How to build a cheap and easy micro crawler indoor course

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How to build a cheap and easy micro crawler indoor course

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We took our RC life to the next level and build a cheap and easy micro crawler course for our Axial SCX24 RC Jeeps. This obstacle course was a ton of fun and we managed to make it for less than $30. (Most of the cost going to spray paint and hot glue sticks.)
We made this Micro crawler course from styrofoam, card board and expanding foam. Then added some course sand and spray painted. For a final touch I added in some greenery I got from the dollar store.
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@Teknakill 2 жыл бұрын

Good video, thanks for the pool noodle idea. Now I will share one of mine. Use a 50 percent water and 50 percent white glue mix in a spray bottle. Spray it on and smear it around with a paint brush then sprinkle sand on certain spots where you wish to have alittle more grip to overcome the obsticle easier. Add more sand as needed. Thanks for all your effort in this video, I sub'ed and thumbs up! 👍👍👍

@SimplyMustGo 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! And great tip!!

@BarbarisII 2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking this would be a good idea earlier, but I was worried the glue would make things difficult. I'm gonna try this now

@hfdsocalss 3 жыл бұрын

This is so rad! I think I'm going to build one and put it in the bed of my truck to use while at the races or tailgating. Now I'm going to need 3 more crawlers

@SimplyMustGo 3 жыл бұрын

Haha that’s an awesome idea! Mobile track!!

@dudeonther1978 3 жыл бұрын

Nice! It’s looks good. Sometimes I put a shoe under my platforms to add some angles of elevation.

@SimplyMustGo 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yeah I thought about stuff like that, but some of the angles are so steep, that i'd have to put it on the side to lower the angle. haha

@karenrecinos147 2 жыл бұрын

SUPER SUPER COOL!!! I'm days new to RCs and I am definitely going to make some obstacle courses, I love how simply you broke this down. THANK YOU!!!

@SimplyMustGo 2 жыл бұрын

I’m so glad you got some good ideas from it! 🙌🏻🙌🏻

@CanadianRC96 2 жыл бұрын

I'm thinking multiple little movable courses that can be rearranged to have a few different layouts and obstacle attack angles 🤔 I like the fact that it can be tucked away, good video!

@SimplyMustGo 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! And yes. Multiple courses that can be rearranged is one of the goals. I did build a part 2 for it. But haven’t done a video with it.

@charlesreynolds39 3 жыл бұрын

Really interesting build, I love the cardboard tubes. I think I'd make the triangle climb and the cardboard roll loggs removable obstacles, so they could be repositioned or upgraded, but it looks a lot of fun.

@signman9328 2 жыл бұрын

Cool! I'm an 'old-school' R/C guy and had a blast back in the old days with an MRC/Tamiya 'Sand Scorcher' buggy, but am thinking one of these tiny crawlers might be a blast. I also love model RR'ing, so making a indoor course sounds fun. Thanks---good tips!

@SimplyMustGo 2 жыл бұрын

That’s awesome. I want to get a RR soon!

@DrumerMetodista 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Matt, Its so good to see you again. Hope you, your family and every one from the ERT NC are well and ok. My regards to each and everyone. We were definitely thinking the same thing. as soon as you started the disclaimer in where you adviced to weare gloves. It just reminds me of the time when the styrofoam pipe breaks in your backpack or I don't remember exactly where it was, but soon spread all over the place, the floor, your hands etc. and it was liked glued to your hands. Where so bad, I dont know with what exacly you took it out. Ps. Loved the RC's outdoor course obstacles track with the minis (Jeeps). May God Blesses You'll

@SimplyMustGo 3 жыл бұрын

Hey!!!! Yes we are doing well! I hope you are also! We miss you for sure! Yeah I learned my lesson with spray foam the hard way! Ugh! If you get state side sometime we need to connect!

@ccs2311 3 жыл бұрын

Great idea for using toilet rolls and foam packaging for the terrain. The spray foam is ok for some situations, but it’s air toxic, very sticky and not too cheap. I’ve seen Hot gluing recycle bin boxes and various shapes of formed or pack foam working together as a hill base will hold up well as long as you sheet plaster over everything afterwards

@SimplyMustGo 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Yeah I learned a lot and the second half that we made we used much less spray foam.

@gatorrcgames 2 жыл бұрын

Pretty cool little course. My kids and I just some of our 24th scale course.we used some foam and real rocks we got from our local rivers.

@SimplyMustGo 2 жыл бұрын

Nice!! I’m thinking of making a cool dedicated course outside with rocks and water features

@rockwolfdesigns6384 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the insight. I'm building one now for the coming winter here in Michigan.

@SimplyMustGo 3 жыл бұрын

You'll enjoy it!

@reallybigphilly 2 жыл бұрын

I'm gonna do a similar project over the christmas break, but using old cardboard and plaster cloth. Already made a few wooden obstacles and a suspension bridge :) Also going with a 'desert' theme since I wont need a lot of accessories, just a bag of sand and some glue.

@SimplyMustGo 2 жыл бұрын

That sounds awesome. I want to do a suspension bridge too!

@JJohnsSales 2 жыл бұрын

i love this getting into it myself and i may do the same but add real sand sprinkled on spray adhesive

@SimplyMustGo 2 жыл бұрын

That’s great. I actually did the same thing later after this video to upgrade it and add some other section. Just didn’t make a video about it. 🤦‍♂️

@nsanenscale9390 Жыл бұрын

Very nice design. I live in a 2 bedroom apartment so something like this would be perfect for me. Do you mind sharing the size of it please? I'm guessing 2-2.5'x6? I may be wrong. Keep up the good work!

