Man, I can't even tell you how lucky I feel to have gotten this crawler before the Corona lockdown started. And that it was a crawler, and not my near second choice, a Slash 4x4. I probably still would have run the Slash in the backyard, but it wouldn't have been nearly as fun as the Blazer has been.
Tip: have the Blazer and still running the stock servo? Order a replacement today and love the results. There's better steering to be had out there than what's provided stock.
I've been working on my backyard track. There are some things about it, though. It has to be out of the way enough so my wife doesn't get mad, and strong enough so my 3 year-old daughter can climb on all of it. The latter one makes it a bit tricky, since she'll climb over rockpiles and rearrange the rocks every time. I'm always looking for a new line through things with that going on.
I wanted to make a cool two meter climb out of some wood planks, but I can't guarantee my daughter won't try to climb them, so I won't. Keeping it all low and a bit spread out through the backyard keeps everyone happy.
The track is starting to wear in. There are seven obstacles dotted around a track that runs the perimeter of the backyard. It also goes under the trampoline, behind a few different sets of bushes and through a particularly nasty set of ivy. There's a stump, a wood stack, three brick piles, a tricky tree root challenge, and some precision driving that has to happen throughout the course.
