After buying the SCX24 ’67 Chevy C10 crawler I started thinking about an indoor crawler course for when it’s to cold and nasty to go outside and crawl. Also summertime and be brutal here and it’s just to damn hot! to go out and crawl and enjoy yourself.

I have limited room available for an indoor course or I’m probably make it like 4’x8′ or even 4’x12′ but I don’t have thqt kind of space available. So I build a much needed shelving unit with the top shelf being the crawler course. It’s 18″ wide and 8′ long. I’m making it in 2 18″x48″ sections so maybe there will be some other sections that can be swapped in and out. For now there will be just the 2.

I’ve had one section done now for a couple of weeks. It started out to be the left section but it had a design flaw which created a hole that would have been hard to see so I flip flopped it and it became the right section. Thinking about what I wanted to do with the remaining section I finally came up with and idea and proceeded to rough it in. I’d build some, let it sit, change it build some more, repeat. Yesterday I thought I had a working prototype. Even tried crawling on it with the SCX24 C10 & Deadbolt. After sleeping on it I decided that wasn’t what I wanted. So this morning I went to the Dollar Tree to get some more aluminum cook pans, you know those disposable ones. They make a good base for the plaster cloth that I use to make the rocks. Got home and arranged them several times before coming up with something that I think I will be happy with. It crawls but isn’t easy but that’s okay I want it to be somewhat hard. If it’s easy it will get boring quick.

I have what I now consider to be the final product but I will sit for a few days while I await for the arrival of some more plaster cloth. Think it will be here Wednesday so if I still like it then I will start covering it with the plaster cloth. Couple of days to thoroughly dry then I throw some paint on it and it will be ready for some serious crawling.