A REALLY small RC tractor-trailer
 

I posted this in General Discussion forum under a probably too cryptic name, and it's gotten NO views yet. So let's try this again with a better description, give it a look.

1/150 scale RC tractor-trailer

This is a very brief build video of a 1/150 scale RC tractor-trailer. I believe the tractor is controlled via Blue-tooth, and the trailer has an IR connection to the tractor. The title of the other thread was "Watch making at a whole 'nuther level", which really describes what this guy did. Not many people can/will build their own micro-controller board by mounting a surface mount chip upside down on a piece of perf-board. And he added functioning lights, at this scale. Just the wire size alone is mind-boggling to me.

I particularly liked the 180 degree turn over a lap-top touch-pad at the end of the video.

How about a standing Golf clap ovation for this guy? He deserves it, whoever he is.

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LOL... just saw it in General discussion... sometimes it takes a few hours....

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I later figured I may have made the title a little too cryptic. The General Discussion forum is for off topic stuff, watch making would definitely fit as OT.

Besides, the video is on topic for this forum. So I changed the title and duped it here. A moderator could blow the other thread away and it wouldn't hurt my feelings any.

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That's some great skill!

You probably won't be impressed now since these channels build HUGE trucks at 1/87 scale...

Oscar Tamayo
https://youtube.com/@okyoskartraincar

SamSang .. Das Mikro 87 kits
https://youtube.com/@MikroRC

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I have enough trouble packing all the electronics into a Tonka...LOL let alone 1/150 or even 1/87

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I'd been wanting to get into something like 1/87 TableTopTrialTrucking for years, but luckily nobody i know of in into it, and i'm not close enough to anybody with a nice train layout to go play at their house.

Probably would mostly turn into building terrain dioramas to take to 1/14 meets just to show off a truck while not driving the "big" vehicles.

China company making parts to play tiny trucks like the Germans.
https://www.dasmikro.com/

Any of the message boards i've found about HO-scale RC are in german, except TinyRC but i think it's been zombie dead for a long time. Probably either have to run through a site translator, or realize your deutch ist nicht sehr gut.

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I don't know about that, a working dump trailer in HO deserves some respect.

And kerst's 1/24 Liebherr impresses me, that thing's got a LOT goin' on in there.

Don

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They probably wouldn't want to take the chance of you damaging their "scenery". Now maybe if you built a working street sweeper... You could pass it off as site maintenance, maybe even get an exclusive contract.

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Haha,
I dunno, even the 1/16 scale Street Sweeper i found still doesn't have a ton of room for activities. Wouldn't want to try on that scale..

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If you want to read the German web sites you might want to get the latest version of the Firefox browser. They now have translation capabilities built in. If you open a page with a foreign language a special symbol will appear in the address bar. Click on it, confirm the language selections and presto, the entire page is translated. I've tried it out on a couple of sites and it seems to work pretty well.