Hi from London

[Fourth Protocol]

Found this forum while researching my Mercedes build.

I'm new to RC. Sort of. Back in 1982 I discovered toy porn in the form of a Tamiya catalogue I got my hands on. I grew up in Africa so anything from that catalogue was pretty much unobtainable, so when I discovered computers in the mid-80's RC was all but forgotten. Until May last year, when I saw a YouTube clip of the Tamiya Mountain Rider. Got one, built it, and... hooked.



Too many kit builds out there, and I like making stuff, so I scratch-built a Ford Bronco Concept from 2004. It sits on a Vaterra Ascender. Doors, hood and boot open and close, and the roof comes off in two parts. Also made a Big Oly wing for it.





It's not quite finished because I started on an Unimog 401.



After that I customised a China Jeep JK body from Ebay into a River Raider ST replica, this time on a GCM J2 Skeleton chassis.





Destroyed that body at a competition in June, so built a new one, designed to take a hit. This one is a bit of a mashup of the Jeep Trailcat Concept and the Jeep Porkchop.





While building the second Jeep I also built a re-released Sand Scorcher. This one still needs lights, an interior, and a driver.



Which brings us to the reason for signing up here. I have three scratch builds on the go, all of them trucks. First is an Oshkosh with portal axles.





The next is a Bedford RL. Lots of curves on this one.



Finally the Mercedes Benz LPS 1418, which just got a build thread here.

That's it from me, for now.

Mike

[TRUCKMAKER]

Welcome to the forum Mike, you have excellent styrene skills, it would be great to learn some of them!

[Fourth Protocol]

Thanks man. You know how it goes though, I just see all the mistakes Happy to share everything I can, although I'm sure I'll learn more than I can pass on. Some amazing builds on here!

[Howie]

All looks great! Toy Porn? The more you get the more you want.

[Northern Farmer]

Wow those are some nice scalers great job! Welcome to the forum

[Fourth Protocol]

Originally Posted by Howie

All looks great! Toy Porn? The more you get the more you want.

Thank you! You're right. A year ago I thought two trucks would do - the Tamiya, and the Vaterra Ascender which would host any scratch builds I might do. I now have 7 rigs and 9 bodies!!

Originally Posted by Northern Farmer

Wow those are some nice scalers great job! Welcome to the forum

Thanks Mr. Farmer, and thanks for the welcome. The word "scaler" is interesting to me, as it's used pervasively in the RC crawler space. I like realism at a a smaller scale, so apart from the green Jeep and (once complete) the Oshkosh my builds are mostly for light trails rather than rock crawling and mud bogs. I like detail, and stuff that opens and closes as it might in meatsapce