Tamiya 1/18 R/C Dynahead 6x6 (G6-01TR)

[Axial Rose]

Saw this today and - in my opinion - it's really cool!

VIDEO --> LINK

Tamiya's website --> LINK


Tower Hobbies does not have them in stock - their arrival date indicates "order pending"

[lonleycreeper]

Hmmm six wheel independent, gear drive, portal axle's...

Only real question is it geared low enough to actually go crawling?

[Axial Rose]

Good question

I'm assuming the motor shaft pinion could be reduced - beyond that, who knows

I look at many Tamiya vehicles (like this one) as "advanced toys" rather than serious hobby-worthy machines (don't hate me for that - just an opinion - ha)

And - of course - Tamiya does produce some excellent vehicles . . . but their prices . . . dang - let's get a home equity loan so I can order one of those - not! (ha)

I do like the uniqueness of this machine - not like that's always a good thing - the AMC Pacer was quite unique (ha)

With oil-filled shocks, a decent motor, complete set of bearings - maybe it could be fun for simple terrain

[OSRC]

It's geared about 37:1 overall. Should be decent on a trail. Much better than the std. 6x6 chassis.

[Jay-Em]

Oooff.. Those wheels really make it an ugly bugger. A weird kind of plastic space-mobile only the Japanese could cough-up. I wonder how it looks with some proper 1.9’s or something like that. Even the monstertruck wheels and tires from the schoolbus-variation would look better.

The whole 6x6 line from Tamiya makes me scratch my head. Weird body-choice after weird body-choice. Certainly unique, I’ll give them that. But with their scale-prowess, couldn’t they produce a true scale trial truck? Say, A MAN Kat, or a Tatra.

Their truck-axles are already quite sturdy. Keep it at 1/14 scale to match it with the tons of accessories there are for 1/14 trucks..

Ah, well.. a guy can dream.

[hairyguy4]

I like it, well the body is a bit mank lol but workable, was very tempted to get one before but now they have portals I will definitely end up buying one