RC Landrover!

[jimmy]

I got vicky to promise to get me one for my birthday :thumbsup:

It's a chassis by RC4WD.com and the body is from a chinese toy and sold seperately. I just NEED one of these:woot:

http://tracgear.com/product/rc4wd/truck/Landies/g5/DSC_0958.jpg

http://tracgear.com/product/rc4wd/truck/Landies/g5/DSC_0951.jpg

http://www.rc4wdstore.com/2/product_info.php?cPath=84&products_id=992

[DCM]

you going to get the V8 engine cover, for the motor, too?? And I think CML got Landrover scale wheels too!!

[mark christopher]

http://www.axialracing.com/ftp/scx10tr/

http://www.cmldistribution.co.uk/cml_product.php?productId=0000004657

[jimmy]

Ah, I remember seeing that a while ago - very nice indeed. I guess it's the more practical and usable option - but still, the rc4WD is amazing. I could do a real nice paint job on that had body too! :)

[Nick Goodall]

Body is good value by the looks of it!

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/trades_model.asp?cid=63527

That is the nuts though, a guy at work would go crazy for that as he's well into his off roading (Disco 3 and an old V8 Defender)

[peetbee]

you going to get the V8 engine cover, for the motor, too?? And I think CML got Landrover scale wheels too!!
Nah for proper offroading you want a Tdi!
That does look good though :drool:

[DCM]

if you build them right, and seal in the electrics, they go anywhere, the scale ones look ace, but you can't go all out crawling with them, but then an all out crawler always looks a little odd... me, I love the scale stuff, and my wallet refuses to come out when I go to RC4WD lol

[jimmy]

I can see myself digging up the new garden and going off roading already :thumbsup:

[DCM]

Nah for proper offroading you want a Tdi!
That does look good though :drool:

you put your motor inside this!!

http://tracgear.com/product/rc4wd/engine/v8/g1/DSC_0374.jpg

[racingdwarf]

There is a guy on ebay, think he is baised hongkong, he is selling some good scale landrover wheels & tyres plus a very nice ABS 90 body with interior fits to tamiya F150s and alike, looks the muts nuts, There is a youtube clip out there of one of his kits painted in camel trophy livery I WANT:cry:

[mole2k]

That ABS body is the same one that fits that rc2wd chassis! I want one but i want a defender 110 which requires some modification as you can only really get 90's.

[racingdwarf]

I have just looked at it, and I think the bodys the guy in hongkong is selling would fit tha chassis jimmy has posted pics of Hmmmm

[mole2k]

They are the same bodies :) They are off a toy but the guy selling them from HK buys them unpainted from the manufacturer of the toys so you can get the shell without the rest of it and unpainted.

[jimmy]

Yeah I think it's one and the same body?? The guy who's listed on the RC4WD site is from HK also I guess.
but I could be wrong!

[qatmix]

Looks great!

I just got a cc01 Tamiya Jeep as I really fancy a more scale looking off-roader. They have wheel arches etc so will be even better for mud and water. I dont think the Jeep shell will even be built as I am getting one of those landrover ones :)

I've also made a Range rover sport, but on a ta01 chassis. It looks pretty good.. albeit more a gangsta car than a full on mudslinger like the Landy.

I wonder why Tamiya have never built either a Range Rover or a Land rover Rc?

[ashleyb4]

I love it jimmy. But i would of so got rid of that wheel off the back door and fitted one of the real ones...

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[MALLET]

You could fit one of these Bowler Wildcat (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BOWLER-WILDCAT-1-10-Land-Rover-body-LEXAN-Kamtec-140D_W0QQitemZ310174743062QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_To ysGames_RadioControlled_JN?hash=item4837dafa16#ht_ 1571wt_939) :thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Garry]

I've had a pair of Tamiya CC01 project trucks waiting for me to do something with them.

http://gazdesigns.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/crawlin-kinda/

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/6185/photo1748.jpg

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/4182/photo1751.jpg

And a Rangie to suit once I stretched the wheelbase:

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/9219/photo1758.jpg

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/7392/photo1760.jpg

http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/8356/photo1761.jpg

And a Pajero project!

