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.

Micro frenzy

Oh look at that few years later i'm back into micro again. I just have this feeling that 1/28 scale micro r/c have high cool factor and usability than my 1/18 and 1/10 scaler. The are small, detailed bodies, pocket size with all the slogan "anytime anywhere" all over it cramped with all the high tech micro technology that cost a bang inside a thumb sized cockpit. After years into 1/18 tp 1/8 scale its time to put all my large scale technology knowledge and zip everything into this tiny pint models. I'm looking forward to upgrade this micro to perfection with ass whooping programmable micro ESC, 2.4Ghz RX,micro brushless upgrades and high reponse servo just like its big brother.

Fun video cam on r/c circuit

Got two videos of us playing on r/c track,1 video with onboard video cam on Rudy 1/10 touring carfacing towards 1/18 truggy MB4 chasing around the track and another video taken from R/C tower view of me and Rudy duelling each other around the track. Thanks to Nick for taking the video shots. Nick 1/10 touring was MIA for a while down there so he become the camera man for today. :mrgreen:

Location: Miri r/c track at Gokart


Youtube #1: Onboard video cam
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Shows 3x startup, Chasing me around the track.



Youtube #2: Tower point of view
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The one laughing is Nick. Helping me out taking video of us playing.

ULTIMATE PROJECT CRAWLER COMPLETED!!! SUCCESS!!

After hours of hard work finally the conversion from stock mini monster truck to profesinal grade super crawler have finally reach its goal. Super flex torsion axle, longer stable stance and 100% terrain crawler with high power climbing rate equal to AXIAL AX10 crawling capability. With Tamiya CR01 driveshaft, MAMBA 25 ESC, 2.4Ghz and dual steering front and rear... no terrains or obstacles can stop this might beast. Would like to thanks our Member Crawler community from rctech for supply me crawler parts. This is rock crawler at its best! will post you the video too hehehehehehe...

First i would like to thanks to member of rctech (http://www.rctech.net) "Ecrawler" for reserving me his stock Huanqi mini monster (A-Tech Leo-x) for my conversion work to full pro spec crawler. Took me around 11 hours of work to convert an innocent shorty mini monster to extreme crawler spec.

Construction Material:
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-Huanqi mini monster stock models (1/20 scale - 'aka' A-Tech Leo-x model)
-2.4Ghz Sanwa receiver
-Castle Creation: MAMBA 25 Brushless ESC
-4x steel clip rods + 6x mini radio antenna (For lower axle push rod and mid drive shaft rods)
-4x extended slim push rods for front and rear steering and center axle positioning
-Lipo 2s 800mah 15c batt
-4x Plastic rod wall concrete insert ( for adapter to attached Tamiya CR01 adjustable drive shaft to axle and gear box)
-TAMIYA CR01 adjustable drive shaft


Useless stuff to be thrown off from chassis:
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-Stock Rx and TX
-Stock 50A Brushed ESC
-Nimh 7.2v batt
-4x stock push rod axle
-2x short mid drive shaft

Work hours - 11hrs

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Performance:
What can i say it climbs like a spider!!!...that is when i use brushless 4200KV motor + 8T HPI RS4 micro pinion gear).


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