Scale parts/accessories for a 1/10 truck project.

[neo]

Im looking for accessories like, jerry cans, rope, hi lift jacks, shovels etc preferably 1/10 scale as I could be planning a 1/10 truck project.

Does anyone know where I "might" be able to get items like these from???????[8-)]

[gozone]

I think they are available in toy shops, perhaps in sets with "themes!, such as road-work, G.I. Joe etc...

Cheers

[neo]

Thanks

Better get on Ebay then lol

[Bigwheels_inc]

if you find any please let me know as im working on a similar idea but cant find any i also need sand ladders but cant find any !!!!!!

pete

[Cul-Tech]

1/10th scale is tough, what works best is to steal parts from other

Tamiya vehicles. Like you can get a great jerry can from Wild Willy 2,

also a nice winch, nitrous bottle, and fire extinguisher if you cut it

off the rollbar. If you look carefully in hardware stores you will find

string that is made in a way that it looks EXTREMELY realistic.

I have some of the string if you want some let me know and I'll send it over.

There is not a one stop shop for 10th scale however so imagination must be used.[8-|]

Mike

[neo]

Thanks Pete,Mike.

I just realised that I have a WW2 in the attic. So I think he may have to come down and donate a few parts LOL.

As for the string, Mike, I will let you know. Thanks for the kind offer.

Sean []

[OCD]

Hey I thought this would be a perfect time to ask about this:

 

Scale Tools

I've seen an old action figure called "Action Man" on eBay - some kind

of G.I. Joe type doll with lots of TOOLS , but no guns? Not familiar to

me as I think it was made by Mattel in the '70s, and only distributed

in the UK?  All of it looks nice and scale to me, but what scale?

  Does anyone have any memories of ol' Action Man?  His tools

would look right at home in the back of my Mounty![Y]

[Tinno]

Action man is alive and well and living in the uk!.

I would say he's more 1/8th maybe 1/6th scale than 1/10th.

However.  my son has an action man jeep ( a bit like a wrangler / wild willy) and this "might" fit on an appropriate 1/10th chassis.

my thoughts... its probaby going to be too big,

[neo]

But the accesories might be big enough. If not then im gonna have to raid my little girls Barbie toy box. []

[ChrisB]

Neo,

Not sure where you are based, but it may be worth checking out the modelling section on the Conrad.de website. They have LOADS of 1/8, 1/10 and 1/16 scale truck accesories.

Only catch is its in german, but if you see something you like I am sure someone on here can help out with the ordering / translation!

Chris

[neo]

Thanks Chris []

[OCD]

Yeah, nice link Chris!

I can't remeber where, but it seems like just days ago somebody here

mentioned the 'end' of 'German culture' or something similar;  How

can this be when they have great resources like Conrad?  We have

Radio Shack over here, and let me tell you, it ain't no Conrad!!!

[ChrisB]

Yeah, its a good site and they also have some fairly cheap more general RC stuff too (stick packs and ESC's for example).

The UK site stocks a VERY small selection of whats on the german site - I recently bought the rotating amber beacon set off there for my Blizzard - very good quality it is too []

Cheers,

Chris

[neo]

I just gotta do a crash course on reading German now LOL.

[DJTheo]

Trust me, living in Germany I know, Conrad ain't really better then Radioshack, only cheap stuff (getting worse lately, mainly chinese RC), bad service and employess with no clue

Cheers

[ChrisB]

I've not seen anywhere else that does the range of truck accesories that Conrad.de do though - the amber rotating beacons for example you just don't see anywhere else (I haven't found any anyway).....

Cheers,

Chris

[fatboyslim]

Had a look on the site and those rotating beacons are pretty nice, it says you need a circuit board for them to work and when I entered the number in the search box it couldn't find it!!

Did you get the controller circuit from them as well??

[ChrisB]

They do do a controller circuit for it - it was only available from the german site though, and seemed to be out of stock most of the time. A very helpful german TC member did go into his local Conrad store and check for me though, as well as offering to send one over (don't you just love TC!).

In the end I sourced a flashing circuit from the same Italian guy I got my RC switches from (http://www.rc-flysoft.com/). Its meant for flashing nav lights on planes, but has 2 seperate flasher circuits plus a normal on/off circuit. Its not cheap (41 EUR), but fully programmable from your PC (comes with software), and I can't recommend the guy highly enough.

He even sent me a refund of a few quid via Paypal as I had ordered an older version of the flasher circuit and a new one had come out since I ordered which cost him slightly less to make - thats what I call service!!!

Not rigged it all up yet, but others on here (fastfordrc?) have made their own flasher circuit for use with these beacons.

Cheers,

Chris

[mud4fun]

Wire rope/Rope/Chequer plate that works out close to 1/10 scale for recovery trucks from B&Q:

The wire rope is sold as curtain wire along with all the curtain hooks etc. The chequer plate is sold in sheets from A4-A2 sized for only a few pounds each sheet usually in the same place as all the alloy channel etc which is also excellent for making chassis, cranes etc.

