This is pretty cool stuff. Some of it looks close to O gauge and some of it smaller.
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Wow. That's nice. Will definitely add to the fun on a layout
Do you have Any more information on this? Like manufacturer or where they sold or what they are called
That is fantastic
E-UNIT-79 posted:Do you have Any more information on this? Like manufacturer or where they sold or what they are called
Not yet. I just tripped over it on YouTube.
What am I doing with hundreds of the stupid trains that are stuck traveling on a train track?? 🤔
That's cool! That could be a whole new hobby!! I love it!!
Thanks for sharing. Those are really some neat die cast vehicles.
Neal Jeter
Our bunch had a modular show recently. On one HO module a friend was running his RC VW minibus. He would wait until different people showed up at the module and then nonchalantly crank it up and watch their reaction with an evil grin....
The Faller system has separate conversion chassis available https://www.rocousa.com/products/Faller_HO_Car_System
Train Nut posted:What am I doing with hundreds of the stupid trains that are stuck traveling on a train track?? 🤔
That's cool! That could be a whole new hobby!! I love it!!
You and me both. That is absolutely off the wall. I could get hooked on that in a New York minute.
Great find Chris.
Very interesting,thanks for posting the video.
Awesome!
Having been to Gullivers Gate in NYC, I've witnessed the Faller road system in action as the entire place is 1/87 scaled. The vehicles in the video appear to be around 1/87 to 1/64. There are some cheap micro R/C vehicles available - I'm curious if the guts could be adapted to convert some of our 1/43 & 1/50 vehicles. It would be interesting to apply some of these principles to animate rolling stock like dump cars.
But will those micro r/c systems have enough torque to move a die cast 1:43 car / truck? We have seen since the 1970's the ho motors don't have enough torque to move an o guage locomotive for long periods of time. ( Atlas/ AHM.
I see they are R/C controlled so they would take a lot of attention. I'd like to see a automated system like the huge layout in Germany where the vehicles are controlled without humans operating them. But cool!
Faller the European company makes a system similar to this video. This video could very well be a Faller. Click on the link below for more info.
Very, very cool. Looks like most are ho but imagine of they were O scale. If it works that well in Ho then O would be even more impressive.
Dave
Seacoast posted:Faller the European company makes a system similar to this video. This video could very well be a Faller. Click on the link below for more info.
The Faller system doesn’t appear to be anything like the vehicles in this video, which are operating by radio-control transmitters. You can see the people using the controllers in this video.
Faller’s vehicles involve automated paths determined by electromagnetic paths from a wiring system users install in the road, if I remember correctly.
Thank you for posting this! That was so cool to watch. It made my day!
John
HK-FunctionsModellbau, an Austrian company makes RC conversions of existing 1:50 scale models. Here are the links with reviews for a large excavator & a large mining shovel that they converted.
But they are not cheap. The base price of the die-cast Liebherr R9100, white excavator is like $240 + shipping + taxes. But I had read on the HK website that the base price of their RC conversions usually start around 2,400 Euros (~2,715 US Dollars) + cost for more features.
These are just my opinion,
Naveen Rajan
The original video is 1:87, says so in the comments on YouTube. 
Incredibly micro RC Trucks, Excavators and much more in 1/87 scale! Recorded at the fair Faszination Modellbau in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Check http://mikromodellbaufreunde.de. Enjoy watching!
Definetly a market for this if they were affordable. Or conversion kits for existing diecast would be cool. Kind of strange this isnt already a mainstream thing when you think about it.
Nick
Here's another youtube channel with some neat RC vehicles RC LIVE ACTION. I am not sure of the size of the vehicles, but they look larger than HO size. I believe the channel owner custom makes all of the vehicles shown here himself (herself).
Great video. The "light action" on many of the vehicles at this smaller scale was pretty impressive, too, and some of the VW's seemed to have sound. What a wide variety of vehicle types and years, as well.
Seems to me that I remember someone posting an O scale (?) video here quite a while back. It showed RC vehicles all working together on a single construction site.
This new post was much more relaxing to watch. :-)
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