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I'm way too uptight about stuff to do that so fair play. I've got a 3 year old and we had our first RC experience with an SCX-24 at the weekend.
It's an excellent thing wish I had bought one ages ago, an RC car I'll actually use! Fun was short lived battery chucked it after the first run. Modelsport have sent a replacement battery. 🤞
Already started modding.🤦 Got some brass wheel weights on the way too.
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We had fun making a course for it..
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In other news I'm building an homage to a real supercharged BMW engined hill climb special atm.
Looks good from this side, still got the other side and some bits to do.
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I’ve almost finished building this LC Racing EMB-T up now. Just got to paint the shell, put a few drop of thread lock on the motor mount screws and sort some issues out with mismatched connectors on the esc. After that it should be good to go and will hopefully prove to be a nice step up from my XLF F16.
Nephew and niece had a go on the cars and tanks yesterday.
Cosmetic damage to the T34.
Grasshopper body shell pretty much destroyed.
Won’t be doing that again.
lol that's what they're for, we're adults playing with RC cars!!!
Get a crappy shell for when they're around, and sorted. If it gets a bit more smashed up?
They're not being allowed near them again. Ever.
I tell my own kids not to drive under a fence and they don't drive under a fence.
They’re not being allowed near them again. Ever.
I tell my own kids not to drive under a fence and they don’t drive under a fence.
A fair point, and they're your cars so you get to decide.
Just ordered another tank.
Once the buyer's remorse passes I will feel better. I'll give it an hour or two.
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Pete, we’ll have to have another “RC Gathering”, but it will need to be somewhere that I can park right next to as these tanks aren’t particularly easy to carry around. Alternatively we could do it in the woods behind my house as we could just drive them out of the garden gate.
Yay well done Harry we’ll have a squadron soon 😁
Getting a bit silly now. Buyer Remorse is refusing to go away.
It is a bit of a slippery slope. As well as painting and weathering mine, I bought the version with metal tracks, road wheels, idlers and drive sprockets. I’ve since added an upgraded gearbox, a slipring so that the turret rotates the full 360 degrees, and output shaft bearings. All in all I must be getting close to the price of a Tamiya tank now I think.
I leave mine as stock apart from a bit of weathering.
Me and my lad have had huge amounts of fun with them so far. However, the Challenger is pretty massive and may chew up the narrower bits of the garden.
The T90 looks pretty cool. Just sayin'.
Pete, we’ll have to have another “RC Gathering”, but it will need to be somewhere that I can park right next to as these tanks aren’t particularly easy to carry around. Alternatively we could do it in the woods behind my house as we could just drive them out of the garden gate.
Could be good for a bit of crawler action?
Challenger 2 has arrived.
OMG. What a piece of kit!
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Have you ever thought I would like an actual Tamiya buggy that I could drive? Well the wait is over-
Another one arrived, think I ordered in February, so was a nice surprise when it turned up. Last of the “cars I’ve always wanted”, so the aim is to stop after this one.
After being distracted with some birthday Lego, I’m currently building a Top Force Evo, then it will be the Kyosho Optima Turbo, and finally on to this. In no hurry so might take a while to get to it…
I can't remember when I actually got this? February rings a bell but it may even have been last year. Anyway, after much procrastination the shell is finally done. I need to look at the steering linkage as it seems to have limited range turning left but not right.
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Heng Long Challenger 2. All 730mm of it!
...and with the T34/85 and Tiger.
Quite a beast when you see it next to the Tiger. I have too much other stuff on at the moment but would definitely be up for a Leopard 2 at some point I think. Decent paint job too.!
Ah that's cool, I thought they were all on the same basic chassis
Actually, forget that last link as the postage is a bit cheeky.
https://www.wickedimports.co.uk/tank-model
Harry I first spotted these a few years ago. They look hugely impressive, quality of the parts looks amazing. I have no idea on cost but I’d imagine they’d be cheaper than the likes of Armortek. Definitely on the lottery win list 😀
Wow. The Abrams is 1300mm mm long and weighs 65kg!
It would need its own garage.
Those tanks are massive!
I've set up a little crawler course at the back of the garden. Actually quite good fun getting around on it. Have flipped pallets upside down and cut the supports so it's like having two lanes, one pallet with rocks, one pallet with logs, then some other bits
I wonder how well the tanks would get around a crawler course, apart from maybe being too big
After finishing the Scooby on Sunday I took it to the local park. The servo saver promptly came loose and pissed off into some undergrowth never to be found. Annoyingly Tamiya only supply one with the kit so I'll be ordering the high torque servo saver fairly soon.
Tempted to order one of these as well. https://www.modelsport.co.uk/product/roc-hobby-1-18-atlas-6x6-rtr-scale-crawler-blue-1331377
I wonder how well the tanks would get around a crawler course, apart from maybe being too big
The Heng Long 1/16 Tanks or the massive 1/8 ones?
Sadly, the Heng Longs probably wouldn't do that well on the gradients. They are more like models that move than Tamiya type cars.
If you are going that small a scale check out WPL https://www.wpl-rc.com/collections/b36
Spotted a 1/18th crawler for sale in the local Facebook RC group last week, ended up buying it! It's a lovely looking thing:
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Drives really well, indoors and out, and I'm loving the whole crawler idea. Just got to resist the whole modding and accessory black holes now!
Resistance is futile.🤗
So… I find myself drawn towards another tank.
Decisions, decisions…
I made(another)Quattro.
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It's a ROC Hobby Katana. Be warned though, once you get a small crawler you want a bigger one. Hence why this arrived a few days ago:
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They're as contagious as bikes for N+1 🤣
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Looking forward to seeing that!
@Marek - Another LFGSS lurker!
This is a bit left field, but using some really poor foreign plans that I found on Aerofred I have constructed my first RC Boat. I picked this plan as it looked easy to build as didn't have many parts to it (I soon discovered it was because a lot of the faces had to be freestyled into position to cover the open parts around the bulkheads...) anyway, it turned out ok but is incredibly narrow and unstable under throttle with a single prop.
I added some additional sponsons on the side which did help make it a little more stable, but the most recent upgrade has been some custom designed and 3D printed hydrofoils.
Final result is actually pretty good for what is something of a bodge rather than well thought out design. It's very stable at around 75% throttle and cruises around up on the foils. Due to the angle of them they provide too much lift at max throttle and it leaps out the water and nose dives. I plan to attempt to remedy this by adding weight up front to try and keep the nose down. If this doesn't work then either a rear foil or more tapered front foils so that they generate less lift when higher might be the answer.
Either way, a nice project to work on with the kids. The fact that it's not worked great first time has given us some practical engineering to overcome too.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/AW2ShvB6ZurGo4uR8
That is very Noyce Tim.
I like it, good on you for building and developing it. Have to say those foils remind me of a sealion though 😀
Eeek I want an RC hovercraft kit for Morecambe bay sands now 🙂
Ha! You're right, i'd not seen them in that light before! I wanted them more angled up but my in work foil procrastinations weren't done with any measurements of the actual boat, hence why they came out like they did. I just superglued them on as they were as I was interested to see how it worked.
I'll cut them off and try a new design soon. I want them to be tapered so that they become thinner and produce less lift as the boat lifts higher and faster to try and keep the boat in the water (I can't adjust the depth of the propeller so need to keep it low enough that it stays in the water at the stern)
I'd say you definitely need a small rear foil....but tricky if that lifts the prop out of the water
I did put a small t-foil on the rudder to start with but it worked better without. I might try again with that at a different angle too. The issue with foils is that they are basically weed catchers, so if you use it anywhere with weed then you need to stop it quite regularly to clean them off.
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