Basher shell suggestions

[marcg]

So my son's LRP twister is brilliant. He and his sister drive it full pelt through the woods (into trees), off logs, on a skate park (VTOL) and the only things to break in 9 months are a servo cable (shock ripped out, re-soldered and ok again) and the body shell. The shell is what I'm looking for suggestions for. The original GRP cracked and shattered, putting hours of painting to waste. I replaced it with the thick plastic shell of a toddler's toy car. We cut and drilled it to fit and it worked pretty well but the skate ramps did for it.

So I'm now looking for a new suggestion for a shell. It needs one to absorb the impacts and protect the electronics from dust and water. I'm thinking some sort of thick foam, held on to the car with thick rubber bands. But I can't think of where to get a car-shaped bit of foam. I could carve up a swimming float but that would look rubbish - I need something vaguely car shaped to begin with.

Any ideas? Or not foam based?

[vx220]

You need to allow flow of air over the electronics, so not sure foam wood be good

Get yourself down to the local model shop, and see what's going cheap?

[marcg]

It needs to be durable though. Grp or lexan will just split on the next jump.i thought we had a solution with the Tonka toy shell but that's broke too.

[Dusty964]

Lexan shell. Paint it. Then a coat of liquid rubber on the inner face.
Worked wonders when i had the same issue.

[vx220]

marcg said:

It needs to be durable though. Grp or lexan will just split on the next jump.i thought we had a solution with the Tonka toy shell but that's broke too.

Pecan shells are really durable, provided you make sure the edges are smooth. Any nicks give an easy start to cracks. Get it trimmed, then sand the edges back before painting