<p>Aftermarket upgrades and 3D-printing prowess add extra style to this green machine.</p>

- Peter Vieira

Master modeler James Knight has graced the pages of RC Car Action before, with his impressive Beach Buggy and movie themed Star Wars and Road Warrior builds, not to mention winning our Reader’s Ride of the Year award in 2015. For this issue’s “project” theme, James cooked up a two-door Defender D90 that’s as polished as other off -roaders and delivers James’s signature 3D-printed flair. Says James,

I had been wanting to build Defender D90 pickup for a while, and planned on cutting down the RC4WD D90 body. But then Team Raffee released their new D90 pickup hard body. It has a ton of cool details, including functional doors that reveal a full interior. To show it off , I created tube doors that used the stock hinge points. For extra realism, I even added a driver figure with a micro servo to operate the steering wheel and move the figure’s arms. Between CAD time and assembly and painting, I probably have about 40 hours in this build to date.

The chassis started as a stock RC4WD Gelande II. James installed Team Raffee chassis rails designed to match the D90 pickup body and added RC4WD inner fenders for a more scale look. James outfitted his D90 with a Tekin FX-R speed control, Axial 35T brushed motor, Savöx servo, HeyOK BEC, and Spektrum DX4S radio system.

Team Raffee off ers the D90 body in both two-door and four-door versions to fit a modified RC4WD Gelande II chassis. The bars across the doors and hood are actually channels in the mold that help the plasti

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