[fastfordrc]

The Conrad part number for the driver board for the rotating beacon is 191523-62, but you have to order it from the german site. It is possible, but there used to be a minimum order (50 euros I think?) and it was a bit difficult to pay as they didn't take credit cards directly. It might have changed since. Conrad don't actually make them though, they buy them in from a company called Veroma (www.veroma-shop.de). The link for the list of beacons and driver board there is http://www.veroma-shop.de/shop/catalog/default.php?cPath=46 (the german word is for the beacon is rundumlicht). All the parts ChrisB was talking about from Conrad are actually supplied by Veroma I think (all the 1/8th truck components Conrad used to do are made/sold by them, for instance).

They were out of stock in both places when I wanted one, so I downloaded the PDF for the driver board from Conrad's german site, and copied the circuit to make one myself (I am an electronic engineer by trade) - it's only a simple 555 timer circuit,  counter chip and 4 transistors. It came out a little bigger as I had to use veroboard instead of surface-mount chips, but it works the same. PM me if you want a copy of the circuit diagram and some basic instructions.

Our german colleagues don't realise how well off they are in terms of modelling resources. They might not regard Conrad as much good, but in the UK it would be brilliant to have the range of products they sell available on the high street (I know they sell a lot of toy-grade tat, but they also sell a huge range of parts and bits). The only comparison we have here is Maplin, but in the past 5 years they have degraded to just selling cheap consumer electronics - it's difficult to even find a  resistor or LED in there these days.

As far as accessories go, cheap plastic toys are your best bet for finding 1/10 scale stuff. Action Man/G.I. Joe is 1/6th scale so is a bit too big (the original Action Man was the UK contemporary of GI Joe, but made by a different company - Palitoy). I still have a lot of my old Action Man stuff in the loft - jacks, winches, a toolbox full of tools - but it's too big for  Tamiya models. The people who run 1/6th scale tanks have it easy with all these accessories, and the Dragon figures and accessories that are available these days....

Andy

 

[OCD]

Yeah![] Thanks for that Andy![H]

Never even heard of Veroma - how awesome are they?!? (rhetorical)

I wanted to say the same thing about the modeling resources available

to Germany - those guys really have a lot to work with in terms of

what's available to them.  Just check out any of the truck

trialer's pages and you'll see what I mean.  So jealous!  Why

is it that some much of this is only available in Deutschland? [:'(]

By the way, I'd love to see some schematics if you have them readily

available.  If you haven't seen this thread yet:  Home brewed lighting control and the scheme I drew up.  It's just for brake lights, but I'd be far more interested in building a multifunction type unit![8-|]

-Steve

[DJTheo]

You are right, Germans make many nice products, problem though is usually the trial/custom stuff is just made on order, prices are not low at all and the production can take quite few long as most aren't doing it as a main job, thats why its very hard to make a internatonally re-selling shop with them. Will check though in the next months what the possibilities are.

Cheers

[fastfordrc]

Yes, the German modellers make some cool stuff. Last year I spent 4 days in Dortmund visiting the Intermodellbau exhibition, which I think is the biggest model show in Europe. It was absolutely awe-inspiring! Every possible aspect of modelling was catered for - they have an indoor boating lake (with fans to power sailing yachts), a hall for doing 3d aerobatics demos, a hall with a carpet track and grandstand, a hall with a huge town layout for 1/16 trucks and construction vehicles and another for 1/8th trucks and other vehicles, a truck trial course, and enough traders selling every part, kit and widget you never even knew existed to bankrupt you many times over! Steve, I'm guessing you come from the USA? If you could make it over there for the show one year it really opens your eyes as to what is possible in this hobby.

I'll PM'ed you with a copy of the schematic and guide I came up with by copying the Conrad beacon controller - I haven't got it in a form suitable for posting here. That RC brake light circuit seems simple enough - is that the one you bought from Hong Kong, or did you make it yourself? The NEC C393C chip is their version of the bog-standard LM393 dual comparator, so it should cost next to nothing to knock up. Sensing from the motor is the way I would do it too, as it's simpler.  That circuit is actually very similar to the way Scalextric did their 'Turbo Flash' lights on their slot cars (when you lifted off the power an LED would flash to simulate turbo overrun flames). The other way to do it would be a forward/reverse RC switch - Conrad sell one of these too. It is a programmable unit with switched outputs for both forward and reverse, and the outputs can be momentary ('on' once the stick passes a variable threshold, and 'off' when the stick returns), or latched ('on' once the stick passes the threshold, then 'off ' the next time the stick passes the threshold). You could use the momentary setting to activate a relay that switches the power supply to the tail light from 3V to 6V, to recreate a combined stop/tail light (I use this setup in my 1/8th scale tank to power the fan on the smoke generator - it runs on 6V on idle, then 12V once the tank starts moving, simulating revving the engine).

Earlier in the thread, using a servo PCB was mentioned, taking the motor output to work the brakelights. Unfortnately, servos use miniature ESCs with PWM outputs to work their motors, so if you power a bulb with it is will probably flicker a bit. They are hopeless for working relays (it makes an interesting buzzing sound though!).

It woul be a good project to combine all these into one unit (the beacon controller, your brake light controller, a switch unit for head/tail lights and a dual switch unit to operate indicators too). It would be quite a useful little project (sort of like a Tamiya MFU), though a proper PCB would probably be needed.

Andy

[OCD]

Got your email Andy - thanks very much!

-Steve