Baja King

As a result of surfing forums and RC sites, the passion stroke back. Today, a buggy comes in to join the BlackFoot Xtreme. A 4-wheel-drive vehicle, faster than the Blackfoot, but with a lower ground clearance. I directly fitted a more powerful motor and a full set of hydraulic dampers. This one will also be mainly painted yellow (official color scheme: just perfect as I had a yellow can left).

The Baja King family

The Baja King uses the same chassis (TL-01B) than the Baja Champ. This chassis is the on-road TL-01 variant with different front uprights and longer arms (to make it larger, thus more stable on off-road tracks).

There are only two models based on the off-road version of this chassis (TL-01B). The TL-01 thought received many different bodyshells, an off-road adaptation where only tires were changed, and also an on-road evolution with the TL-01LA which is only a classic TL-01 with options directly included into the kit.

Photo gallery of all the models that share that famous chassis in addition of those presented above:

This is a wide family and one can easily find what he likes. The bodyshell brings the main difference among all these models, and sometimes rims and tires may also vary. The 58238 kit was never released due to a body license problem. It would have been based on the same setup as the Stadium Raider (58246) with its off road wheels.

So let's get back to the Baja King and its assembly process. I will proceed like the Blackfoot Xtreme: the chassis on one side, the bodyshell on the other. The bodyshell is made of lexan (thus transparent) and will not need as many paint layers. Instead, the two-color scheme (yellow-silver) requires to apply masks: not as easy as it seems.