I saw a pic the other day of a 1/6 hummer with an exocage made of plastic coat hanger. I spent a few hours yesterday mocking up a cage for the NB. Here's the pics

The cage, used plastic hanger and a lighter

Cage on crawler, I havn't epoxied yet as I'm not settled on the design. Have to bend in and narrow the roof line a little.

A thinner hanger would have been perfect, I find it look's a little thick compared to on a 1/6. The cage will serve no purpose other than it may look pretty cool once painted and mounted properly.

ALTEREDSHEEP .. good job .. This cage will be surely very slight .. This crawler is my preferred crawler .

WOW it may be possible to use this method as a replacment chassie for those that have.chassie problems i love this amazing work .

alterdsheep can you tell me how strong this plastic is or is not ???? great skill

good job...so do the plastic bits stick with the heat only? that a nice idea to do a fake lookalike roll cage as well.

are the peices cut then melted together ????

jeff this is a good idea for chassie if only i had another newbright..i could use this .i always have loved the tuber look.

the cage is in 4 major pieces (used 4 hangers), at the moment they are being held together with a bit of tape. It is actually quite rigid with a bit of tape . Providing I can bond it together with something that will hold I don't see why you wouldn't be able to make a chassis with it. In retrospect I would have loved to have tied my shocks into the cage but thats a little to much to rework.

This one will be for appearance, I have a little 1/18 atech mini giant that may be getting a tube chassis in the near future though.

I had already worked with these plastic hangers. . I made a stinger for MIX-CRAWLER but I did not have to solder, it was quite screwed .. For the folded, I had heated .. I think that both ends heater at the same time and then bringing together the seal is successful .. Just an idea

amazing work iam a great fan of yours alterd sheep .may be JBweld would do it if some lugs where made and installd to hold shocks and such like this would be a great chassie.

like this just a idea

and this

loulou i love this look looks so tough.

Typically, exocage are made of welded metal

Those are crawlers based on a tube chassis, an exocage surrounds your existing body

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Originally posted by alteredsheep:
Those are crawlers based on a tube chassis, an exocage surrounds your existing body

yes i understand my friend . but iam thinking that this cage of yours may be could be used as a chassie may be with the choping board base .