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.. :lmao:
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??
