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Chariot lovers, you have to see this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ikJjN96uAI&feature=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ikJjN96uAI&feature=youtu.be
Crazy Beautiful Chariot Model
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Fantastic! At first I thought it was a motorized Moebius kit, but then read the description.
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Love it!
Someone needs to complain to the president of the World Federation Of Modelers that's this just isn't fair! Here some of us just strugle to build a kit out of the box!!!! 
And here he is scratching something like that? Just ain't fair I'm tellin' ya, just ain't fair.
Ho, hum, to be able to do something like that!
Well, back to my simple little kit....
My humbled hat is off to him.
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And here he is scratching something like that? Just ain't fair I'm tellin' ya, just ain't fair. Ho, hum, to be able to do something like that!
Well, back to my simple little kit....
My humbled hat is off to him.
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it is beautiful....but what really impressed me was that he actually "played" with it....now that rox!!!!!!!!!...yeah trailer queens are pretty to look at, but i'd rather cruise that pink caddy '59!...so bravo to the charioteer:thumbsup:
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And he'll have fun fun fun 'till his Daddy takes his Chariot away...
Fantastic toy!!!
Fantastic toy!!!
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Sure hope we might see this at WonderFest! Great grin-inducing job!
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That's 1/6 scale, yes? Very cool! I couldn't help but smile with it running around with the appropriate soundtrack playing. If the playback could've been slowed a bit, it would've really been all the more exciting.
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I loved the video. The soundtrack was so appropiate!
And of course what a fantastic job on the chariot.
And of course what a fantastic job on the chariot.
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Thanks for all the nice comments, and to sgthawker, I am going to send my son out to work on the scale of the grass. LOL I thought I'd upload some construction photos for those interested in how it was built. I got the idea years ago from Steve Dixon who used a Kyosho Blizzard snow vehicle to build a similar chariot, and after years of the Kyosho running gear sitting on my shelf, this year i decided I wanted to build the chariot and take to Robocon. I settled on 1/9.6 scale to match the side profile of the Kyosho running gear. The front profile of the Kyosho is a little too wide for that scale, so I just made the ladder extensions hang out over the treads a little farther. Since the Kyosho also had 1980's reostats for steering and speed control, I added an electronic speed control for smoother and slower speed. I just made the base from a stairwell rail that had the right radius. I soldered 5/32 " square brass tubing to frame it, and vacuformed the seats, spotlights and curved windows. I never tried vacuforming before but found some instructions on the net. I subcontracted out the parkas, curtains, and sunshades to my sister in law who sewed them for me. The dash just has blinking 3mm LEDs that show and also behind the B220 panels. Some of the accessories like Will's guitar and the toolbox and the game are 1/12 scale dollhouse miniature, but I thought they were close enough in scale not to be obvious. I still have to finish a few details like the rifle rack and thermometer, but I ran out out time before Robocon. Again, thanks for all the comments, I hope to someday take it out to the Trona Pinnacles and make another movie of it.
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