Thought I would start a build diary as not many here Finished my RB7 & took advantage of the Jan sale. I haven’t decided on paint colour yet so I have started from stage 5 & now got to stage 22 without any problems so far.

First few pic’s any coments welcome good or bad

Nice to see another Hummer on here, I quite fancy this one myself

Steve

Martin

Good start to your diary and one to follow as not seen much of this kit being posted.

Parts look extremely well made.

Hope your build goes well.

Stage 23/24 the front differential

Stage 25 the front bulkhead. I Had my first problem with this stage. The gearing was not turning smoothly like others had found so got out the hammer & block of wood to protect the shaft like the advice, gave it a couple of hits from the opposite end to the 43T gear. Does seem a bit drastic to give it a bash but hey! It worked & now I have a nice & smooth rotation

And very well its all coming together to.

Stages 29/30 Front left hub
Stages 31/32 Front right hub

Stage 38 Assembling the main gear, Stage 39 Assembling and mounting the centre gear, Stage 40 Installing the disc brake, Stage 41 Fitting the driveshaft’s, Stage 42 Assembling the front track rods, Stage 43 Installing the fuel tank, Stage 44 Fitting the chassis bumper mount, Stage 46 Mounting the radio box, Stage 47 Installing the steering servo, Stage 48 Fitting the throttle servo. Now to get on with painting this big boy Blue.

I really do like this one as its more in the class of model engineering. All if those parts just look such precisecquality parts.

The way the servos fit the tray - all precise and neat.

Hope you are having a great time with your build.

Thanks Tony & Alan for looking in.

Yes agree it is a bit like that. I do like the fact that its all very neatly arranged as well

Not liking the transmitter & receiver though especially with no failsafe. Think ill change it to a 2.4ghz. Just need a KR200 receiver as will use the same transmitter as the RB7.