OFF ROAD RUST BUCKET

BROC'S RC & SCALE RAT TEAM UP TO BUILD A TOYOTA FJ45 LAND CRUISER RC REPLICA

MARTIN ANDERS

SCALER SCALER IS A SPECIAL SECTION IN OVR THAT IS DEDICATED TO SCALED-DOWN, RADIO-CONTROLLED (RC) OVERLANDERS AND OFF-ROAD VEHICLES. Is that a rusted-out FJ45 out on the trail? Close, but not quite. It's a scaleddown RC off-roader whose body is made of a thin sheet of plastic. It looks amazing, doesn't it? Not only does this scale model look great, but it can crawl much like your full-size rig can. Based on a Vanquish VS4-10 Phoenix kit, this four-wheel-drive, electric-powered RC crawler is fitted with a Vanquish VFD Twin Transmission and is capable of selectable overdrive and rear dig functions. What that means is that when you're on the trail or back at basecamp, you're in for some serious scale crawling. This FJ45 project was created through a collaboration of…

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