Funtek CR12 body tweaks and first run
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- The Team Associated CR12 is hard to buy in Europe, but the Funtek CR12 is an almost identical vehicle, and the Funtek CR12 "Outlaw" comes with a very attractive Dodge Power Wagon-style lexan body.
In this video I give the body some lights, clear windows and a driver before testing the truck on a trail and on the rocks
I really like the look you made for this CR12, great job. The crawling test is really good, great this CR12 👍
Happy New Year, Pascal!
It's really good - and it's a French product! Funtek is a French company. Admittedly, the design is from the US.
I think the light weight of the Lexan body helps a lot with crawling. And it does have very good tyres.
@@Del350K4 Thanks Del, Happy New Year for you too and your family. I didn't know it was a French brand. Yes the lightness of the body helps this rc a lot, but it is still a good rc overall and I find it really nice 😉👍
Hi Del, thanks for this great video, I really enjoyed it mate! The body tweaks worked out very well indeed, it looks so much better than stock with the usual Del creativity added. And the truck sure performed like a champ on that awesome terrain, what a gorgeous location (not to mention the glorious sunshine!)
Glad you mentioned the paint on the rock, I was watching, at first thinking "Those are some strange colourations in the rocks!" Now it makes sense! Yep, it wikk be cool to see you revisit with the 1/10 Unimog! Happy New Year my friend, all the best for 2022! 😁👋👊👍
, HI, Mark - thank you for asking the trouble to leave such a lovely comment when you're feeling so rotten.
The truck does look so much better with clear windows and lights. I forgot to show that I glazed the headlight lenses and rusted the body, but hopefully these things became apparent during the run vid.
The location is an old favorite of mine for crawling. 30 years ago my wife, and I used to come trials riding here. Nowadays we just pull up at the bottom of the hill and walk up with an RC car. I was lucky with the weather - I recorded the proper crawling the day after the trail run, in which my wife was driving the truck while I tracked it with the camera.
It's been miserable weather every day since then!
Very nice! Your bodywork is excellent with creative problem solvings! Very nice location for crawling too! Happy new year!🧨🎆🎇
And to you, my friend. Yes, it's a great crawling place. I hadn't been for a couple of years and very much enjoyed going back, especially with such a competent truck!
Well the CR12 did live up to the demonstration. It performed excellently. Some really good terrain & scenery for the run too. Good tip for Ricks head as well. I will have to raid the box to see if I have a spare head..! Great video of this great performer! 👍
Thank you!
I really wanted to make a Steve-from-Mid-Wales-style cinematic tour de force, but I can't work out quite what it is he does that makes his videos so very very good.
You do it too, something indefinable.
Well, doubtless it's definable by people who know more about videography than I do.
I thought it might be the excellent tracking shots that you get so I got my wife to drive the CR12 while I plodded gamely alongside with the camera taped to a broomstick. I also thought it might be something to do with positioning the camera a long way from the truck and zooming it right in, then driving towards it, but, I'd forgotten my glasses and couldn't see the camera screen, so the truck kept straying out of shot.
Eventually I just accepted my limitations and did my best!
@@Del350K4 It's an excellent portrayal I would say. The only tips I would give anyone & not specific to your videos. Keep the camera low to give the impression of height for the truck. I can't see my screen, but have to hope for the best & edit accordingly. Up close for smaller scale. A bit further away for 1/10 scale. Also slow the video down in editing. The required speed varies depending on the effect your going for. But I'll go down to half speed if necessary. Having plenty of frames per second on the video helps it not appear too jerky when slower. The slower speed helps to emphasise the suspension movements & body roll. I suspect Steve from Mid-Wales uses similar principles.
@@RC3DPrintAdventure Yes, of course - as the frequency of a pendulum's oscillations varies with its length, a 1:12 scale car will rock quickly, so I should record at 45-60 fps and then slow it down...
@@Del350K4 Exactly. I usually film in 60fps. It doesn't become that noticeable until I get down to 0.25 speed. (I believe). 😁😁
@@RC3DPrintAdventure shall press "menu" on my camera and peer at the screen while scrolling through the settings. I remember that it can do 60 fps.
Great job with headlights and tail lights the vehicle looks good, happy new year my friend
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Hello Carlos - happy New Year!.
This truck is very good. When I got home I found that I had lost the driver, probably when the truck rolled. I'd like to go back and try to find him.
@@Del350K4 Too bad it was a good figure hope you find it
@@carloshnunez Thanks - I'll go and look as soon as I can - probably Sunday.
This one only just popped up despite it being from four days ago... RUclips. 🤷🏼♂️ Anyway, what a brilliant idea for the headlights! I'll have to remember that. Clumsy Rick looks good in there too. 😎👍
Hello, Steve!
Rob from Rob Brennan RC wasn't notified, about this video at all, despite being subscribed. He just happened to pop in to my channel and found it.
I'd been using these cut-off CO2 cartridges to make light buckets for some time before it dawned upon me that I could use them to make external headlamps.
I had bought a 1:12 scale M35 to use the cab in the construction of a rat rod, and was moved to fit a single roof-mounted spotlamp. Sadly the combination of very fast RC car, and me as, a driver led to it cartwheeling at speed along a disused road, so my spotlight lasted around three minutes, but the idea remained.
