Starting out with a 1/16 WPL 4WD C24 Toyota

[nev]

Yeah gidday guys! A complete noob to rcc but love the beaut mechanicals & upgrades & the miraculous obstacles these little machines can get past or over. I haven't even bought my vehicle yet cos I'm still looking at all the upgrades to get. My shopping list is up over $300 but nearly all the main mechanics will be metal, including the servo. I'm kinda splurging a bit, but just hoping that 'metal is better!' I hope so! I'm about to find out. It's gonna be be so cool I can't wait! I'm gettin a coupla sets of anodised aluminium mag wheels for it, a metal front bumper, roof rack, led lights all over the place. I'll give it some primer & hit it with some metallic blue paint I recon, as the plain plastic colour is less than impressive. I think I'll load it up with a bit of stowage, & add a driver figure. I normally build WWII tanks n stuff, so yeah, that's why the extra details I'm gonna add to it. But at the moment I'm havin great fun just lookin & buyin the bits! Hehe! It has a '370' motor which may not be enough with all the metal & stowage & a perhaps overweight driver I dunno. Maybe there's an even better motor out there than the 370? Brushless neodymium or sumthin? That's where I'm up to. So so far behind even some of you guys posting here as noobs! Geez! Some of it is like a foreign language but hey I'm keen to learn & try & join in some discussion. So I guess I'll post again when I've got the beast home then. Oh unless someone replies to this post! Yeah that'd be good. Is WPL a good brand?

 

[Natedog]

Welcome to RCC, read the stickies and peeps build threads and start yours when your truck arrives! Sounds like you've already got the modelling background with your tanks n stuff! Are your tanks static or RC, pictures?

 

[crawlhog]

the 370 motor is plenty, all my WPLs are fully upgraded to metal and run great. Even both of my 6x6

 

[nev]

Hi Crawlhog! Mate I couldn't resist! - I bought upgraded uprated metal motor/gearbox/transaxle for mine. It looked just too good! More than triple the weight of the original, & with those beaut little bearings & gold anodised transfer case! Only trouble with it will be the exposed commutator brushes which are gonna accumulate rubbish, & water should it indulge in river crossings! I've got a remedy for that in mind that I will expand on when I start a build log. As you say, the '370' is probly fine, but I just like fiddling. I'll keep it as a spare.