Joe Handley Posted October 22, 2009 Posted October 22, 2009 http://www.losi.com/Products/Default.aspx?ProdID=LOSB0236 I guess the track width is just about right for the Aoshima Hilux and MPC/AMT '88-'98 Chevy truck kits
Guest promodmerc Posted October 22, 2009 Posted October 22, 2009 Just the tires & wheels would be cool to have.
S10XtremeSR Posted October 23, 2009 Posted October 23, 2009 This is a great product (untested) and you will see a ton of builds using 1/24 bodies. There is also a set of aluminum axles being made by RC4WD and are about 52mm wide. (again not mass produced yet and things could change). I am going to pick one of these crawlers up and make a Dakota or an s10. I already have a build in the works of a 84 crew cab dually.
Jon Cole Posted October 23, 2009 Posted October 23, 2009 What a cool concept! 1/24 rock crawlers! The bodies aren't very exciting, but I guess that chassis would make a good home for the Tamiya Grand Cherokee that I have stashed away. Only R/C I have ever owned was a "department store" Porsche GT1, that I bought at a yard sale. It steered terribly... all it was cabable of was a hard left, or hard right. Is that what to expect on a truck like this?
S10XtremeSR Posted October 23, 2009 Posted October 23, 2009 (edited) NO. this is a full "hobby grade" r/c. What most people are going to do is make there won frame out of brass and use the rest of the truck. You will be able to throttle and steer the way you want to. Edited October 23, 2009 by S10XtremeSR
Joe Handley Posted October 24, 2009 Author Posted October 24, 2009 Yup, I had a chance to talk Rich Trujillo, who works for Losi and developed all of their crawlers, and he's working on things like longer drive shafts and such for this neat little (and I mean little!) rig. I was even talking with a friend of mine who is a fellow SCRC member and a model train nut about how these could be used to make functioning G-Scale Highrail trucks...........I can just see the highrail gear being a total pain to make work too
Lownslow Posted October 24, 2009 Posted October 24, 2009 thats pretty cool but the terrain around here is too rough for those im saving up for a Axial 1/10
Joe Handley Posted October 25, 2009 Author Posted October 25, 2009 thats pretty cool but the terrain around here is too rough for those im saving up for a Axial 1/10 Did you look at them at the show Lownslow, hard to believe that they're so tiny and work that well?
Lownslow Posted October 25, 2009 Posted October 25, 2009 Did you look at them at the show Lownslow, hard to believe that they're so tiny and work that well? yeah when i asked for the 1/24 he pointed me out to what looked like a 1/43 crawler the 1/18 was nice
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