Gen8 Scout - true 1/10?

[No2Mud]

I know that's the category... but how close to 1/10 is the truck actually? If it's close, wouldn't 1.155 wheels be a more true-to-scale wheel? Someone school the newbie!

Thanks.

[Wazukie]

The wheel base of a 70's style Scout II was 100", so not not exact scale. More like 1/8 scale.

[milesFJ]

i would agree with the above about it being too big for 1/10 scale. i have hpi venture fj cruiser that is smaller than it by a decent amount, and in real like the fj cruiser is bigger by a tiny bit

[No2Mud]

Well by that math, the 1.9 wheels are pretty damn close to scale then.

Thanks!

[ferp420]

the wheel base puts it at 1/8th scale but the width is more like 1/7 scale the body is way too wide but it fits the chassie and axles so
anyway i got over it rather quickly

[AK KRAWLER]

She’s definitely a big bodied ol’girl

Left to Right:
Gmade BOM Body on an SCX10
Gen8 AXE Body on an E-Maxx
F150 Body on the Gen8 AXE

[Coopz]

Always find manufacturing scales weird. My Hobao short course truck is 56cm long and drawfs my Losi 22 buggy next to it, it's also much larger than my 1/8 nitro buggy yet it's still classed as a 1/10th scale.

[Myndefuk]

The Gen8 actually LOOKS scale whereas many of the popular 1/10th scale trucks don't. When they try to put a vehicle body with a longer wheelbase on the standard 12.3" chassis it looks silly because they have to shrink the whole body to look proportional. This, in turn, makes the body too small for the chassis and looks silly. Compare the Ascender Blazer or Bronco to the newer Suburban. The first two look right, the Suburban looks all kinds of goofy. Point is, I understand that the 12.3" is the "standard" wheelbase so that different bodies can be swapped out, but it really doesn't work that well in many instances and you end up with short wheelbase rigs that are larger than 1/10th and long wheelbase rigs that look cartoonish.