You know what would be a great product: If RCP came out w/ a off road series of track in a tan color w/ table top jumps, and ruts built into it. It would be great to run off road 1/28 scale in the winter!
I'd like to see that. I know Imat has jumps and a bridge set. But RCP to my knowledge does not. RCP has the small parts set to add as obstacles, but not a track devoted to off road.
At one point they did have a textured surface but really a half attempt and don't even see that on their site anymore, only see animated images of jumps which again not very convincing.
Here's the deal...our local 10th scale facility has both on & off road tracks with onroad one being much much larger. Off road average weekend entries 100+ / onroad weekend entries maybe around 40.
Lesson here is a lot of folks want to off road so a combination of Z short course truck (kyosho already makes the 10th scale version) & a nice new RCP offroad track maybe the ticket to bring in boat loads of new blood to Z world . Hells yeah fully licensed SC truck bodies on RCP K should go nuts with the licensing & make all bodies including the Traxxas & RC10 sponsored trucks too!!
Wow cool, logically that should jolt things up for this scale as off road is mad popular right now. can you elaborate a little on the make of the trucks at this point?
Well, I hope that company is Kyosho, and its an updated Overland, or a special AWD w/ long travel shocks and a short course body. I like the 1/16 Slash and Mini revo but its too big and fast to run on smaller mini-z type tracks. Just not the same.
Well, I hope that company is Kyosho, and its an updated Overland, or a special AWD w/ long travel shocks and a short course body. I like the 1/16 Slash and Mini revo but its too big and fast to run on smaller mini-z type tracks. Just not the same.
Kyosho are you listening?
The micro-t would be a good guess.
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No, Kyosho SHOULD make a buggy based off the AWD, and later a short course truck! Or just upgrade the OL. Look at this video from Youtube. You see smiles on everyone's face!
i can't say enough about how much fun it was to race overlands. that being said, there was just never enough interest or participation to sustain it at any level.
despite the fun of the various micro-t's, i don't even see these being raced anywhere. it's just too much of a niche market. simply scaling down a sc truck won't make it successful. the scale in general has perception issues, namely being seen as toyish thus discredited and ignored by large scale driver.
for the record, i would love to get a mini-z scale sc truck.
i also used to have a good sizes rcp offroad track. it was actually quite fun and was sorry to see those tiles discontinued.
RCP Tracks is manufacturing the off road tracks for Losi. I started a thread on them in the tracks section. The tracks will be branded with the Losi name and distributed by Losi to it's dealers.
There are two tracks currently being made. One is a complete track with tiles, rails and jumps. The second is rails and jumps only.
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