This thing crawls rather well! I'm quite smitten, despite my avowed dislike of Lexan. I had bought an FJ40 hard body for it, but I know it would raise the centre of gravity and compromise the truck's crawling prowess so for the moment I'm sticking with the Power Wagon body.
Thanks for watching!
@@Del350K4 Somebody was saying the other day that subscribing doesn't do much anymore, and you have to have notifications on to see every video... if it's true, frankly that's just annoying. It's hardly intuitive and now we have to ask people to click two things instead of one (not that I ever ask, but it's still required of them). Anyway! The Power Wagon looks cool, but the eventual FJ40 body will be really interesting to see on it too. All the best, and happy new year if I haven't said that already! 😎👍
Well Del this seems like an exceptional and capable crawler chassis, in that it traversed some very tricky terrain with ease. You had a great location too with beautiful scenery at the top of the red rocks overlooking the coastline. I loved the lighting tips - pill container, but especially the Co2 cannister for the front lights. A model company would charge 20 quid for those. Loved the 1911 too..🤩....cool to see that. Wishing you a Happy New Year and all the best for 2022...👍🏻🙂. Forgot it add - shame that the previously marked out crawler course was more suited to 1/10th.
Hello mate - yes, it is the best-performing scale crawler I own. None of the WPL/MN Models hard-bodied trucks can do what it can do. In fairness to them, they have a higher C of G and realistically-sized wheels; they're trail trucks, and very good ones. This really is a true crawler.
The terrain's lovely, isn't it? I went there on a motorbike with the truck, TX, and camera kit in a shopping bag, then hiked up a hillside.
C02 cartridges make great 1:12 headlights, not just when standing proud as they do on this body, but recessed within a body as light buckets. I'm surprised no-one else uses them, at least not on RUclips.
I've not seen the pill-packet thing done elsewhere, either.
My 1911 is a source of much joy to me. It came with plastic grips; I fitted the walnut ones. I had to scallop out the inside of one rather a lot with a Dremel. This weakened it and it eventually broke, so I fixed it with a bamboo lolly stick stained to match the walnut. I like it - it gives the gun a sense of a long life lived and action seen!
I hope to take my yet-to-be-built 1:10 scale CC-02 Unimog back to this spot one day, and try to get around that painted track. Whoever designed the track pulled no punches - it's very challenging.
@@Del350K4 oh, I didnt realise that the grips on the 1911 were wooden, that's very nice, the ones on both of mine are brown plastic but designed to look like wood. A very classy touch having the real mcCoy.
@@thecontractor365 Are your 1911s Umarex/Cybergun?
The grips on my Mauser C96 were plastic, and it's wearing home-made ones. The ggrips on my Luger were black plastic, and I bought walnut ones or a Luger but found them impossible to convert to a CO2 gun. So I just painted them brown and then weathered them as best I could with a watery black acrylic wash.
@@Del350K4 Yes, I have a Umarex 1911, the other one just says, "distributed by SMK" on the box. Ah the Mauser - I knew I recognised that gun. It looks awesome with the wood grips.
@@thecontractor365 My 1911 is a springer airsoft with a metal slide. After saving up, I bought a 4.5mm BB blowback Umarex online. When it arrived, I realised they'd sent me an airsoft gun instead. They wouldn't do a straight swap; I had to return the gun, get a refund, and re-order. By the time I did all that, I needed the money to pay a bill and the opportunity was lost.
The Luger is an Umarex Legend BB gun. I love it, but, being non blowback, it has a heavy double action trigger pull. It's impressively accurate, though.
The Mauser was a bit of creative fun. I bought it for about a tenner in bright primary colors, then painted it and made it look metallic by rubbing it with graphite powder before carving the grip panels for it.
The young Winston Churchill had one, and used it to good effect when he was still a soldier. He had some cool adventures as a young man.
Great video pal, not many of them out there 👍
@@JRMOBILE I'm surprised that this truck isn't more popular. I still drive it more often than my CC-02.
So nice work My dear
love that truck, body is cool👌subscribed 👍 👍
Thank you - I need to get better at crawling : )
looked good to me bro😀👍👍
@@rcplaytime : )
I have it now , and really it's a really good crawler ! Because for this little motor It's Incredible and Amazing ! I Love it ! And battery When you buy it , The batterie can be empty i think 5Km on flat terrain and if you use it in forest i think he can hold 1 hours it's really good crawler , sorry for bad english
No, your English is fine : )
I will be taking my CR12 out today!
@@Del350K4 thanks , i wanted too to go out with my CR12 but i dont have any Time because i have a lot of work.
@@DGM25Hi pal, a question if you don't mind, did you have any issues with the diffs?
I just bought it last night in a really low price but and after a few minutes I realised that it has plastic gears inside the diffs 😅.
So I wonder if the are durable or easy to strip, thank you for your time 🙂
@@JRMOBILE Yeah my Gearbox is Broken Now
@@JRMOBILE And i dont know how to fix it
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What is the diameter of the tires on this model?
You mean the outer diameter?
@@Del350K4
Yes.
@@skorpionman67 Sorry - the truck is in a room in which my wife's sleeping, so I can't tell you till tomorrow.
@@Del350K4
OK.
@@skorpionman67 Hello again!
The tyres measure 3 7/16", or 85mm. I wish they were a little narrower, and the rims looked more like stock steel truck wheels. The stock tyres work well, though.
Nice bud how is that truck? I've been looking at them