Who's interested in a fibreglas spartan hull?

[Redddogg]

Just gauging some interest here. I am in the process of making myself a fibreglas reproduction of my spartan, how many people would be interested in this if I was to make them for others.

[CeilidhKeith]

Put me down for one please straight away.

[Heaving Earth]

You're gonna copy a boat and sell them? Bad idea

[mrproc1]

I'm with Earth.... I'm not saying I will rat you out. But I know ALOT of people that work at Traxxas, and know Mr. Jenkins. If you do this I would highly recommend not making an exact plug of the Spartan hull. If you would like to know how I know Mike and Mark and the rest of Traxxas gang, please feel free to message me.

[Redddogg]

I plan on modifying the top of the boat to make the hatch easier to tape. If they made it fibreglass to begin with I wouldn't have to make my own. And nowhere did I say I was selling them, I asked if there was any interest. Cheers.

[Redddogg]

So, ive spent quite awhile searching my Spartan manual and the model itself looking for patent numbers. The only ones that show up are as follows 7374460, 7530855, D573536, 7867038. All of these pertain to the "Traxxas" connector found on batteries and ESC's. I also searched the U.S. patent offices online data base for all patents containing "Traxxas" and "Spartan". Nothing comes up. It is not my intention to sell anything i make for profit, merely to improve on a great product that is lacking in this area, and to help other hobbyists see the full potential of their spartan. If you know of a patent number that i would be violating by reproducing my spartan in fiberglass please let me know and i will ensure i do not violate that patent.

[mrproc1]

I'm not trying to burst you bubble man, I was just looking out for ya, I'm all bout making things better. Honestly I wouldn't mind have a FC hull. I'dust hate for you do to all the hard work and go a pi$$ someone off because you copied another companies product.
How do you plan on making the plug. I was wanting to play around with making a hull and trying different things.

[Brushless55]

I'm with Earth.... I'm not saying I will rat you out. But I know ALOT of people that work at Traxxas, and know Mr. Jenkins. If you do this I would highly recommend not making an exact plug of the Spartan hull. If you would like to know how I know Mike and Mark and the rest of Traxxas gang, please feel free to message me.

LOL, you know who??
who cares who you know... like its a threat or something... please!
what a joke... traxxass can't do a damn thing about it..
this guy can make a copy of it if he wants and change a few things, and walla!
his own FG hull

this who be the best thing to happen to that plastic toy

[Redddogg]

LOL, you know who??
who cares who you know... like its a threat or something... please!
what a joke... traxxass can't do a damn thing about it..
this guy can make a copy of it if he wants and change a few things, and walla!
his own FG hull

this who be the best thing to happen to that plastic toy

Exactly. I'm not about to start sending this to LHS lol. And the only thing distinctly "unique" about the spartan is the hatch. Deep vee is a common design with not many variations and traxxas didn't invent that. I doubt I'm the first to think of this either. For the price I paid for my spartan it should have been fibreglass to start with. I'll post pics in a month or so of how this turns out.

[Brushless55]

Exactly. I'm not about to start sending this to LHS lol. And the only thing distinctly "unique" about the spartan is the hatch. Deep vee is a common design with not many variations and traxxas didn't invent that. I doubt I'm the first to think of this either. For the price I paid for my spartan it should have been fibreglass to start with. I'll post pics in a month or so of how this turns out.

get it done bro!
I bought one of these spartass boats and was very let down by it!
FG would have made a big difference for me...
I traded that boat about 2 weeks after getting it.. now I own a DF33 with a 4092 Leopard on 4s and it flat out hauls!

[Heaving Earth]

I agree the plastic spartan hull is crap. If you can pull it off more power to ya. I've seen other guys get bashed big time for what others have called copies around here...
I'm not opposed to what you're doing.

[Redddogg]

I'm also not trying to put anything off as my own. All I want is a more solid and durable hull for what is a sleek and fast boat. I will change whatever I need to to prevent any copyright infringement but I'm not interested in claiming any right to the design.

[Heaving Earth]

I'm also not trying to put anything off as my own. All I want is a more solid and durable hull for what is a sleek and fast boat. I will change whatever I need to to prevent any copyright infringement but I'm not interested in claiming any right to the design.

Nobody is saying you are.the whole point of the discussion is that it's not your design.
It's fine if you want a fg spartan. You've already done your research and found no copyright, so go ahead and make them. My point was this, offering them up to other members might be risky, but clearly you and brushless have it all figured out.
I can build a copy of a les Paul all day for myself, and make it out of alder instead of mahogany. Certainly, before I started offering it to others I would do my research, which you have.
I have seen fightercat bashed to no end because of what others around here have claimed he has made "copies" of other hulls.
I'm not trying to be a pita, just sayin.

[Brushless55]

It's "voila" ..... Not "walla"

Lets see, first off that's how I say it with a strong "W"
Some need to find other things to do

Nobody is saying you are.the whole point of the discussion is that it's not your design.
It's fine if you want a fg spartan. You've already done your research and found no copyright, so go ahead and make them. My point was this, offering them up to other members might be risky, but clearly you and brushless have it all figured out.
I can build a copy of a les Paul all day for myself, and make it out of alder instead of mahogany. Certainly, before I started offering it to others I would do my research, which you have.
I have seen fightercat bashed to no end because of what others around here have claimed he has made "copies" of other hulls.
I'm not trying to be a pita, just sayin.

And the fc thing was someone said it was there own design and not a copy!

[Heaving Earth]

anyways red, good luck with your endeavors. ill be interested in seeing how it comes out