How To Build A Realistic RC Rock Crawler Course | Operation Backyard Crawler Course (Ep 1)
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- In this episode of RC Excursions, I turn an ugly, overgrown ditch, into a super-realistic scale course. Follow along and watch the whole project unfold!
I hope I inspire you to build your own.
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We’re always open for ideas or suggestions! If you’d like to see something done on our course, feel free to list them below in the comments.
Awesome course build. One thing you might consider when adding to it if you plan to is not to use your crawler to check everything. The terrain should be as natural as possible and shouldn't be built to accommodate your rig. Making a course challenging makes for a great course. Planning each section is ok but in the real world, mother nature didn't plan the course for us...lol I'm not trying to be a know it all but when my buddies and I built a course, we let mother nature work for us.
Thanks for the input! I use a crawler to make sure I make courses wide enough, it’s something I picked up from previous projects. In this video, I wasn’t to worried about how hard it was, and more focused on the realism. The next edition to the course will be built without a crawler on standby…
Did this guy forget it’s for a RC car? You want the course as natural as possible? LoL no You don’t want a bunch of natural shit that you’re RC card can’t get over. You want a course that’s fun and makes your rig look badass. And in real life they build and groom the trails. What in the hell is this guy talking about.
yes and no i’ve made a whole ‘course’ just to have my new crawler drive over it like it was a rough country road and nothing more lol have to make sure it’s 1)challenging 2)not impossible i always make it so it requires a perfect line some people come out different and make it up exposing a new line but like i’ll have a wall that most attempts fail unless at the right angle for the tires to bit
I like that as a base course. That's where you start to get ideas for add on obstacles. But getting that initial foundation out of the way first sure will make things easier and more fun from there on out. Good job.
You have some good elevations to start with…At Odessa Lake we cut trails on the hill side so the truck is closer to eye level…. Makes for a good variety…
Thanks for the tip!
Wow, what a great accomplishment very few people have that much drive to do that, outstanding job young man looks like a professional job very cool well thought out, fun to watch, from the background looks like Illinois farm ground.
Thanks so much! By the way that’s Kansas farm ground:)
Great video! I was expecting to see a little bit of roots or wood (not from home depot) that you can find around the area.
I have recently started building my own area. its mainly for 1/24th and 1/18th, with an area for 1/12 to 1/10th. nice work with yours
Thanks!
Nice job! Thanks for sharing. 👍🏼subd.
looking good🧨 I'd add a shit ton more holes and high points to roll off of if it was in my own yard.
make it tough or itll get boring fast, make it impossible and you never quit trying to find that one line.
I love stacking rocks😉
This is a base course, it’s not necessarily supposed to be a challenge. Thanks for watching!
Really nice track! Your hard work has nice results! I live on the big island in Hawaii, I know all about the heat! I have a home course that I work on early in the day and late in the afternoon to beat the heat ! It’s all lava rock and it’s hot! anyway thanks for sharing your video and your ideas, looking forward for more videos thanks again aloha!
Great work dude. I watched the whole build series. Awesome. I know you said at one point to start at either the bottom or the top, but I can’t remember which way around it was?! Just about to start building something like your technical section by the tree.
Glad you enjoyed the series! I prefer to build from the bottom of the course on up, because (in my experience anyway) the finished product looks more natural. Have fun building your course!
Very nice work! This is the first video i’ve seen of yours. I’m working n a 1/24 scale course in my backyard. Nice to see people in my area doing this!
Glad to hear it!
This looks really great and I’ve been searching for an in depth video of a course just like this and found this. Not only was this entertaining to watch but gave me great ideas and a lot of inspiration to my own course thanks!
I’m glad to hear the video helped!
Nice job! I am from central NY, we have all kinds of creek's to crawl, out in the woods. I have more fun doing that than I do trail running.we really don't have much for rock crawling in our area. The creek beds can be super challenging in spots. They can give you a great feel for your rig and,its capability.
I have a large creek in my backyard, but there’s a small amount of rock beds, and it’s mostly water, so I decided to take advantage of the rocks it has, and make a course out of it. Nevertheless, creeks are a great place to enjoy the hobby, I have a blast driving the 1/24s in mine!
Great video Amazing Job 🤜🤛🤙👍
Nothing but respect.
Well done man.
Great looking course good job !! 👍🏾
Very cool tips and trucks.
Subbed.
Nice road you made there
It’s a base course.
@@rcexcursions OK it is still nice
quite creative and well done on the idea and your efforts in building a route path for rc crawler. I'm also interested in building tracks for crawlers. I have my own track specifically for a rather challenging track. Greetings of friendship from MALAYSIA
Thanks!
I am tired of seeing crawler tracks with heaps of wood bridges and plastic everywhere, this is a welcome change 🎉
Thanks so much! I prefer a more natural setting as well, though I don’t mind adding bridges in areas where it would make sense, like crossing a small canyon or something.
wow! cool job! 👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
Fantastic video for a beginner to the hobby thanks. New sub
Thanks for the support!
