hello from Indianapolis

[Fury Fan]

Hello all!

Been meaning to join for awhile, needed to get some stuff to display first, and I work so slowly that it's taken some time to get a stash of pics to meter out here. Hopefully the picture-pasting isn't a hassle, I'm not a facebooker and I'm not giving $$ to photobucket for 3rd party hosting.

Was into RC in the mid 80s, then a few years ago scored a built/never run reproduction Tamiya Frog (my 2nd car, back in 1986?). It's amazing how cheap some of this this stuff is, Frogs and Hornets sell new now for the same dollar amount 30 years ago!

anyway -
I built a few crude trailers for the Frog to help the kids haul Lincoln Logs, and that wasn't satisfying enough, so I converted a blow-molded 1970s DBGM dumptruck to RC, then another trailer or 2, then a Bruder snowplow was converted into an RC semi-tractor.

I am now working on a decent flatbed for the Bruder tractor, with the hopes of developing it into a small-volume thing I can sell on ebay. Will be a combination of brass, aluminum and wood (I'm a die-hard woodworker and jumped into CNC about 4 years ago). I'm hoping for a more realistic appearance than the Tamiya flatbed, while steering clear of the flood of $600-800 Chinese aluminum construction trailers on ebay.