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Yeahh nice! No more stickers needed. Maybe a clear coat to avoid yellowing. 

Great work and very nice car

As mentioned somewhere else, I got a second Bearcat SS today...


It came with a box, the original driver, a few missing bits (steering rods - but I need to check inside the box), a broken bumper... Speaking about the bumper, there is an home made one made from a metal plate (3mm thick) which is quite nicely done but very heavy...




Maybe a way to reduce the willingness of the car to go wheelie with the sbsolute power of its 540 silver can
 

I had the TPU in the printer, ready to roll (and dried as I just printed a sample of 44B rock'n Vega Bumper), so I thought about printing a Bumper to replace the missing one for the Bearcat SS n°2.



The overhang makes it is not perfect...


But for a runner, that will do the work...

Previous runs were short, promising but short... The first one was vey shorten by a loose pulley (the intenal one), the second by some escaping pivot balls... I solved the ones which were identified as difficult and was impatient to try the car again, as the short runs look promising...I ran it quite a lot... No Belt skips, the car is easy to control, silent and shocks worked quite well, and overall the car is quite easy to control... I made jumps during quite a few laps, and at the end of the second serie of laps, I snapped one the pivot balls again (but this time, not on the wheel side, but on the chassis side - I'll have to work out a solution for this). The video is short again, and don't show any of the jump, unfortunately, but still, nice to have one, as it is a rare car on a track...

There was a few parts I did not have for this chassis as they were only available with a Bearcat and a Tomcat.
Someone provided me the required information, and I did model them... I'll have to upload those parts at some point...


While at it, I modeled both Tomcat and Bearcat approaching bodyshells and Wing from pics...
Tomcat



Bearcat




And yes, I defined the bodyshell by thickening the top surface of a mold... Which means I could eventually print a mold and try to get a bodyshell vacformed...