No Stock R/C Kenworths

[Cossett]

Your not going to have the room in the daycab for the mfu / interior and the other electrics, battery and why most daycabs have the windows blacked out so they can fit everything in the daycab with no interior
Also others fit smaller light kits / esc / battery / receiver so they can keep the interior and along with fitting the battery between the chassis rails
Have a good read though the daycab builds in the different forums and Show us your daycabs and you will see what your asking wont fit into a daycab
And having a painted cab is trouble with out capital T till you can be sure every thing fits proper,
Once you happy with how every thing fits nicely take the cab and mixer barrel to a local spray painter and get then to paint it for you and get a small tin of the color the cab is painted so you can touch up any part it they get scratched

[JonBailey]

Originally Posted by Cossett

Your not going to have the room in the daycab for the mfu / interior and the other electrics, battery and why most daycabs have the windows blacked out so they can fit everything in the daycab with no interior
Also others fit smaller light kits / esc / battery / receiver so they can keep the interior and along with fitting the battery between the chassis rails
Have a good read though the daycab builds in the different forums and Show us your daycabs and you will see what your asking wont fit into a daycab
And having a painted cab is trouble with out capital T till you can be sure every thing fits proper,
Once you happy with how every thing fits nicely take the cab and mixer barrel to a local spray painter and get then to paint it for you and get a small tin of the color the cab is painted so you can touch up any part it they get scratched

Perhaps you have a point here. This guy has a day cab interior but no diesel engine sounds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9Wr7cnqn6A

Are working vehicular lights even possible on this Mack mixer?


This Ford AeroMax mixer has a "small" sleeper cab and seems to also have the trucks sounds and a cab interior.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSuBxW3KY3Y


Wow, there are more compromises in this hobby than I ever thought before.

What components go under the hood?

[JonBailey]

Originally Posted by JonBailey

Perhaps you have a point here. This guy has a day cab interior but no diesel engine sounds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9Wr7cnqn6A

Are working vehicular lights even possible on this Mack mixer?


This Ford AeroMax mixer has a "small" sleeper cab and seems to also have the trucks sounds and a cab interior.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSuBxW3KY3Y


Wow, there are more compromises in this hobby than I ever thought before.

What components go under the hood?

Ok, Cosset, let's say I do have to stuff a MFCU into my day cab,
how about neatly pasting or framing pictures of a cab interior with driver right behind the window/windshield glass instead of blacking out the windows? I probably would not even need functional opening cab doors either unless they would be handy to access electronics inside the cab.

Probably the next advancement in RC electronics will be to scale down all the R/C "guts" super tiny/ultra compact to the delight of the dyed-in-the-wool true-scale fanatic.

Houston, we have a "space" problem!!

In theory, however, having simple interior images (maybe holograms???) behind the window glass should still be cheaper than having a detailed painted 3D cab dash, steering wheel, driver figure, gear shift lever, brake pedal, clutch, gas pedal, fan, CB radio and seats.

On scale model passenger cars for trains, simple silhouettes of people are common in windows.

[JonBailey]

Originally Posted by JonBailey

Ok, Cosset, let's say I do have to stuff a MFCU into my day cab,
how about neatly pasting or framing pictures of a cab interior with driver right behind the window/windshield glass instead of blacking out the windows? I probably would not even need functional opening cab doors either unless they would be handy to access electronics inside the cab.

Probably the next advancement in RC electronics will be to scale down all the R/C "guts" super tiny/ultra compact to the delight of the dyed-in-the-wool true-scale fanatic.

Houston, we have a "space" problem!!

In theory, however, having simple interior images (maybe holograms???) behind the window glass should still be cheaper than having a detailed painted 3D cab dash, steering wheel, driver figure, gear shift lever, brake pedal, clutch, gas pedal, fan, CB radio and seats.

On scale model passenger cars for trains, simple silhouettes of people are common in windows.

How about custom decals of cab interiors and people figures that could be inserted and applied right behind the window panes?

[schmoking]

my advice would be to forget about project management and bottom line cost.. its going to be expensive!!!
start out with the w900 parts from truescale and a king/grand hauler and go from there. the way u want to do things may change along the way.
there are other soundunits than the mfu.. many people (in europe anyways) will swap this out for better alternatives like beier or servonaut.