TOYOTA FJ in the office

Another way to spent your quality hours during lunch break.  Glad its small and micro enough to enjoy crawling around the desk without too much commitment going outdoors with r/c friends.

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.

Scaled models as role R&D object for SupermotoXL Designs.

News circulates says i already quit my Radio Control models and sold or gave away some freebies to r/c enthusiast since its way too much for me to handle my activity per-day. Part of the fact maybe be right and some part are wrong. I still playing r/c but for the sake of Research and Development under the name of SupermotoXL Designs in 3d models and virtual automotive design. Last week i sold all my off-road high speed truggys, buggies, electronics kit hardware, tools, radio kit and etc which tarnish almost 90% of my R/C resources to fund SupermotoXL Designs development. What's left is newly bought 1/24 scale RCTRAX MINIQLO Rock Crawler, which will soon to be role model in building more detailed scaled version of realistic vehicle model as inspiration point to design and build more off-roading vehicle inside computer 3D program under SupermotoXL Development at http://www.supermotoxl.com. For the past 2 weeks i manage to built more proper scaled 1/24 models using Hummer body to learn some mechanic of rock crawling movement and its attributes which could provide more vital information to develop more mature project VEXUVIUS model which i left halted last few weeks. Yesterday i added some ligthing kits...now it looks awesomely cool!

The true REVENTON killer.

Yup a shadowy figure of upcoming road brat that will going to smoke REVENTON off the road and hit VEYRON hard in the face. XAVAGE inherit some genetic design from NEMIXIS and X3-SIXTY but with more radical approach. Interm of body design XAVAGE built to reduce wind resistance/wind drag by "cutting" or "breaking" the first head-on wind and the dissipate the wind current via steep sharp surface angular on the body panels to create downforce when it travel from windshield section all the way to the back. Which explain why XAVAGE have sharp dynamic edge body contour from the front section and dynamic angular body sweep all the way to the back to create on body natural spoiler for down force effect. Huge rear section create wind vaccum behind the car to allow air intake from the front of the car force to the back, on its way it will help cool the engine, power turbine generator through air hydraulic force and force thw cool air into the disc brake ventilation system for caliper cooling. To sum up the details short, XAVAGE is like a huge knife cutting easily though the wind without resistance. Unlike any super car design in the world every body surface of XAVAGE are carve with purpose, very corner of its body is functional.

Just like the stealth air figther the F-22, the body is very sharp and angular to deflect enemy radar and at the same time allow the wind to break and slide gently.

Yes, this car is truely is the stealth fighter of the road.

Oh yes! my spare parts have arrived.

Despite having gloomy day without having fun on my broken desktop PC but instead my happy cloud came back to me again in different genre. I've just ordered some MINI-Z parts few days ago and today it reach to my hand in a flash by parcel delivery service, Oh yes! my mini-z is alive again with new parts and upgrade. Previously my mini-z 1/28 scale R/C broken on critical parts which involve broken suspension tower on both side, cracked steering knuckle, broken rear suspension and cracked top electronic pcb cover and worn out 10T aluminum pinion gears. Now all these news parts mostly from carbon fibre and aluminum parts hopefully could make my mini-z more durable and last longer than expected. The most important thing is to keep hours of fun outdoor. You know being shelled indoors really boring. Well i'm going to fix my mini's. Yeaahhh!!

Prehistoric dinosaur - TAMIYA Super Champ.

Hee hee... can't believe my uncle gave me this master piece of the 80's, I was only 4 years old when i see this car blasting around the sandy beaches infront of our house back in 1982. This radio control definately a collectors favorite item. Must be worth thousand by now if bid over the internet!. The chassis construction was 100% pure solid metal alloys, very durable and the mechanical engineering apply to this models is very solid and tough. Its like owning a pickup truck rather than a toy. Even its an electric powered sand buggy but the built was almost nitro fueled like chassis. The shell need a bad fix on front but that's a minor problem can be covered with DIY patch.