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Please try to keep this to display of courses, builds of courses, how-to tips, ideas, tricks, info & help.

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holy smokes Joe...Where do the 1:1 people walk?? looks amazing. i remember the outhouse build. haha

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Here is my playground I call it "Crawler ville"
http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/tools...18-course.html

I work at a mine, so all the cool rocks I want8)
I use alot of filler stuff because I don't have the dirt I want to get the height, like wood pallets, we cut down 6 trees a year, so I use the lower part of the tree, saw horse with plywood screwed down, each side with two diff angles, 50 gallon drums (I get these all day long free from work:ror:)
but mostly I use; Turf "grass""thumbsup" This stuff is the bomb!
It all started when I cut sections out of my my front lawn. I cut the first 10' roll and pushed it aside. Then thought, I could put chicken wire over it & concrete it:mrgreen: So after I ran out of lawn, I now go on our local F/S board
You would be surprised how many people call you, when you offer to pull up their lawn:shock:
- after I lay the sod down and put a few rolls on top
- I use alot of plastic trash bags, fill in the deep holes (so I don't use more concrete than needed)
- then I chicken wire it, I cut 30 or so bailing wire 6" long with a make shift hook on the end, to push down in the grass and the hook grabs the chicken wire. It keeps the chicken wire close to the grass that way.

Its mainly for my scalers and comp rigs....My 1/18 mini crawler can go through alot of batteries and still not hit every line:mrgreen:

I want to make one a little more scale, so you don't see the fence in the background or my barrels"thumbsup"

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Even Comp rig lines

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77 bags of concrete so far $319, and bringing home rocks, barrels and wood pallets since 2007

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Originally Posted by THX_138 (Post 3900882)

It's hard to not post more and more and more of such an awesome course"thumbsup"

Thanks Joe. I don't know where you found all those pics but you found some good ones. I enjoyed looking at some that I didn't pick out. Didn't take all of them either, some are Pardonmyn00b's.

P.S. If you look close in the shot looking down the bridge with no trucks on it, there is a lizzard that looks like a scale iguana. He's real & seems to have found a home. I've seen him several times on the bridge sense then.

Nice course Prusik! I respect you guys that haul rock. If mother nature hadn't of done me the way she did, I wouldn't be able to hold a candle to you guys.

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That's funny, I didn't see that lizard;-) and I was looking at that bridge real close, so I can build one....nowhere near this ones size but a small one would look cool8)
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You gota love this bridge, nice build"thumbsup"

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"thumbsup"I did see the lizard in the pic, but figured it was just another one of your cool little hidden details"thumbsup"

I am kind of surprised that more people have not added their courses, images or tips and tricks to this thread sooner. There seemed to be an awful lot of wants, desire and complaints for a thread like this, but now that there is a start, interest of posting them is minimal.

My guess is this is exactly what the reluctance of creating a whole new section was by the administrators. On the other hand, if after me creating and opening this sticky it had gotten overwhelming response, images and info.... Maybe it would have swayed the admins for a new section. At least that is what I was hoping for.

Things could change and this sticky could blow up with traffic, but as things are with the minimal posts and info...... It may simply remain a sticky forever:cry: if y'all want a new section just for this subject.... Let's get this 20 pages deep of awesome images and helpful information before anyone can blink and prove not only the want but the need for it.

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im kinda suprised as well..

im in the process of gearing back up for some scale structure builds here as colder weather approaches.

so ill be updating my park and hopefully the Superlift Rc park as well.

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There's a lot of nice work done here on your courses, thanks for sharing.

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There are a lot more threads out there scatterd about.

I know for a lot of people, myself included, you get an idea & go full steam ahead for a while & then get on something else. I went for a long time on the park & realized I hadn't built a truck in over a year. I really haven't built much new on the course since spring.

Also, it's not the sort of thing that is going to explode because it doesn't have the corporate backing & advertising that a new kit release will nore can you build something like this in your basement in a couple of evenings. But I think it's good for the hobby & I think a lot of people like checking it out. Also, I think the long term interest is there. people are still commenting on the thread I started in comments.

There is also cross over topics that aren't included in the sticky like garages or service stations that can be part of a large scale course but also can be just a cool hobby by itself & a place to take pics of vehicles.

And there is posting vs. viewing. The courses generate a lot of interest I think but a lot of people don't have the space or permanance of residence to build one. There are other forums that have dedicated scale course sections but none of them get the number of posts that a TF2 or SCX10 section do but it's a cool aspect of the hobby I think & that's enough for me to warrent it but... I'm not in charge... story of my life. But I have just appointed myself as "President in charge of everything" here in my little world. Maybe I'll make the lizard VP in charge of operations.

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thats just awesome!

...but you cant play with on it..

i saw a large scale tank video on youtube..the guy had a small town built
and him and a friend were blowing it up,making a war video..haha!

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Originally Posted by ROLANDROCKSHOP (Post 3916388)

thats just awesome!

...but you cant play with on it..

i saw a large scale tank video on youtube..the guy had a small town built
and him and a friend were blowing it up,making a war video..haha!

the second one has RC planes. 1st is 12 scale second is 10.

There is a really large 1/16 scale indoor tank battlefield near us. 6K sq. ft. indoor course modeled after WWII France.

He opened it up for RC trucks a couple of times:

R/C Crawler Parade Danville May 2010 - YouTube

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un believable....very nice...I especially like Roland's place
wish I had the space