Looks awesome!!!
Your efforts have made a wonderful footage. I liked and subscribed.
Greatly appreciated!
🔥 video bro liked and Subscribed 🤘😎👍
Inspiration at its finest.
🔥👀
Thanks for watching!
Sweet course Bro, nice job
Awesome, liked and subbed.👍👍👍
Wow big thumbs up!! Awesome job on the course, I may be some kind of expansion bridge would be cool, appreciate your sharing I did subscribe I’ll be following for more, This is the beauty of this Harvey love it
You won’t have to wait long, I’m shooting episode 3 in this series currently!
I really enjoyed this video. where are you located at because that farm/ property is beautiful!
I live out in the rural part of Kansas.
Good job,,,, nice video
New subscriber here bud I had to get you to 100 haha awesome video bro definitely getting some tips for building my own thanks buddy awesome work 👍
I’m pleased to hear the video helped! Thanks a bunch for supporting the channel!
Good ideas, except from the very beginning I noticed you were using the natural drainage and thought what if it rains
I made sure I built the course to where it didn’t interfere with the drainage.
Nice video man but I think I would have just set the rocks in there and put my dirt in between them would have saved you a day of work
Thanks for the suggestion! I used concrete to make the course look more complete and to hold up to the drainage it will take on. I built this course a year ago, and besides a couple of loose rocks, it’s still the same course. The same can’t be said for courses I’ve built without using concrete.
well done
Thanks!
Thank you very much for the video and inspiration. A very cool rc and landscaping project. Fun and professional filming plus editing, greatly
appreciated. If I can ask, do you go with the flow with the work or do you have a pre-designed plan in place? And, enjoyed the building of the
Three Mile Gorge Rock Course over on RC Everyday's channel, perhaps of good use/inspiration to you too. Thank you Sir, totally awesome👍
Thanks for the feedback! To answer your question, I usually come up with a basic idea, for instance, in this video I wanted to make a creek-like ditch, full of twists and turns. Then I just, “go with the flow”, and lay rock down, sometimes trying new ideas or scraping them depending on what terrain I’m on. I’m not a super organized person, so I find this way works the best for me.
@@rcexcursions Good Sir, I thank you kindly for your time and comprehensive reply, greatly appreciated. And always fun to learn more on the creative processes ✌
No problem!
I built one today…now I want to set it on fire cause it’s sucks compared to this
U should make it a water fall and crawl up it
That would be a heck of a project…
I tried to do with my hand but then I realized ewww there are so many bugs and then I started digging by my shovel
😂
Which crawler is this?
It’s an aftermarket MST JP1 body, on an Element Enduro Senduro chassis.
Step one. Own a couple acres with no one living close by. 2 I can't dig unless I make a few calls seeing that its guaranteed you will hit some line hopefully not electric. 3 Not be married. If so either you won the lottery or will need to in order to let your wife shop enough to allow you to dig up her yard. 4. Accept that your friends/family will think you lost your mind "See Richard Drefus" in Close Encounters. 5. Be physically/mentally strong enough to do it.
Pretty much.
Looked so great and I really admired it…
Until you opened the first bag of concrete.
Man did you see concrete in nature before?
At least you could have spent 30 minutes more to clean up these nice natural stones. 😦
My personal opinion
I’ll admit, I would never use concrete in the same way I did for this project, you live and you learn I suppose…
That being said, my decision to apply concrete to the course-and I forgot to mention this in the video-was mainly to add strength and durability. I got the idea from a guy in our local group, who had his own backyard course on which many an event was hosted. He filled the gaps between rocks in order to armor it against the amount of foot traffic it would have to endure. I have a lot of siblings who like to play on the rocks, so resilience was key. Also the course was built in a drainage ditch, so I wanted it to hold up against water.
I know I said that concrete would “make it look better.” What I meant was that it would give the course a more completed look, or at least that’s what I was going for. Unfortunately, I mixed the concrete too thick, and it didn’t fill in the gaps as I had intended. However, I have found a better method, and that is to apply the concrete in its dry state, sweeping it into the cracks, and then misting the course with water. I have found the results quite satisfactory, in terms of aesthetics and functionality. I’ve also noticed, after two years of using the course, is that concrete (if filled in properly of course) keeps weeds from growing through the rocks.
…Anyway, sorry for the editorial, but I figured this was the best way to answer your critique. Thanks for the feedback and for watching, have fun building your course!
No concrete. No.
Why do you think that?
@@rcexcursions cause it's not natural (realistic"
maybe some soil or gravel to fill the gaps would turn out better
@@scw620 Thanks for the alternative suggestions, but the issues are, dirt gets washed out and gravel get’s spun out by tires. Concrete takes on water better and locks the rocks together. Yes, dirt and gravel are more scale, but this section is also a ditch that drains a lot of water and concrete will preserve the course. And I will say the concrete didn’t look too bad…
@@rcexcursions well u're right , but isn't most of the natural environment changes due to the weather ? meanwhile the difficulties of the track changes every time u attempt !