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/8006/photo1789.jpg

http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/2386/photo1785.jpg

[qatmix]

that the range rover shell I've used on my ta01. I fitted leds etc on it and added some detail onto the shell.

I just need some good license plates to add to it

[Welshy40]

Have you tried kamtec. They have several to suit you. Also im tempted to get some caravans for a bashing contest.

http://www.kamtec.co.uk/index.php?page=shop.browse&category_id=8&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=53&vmcchk=1&Itemid=53

[jimmy]

Bought a landy shell :thumbsup:

The latest ones he's selling come unpainted which is a bonus.

I painted up my old blackfoot a while ago and it looked really cool for 5 minutes until I strapped the 3cell lipo and mamba max in the thing - instantly smashed the shell.

http://www.oople.com/rc/photos/misc/blackfoot02.jpg
http://www.oople.com/rc/photos/misc/blackfoot01.jpg

Kinda a beat up old truck - I think I'll do something similar with the landy - something that looks like an old heap of junk perhaps. Be a while before I have a truck to put it on tho :cry:

[peetbee]

Oooh, have you seen this?
http://www.modelsport.co.uk/index.php?CallFunction=ShowSpecification&ItemID=34104
Even comes with a Land Roveresque shell!

[jimmy]

Someone linked that badboy on the previous page - it does look ace

[reg]

nice Jimmy,i bought one from RC4WD and the are very nice,i bought the re released yota body,it looked really good,i had it about 3 weeks and sold it:woot:,still think the best SCALE truck is the Tamiya Pajero,truck puller motor,do the rear arms and cut every other nobble off on the std tyres and they will go places you would think not possible:thumbsup:

[peetbee]

What, you mean I should have actually read what other people have written?! :woot:

oops:blush:

They do look nice though don't they?

[DCM]

I will be spraying one of them 'bad boy' Axial shells soon, you really don't want to ask how much they are though :lol:

[jimmy]

nice Jimmy,i bought one from RC4WD and the are very nice,i bought the re released yota body,it looked really good,i had it about 3 weeks and sold it:woot:,still think the best SCALE truck is the Tamiya Pajero,truck puller motor,do the rear arms and cut every other nobble off on the std tyres and they will go places you would think not possible:thumbsup:

Are you talking about the metal top wide? I had a bit of a thing for those back when they were unavailable a few years back (about 9) - did they re-release them? I know the Jeep is back out but I don't recall the Pajero.

I do NEED one of these rc4wd things tho - I mean, I neeeeeeeeeeeeeed it. :woot:

[Garry]

Yeah Tamiya ReRe'd the Pajero, it was £140ish for the kit, but they've been discontinued again. :cry: But you can get the same chassis with an FJ Landcruiser though.

http://www.540model.it/shop/images/gallery_018.jpg

I'd get some Trail Doctor tyres: http://www.sdi4x4.com/

And if you want ultimate mud plugging...

http://www.scaleoffroad.de/

http://www.scaleoffroad.de/garbage/46/465827/10849759.jpg

http://www.scaleoffroad.de/garbage/46/465827/big_9281635_0_800-596.jpg

[terry.sc]

Are you talking about the metal top wide? I had a bit of a thing for those back when they were unavailable a few years back (about 9) - did they re-release them? I know the Jeep is back out but I don't recall the Pajero. The Pajero was rereleased in 2008 as a limited edition, there's still plenty of them about in Hong Kong and pretty cheap. http://www.stellamodels.net/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=76_114&products_id=3690

A year ago they released a prebuilt and painted XB RTR version, plenty of them to be found on ebay.


As for the Land Rover, it does sound weird that RC4WD has built a whole chassis around a toy LR body, but that's what they have done. if you are into scale stuff then the place to look is scale4x4.org. There's a short review of the Gelande chassis and LR body here http://www.scale4x4rc.org/forums/showthread.php?t=44901 (he's gone a bit overboard with the photos though!)