All-Terrain Manx - COMPLETED!

[gowjobs]

Like I didn't have enough projects, I won a Tamiya Stuart light tank in a club raffle last night, and the wheels started turning after I got home from work today. A couple of hours later:

Now to find that Hogan's Heroes Jeep I had laying around...

[VW Dave]

It's actually an Imp, Dave....but I still think it's crazy & cool regardless. 8)

EMPI Imp:

[gowjobs]

Yeah, I knew it was an Imp, but I was having better luck coming up with witty names based on "Manx" than "Imp".

I have a ways to go, but the upper hull is coming together now.

The next time I post photos, look for a Groovy Grader V-8 in the rear and a quickchange axle peeking through in the front. Hmmm... maybe a few skeletons - Rommel Rod needs a Desert Rat rival.

[Wildrice]

Now that takes some twisted thinking. Cool idea.

[BIGTRUCK]

Thats pretty neat Dave kinda military meets hotrod build

[FASTBACK340]

Maybe you can try and get the rear portion of the tracks to follow the contour of the wheel opening a bit so it doesn't look like it's high-centered on the tracks. Otherwise that's an idea I've never seen before on a buggy.

Great idea! Good luck with it.

BTW: What scale & version Tamiya tank was that kit?

[gowjobs]

I need to trim the body just a little more, but...

..the headers will exit between the rear fender and the upper portion of the tracks in back.

It's a Tamiya 1/35 M3 Stuart Light Tank hull, suspension and turret.

[gowjobs]

Some progress made:

[gowjobs]

A little progress today:

[Jairus]

Tom Daniel couldn't do any better! Love it so far....

[gowjobs]

All weathered up and ready to run the obstacle course!

[BIGTRUCK]

Thats wild and cool at the same time............

[Wildrice]

That is one wild but yet cool build. Great use of imagination.

[James Flowers]

thats way cool!!!

[Jairus]

Edited November 11, 2009 by Jairus

[Edward Gore]

a bump to the past, but I had too. This project is too cool

Saw it in person and got a couple pictures of this at a show/contest

Great!

[Jon Cole]

Way cool! When I saw the pics, I thought "Boy, that is something that Dave McGowan would like!"

Then I noticed the name below

I remember your style from the Spotlight board. I think Dave Deal's spirit has found a new home!

[Edward Gore]

Best use of an armor kit won in a raffle EVER!

The only question now is ... what contest category does it get entered in? :D

[Modellpularn]

Hmmmm, what is it??? Ohh I know, gotta be Dr Fate's new ride.....! Remember that old movie, "The Great Race" or something like that, from the midsixties or so..... yes, I'm old.....