@xbmarc Жыл бұрын

The creativity is amazing!

@logancowdy1255 2 жыл бұрын

great tabletop course you have there, i just today started one of my own and had the same idea to use styrofoam and spray foam as a base, interesting obstacles you've created might incorporate some of your designs into my finished product. keep up the good work

@SimplyMustGo 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! It’s been a lot of fun to play with for sure!

@Freddie-adhd-Abe 2 жыл бұрын

If you haven't found out by now, they make thumb control to put on your controller so you can film and wheel at the same time

@SimplyMustGo 2 жыл бұрын

WHAT!!! I had no idea. That's awesome. I'll have to look into that for sure!

@LEVARIOMIKE 2 жыл бұрын

👍 I like the colors you chose for this

@SimplyMustGo 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@MrWhitmire 8 ай бұрын

Great video of a cool build. Thanks for sharing.

@brassplinker.556 3 жыл бұрын

Definitely doing this!!! Thanks for the video!!

@SimplyMustGo 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Yeah it wasn’t hard at all to make and turned out really fun. Now all I can think of is how to make it bigger and crazier. 🤦‍♂️

@gfyracing7632 2 жыл бұрын

You got lucky that the spray paint did not eat away at much of that foam. Course does look good.

@SimplyMustGo 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yeah I never even thought about the paint eating the foam, but I’m glad it didn’t! 😀

@x_HuLiMaKaFLip_x Жыл бұрын

Really nice! 👍🏽

@gregory9157 2 жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed your vid 👍. It provided me with some good inspiration

@SimplyMustGo 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome!!! I’m so glad it helped!

@dwightduke2329 3 жыл бұрын

It might help on the climbing wall/ramp to add some sand like you did on the other areas, building one of these as I type this out, thanks for some ideas.

@SimplyMustGo 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I actually added a few strips of grip tape to help out. 🤣

@speedtriprr537 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome work and great you two have something fun to do together

@SimplyMustGo 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! It’s been fun for sure!

@glennbowden9846 3 жыл бұрын

I have been in to 1/10 stuff and just bought a 1/16 WPL truck.... i can so see me building something like this... 😄😄

@SimplyMustGo 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah it’s been a lot of fun!!!

@purplelegorc2170 2 жыл бұрын

👏🏾 I’m inspired now!

@SimplyMustGo 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Build something epic!

@Tail_Dragger 3 жыл бұрын

Very nice. Crafty!

@SimplyMustGo 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks we had fun making it and more fun playing on it!

@SouthernGinger 3 жыл бұрын

Looking good dude!

@SimplyMustGo 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Now I have to figure out the upgrades to the Jeep and the upgrades to the course

@garettbodel3002 2 жыл бұрын

You can save a ton of money you just get a gallon of paste or glue 10 is out and make paper mache and you'll be much lighter and won't cost Pennies on the dollar. When you get finished you give it a light coating of mortar mix very light and rub it by hand and you can make an awesome crawler course for peanuts remember paper mache with newspaper or whatever paper you got

@SimplyMustGo 2 жыл бұрын

Great idea!

@backyardbashers7212 3 жыл бұрын

Nice little course, we been adding to ours over the past few months. Come check out them out.

@musclebound2 Жыл бұрын

I have a foam n-scale train setup that is 6`x2` that works good with some mods done to it for this purpose.

@callsignmohas5190 6 ай бұрын

I don’t know if you’ve got yourself a old phone holder for your car but if you do take that soldering gun and weld it to your radio. I did that with my old Traxxas transmitters and then finally I got a radio link rc6gs that came with a phone holder for getting videos

@SimplyMustGo 6 ай бұрын

Dude! That’s a great hack! 🙌🏻

@callsignmohas5190 6 ай бұрын

@@SimplyMustGo It’s a game changer for getting cool videos. Hope it helps buddy.

@joshuaabbott6376 Жыл бұрын

Have you thought about throwing down some sand and then spray paint over in the areas where you're not getting it up grip to go

@SimplyMustGo Жыл бұрын

I did in fact. It helped some, but making the Jeeps better helped more.

@Christian-ij4dj 2 жыл бұрын

looks like the biggest issue is grip, would love to see what some white "wood" glue and some sand would do!

@SimplyMustGo 2 жыл бұрын

I actually put down some sand and it still hard a really hard time. Ended up with a few strips of sand paper.

@katrinalindahl1293 2 жыл бұрын

I want to build one with my son but I don't have the confidence to do something like that maybe put it in the shed along the sides all the way around it maybe that's what I was thinking about doing for him

@SimplyMustGo 2 жыл бұрын

That sounds like a great option!

@jayevans1341 3 жыл бұрын

Good job very creative. Ever get hot glue on the fingers? That doesn’t feel good.

@SimplyMustGo 3 жыл бұрын

I had more hot glue stick to my fingertips than to the board.

@midengine8576 2 жыл бұрын

I wouldve just coverd the whole thing in a very thin sheet and then paint it and clear coat it.

@SimplyMustGo 2 жыл бұрын

UHHHH... Yeah. That's sort of genius! I'll have to consider that for the next one!

@yankohristov2361 2 жыл бұрын

Is the crawler stock ?

@SimplyMustGo 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, at this point they were both stock. We've since upgraded them alot.

@yankohristov2361 2 жыл бұрын

@@SimplyMustGo, when I asked, I was in the middle of the video. I heard it later near the end. It's very useful to use a stock model just for people like me wondering if they want to buy it. Good job !

@SimplyMustGo 2 жыл бұрын

@@yankohristov2361 Thanks! I appreciate it!