short spring installed)

Relating to most of my other builds, this will get an OEM type paint job/scheme. Both bumpers will be a dark gray, as well as the side steps, or as in this case they are also the rock sliders (slider covers) since I trimmed down the sliders to fit under the lexan.

Here's how the body fit onto the chassis without any modifications (spare wheels fitted at the time):



And here it is fitted with trimming of the front inner fenders and the sliders trimmed (S100 steelies and BFGs on):



Body mounted and painted:





As of today, I currently need to finish the masking job for the bumpers and side steps for paint, and masking of the windows and window trims to paint the moldings black. The window visors will be painted smoke if that wasn't obvious. And lastly I can put all the decals on and go drive it! Idk if I will tint the windows or not. I kinda like having contrast with darker colors and the windows.

Further progress to be posted hopefully sooner than later!