Western News: May 05, 2022

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Thursday May 5 2022
Try your hand at driving
• From page 5
But unlike the high speeds of
radio controlled racing cars and
off-road racers, these replica
trucks and excavators also move
at the correct scale speed – about
walking pace.
Members said they must plan
their journeys because they do
strain under the loads carrying
tanks, excavators, other trucks
and cars, or even scale houses on
their trailers.
Heslin said some of the loads
can weight up to 14kg.
“They do get loaded down and
you certainly feel the weight, especially
when they go up over the
bridge and don’t quite make it.
“Trying to make it more realistic
is all part of the fun,” he said.
Enthusiast John Sanders built
a copy of his own house to be
transported by his truck and trailer
unit, just because he wanted to
make something different.
Heslin said there was no age
limit, the club welcomes people
to go along and try their hand at
driving one of the trucks..
• See the video on
starnews.co.nz
(Clockwise from left), Brendon McFarlane (left)
watches as Jace Kemp, 8, operates a digger model
while the pair clear rubble at the RC Haulers site.
A scale model M1 Abrams tank. One of the many
garages on the site, and the club’ has installed
200m of concrete scale roads which are also
used by the public to help teach children to ride
bicycles and scooters.
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