WLJayne
Newbie
Hi guys,
I'm new here, and I've come with some questions for you
. I'm new to RC rock crawling, though I've been a modeller all my life and as a dayjob I design plastic kits for a large wargames company. I'm also a keen Land Rover enthusiast and sooner or later the two passions were bound to intersect .
A fellow Lany owning buddy and I were talking about how cool it would be to build scale Landy's that drove like the real thing and a few google searches later here I am. I'm especially impressed with the SCX10 chassis and I'd love to build one some time soon. Being a scale scratchbuilding nut I'd almost certainly scratchbuild a body and make tons of expedition accessories for it, I'm crazy like that. But I was wondering whether it would be worth developing a proper kit or two for sale. I've designed and sold my own scale kits in the past for other subjects and they've done really well (should never have sold up, silly me!), and I thought it would be cool to offer something new and wanted to see whether there would be any interest. I've seen the Defender bodies out there aswell as some of the Kamtec vac form bodies and they're nice but there's still alot of subject to cover.
I was thinking of starting with the Discovery 1, as it's a real classic and has a huge variety of accessories and such so would be an ideal subject. I'd do it for myself anyway but if there's interest I could put a kit out. The body would probably be either lightweight GRP or Vac Formed ABS/Polycarbonate. All the trim and small parts (wing mirros etc) would be cast in high impact polyurethane resin which is just about bullet proof. For extra saftey I'd probably secure everything with rare earth magnets so they could pop off in the event of a roll so as not to damage them.
Anyway I'm probably going into too much detail. Suffice it to say that I'm looking at developing a range if kits to gradually build a range on top of my job and hopefully it would get big enough to do full time. If it isn't this I will probably go back to scale resin kits, ships and aircraft mostly - but hey no reason why I couldn't do both.
So what do you guys think? Would you be interested?
Will.
I'm new here, and I've come with some questions for you
. I'm new to RC rock crawling, though I've been a modeller all my life and as a dayjob I design plastic kits for a large wargames company. I'm also a keen Land Rover enthusiast and sooner or later the two passions were bound to intersect .A fellow Lany owning buddy and I were talking about how cool it would be to build scale Landy's that drove like the real thing and a few google searches later here I am. I'm especially impressed with the SCX10 chassis and I'd love to build one some time soon. Being a scale scratchbuilding nut I'd almost certainly scratchbuild a body and make tons of expedition accessories for it, I'm crazy like that. But I was wondering whether it would be worth developing a proper kit or two for sale. I've designed and sold my own scale kits in the past for other subjects and they've done really well (should never have sold up, silly me!), and I thought it would be cool to offer something new and wanted to see whether there would be any interest. I've seen the Defender bodies out there aswell as some of the Kamtec vac form bodies and they're nice but there's still alot of subject to cover.
I was thinking of starting with the Discovery 1, as it's a real classic and has a huge variety of accessories and such so would be an ideal subject. I'd do it for myself anyway but if there's interest I could put a kit out. The body would probably be either lightweight GRP or Vac Formed ABS/Polycarbonate. All the trim and small parts (wing mirros etc) would be cast in high impact polyurethane resin which is just about bullet proof. For extra saftey I'd probably secure everything with rare earth magnets so they could pop off in the event of a roll so as not to damage them.
Anyway I'm probably going into too much detail. Suffice it to say that I'm looking at developing a range if kits to gradually build a range on top of my job and hopefully it would get big enough to do full time. If it isn't this I will probably go back to scale resin kits, ships and aircraft mostly - but hey no reason why I couldn't do both.
So what do you guys think? Would you be interested?
Will
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