Ford F-350 R/C Rescue Truck

[Robbo]

Well its been a while since I've posted to this forum. I am amazed at the diversity and expertise of the various contributors to this forum, especially their skills in making the model looking like the original with brilliant paint work. I must admit my paint work is not as good, but at 72 years of age, I don't think it is going to improve.

I do not have air-brush equipment, but use spray can enamels and various art paint brushes for some jobs. I use genuine reflective self adhesive plastic sheeting offcuts for the livery.

I purchased the F-350 as a radio control toy for Aust $37.50. It had red LEDs for head and tail lights, yellow turn indicator LEDs above each front wheel, a speaker in the rear deck ( which played tinny music) and was surrounded by four flashing colored LEDs. The head and tail LEDs also flashed when the vehicle was in motion. A tinny horn sound was also featured as well as the doors being remotely opened.

I stripped the F-350 completely and diced the music/horn/flashing light circuit board and sorted out the 27mHz receiver channels to control the various functions in the rescue truck. Forward, reverse, left and right turn functions were kept as is.

Additional holes were drilled in the front and rear head and tail light assemblies to accommodate small LEDs for turn indicators and stop lights.

The link for web site of the model, with pictures; showing painting, construction, reflective plastic livery panels and two videos is:

http://s254.photobucket.com/albums/hh108/Robbo2008_70/F350%20Rescue%20Truck/

Pictures are best viewed as a slide show, to display the descriptive text.

I trust that some of you will find this of interest.

Cheers from Robbo

Edited January 23, 2011 by Robbo

[trogdor]

Your pictures are nice and that video is awesome

[RodneyBad]

Looks like a Rats nest of a wiring nitemare.

Looks perty cool and ya get to play with it too.

Nice work.