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[Mini-Mad-Craig]

My next project...

Because I'm a sucker and spend way too much money on toys...

Losi Micro Crawler (rock crawling, Rc style) with 1/24 scale Pajero long wheel base body.



The Pajero



The idea of this is that you end up with an awesome RC rock crawler... but instead of a poly bodyshell with rubbish detail, it's also stunning as a static model.





I'm waiting for the stuff to come from the Hong Kong lands... lets not talk prices.

Edited by Mini-Mad-Craig, 17 November 2011 - 12:38 AM.

[DAVEY_C]

stick up a build thread when it comes haha

[The Otter]

That sounds like an awesome project, good luck with it Craig! I'm a bit of an amateur modeller myself (used to collect static 1/18 model cars and recently gotten into Revell/Airfix type kits), and whilst not quite the same as R/C stuff, I can appreciate the fine detail and craftsmanship that goes in to these sort of things

Love that video as well, the way the cars moved looked a lot more realistic than I was expecting

Sven.

[Mini-Mad-Craig]

Consider this my build thread, Davey

Sven, thanks a lot Get some pictures up of your work and share them here if you like, I'd love to see them. I have been buildling 1/24 mostly Tamiya scale plastic kits for a few years now. Also play around with lots RC stuff, 6ch helicopters mostly

This came this morning from Modelsport. Can't go wrong for the price. 2.4ghz radio with servo and tiny receiver.

[The Otter]

Before I got my Mini, all I ever used to spend my money on was 1/18 scale die-cast model cars, and it did become a bit of a ridiculous obsession if I'm honest! I don't regret buying them all though, my collection must be worth a couple of grand at least I reckon I was collecting for about 7 years and stopped on about 220 odd cars I think, and bearing in mind that they are all around say, 9 to 11 inches long, they take up quite a bit of room! I ended up taking over almost the entire wall of bookcases in the spare room, god knows what happened to all the books that were there I made a video a year or two before I stopped collecting, which gives you some idea of how many there are:



I only stopped because I bought a Mini and now I just spend my money on that instead. Now that I've moved down to Bristol from Birmingham for uni, I found that I was getting really bored and didn't have much to do on quite a few evenings, so thought I'd visit a model shop in the city that I went to a couple of times a few years ago when I collected the 1/18s, and pick up a model kit. I did a few model kits when I was younger, that usually ended up with lots of swearing and broken bits of badly painted plastic all over my floor, but since I got into detailing some of my 1/18s I got quite handy painting small details and such, so thought I'd have a proper go at building a model myself. I bought a kit for a Revell 1/24 scale '66 Shelby GT-350, and I've only just gotten the basic chassis together and am in the process of assembling, painting, and adding decals to the dash, so I still have quite a way to go. I am doing it really carefully though, right down to every last detail. I spent more on paints than I did on the kit itself I'll post up a couple of pics when I've progressed a bit further with it

[brum,brum,mike]

me and dad used to be into off road r/c cars - and still are sort of. then i bought myself a kyosho dst, and since then just want to go faster I also got myself a spektrum 2.4ghz radio, that i havnt got to use yet after i found out i put the front and rear diff in the wrong way and goes very fast backwards!

[Tupers]

Cool project, I used to be heavily into rock crawlers. This is my comp truck from '09.

[miniman24]

All I used to spend my money on before the Mini were nitro R/Cs

Restored a few rare vintage ones that I found as wrecks at carboots like this Thunder Tiger Panda:



Never found a shell I was happy with Also built a few mental 1/8th truggys, Ill get back into it when I have more money

Ill be following this one, good luck man

[DanNomNom]

This has reminded me that I must put my Micro Rally back together, it's been in pieces for months now
4wd is so much fun with solid tyres. Kitchen Gymkhana FTW!


I will keep an eye on this, as I want to put a model shell on it at some point. Hopefully a Mini

Edited by DanNomNom, 18 November 2011 - 12:06 AM.

[CaptainBland08]

goodness me... those rc days come flooding back...

used to have a hpi rush evo that i shoved a tmaxx engine in... wheelied like an utter sod and eventually gave up and sold it when it kept popping diffs... haha

then got a brushless mini monster... made by vemon i beleive? that was fecking mental:D

had some other ones since... brushless mini lst, thunder tiger ts4n (again converted to bigblock) etc etc...

havent had my eye on the rc scene in a while... im liking this new 1/24 scale stuff... considered a micro t for a while now... after having lots of fun making darkies with a micro rs4 that me and my mate shoved one of my brushless motors into...

GOOD TIMES!

[RawlinsGTR]

I used to be in the RC scene a lot, but ever since I bought my mini, I've sort of forgotten them

Here are my current RC's:

Tamiya TT01 that was bought in the condition shown. Haven't had time to do much to it [1/10 Scale]


Losi Desert Buggy: [1/18 Scale]




David Spashett Edition Sportwerks TC: [1/14 Scale]




Mini Z AWD: [1/28 Scale]








And a few videos of some of them:

Mini Z:




Desert Buggy:


Sportwerks:




A random 1/10 TC car:

Edited by Dog., 20 November 2011 - 06:28 PM.

[cossack]

here is a few pictures of my 2011 comp crawler rig from this year









cost nearly as much as my mini was to buy

[ross k]

good on you guys i used to love rc cars i used to race 1/8th scale off road buggys and truggys ive still got them there great fun ive got two losi 8ight truggys and a losi 8ight buggy all running spectrum one with a novarossi engine one with a picco race engine and one with an os engine seeing this makes me want to get them out again hmm where that battery charger gone.

[analogue_radio]

I've not got a clue about this sorta thing but it does look like a lot of fun!



What's in the wheels, weights?

[cossack]

yes your right they are weights which are removable to adjust weight in each wheel

very usefull when setting the truck up