There are remote-controlled vehicles, and then there are the true scaled-down, replica machines like what you will see here. Take a look at the 1987 Dodge Ramcharger…at first take it looks like a typical rough-and-ready lifted Ramcharger, but that is a remote-controlled truck, and the same goes with the 1957 Ford pickup following it along this “trail ride”. It is extremely difficult to find any real element of a traditional R/C car on either rig: there is no visible antenna, there are detailed interiors (easily seen via the Ramcharger’s rear windows) and the running gear looks more like the real-deal than a remote-control car, down to the leaf-spring U-bolts on the Ford. What’s more is that both of the bodies on these trucks are hand-made! We suspect 3D printing (the builder, YouTuber “Headquake”, has several other cool setups including a 1977 Ford truck and a mid-1960s International pickup) but no matter how it’s done, you have to admire the amount of details that these rigs showcase. They even articulate in a manner similar to the real deal rigs! What do you think about these little off-roaders?
“Headquake” actually carved both these truck bodies from pine. I’ve been following his stuff for years, very cool talent.
Link to Ford truck build.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Dvap18PLc
Yeah, the detail level is way too good for anything but the most expensive 3D printing. You could almost fool the audience into thinking they’re real if you dubbed the sound track; the only hint I saw they weren’t was that the “glass” looks like it flexes a bit. Very impressive.
Watch my link above and you will see they are hand carved, no 3D printer involved at all.
As a modeler of 50 years, I appreciate most any sort of miniature vehicle, but these are mind blowing! Boss cat, too!
Plop!
Both these beauties are destroyed when that cat shits upon them from a great height…..
Just amazing!
I bow to you sir.
Actually the trucks are real. He just didn’t want his neighborhood to worry about the 40 foot cat on the loose!!
Unreal level of detail..