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