This is extream! 1:8th scaler $2300!

[kaylon 235]

Capo racing CD15823 1/8 RC Vehicle Kit

Video. .

pic from MSUK forums...

Impressive thing.. I'd be scared to drive it hehe.

K

[waterbok 1282]

Mmm, the screen wipers dont seem to work.

[markbt73 5310]

Plaything for people with more money than imagination. Yawn.

Build your own, in your garage, using hand tools and some stuff you got at the hardware store, for $50 plus a donor chassis, and you've got my attention.

[bromvw 744]

Plaything for people with more money than imagination. Yawn.

Build your own, in your garage, using hand tools and some stuff you got at the hardware store, for $50 plus a donor chassis, and you've got my attention.

funny you should say that . That's almost exactly what i'am building . Maverick Scout RTR £118 transplanted onto a donor Axial SCX 10 chassis . .

[Indetrucks 72]

Don't those wipers get in the way of the drivers view?

[bromvw 744]

Don't those wipers get in the way of the drivers view?

IF its like their 8x8 then the wipers actually function

[markbt73 5310]

funny you should say that . That's almost exactly what i'am building . Maverick Scout RTR £118 transplanted onto a donor Axial SCX 10 chassis . .

Me too. Scratch-built Series III Land Rover on Losi Mini-Crawler axles.

http://www.scale4x4rc.org/forums/showthread.php?t=75609

(the real fun starts around page 4)

[Tamiya1/10 382]

If I have the money, I will buy it. I'll leave it to the expert to doing the building and me doing the spending and playing because for me to come up to Capo's quality and standards will be way more than $2300.00.

The only thing I will add is a driver, like Wild Wendy (Pefect Jeep Chick). Driverless rc seems a bit scary.

[bromvw 744]

Me too. Scratch-built Series III Land Rover on Losi Mini-Crawler axles.

http://www.scale4x4rc.org/forums/showthread.php?t=75609

(the real fun starts around page 4)

Read the whole thread- twice . It actually got me quite emotional . Some of my very early childhood memory's are of my dads LWB Series 3 Safari . We went everywhere in the old bone shaker - usually towing a heavy caravan . 50 MPH max all the way to Cornwall from Yorkshire with a slobbering , pucking and sometimes worse Doberman in the back of a Landie with you was not my idea of fun lol.

We moved to Zambia in 1976 - i think i was 10 - almost 11 maybe . First thing i drove was a Land Rover - obviously . At 17 i joined the British Army and the Land Rover love affair continued until i left . i've driven many since but not actually owned one . i'll get another one day - and it will be a series 3 in tribute to my old fella who's no longer with us . RIP Dad .

Your build is epic . You stuck at it using only simple hand tools . Forget mega buck NIP kits - this is the true heart of our hobby . Well done sir for making my day .

[markbt73 5310]

Read the whole thread- twice . It actually got me quite emotional . Some of my very early childhood memory's are of my dads LWB Series 3 Safari . We went everywhere in the old bone shaker - usually towing a heavy caravan . 50 MPH max all the way to Cornwall from Yorkshire with a slobbering , pucking and sometimes worse Doberman in the back of a Landie with you was not my idea of fun lol.

We moved to Zambia in 1976 - i think i was 10 - almost 11 maybe . First thing i drove was a Land Rover - obviously . At 17 i joined the British Army and the Land Rover love affair continued until i left . i've driven many since but not actually owned one . i'll get another one day - and it will be a series 3 in tribute to my old fella who's no longer with us . RIP Dad .

Your build is epic . You stuck at it using only simple hand tools . Forget mega buck NIP kits - this is the true heart of our hobby . Well done sir for making my day .

Thanks! Glad you approve. My only personal Land Rover experience comes form a SWB Series II (or IIa?) that was owned by a friend of my grandfather's. I rode in it a few times, but he never let me drive it. My next scratch build will be the personal one for me - a 1981 Jeep CJ-8 Scrambler, just like the one my uncle taught me to drive in when I was 14.

And yeah, I don't mean to hijack the thread about this expensive toy, but really, who needs it?

[bromvw 744]

Thanks! Glad you approve. My only personal Land Rover experience comes form a SWB Series II (or IIa?) that was owned by a friend of my grandfather's. I rode in it a few times, but he never let me drive it. My next scratch build will be the personal one for me - a 1981 Jeep CJ-8 Scrambler, just like the one my uncle taught me to drive in when I was 14.

And yeah, I don't mean to hijack the thread about this expensive toy, but really, who needs it?

You Americans have your Jeep's - we have our Land Rovers - Still the Best 4x4 By Far lol

[mr crispy 2293]

1/8th... Pah! 1/6 Willis Jeep conversion with an articulated driver figure for around £250 on the workbench that will get finished this summer 😏

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=67093&view=&hl=&fromsearch=1

[Sayer 742]

Yes, yes, uphill both ways in the snow with no shoes. Not everyone has the time, inclination or skill to be hammering models out of iron ore on an anvil in a shed. I still think it looks cool.

[berman 5315]

Yes, yes, uphill both ways in the snow with no shoes. Not everyone has the time, inclination or skill to be hammering models out of iron ore on an anvil in a shed. I still think it looks cool.

Lol! Some people forget that somebody designed and scratch built this from imagination too. It is very cool and very talented.

[Tamiya1/10 382]

Those that can, do; those than can't, buy...or learn to or do without.

[Flerbizky 225]

Me too. Scratch-built Series III Land Rover on Losi Mini-Crawler axles.

http://www.scale4x4rc.org/forums/showthread.php?t=75609

(the real fun starts around page 4)

wow... simply... wow.... O.o

[cashrc 30]

Me too. Scratch-built Series III Land Rover on Losi Mini-Crawler axles.

http://www.scale4x4rc.org/forums/showthread.php?t=75609

(the real fun starts around page 4)

That, sir is a beaut!! Real nice work..I'm jealous. I build airplanes as well as cars, and I tend to enjoy the old pre-WWII gas models, converted to rc. It's a lot of work and a lot of wood, but to me, it's easier than what you're doing. If I screw something up in an airframe, I can always cut a new piece and scarf it in without too much trouble, but what YOU'RE doing? Dangit Jim.....

Impressive work and skills. Keep it up. Thats an order from high command....

Cash

[StrokerBoy 772]

I'm not criticising scratch-builders here. But are you all moulding your own tyres, winding your own springs and turning your own nuts and bolts ? Are you mining your own ore and then smelting your own aluminium and steel ? Scratch-building your own batteries, motors and receivers ?

Some probably are, and my admiration is unbounded. Plenty of others are adapting, modifying and customising one-off stuff with great imagination and skill. But some people can only handle a kit with all the components supplied and Tamiya-quality instructions provided. And some people can't even do that, and just need to buy something RTR off the shelf. There's a place for everyone I would have thought.

[Grastens 2795]

... Plenty of others are adapting, modifying and customising one-off stuff with great imagination and skill. But some people can only handle a kit with all the components supplied and Tamiya-quality instructions provided. And some people can't even do that, and just need to buy something RTR off the shelf. There's a place for everyone I would have thought.

I am quickly finding that out with the re-emergence of one of my old projects! What a piece of work

If nothing else, this 1:8 scale model is a proof-of-concept, taking the hobby to a place it may have rarely been. People criticized the Traxxas XO-1 with similar complaints, but this is either revisiting or exploring completely-new territory. There may not be too much innovation going on here compared with the XO-1; however is it not so cool that something like this exists? That it came from somebody's mind?

I am not this crawler's intended market or audience, but I can appreciate it this way.

[Shodog 1835]

If I had the spare coin, i'd buy one. the scale detail is awesome.