Dressed Up Defender

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Tom’s Traxxas TRX4 shows what can be done to a nearly stock truck to dress it up and give it a unique personality. He starts with a TRX4 Defender 110 and added some GMade SR-02 wheels, a few carefully chosen handmade scale details and some custom paint. Tom painted the body on the outside surface to retain the matte finish of Tamiya’s AS-19 Intermediate Blue and AS-20 Insignia White paints. He put an extra layer...

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