How to build a cheap and easy micro crawler indoor course

[@Teknakill]

Good video, thanks for the pool noodle idea. Now I will share one of mine. Use a 50 percent water and 50 percent white glue mix in a spray bottle. Spray it on and smear it around with a paint brush then sprinkle sand on certain spots where you wish to have alittle more grip to overcome the obsticle easier. Add more sand as needed. Thanks for all your effort in this video, I sub'ed and thumbs up! 👍👍👍

[@SimplyMustGo]

Thank you so much! And great tip!!

[@BarbarisII]

I was thinking this would be a good idea earlier, but I was worried the glue would make things difficult. I'm gonna try this now

[@hfdsocalss]

This is so rad! I think I'm going to build one and put it in the bed of my truck to use while at the races or tailgating. Now I'm going to need 3 more crawlers

[@SimplyMustGo]

Haha that’s an awesome idea! Mobile track!!

[@karenrecinos147]

SUPER SUPER COOL!!! I'm days new to RCs and I am definitely going to make some obstacle courses, I love how simply you broke this down. THANK YOU!!!

[@SimplyMustGo]

I’m so glad you got some good ideas from it! 🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@CanadianRC96]

I'm thinking multiple little movable courses that can be rearranged to have a few different layouts and obstacle attack angles 🤔 I like the fact that it can be tucked away, good video!

[@SimplyMustGo]

Thank you! And yes. Multiple courses that can be rearranged is one of the goals. I did build a part 2 for it. But haven’t done a video with it.

[@xbmarc]

The creativity is amazing!

[@dudeonther1978]

Nice! It’s looks good. Sometimes I put a shoe under my platforms to add some angles of elevation.

[@SimplyMustGo]

Thanks! Yeah I thought about stuff like that, but some of the angles are so steep, that i'd have to put it on the side to lower the angle. haha

[@charlesreynolds39]

Really interesting build, I love the cardboard tubes. I think I'd make the triangle climb and the cardboard roll loggs removable obstacles, so they could be repositioned or upgraded, but it looks a lot of fun.

[@signman9328]

Cool! I'm an 'old-school' R/C guy and had a blast back in the old days with an MRC/Tamiya 'Sand Scorcher' buggy, but am thinking one of these tiny crawlers might be a blast. I also love model RR'ing, so making a indoor course sounds fun. Thanks---good tips!

[@SimplyMustGo]

That’s awesome. I want to get a RR soon!

[@gatorrcgames]

Pretty cool little course. My kids and I just some of our 24th scale course.we used some foam and real rocks we got from our local rivers.

[@SimplyMustGo]

Nice!! I’m thinking of making a cool dedicated course outside with rocks and water features

[@nsanenscale9390]

Very nice design. I live in a 2 bedroom apartment so something like this would be perfect for me. Do you mind sharing the size of it please? I'm guessing 2-2.5'x6? I may be wrong. Keep up the good work!

[@MrWhitmire]

Great video of a cool build. Thanks for sharing.

[@gfyracing7632]

You got lucky that the spray paint did not eat away at much of that foam. Course does look good.

[@SimplyMustGo]

Thanks! Yeah I never even thought about the paint eating the foam, but I’m glad it didn’t! 😀

[@LEVARIOMIKE]

👍 I like the colors you chose for this

[@SimplyMustGo]

Thank you!

[@DrumerMetodista]

Hey Matt, Its so good to see you again. Hope you, your family and every one from the ERT NC are well and ok. My regards to each and everyone. We were definitely thinking the same thing. as soon as you started the disclaimer in where you adviced to weare gloves. It just reminds me of the time when the styrofoam pipe breaks in your backpack or I don't remember exactly where it was, but soon spread all over the place, the floor, your hands etc. and it was liked glued to your hands. Where so bad, I dont know with what exacly you took it out. Ps. Loved the RC's outdoor course obstacles track with the minis (Jeeps). May God Blesses You'll

[@SimplyMustGo]

Hey!!!! Yes we are doing well! I hope you are also! We miss you for sure! Yeah I learned my lesson with spray foam the hard way! Ugh! If you get state side sometime we need to connect!

[@reallybigphilly]

I'm gonna do a similar project over the christmas break, but using old cardboard and plaster cloth. Already made a few wooden obstacles and a suspension bridge :) Also going with a 'desert' theme since I wont need a lot of accessories, just a bag of sand and some glue.

[@SimplyMustGo]

That sounds awesome. I want to do a suspension bridge too!

[@ccs2311]

Great idea for using toilet rolls and foam packaging for the terrain. The spray foam is ok for some situations, but it’s air toxic, very sticky and not too cheap. I’ve seen Hot gluing recycle bin boxes and various shapes of formed or pack foam working together as a hill base will hold up well as long as you sheet plaster over everything afterwards

[@SimplyMustGo]

Thanks. Yeah I learned a lot and the second half that we made we used much less spray foam.

[@rockwolfdesigns6384]

Thanks for the insight. I'm building one now for the coming winter here in Michigan.

[@SimplyMustGo]

You'll enjoy it!

[@x_HuLiMaKaFLip_x]

Really nice! 👍🏽

[@purplelegorc2170]

👏🏾 I’m inspired now!

[@SimplyMustGo]

Awesome! Build something epic!

[@Freddie-adhd-Abe]

If you haven't found out by now, they make thumb control to put on your controller so you can film and wheel at the same time

[@SimplyMustGo]

WHAT!!! I had no idea. That's awesome. I'll have to look into that for sure!

