Being a big off-road racing fan, one of the biggest disappointments in R/C to me has been the introduction of big and unproportional tires and small bodies on the stadium trucks. The bodies are way too small and/or the tires are way to big and outside the wheel wells. I recently purchased an old Tamiya kit with the Ivan Stewart Toyota body off of eBay because that's the proportion that the stadium trucks should have been. Instead of 4WD buggies, they should have been trucks (which happened for a while in the 80s when they were called the Hardbody class). Has anyone tried to do their own thing and make realistic baja or stadium trucks? I've often been interested to see what some of the larger 10th scale truck bodies (like the OLD Associated Ford F150) would look like on an 1/8th scale 4wd buggy. Pics of projects are welcome!
The xx-4 with the truck coversion looked like a real race truck kinda cool.
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Being a big off-road racing fan, one of the biggest disappointments in R/C to me has been the introduction of big and unproportional tires and small bodies on the stadium trucks. The bodies are way too small and/or the tires are way to big and outside the wheel wells. I recently purchased an old Tamiya kit with the Ivan Stewart Toyota body off of eBay because that's the proportion that the stadium trucks should have been. Instead of 4WD buggies, they should have been trucks (which happened for a while in the 80s when they were called the Hardbody class). Has anyone tried to do their own thing and make realistic baja or stadium trucks? I've often been interested to see what some of the larger 10th scale truck bodies (like the OLD Associated Ford F150) would look like on an 1/8th scale 4wd buggy. Pics of projects are welcome!
what? like old mickey thompson style?
(note this is just a t4 body stuck on top of a tc4 jsut for looks)
Being a big off-road racing fan, one of the biggest disappointments in R/C to me has been the introduction of big and unproportional tires and small bodies on the stadium trucks. The bodies are way too small and/or the tires are way to big and outside the wheel wells. I recently purchased an old Tamiya kit with the Ivan Stewart Toyota body off of eBay because that's the proportion that the stadium trucks should have been. Instead of 4WD buggies, they should have been trucks (which happened for a while in the 80s when they were called the Hardbody class). Has anyone tried to do their own thing and make realistic baja or stadium trucks? I've often been interested to see what some of the larger 10th scale truck bodies (like the OLD Associated Ford F150) would look like on an 1/8th scale 4wd buggy. Pics of projects are welcome!
looking at the link to thunder tiger, their truck looks very close, almost to exact detail. everything from the spec chassis. to even suspension setup. i used to work for scott taylor, 6 time corr pro-2 champion, and the truck looks alot like the current chassis that i helped build, that would definitley be the one to buy if that's what your looking for
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Pretty impressive looks...but I wonder how well it'll handle.
That's why RCs look the way they do, for performance over scale looks. On Road Touring car bodies are starting to look weird. Just check out the Stratus 3.0...
The xx-4 with the truck coversion looked like a real race truck kinda cool.
I recall seeing that on Losi's website a while ago. Did anyone happen to grab that picture/part number? I don't remember what body it was, but I noticed that it's no longer on their website.
I recall seeing that on Losi's website a while ago. Did anyone happen to grab that picture/part number? I don't remember what body it was, but I noticed that it's no longer on their website.
I WILL be getting one of those!
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i think this was called the "Rally Weapon" and they had truck bodies?
dont ask me about part numbers. ;-)
Back in the late 80s Proline made a 1/10 scale Toyota stadium truck body. It had full fenders and flares and looked like a real stadium truck. I ran one on my rc10 buggy for along time. I loved the look. I dont think they still make it. I havent seen it anywhere in years.
losi used to make a soda body for the xx-4 it looked like a offroad truck and it was great but because the size of the body when ever you went off a jump the body acted like a giant parachute and made the car do funny stuff in the air, if there was the slightest breeze you could just forget about jumping, that truck posted looks good but it will probably handle terrible, full scale desert trucks are designed to go fast in a straight line and possible hit a large jump they are not designed to turn, if you look at the full size off road trucks they look more like r/c with the wheels protrudingas far out of the body as possible.
Something like that? I was going to get this awhile ago for my RC10GT but decidede against it.
Yep! I actually own that body already. It's still clear in the bag in my basement. Associated also makes a Ford F150 baja truck as well. Just looking for a better frame than the cartoon stadium trucks that are out there to put it on and that Thunder Tech truck may be it.
The thunder tech baja rig has a solid rear axle, (looks like a Clod) so I would imagine it would be better for rally type of events. or maybe 10 scale off road. I would predict that it would not be able to take the abuse of big air or compete against 10th scale electric trucks.
with a few mods, increase travel, alloy rear axle and 2.2 tires, the truck could be faster, but then you would have made it into a 1/10th scale balloon tire cartoon again. yuk yuk!
I may pick this one up for the realism and maybe rally competion, if we ever get that going here. with a locked rear diff this one should drift real nice in tight keyhole turns.
Any realistic looking off-road stadium trucks?
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