{"id":3111,"date":"2023-07-23T11:11:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T09:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/?p=3111"},"modified":"2024-08-30T14:31:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T12:31:12","slug":"building-a-camel-trophy-trx-4m-part-iv-3d-printing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/?p=3111","title":{"rendered":"Building a Camel Trophy TRX-4M, part IV: 3D printing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While there&#8217;s a huge aftermarket for TRX-4M parts, some things aren&#8217;t available, or it&#8217;s just easier and cheaper to 3D print them. I bought a Prusa Mk. 2S six years ago, and while I don&#8217;t use it daily, this project once again showed me why I wouldn&#8217;t want to be without one.<\/p>\n<p>The main sources for free 3D models (STL files) are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thingiverse.com\/\">Thingiverse<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.printables.com\/\">Printables<\/a>. You can search them for <em>TRX4M<\/em> and <em>TRX-4M<\/em>, but other search terms such as <em>SCX24<\/em> or crawler might also result in useful stuff. I went with the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Interior: one complaint about the stock TRX-4M is that it doesn&#8217;t come with an interior, not even as accessory. I found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thingiverse.com\/thing:5838812\">this easy to print interior<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.printables.com\/en\/model\/375591-traaxas-trx-4m-defender-full-interior\">There&#8217;s another one<\/a> on Printables which I like a bit less, but it comes with a part for covering the rear behind the seats.<\/li>\n<li>Spare wheels: a Camel Trophy Land Rover isn&#8217;t complete without spare tires on hood\/bonnet and rear door. But I didn&#8217;t want to spend a lot of money on a complete set of four when I only needed two, and most options would look comically large, especially on the hood. I took <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thingiverse.com\/thing:1360332\">this tire<\/a> and scaled it to 46mm diameter and 12mm width. It came out looking quite Ok printed in black PLA. I then scaled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thingiverse.com\/thing:5669956\">these wheels<\/a> to fit.<\/li>\n<li>Regarding accessories, there are so many options out there. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.printables.com\/model\/302463-jerry-can-1100\">Jerry cans<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thingiverse.com\/thing:3638872\">Pelican cases<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thingiverse.com\/thing:3162053\">water jugs<\/a>, and many other things. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thingiverse.com\/thing:2546636\">This one<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thingiverse.com\/thing:4728984\">this one<\/a> look like an aluminium Zarges box, and there&#8217;s many types of sand ladders, too. You can even find obstacles for crawling over, but these are large prints that take quite a bit of time and filament.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s even a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thingiverse.com\/thing:3392217\">Camel Trophy logo<\/a>. This is also useful if you need something as base plate to put a sticker on &#8211; cut off the text in your slicer software and resize to fit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Transport boxes, jerry cans, a tool box, and water jugs:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3120\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4425.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4425.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4425-300x96.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4425-1024x329.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4425-768x247.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><br \/>\nSpare tire:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3121\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4426.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4426.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4426-300x287.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4426-1024x979.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4426-768x734.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><br \/>\nInterior:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3122\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4427.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4427.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4427-300x127.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4427-1024x434.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4427-768x326.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While there&#8217;s a huge aftermarket for TRX-4M parts, some things aren&#8217;t available, or it&#8217;s just easier and cheaper to 3D print them. I bought a Prusa Mk. 2S six years ago, and while I don&#8217;t use it daily, this project once again showed me why I wouldn&#8217;t want to be without one. The main sources [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78],"tags":[80],"class_list":{"0":"post-3111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech","8":"tag-rchobby","9":"czr-hentry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4425.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/plKIk-Ob","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3111"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3123,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions\/3123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}