One of our readers kindly sent us photos and details about their hobby project based on Tamiya 1/14 RC trucks which we gladly publicise here:
I am happy I can show you our project. We did start Trucking 3-4 years ago, mainly we use them just as support vehicle for our tank battle days, recovery or just as spare part supply trucks in the fields. Surely sounds strange but our playground is always relatively far away from the parking place so the trucks help us. Than a cheap truck brand showed up and I wanted to test it what is possible with it and start a walk but mostly it did break down after 4km. After a wile some of our tank battle friends showed up to and the first Konvoi was made about 10km.
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- And this truck was one of the first wich joined the convoy project, its build up on a Globeliner kit and did drive by its own more than 500km now.
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- Sometimes the weather conditions turns bad. His brother truck is relative new to ouer pool but is also a tamiya based Truck and will support us well in the future.
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- And here is the other long runner, this m911 is build up on Tamiya too, and did support us the last 2 years.
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- On the m747 trailer there is a Faun based on crawler parts.
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- And here are both buddies together.
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- In this setup they are mostly with us. The m911 did drive by its own 270km till now.
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- Here now some little impressions of our last try to reach the 125km. We did start in the morning 2am
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- All we need the trucks need to carry by themselves like charger spare parts etc.
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- During the travel we did have some problems like expected and our 2 heroes needed to pull one trailer more.
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- Driving through the night…
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- …until we fell into sleep on the road…
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- After 2 hours the convoy went on.
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- but finally at the end we got to many damages and lost most of our options to keep on the trail..
Some of us got heavy problems with the feets so we did break of after 60km. That was a pain, but we also had a lot of failures, but now we are 300% better than last year so I think it could be successfull in 5 weeks.
Here you can find our website and most of our trucks listed https://www.ludwigs-hobby-seite.de/Konvoi%20Projekt%20Bochum%20Salzkotten.html or here in Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Konvoi-Bochum-Salzkotten-2020-107063594122942/. If you have questions or want to hear more stories of our trails let me knew. Our drives are normally: 10km for technical measurements, 30 and 40 km for conditional training and long term tests. So it becomes a join between marathon sports and modelling lol but that’s whats make it so impressive and challenging for us. I can tell everyone, just to try it. Surely old guys trailing with little truck looks funny, but all kids love us and most of the people we meet on the trails.