Do these make my truck look like toy?

[Saito2]

Here's a quick pic of a truck I've been working on. What I'm really after are the tires roughly equivalent to the Bridgestone tire found on the old Kyosho monsters. I have some 2.2 wheels with Wheely King tires, but they are a tad too small. Still mulling over whether Jconcepts Rangers tires would be larger. Anyway, I mounted up some Agrios wheels/tires. The size is perfect. I even like the tread pattern. My only hang up is the wheels. I get the New Bright/Walmart RC toy vibe from them. Any opinions?

20191128_092537 by Scott Weiland, on Flickr

[Frog Jumper]

I think they look great.  

Terry

 

[topforcein]

it looks like a radio shack truck to me 

[scoobybooster]

Of course it looks like a toy - because these are all toys here. Where's the problem?

[MadInventor]

It would look better with conventional TXT wheels & tires or even clod wheels. The blacked out windows also add to the 'toy' vibe IMO

[Saito2]

35 minutes ago, scoobybooster said:

because these are all toys here.

Wait a minute, doesn't my Tamiya Guide book begin with the statement "Toys they're not."?

1 hour ago, topforcein said:

it looks like a radio shack truck to me 

Sadly, my daughter doesn't know what a Radio Shack is, but I know what you mean.

30 minutes ago, MadInventor said:

It would look better with conventional TXT wheels & tires or even clod wheels. The blacked out windows also add to the 'toy' vibe IMO

I agree, but I ran into fitment issues with Clod tires and I'm not confident into WR01's ability to support tires that big. The windows are a good catch. Its just an Overlander body with factory window decals I tossed on there for the pic. I am working on getting another shell for it. Your right, those window decals aren't doing it any favors in the toy-looks department.

[87lc2]

Not my taste, but doesn't look terrible.  Painting the wheels might help.  

I have a few sets of the Rangers.  They're just over 5.5" tall and I believe the Agrios tire is just under 6".  They're OK tires.  I much prefer the 2.2 Proline Destroyer, very nice looking and performing tire.  They are a bit smaller than the Rangers.  Here are a couple photos of them side by side.  Don't have any Agrios tires for comparison as I gave them all away.

Although I prefer the Destroyers, I think the Rangers would look really nice on that truck.  

 

[geniusanthony]

@Saito2

Paint 'em. Someone did their Agrios with different wheel cutouts, the grill cut and stock tires wheels in all black I believe. Sharp truck, the wheels look much better with some color. You could even do a gold center over the satin chrome that I wouldn't mind seeing. The product I used was in one of my videos, I can't recall what I used to get the gold finish off hand.

[dannymulder]

I like the look of my wt-01 more, it have the  wheels on it from my mst-mtx1 ,that I sold in parts  I kept the wheels.

no offense but I do not like that body on your truck, I had the same one in red I find it a ugly body shell.

[Saito2]

Yeah, that shell was something I just tossed on there for the pic. Its not even mounted. Thank you all for the suggestions/input. Its looking more and more like the project will be scrapped and re-thought from a different angle. I had a feeling it didn't look right. Thanks for the confirmation.