JJRC Army Jeep

[kincer]

Found a new mini to check out, looks like it has the same axles as the Q61

US $46.99 | JJRC Q65 1:10 RC 2.4G 4WD convertible remote control light jeep four-wheel drive off-road Military Truck climbing car toys
https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/cVvE8DiY

[JatoTheRipper]

That one is cool! Looks kinda pricey for what it is though. I'll be interesting to see how they are when others get them.

[kincer]

Originally Posted by JatoTheRipper

That one is cool! Looks kinda pricey for what it is though. I'll be interesting to see how they are when others get them.

I'll wait for price drop, it's pretty much the same as the WPLs, I think it would be cool to do an old Willys Jeep build with it.

[Brake Weight]

https://youtu.be/aFzaU5zu0mw

[kincer]

Originally Posted by Brake Weight

https://youtu.be/aFzaU5zu0mw

Lol I just got done watching that and was gonna post it.

[JatoTheRipper]

Originally Posted by Brake Weight

https://youtu.be/aFzaU5zu0mw

Apparently the steering wheel doubles as a groin massager...

[Jay-Em]

Hmm.. bit of a shame JJrc didn’t use the true diffs, like in their MAN KAT1. Width is the same. ( You can see that their pumpkins are shorter than the MAN, though. Indicating a small spool) The MAN KAT1’s diffs can be filled with thick diff fluid, and it stays inside too. I use 50000cps. Biggest advantage is that the gears are a much larger pitch. Haven’t stripped one yet, while all plastic spools in the WPL’s have already died.

If those spools are plastic, they’ll grenade within 5 minutes of driving.

I must admit though, that the JJrc Jeep looks way better than the strange Ford Mutt like contraption of Subotech.

[Phmaximus]

Forum: Micro Scale Rigs
All Scale rigs 1/24 scale and smaller

[Brake Weight]

Originally Posted by Phmaximus

Forum: Micro Scale Rigs
All Scale rigs 1/24 scale and smaller

I had to double check myself. The size is misleading. It runs the “1/16” axles from these WPL sized vehicles but beings it is a small Willy’s style Jeep, it’s comparable as a 1/10.

[Phmaximus]

hehe im just stirring. im noticing the micro forums are been filled up with things that are clearly not micro..

[Brake Weight]

Originally Posted by Phmaximus

hehe im just stirring. im noticing the micro forums are been filled up with things that are clearly not micro..

I was Leary of posting them when they started hitting the market. They don’t really belong to any particular category though. Since the micro scene was dying off I figured why not give this section some more traffic.

Love your Orlandoo work, BTW.

[kincer]

Yeah these aren't really micro but there really isn't another section that fits. They definitely don't go in the 1/10 section. It's much smaller than my Marlin.

[Brake Weight]

Good side by side pic.

[Jay-Em]

Well.. It's either just catering to the affronted purists, or create yet another forum for the 1/16 1/18 and smaller trailers/crawlers. I prefer to keep it in the "Anything smaller than 1/10" That the micro forum has grown into. Or rather the "anything using smaller scale parts than 1/10th scale"

[kincer]

I agree, just call it small crawler lol


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[Phmaximus]

im happy for that too... I wonder if we can get Admin to modify the forums to cater for the market and popularity changes?

[Jay-Em]

Well. I finally got my Jjrc Willy’s.

I went for the RTR, because BG had the one with the wild camouflage discounted.

First impressions:

Bloody good looking afa scale details go. I’m impressed. They even went as far as moulding the petrol tank under the drivers’ seat.
All detail bits&bobs are snapped-in the body. Nice when repainting and weathering everything.

Tires are soft-ish. Better than they look.

Tech.. ehh.. well.. At first I was impressed that everything was fully proportional. Note that I said “was”.. It ran for about 2 meters, hit a chair.. and all electronics died without being revivable. That’s quite the record for me..

No prob. I was going to throw the electronics in the bin anyways.

There is something about the electronics, though, that makes me think there will be a ‘full feature” version coming. The body has a recess for a small speaker, and the lighting is on a single, multi strand, boom, with the small red LED’s and the big white ones on their own, separate plugs. Makes for neat wiring with a lighting-module. Stock every light is on, looking weird, with large white LEDs full ablaze front and back, and the red ones on too.

The drive train is standard WPL fare with spools, be it that the spools and pinions are a tad bigger than usual. The pumpkins show that too. I gather they know the nylon pinions tend to grenade within the first 10 minutes and beefed them up a bit.

I took the axles off anyways, and replaced them with WPL axles with metal innards. The housings fit directly on the ‘suspension’ . Suspension that’s hard as a rock. Making the Jeep go bouncybouncy pretty seriously.

That’s it for now. Body is drying, waiting for weathering, re-wiring of the LED’s and a driver figure.

All in all not a bad offering for the $35.- incl shipping I paid. And it’s a Willy. Who doesn’t love a good old Willy’s Jeep??