Friday, June 01, 2012

Project: 1/36 Toyota FJ micro crawler

I like micro scale crawlers but the one i bought last year ago was YOKOMO NANOQLO isn't scale but just a tuber crawler. So since i had long holiday i decided to convert it into a scaler crawler.  I went to local toy shop, bought a coil spring operated "pull n go" car that have a very scale looking body which it was a 1/36 scale TOYOTA FJ CUISER.  I was doing research on youtube that someone also made a similar mods on his YOKOMO NANOQLO crawler on the very same scale bodies.  I strip off all the unecessary stuff from the models leaving just bodies shell, base chassis and interior cockpit,  carve out a cavity where the axles suppose to be and build artificial lingkage support, bar and pivot for the suspension placement.  8 hours later it was done.   I'm not a proud owner of 1/36 scale micro r/c TOYOTA FJ Cruiser rock crawler.  I think its the smallest scale looking rock crawler models ever built and every to be when compare with existing crawler that sold on commercial R/C market. Got all the neat details just like a real TOYOTA have.  To charge i just have to open the door to access the charging port and some goes to the on-off switch too.  Sadly the runtime cut by half due to its heavy semi metal die-cast body which put strain on the 1 cell lipo battery, it could be improve by replacing more higher capacity battery soon.   Overall it was a great effort and hours well spent on this project.  Finally i don't get bored on my desk, got nifty crawler to roam around obstacles, pencils, books, phones, keyboards and etc where 4WD is possible.













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