TRX-4 Front Bumper Heavy Duty with Warn Winch Mount

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The TRX-4 stock bumper is pretty low and drags a lot. This bumper from OffScaleRC, remixed from a couple others, sits just barely below the frame so it's higher giving more clearance for climbing. The bottom has a bit of slope for sliding up rocks too but could be improved. I also added in the Warn Winch mount portion from Buckshot_411 (thingverse locates the model ID but will not let me add it as a Remix source???) I did some cosmetic adjustments and A LOT of face/vertex hell cleanup. This bumper is huge! It takes up almost my entire width of my TAZ 5 Build plate... Update 2018-07-19 - I have posted pix of the new SemiFlex bumper mount and it mounted including shots of me flexing it. You can see the flex is generous upwards but not downwards since I applied more force downwards than upwards. The reason is because of the SemiFlex and the lil teeth I added on the bottom with the extended lower angles. I was able to bash into rocks and force the bumper up so the wheels could grab. This thing is awesome! First Update on Print! I finally printed the thing after setup and bad filament hell. It had some edges in the front that were uneven but I've fixed this now. I printed in PLA for ridgidness and honestly for the color cuz well it's a printable object and when I break it, I'll print another! For 9 hours..... Actually it'll prob just be the mount that breaks. Cuz it already did :D Let's see how well that mount works in NinjaFlex now.... What's important is it fits! 20mm long screws is far too short. More like 25 mm for the extension. I had to use 3mm screws cuz that's all my store had so I did have to increase the hole size for the screw head seats with a drill but very doable. I added separate STLs for the mount and bumper since you'll probably eventually break the mount. With enough infill, I'd be kinda surprised to see the bumper itself break cuz it's thick :D Bonus points on guessing what famous battle scene is being re-created in the background :D