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Panda M-ATV crow 2
MakiWawa
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Posted: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 - 01:37 AM UTC

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Phew! Spent 3 nights on the suspension, not easy at all.



It's Panda's magic...
hliu24
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Posted: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 - 04:31 AM UTC

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Phew! Spent 3 nights on the suspension, not easy at all.



It's Panda's magic...





Panda Punching

Pic by Patrick Campbell

Jay
Stickframe
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Posted: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 - 05:21 AM UTC
Haha! Not easy, but it's looking good!

It's good to hear at least some of the parts have been improved! I have a couple of both the old and new versions still to build, so it's good to hear that it's now somewhat (haha, not really) easier to build. As I recall you should have fairly/relatively straight forward construction from here on.

The only part I clearly remember having troubles with is getting the rear wall of the cab to set correctly - sorry about that poor description! As I recall, it was tough to get the rear wall flush with the sides and the roof (?), and "around" the interior. You can see a couple process pics on my build here in the Dio section called "Rough Road, On The Road Again" - I built an A'stan version providing sentry.

Ok, Jay! Keep building
Cheers
Nick
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Posted: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 - 11:49 PM UTC
Thank you, Nick, You build's gorgeous! Looking forward to seeing more.

The new panda kit is improved, in fact, huge improvement compared to the original one(here is Nige's Build log but mine is nothing like this!!! And I know you went through it too)

http://armorama.com/forums/188570&ord=&page=1

Jay
hliu24
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Posted: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - 09:03 PM UTC
Chassis' almost there.

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hliu24
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Posted: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - 09:06 PM UTC
You still have to fix these lines.

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brake lines.

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Jay
Hisham
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Posted: Thursday, May 14, 2015 - 12:12 AM UTC
Looking good there, Jay... Love the wiring

I only wish I could get over my Panda phobia

Hisham
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