stanhas87
87thScale addict
1978 Dodge Monaco CHP
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Post by stanhas87 on Apr 1, 2005 4:50:50 GMT 1
Dear Sirs:
I am having lots of fun with my Freightliner R/C. It will be up to Jack to make it more realistic. Meanwhile,I do not think that an interior can be fit and the windows are grey-ish. But still I can stop running it! Well,maybe by next week.
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Post by Albert on Jun 9, 2005 8:56:42 GMT 1
The Doyusha models has been delayed again. Now the release date is 16th June. The models announced under the Minibit brand (see mo87.de) is the same car for the european market?
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Post by swampdaddy on Nov 11, 2005 3:28:38 GMT 1
Hi: Here is some more for this thread. Somewhere between when Faller was using slot track for vehicles and the current Faller effort (very much better) using magnets to follow a buried wire there was another system, rather elaborate and bizarre. I have a catalog somewhere which, of course, at the moment I can't find.
Basically it was a U-shaped plastic "track" which mounts level with the "roadway" where the cars will run. At the bottom of the "U" are two N-gage railroad tracks. Magnets on the top of these locomotives, mounted on springy uprights brush the bottom of the "roadway". The roadway is a thin plastic sheet and HO cars or trucks with magnets for chassis are pulled along by the 'train underneath'. By using dummy rail-cars and other non-powered rail-cars with magnets, one locomotive can pull quite a few cars along the roadway above in 'convoy' style.
I don't know how sucessful this system ever was; but, it had to be expensive in the extreme. I never really heard much more about it.
All for now, Swamp Daddy
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Post by Albert on Jan 14, 2006 23:48:54 GMT 1
Do you know this double-deck buses by Kyosho? As the first urban buses they are 1/80 but might be a good base for transformations. www.hlj.com/product/KSH66052-40
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stanhas87
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1978 Dodge Monaco CHP
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Post by stanhas87 on Jan 15, 2006 2:57:39 GMT 1
Do you know this double-deck buses by Kyosho? As the first urban buses they are 1/80 but might be a good base for transformations. www.hlj.com/product/KSH66052-40 Dear Albert: Thanks for sharing. This is a very nice item! Nick K
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Lee
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Post by Lee on Jan 17, 2006 5:01:10 GMT 1
Do you know this double-deck buses by Kyosho? As the first urban buses they are 1/80 but might be a good base for transformations. www.hlj.com/product/KSH66052-40Does anyone have one of these? My experience with RC models is they go to fast. I wonder how this one does.
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Post by Albert on Jan 17, 2006 11:20:57 GMT 1
Do you know this double-deck buses by Kyosho? As the first urban buses they are 1/80 but might be a good base for transformations. www.hlj.com/product/KSH66052-40Does anyone have one of these? My experience with RC models is they go to fast. I wonder how this one does. I have the Kyosho single-deck bus, bought two years ago. In spite the fact the RC system is not proportional, the bus has a very realistic speed and needs a very small radius to turn. So you can play with it on your table or in a small surface. I suppouse that this city bus I have has the same electronics than the double-deck bus and the 1:80 Kyosho trucks.
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Post by swampdaddy on Jan 17, 2006 20:25:22 GMT 1
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Post by swampdaddy on Jan 18, 2006 2:59:12 GMT 1
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Post by swampdaddy on Jan 18, 2006 3:00:30 GMT 1
Hi again: Willies got my typing, past = paste and it split it again when I put it in that post.
Swamp Daddy
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Post by only87 on Jan 18, 2006 5:24:46 GMT 1
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