Tamiya R470 Scania Highline 1/14th scale 3 speed lorry

[53HRA]

Here is the latest toy to the fleet - a Tamiya R470 Scania Highline lorry

 

After bidding and loosing on the auction on 1980's Tamiya Hilux (which went for ridiculous money) ,i decided to settle with another 3 speed lorry. This was purchased off eBay and luckily the seller had been into RC/Modelling for the last 25 years - Safe to say it's been built and painted to perfection.

 

Having exchanged a few emails which rejected my offer(s),we finally manage to agree a price and i went to collect it a couple of days ago. 

 

This is how she arrived:

(The odd looking mark on the glass is the RX wire inside the cab and thankfully not a crack lol)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Currently the model has been sprayed to the original box-art finish and installed are the following electrics:

• Hobbyking gearbox servo
• AE steering servo
• Hobbyking 3ch receiver
• Stock TEU101BK Tamiya ESC 
• Stock 540 27t motor

My plans now are to carry out the follow work to the truck:

• Install a 50-70t crawler motor for extra torque
• Upgrade the gearbox servo to a stronger metal geared Savox
• Install 4-6ch radio gear along with a shift gate for smooth gear change
• Remove the cab and carry out more detailed painting to the interior
• Install cab lights along with cab accessories such as curtains,bottles etc
• Install front and rear lights
• Fit RC4WD scale hubs to the wheels all round
• Fit a pair of scale aerials to the top area of the cab
• Remove the black fuel tank and spray silver just like it would be on the 1:1 version
• Install a fire extinguisher to the back of the cab
• Paint/decal the lettering on the tyres
• Possible re-do the front grill mesh/ paint the Scania logo chrome
• Paint and install a driving figure
• Maybe consider a Tamiya trailer at a later date

The majority of the works are in fact cosmetic, but it is the little detail i am after...

 

Suggestions and comments are more then welcome 

 

Manny 

[Thunderwolf]

that link on the 5th wheel would both me, i'd have to find away of hiding it.

[jordan_bench10]

looks like you need to become a member of the jb chrome grille crew only 5 in the world so far

looks pretty nice though fella im off to pick my dx7 up tomorrow to use this and hopefully use when my quad gets built lol

[mick e]

Nice looking truck.

[Rover Man]

T cab it 

[atom3624]

Lovely job!!

 

Al.

[ibo]

Very nice