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01-02-2012, 08:04 PM | #1 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Reno
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| Childhood interest resparked?
Ok. So this is a very nerdy post. I felt the general scale talk would be the best area to discuss this. I was just watching my son play with his might world camping action figures and it reminded me how I used to play make believe when I was a child. I played with legos a lot. I used to pretend that I had a shrink ray that would shrink me down to lego man size. So to prepare for the shrinking I would build houses, trucks, boats, etc that I would be able to use for survival when I was shrunk. I would go into detail about needing it to be secure from predators, because after all at 1 inch tall you are no longer the top of the food chain. Means of keeping warm at night in a lego house. And stuff such as that. So this brings me to my reason for posting here. I was considering building a vehicle for ''1/10 scale man" to relive these childhood memories. Also maybe get my boy using his imagination to the extent I did. This would not be a scale build like what is being built in this scaled section, but it would definitely be a scale build. A real 7'' man would need things like a steering wheel, doors, sleeping bags, cooler, winch... But also need things like predator proofing, water proof cab, storage for hunting tools. What does everyone think? |
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01-02-2012, 08:25 PM | #2 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: olympia
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| Re: Childhood interest resparked?
sounds like a new "honey i shrunk the kids" sequel...... could be a cool build tho... |
01-02-2012, 08:33 PM | #3 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Abbotsford BC
Posts: 522
| Re: Childhood interest resparked?
I also like haveing a "back story" for my builds, and will spend a lot of time in lineups or when I can't sleep dreaming up scenarios. For example my current buld is a military willys: and here's the back-story: |
01-02-2012, 08:35 PM | #4 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Back from vacation!!!
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| Re: Childhood interest resparked?
It's really cool passing the hobby down. I've had a transmitter of some sort in my house since 1978, probably before a lot of people here were even born. The word "Scale" has a lot of different meanings to everyone. It's really what's in your mind that makes it Scale........Build-On!!!!
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01-02-2012, 09:18 PM | #5 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Reno
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| Re: Childhood interest resparked?
Honey I shrunk the kids I'm sure is a very big inspiration to these child hood fantasys. That movie came out when I was six. Also books like Indian in the cuboard, and some book with a mini knight and his castle. Agreed. Scale can mean lots of stuff. And mud puppy, back stories are always important when consuming yourself in a project. Sad thing is video games make the back stories for our youth now days. So my main idea was to build a honcho being that they are the correct size for a 7" person and boxing it the cab so that would protected from the elements. How do you think a lexan body would hold up in against a dog attack? Do you think that bigger animals, such as bears or wolfs, would leave a rc vehicle alone with a mouse size creature inside of it? |
01-03-2012, 07:41 AM | #6 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Abbotsford BC
Posts: 522
| Re: Childhood interest resparked?
no RC body will survive anything larger than a chiwawa. You can get sound modules for horns, machine guns, engines, and so on that could be used to scare animals. I'd bet HeyOK's switching circuit for lights could double as a switch for the sound module. |
01-03-2012, 10:21 AM | #7 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Naples
Posts: 609
| Re: Childhood interest resparked?
Hey! Toyotatrucks83, here is a little inspiration for you, Uncle Fred's TLT axle shop truck I intend getting back to completing this project, and add some more stuff to the shop, it all started as an idea for just a photo backdrop, and I got a little carried away. |
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