The Backyard – The 1:24 FMS Camel Trophy Trucks
Hey everybody and completely satisfied Friday! Welcome to November – begin warming up the bank cards for all that vacation procuring!
Last week I mentioned a large scale crawler I’ve been engaged on, however this week I wished to shift to the alternative finish of the spectrum.
Over the Summer, when the FMS FCX24M Land Rover Camel Trophy Edition 1:24 mini crawler vans have been introduced, I bit laborious. I’m not likely a small scale crawler man, however I’m an enormous fan of Camel Trophy rigs….so I pre-ordered two of them. I received the Discovery and Defender 110 fashions. I figured even when I didn’t like them, they appeared REALLY cool and can be enjoyable issues to have on my cabinets as scale fashions.
Well, it seems I actually do like these little issues.
I’ve not been a fan of the tiny crawlers I’ve had prior to now as a result of they actually aren’t that usable exterior, and I don’t have an indoor course nor any actual curiosity in setting one up.
However, these dudes are juuuuuuust sufficiently big to be enjoyable on a wide range of obstacles exterior, and the 2 velocity transmissions enable for each very clean low velocity crawling and loads of stand up and go in prime gear.
I received each of my Landys again in mid-July, and each vans have been the MVP’s of my, ahem, yard this previous Summer.
I don’t have any loopy terrain round the home, however I do have some stone steps and small rock beds inside my landscaping, and this stuff deal with it effectively. They’ve additionally been wonderful journey companions for me to get in some lunchtime wheeling when on the workplace.
They look freakin’ excellent, too. They have little detailed hardbodies which might be molded within the well-known Sandglow shade that the Camel Trophy vans are identified for, so scratches don’t actually have an effect on them.
If you possibly can’t inform already, I’m an enormous fan of this stuff. If I needed to choose one it will be the Discovery, simply because within the r/c world you haven’t seen these executed as a lot as you’ve got Defenders, however each are nice. Technically the Defender is a smidge extra succesful as effectively, because it’s larger tires give it juuuuust a bit extra trip top.
I’m completely satisfied to have each in my fleet, although! They look superior on my shelf and are enjoyable to bomb round with in my yard. They get a thumbs up from me!
Until subsequent time, preserve it on all 4’s!