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Thursday <strong>May</strong> 5 <strong>2022</strong> 5<br />
Big rigs moving at the touch of a button<br />
• By John Cosgrove<br />
THEY HAVE all the bells and<br />
whistles and when viewed from a<br />
low angle, they really do look the<br />
part – right down to the lugs and<br />
chains and their sound effects,<br />
and yet they are only 1/14th the<br />
size of the real thing.<br />
But that doesn’t stop scores<br />
of keen radio-controlled model<br />
trucking enthusiasts from turning<br />
out on the fourth Sunday of each<br />
month to drive their pride and<br />
joy on the RC Haulers club site<br />
with their multi-use scale roads<br />
in the red zone on the corner of<br />
New Brighton Rd and Brooker<br />
Ave.<br />
The club has installed on-site<br />
200m of concrete roads, also built<br />
to scale, complete with road signs<br />
and garages to reverse into or<br />
store spare trailers in.<br />
RC Haulers club secretary<br />
and co-founder Kris Heslin, of<br />
Halswell, who doesn’t drive trucks<br />
professionally, said the club has a<br />
strong following both nationally<br />
and internationally.<br />
“The attraction is to be creative<br />
and share a passion for trucks, I<br />
can tinker around at home and<br />
then come out and have a bit of<br />
fun,” he said.<br />
He said a radio controlled<br />
model truck might cost over<br />
$1000 to outfit.<br />
“But 80 per cent of the fun<br />
was in making it, and customising<br />
(Clockwise from above), RC Haulers club members check connections on<br />
their 1/14th scale model trucks as they prepare for another day out. Club<br />
member loads up his scratch built trailer unit. Secretary and club co-founder<br />
Kris Heslin, of Halswell, guides his truck and trailer unit carrying a large<br />
working scale excavator, past another road train.<br />
it how you want it to look and<br />
then sharing it with everyone,” he<br />
said.<br />
On show were many<br />
semi-trailer trucks, light<br />
trucks, cranes, a working dirt<br />
processor, diggers and<br />
excavators.<br />
All were intricately detailed<br />
and created from model kit sets<br />
or scratch built to replicate the<br />
original long haulers and the<br />
loads they carry.<br />
There is even a M1 Abrams<br />
tank and a police car.<br />
While marveling at their<br />
detail, the many spectators on<br />
hand couldn’t help but notice<br />
the sheer size of these model<br />
trucks.<br />
They are big; with some road<br />
train outfits well over 1.5m long.<br />
All motor around the scale<br />
roads, crossing over a bridge or<br />
driving through the tunnel to<br />
deliver their loads into garages<br />
or one of two scale quarry sites at<br />
the venue, all while making the<br />
appropriate noises on cue.<br />
They start up, they idle, and<br />
then move away, forward under<br />
power or reverse complete with<br />
hazard lights and beepers.<br />
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