RC Landspeeder

[zacic]

The idea for this came to me a bit ago, Im not sure if anyone else has ever done something this, but I just had to make it. I found an RC car that was a good side, stripped the shell and other non essential parts and started the the main shell.

 

[MooCriket]

That's a great idea. I can recall seeing one a long time ago, not sure if it was here or on another forum. I would have loved to have a remote one back in the day. Looking forward to seeing this one completed

 

[zacic]

thanks, putting a few good hours into it today, try to get the sides done. I was wondering if anyone has some really good shots of the interior of the speeder, I have the general layout but not anything really accurate

 

[asemblyrequired]

I enjoyed this one back in the day. Still have mine together.

-James

 

[3d-builder]

:thumbsup Oh this is going to be cool!

 

[zacic]

I guess you learn something new every day :lol, the filler I used to seal the gaps ate away the foam core I used as the base. The second attempt is much cleaner and fits nicer.

 

[zacic]

more progress

 

[DaddyfromNaboo]

I think you didn´t calculate room for the front wheel´s left-right movement? I am sure that they will bump against the styrene when you try to steer the car/speeder.
At least thats how it looks in the pics of the test fit.

Michael

 

[zacic]

actually thats just a trick of the camera, Ive always been concerned with its ability to steer correctly, the wheels have enough clearance to go fully left/right.

 

[mccordia]

Wouldnt it look nicer if you oversized the speeder relative to the RC base, so the wheels (like the toy posted above) stay under/inside the basic hull and dont really show?

 

[DrMcoy]

if you did that (make chassis larger so wheels are totally beneath, you could do what they did on actual speeder in movie and put a piece of mirror-finish mylar at an angle on bottom to reflect the ground and provide illusion that the speeder was indeed "floating"

regardless, very cool project -- thanks for posting pics.

 

[zacic]

DrMcoy has it right, thats the general plan with the mirrors, or in my case I figure Ill use tin foal with a backing.