Team Shock's Build Diary

[teamocean]

With the chassis for Inertia beefed up and printed, here is how my team is looking now. Still got some wiring up to do but they should be good for Saturday.

Dave is lending me a bug which will team with either Blue or Red to form a cluster.

[Rapidrory]

Nuts is safely in with the Fleas, so Inertia won't have to worry about getting smashed again

[Shakey]

Someone say Inertia vs. Nuts?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUege5_UOzs

Found this on the camera.

[teamocean]

After working flat out for the last few weeks shuffling my efforts between working and the new Shockbots kits I have finally spent some time this evening on one of my own ants.

This is essentially Inversion 2 with a weapon fitted. I'm going to keep the pusher one as that is still working very nicely and use the same base with some slight modifications to run a small drum spinner The actual drum will be about 3 times wider but you can get the idea.

[Remote-Controlled Dave]

Will the drum make Inversion, ironically, not invertible?

[Rapidrory]

There seems to be a sudden rash of 4wd spinners! Well... 3 at least...

It'll be interesting to see if the extra wheels make them substantially more comperative; Flail Whail's certainly a heck of a lot better with 4wd.

[Remote-Controlled Dave]

It's your fault Rory. It was so hard to make 4WD spinners before you made everything light and tiny. Haha. And here's me moving away from 4WD.

[razerdave]

I've had to change mine a bit to fit in the weight limit, and it needs thinner teeth I feel, but I am happy with how Baphomet performs so far.

I was wondering too about it not being invertable, but I guess it could run on it's back wheels?

[teamocean]

The angled back allows it to run on the rear wheels when inverted. I'm hoping this one should have a good balance between drive and weapon. Something that Inertia 10 definitely won't have with the heavier disc running on 3s

[daveimi]

These are impressive. Do you print them yourself?