[@JJohnsSales]

i love this getting into it myself and i may do the same but add real sand sprinkled on spray adhesive

[@SimplyMustGo]

That’s great. I actually did the same thing later after this video to upgrade it and add some other section. Just didn’t make a video about it. 🤦‍♂️

[@logancowdy1255]

great tabletop course you have there, i just today started one of my own and had the same idea to use styrofoam and spray foam as a base, interesting obstacles you've created might incorporate some of your designs into my finished product. keep up the good work

[@SimplyMustGo]

Thanks! It’s been a lot of fun to play with for sure!

[@brassplinker.556]

Definitely doing this!!! Thanks for the video!!

[@SimplyMustGo]

Awesome! Yeah it wasn’t hard at all to make and turned out really fun. Now all I can think of is how to make it bigger and crazier. 🤦‍♂️

[@speedtriprr537]

Awesome work and great you two have something fun to do together

[@SimplyMustGo]

Thanks! It’s been fun for sure!

[@gregory9157]

I really enjoyed your vid 👍. It provided me with some good inspiration

[@SimplyMustGo]

Awesome!!! I’m so glad it helped!

[@glennbowden9846]

I have been in to 1/10 stuff and just bought a 1/16 WPL truck.... i can so see me building something like this... 😄😄

[@SimplyMustGo]

Yeah it’s been a lot of fun!!!

[@dwightduke2329]

It might help on the climbing wall/ramp to add some sand like you did on the other areas, building one of these as I type this out, thanks for some ideas.

[@SimplyMustGo]

Thanks! I actually added a few strips of grip tape to help out. 🤣

[@Tail_Dragger]

Very nice. Crafty!

[@SimplyMustGo]

Thanks we had fun making it and more fun playing on it!

[@SouthernGinger]

Looking good dude!

[@SimplyMustGo]

Thanks! Now I have to figure out the upgrades to the Jeep and the upgrades to the course

[@garettbodel3002]

You can save a ton of money you just get a gallon of paste or glue 10 is out and make paper mache and you'll be much lighter and won't cost Pennies on the dollar. When you get finished you give it a light coating of mortar mix very light and rub it by hand and you can make an awesome crawler course for peanuts remember paper mache with newspaper or whatever paper you got

[@SimplyMustGo]

Great idea!

[@jayevans1341]

Good job very creative. Ever get hot glue on the fingers? That doesn’t feel good.

[@SimplyMustGo]

I had more hot glue stick to my fingertips than to the board.

[@Christian-ij4dj]

looks like the biggest issue is grip, would love to see what some white "wood" glue and some sand would do!

[@SimplyMustGo]

I actually put down some sand and it still hard a really hard time. Ended up with a few strips of sand paper.

[@katrinalindahl1293]

I want to build one with my son but I don't have the confidence to do something like that maybe put it in the shed along the sides all the way around it maybe that's what I was thinking about doing for him

[@SimplyMustGo]

That sounds like a great option!

[@backyardbashers7212]

Nice little course, we been adding to ours over the past few months. Come check out them out.

[@musclebound2]

I have a foam n-scale train setup that is 6`x2` that works good with some mods done to it for this purpose.

[@joshuaabbott6376]

Have you thought about throwing down some sand and then spray paint over in the areas where you're not getting it up grip to go

[@SimplyMustGo]

I did in fact. It helped some, but making the Jeeps better helped more.

[@callsignmohas5190]

I don’t know if you’ve got yourself a old phone holder for your car but if you do take that soldering gun and weld it to your radio. I did that with my old Traxxas transmitters and then finally I got a radio link rc6gs that came with a phone holder for getting videos

[@SimplyMustGo]

Dude! That’s a great hack! 🙌🏻

[@callsignmohas5190]

@@SimplyMustGo It’s a game changer for getting cool videos. Hope it helps buddy.

[@midengine8576]

I wouldve just coverd the whole thing in a very thin sheet and then paint it and clear coat it.

[@SimplyMustGo]

UHHHH... Yeah. That's sort of genius! I'll have to consider that for the next one!

[@1970JeepGladiator]

Offroad outlaws irl

[@SimplyMustGo]

Haha. 😂

[@Idk-hh5yp]

I want to do this

[@SimplyMustGo]

You should it was really easy and lots of fun!

[@yankohristov2361]

Is the crawler stock ?

[@SimplyMustGo]

Yes, at this point they were both stock. We've since upgraded them alot.

[@yankohristov2361]

@@SimplyMustGo, when I asked, I was in the middle of the video. I heard it later near the end. It's very useful to use a stock model just for people like me wondering if they want to buy it. Good job !

[@SimplyMustGo]

@@yankohristov2361 Thanks! I appreciate it!

[@XtianApi]

Took weeks to get all the tp rolls. Lol

[@SimplyMustGo]

Haha. We have four tweens. Didn’t take as long as you think. 🤣

[@jeffjackson215]

I never heard the size of the table??

[@SimplyMustGo]

Just your standard 6 foot folding table.

[@jeffjackson215]

I have a 2ft x 6ft bench I’m going to try it on

[@SimplyMustGo]

@@jeffjackson215 Yeah just get creative and make it fun!

[@le-berry]

Always the same to steep to narrow only working with non crawler speed waste of time, glue and paint.