More Crawling

Been a little lazy on blogging about crawling.  The past few weekend visits to the in-laws, I have taken over both the Creeper and the SCX10 to do some crawling in the back yard.  The nephews love watching them go, but I think these are a little slow for their tastes.  They prefer the fast RC's and trying to out run them.  But they did still have fun.  They would be tunnels for the trucks to drive under them.  Have me chase them with the trucks.  With these trucks running 55T brushed motors, the boys have more than enough speed to run away.

Of the trucks I do have, I seem to have more fun with the SCX10.  It was able to get over a large rock while the Creeper could not.  The Creeper is a competition crawler, and when setup correctly it will out crawler a scaler any day.  So I must have the setup wrong with the Creeper.  Oh well, someday I will get it right.

I have put on a new body for the SCX10.  This is a discontinued Pro-Line Racing Helios body which very closely resembles the Halo Warthog.  To bad this is discontinued as it makes a great body for the SCX10.

As such, I am going to make some mods that I can to this body.  Mainly I will be trying to add some lights, and maybe a few scale details such as tools.  I may even try to work on some sort of interior too.

I just did some crawling with it this morning.  It ran good with the new(ish) body.  And this run I did get some video and a few pictures.  I will actually try to do a trailer first, then the full movie short.

For the video capture, I used a new app FiLMiC Pro. Using the app was pretty easy.  It has separate reticules for focus and white balance.  The white balance reticule came in handy with the outdoor shooting.  If there was back light, I could move the white balance around until I got the lighting I liked.  We'll see how all the video looks when I get working on the new short.  So far, though, I am impressed with this app.  If you like shooting video with your iPhone, I would recommend this app over the default built in video camera app just for the white balance adjust-ability.