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I was walking through my local wallyworld and saw these tiny die cast cars in clear cases (they run about $2.50 each) so i picked up a couple of land rovers thinking they would make an awsome r/c car. They sat on my desk for months since i had no idea how i was going to make one of these tiny cars move by remote.

Well the other day i got motivated after work and ran across some single ply carbon fiber that would make a perfect platform for my micro rover and this is what i came up with:


*I used a zipzap for scale*


Im using a pcb from one of those twisty cars so that i can use one motor for steering. The motors and gears are smaller than bit motors and came from a small cheap'O tank that has long since been parted out. The chassis is single ply carbon fiber(with a black coating on one side) The pcb just bairly fits under the body and ill be using a tiny lipo that will fit under the cab but it will need to stick out slightly from the sun roof(ill make it look like a roof rack or something )

Since i havent had time to test it im not sure if the gearing will be too high or not with the lipo but time will tell. I used a wd-40 straw for the axles and pivot point of the rear suspension. Its still a work in progress but i thought i would post this, maybe spark some other's imaginations.

Enjoy,

STG

That;s a nice looking TTTT!

Too cool, good to see you doing your thing again.

Good to see you are back, Ryan. I can't wait to see what else your going to come up with.

That is too cool. I saw them tiny little cars, I never thought I could ever make anything RC out of them.

Freakin' sweet dude. That thing looks tiny compared to a ZZ. Holy!

I to have looked at those little cars and thought they would be great in RC! Nice work the smaller the better in my book I bet that would be super with an HO scale Train set.

speeding car-meets speeding train!

It good to see you in the hood.
Amaizing

I was thinking, "yeah so its a little smaller, BFD." until I noticed how big that drive engine looks sitting there...holy crap. My hats off to ya'.

dude does that thing run yet?

yeah man, sucker runs like a champ. since i couldn't make it propo i installed a tiny pot on the rover so i can change the speed when needed...i just moved into a new place so its in a box somewhere but ill try and dig it out for some pictures.

STG

Sweet! can you do a vid? this thing rocks!

i got 1 of these but it was a black landrover. i had the same type of steering method and motor. but i used i piece of carbon fiber. and i used lego wheels. not the small monster truck wheels but small offroad tires that r the same size as slicks.. it may be 2wd but it is a great truck

vwmicrosizer wrote:i got 1 of these but it was a black landrover. i had the same type of steering method and motor. but i used i piece of carbon fiber. and i used lego wheels. not the small monster truck wheels but small offroad tires that r the same size as slicks.. it may be 2wd but it is a great truck

Can we see some pictures or a video? This site could use some more info on super small scale stuff if you've got them.

Smoke&Mirrors wrote:

vwmicrosizer wrote:i got 1 of these but it was a black landrover. i had the same type of steering method and motor. but i used i piece of carbon fiber. and i used lego wheels. not the small monster truck wheels but small offroad tires that r the same size as slicks.. it may be 2wd but it is a great truck

Can we see some pictures or a video? This site could use some more info on super small scale stuff if you've got them.

well the truck is not finished yet. i cinda put it on hold since school has started.