Monster Truck Madness – Tundra Tires on the FMS Smasher
Hey all and Happy Thursday!
One of the coolest issues about the stable axle monster truck style inside the world of RC are all the small builders which are constructing customized merchandise for the number of platforms on the market. The Clod, Axial SMT10 and Losi LMT hog their share of the limelight, however as we speak I needed to point out off a small batch builder that’s constructing one thing, nicely, for a small truck.
Diaz Designs RC has been working on a number of 3d printed half kits to show your FMS Smasher right into a 1/24 scale model of BIGFOOT #5, which has been acknowledged as the largest pick-up truck in the world for many of the previous couple of many years. The most defining characteristic of that are the colossal 10 foot tall tundra tires that had been initially designed for the Overland Train in the mid twentieth century.
The DDRC Tundra Tire retrofit package continues to be in the prototyping section, however it should hopefully be launched someday this 12 months. The tundra tires are at the moment 3d printed, however I’m instructed a versatile rubber choice is being seemed into.
It will probably be out there to set your Smasher up in two completely different configurations.
The first is “BIGFOOT #1 type” the place the axles are prolonged outwards letting the physique trip precisely the place it’s inventory, maintaining it low and between the tires. This is how the full dimension Firestones had been mounted to the earliest BIGFOOT vans earlier than the purpose-built improvement of BIGFOOT #5.
The second configuration is, you guessed it, “BIGFOOT #5 type”. This is the place the chassis has an extension to make it taller, permitting the physique to trip above the tires and maintaining all the pieces with a thinner observe width. The full dimension BIGFOOT #5 encompasses a related structure, having two truck frames stacked on high of one another with giant spacers in between.
The great thing about doing this on 1/24 truck is that all the pieces is light-weight, so that you don’t have to fret about wonky weight distribution or axle stress like that of a bigger scale (which says nothing of the full dimension truck, I’ve been in BIGFOOT #5 and simply the climb to get into it’s terrifying!), so it might seem like the excellent platform for it.
I can’t look ahead to the package to launch and the second it does, I’ve received my identify on the record to get one so I can write about it right here! This complete package seems ingenious!
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Until subsequent week, maintain it on all 4’s!