An interim minor-monster project...

Although work on the new Clod crawler continues at its own pace, I fancied having a go at doing-up another 1/10 truck in the meantime. I watched a fair few go through 't Bay, and even bid on a couple which I thought might go cheaply. In the end I won this one in a one-bidder auction, for the princely sum of 99p.

It's a mostly-intact Nikko 'The Monster', dating back to (I think) the early-mid 1990's. It's fairly complete, missing only its headlight grille and its bonnet 'blower' cover. It didn't come with a controller (which doesn't matter - see below), but it did still have its original instruction manual, which was still tucked away in a little compartment in its original but well-used box.

As trucks like this go, this one wasn't too bad in its day. It had a normal 27Mhz AM radio system with changeable crystals, a circuit board capable of running the RS540 silver can motor that powered it, carried a regular stick pack, and had a pretty good turning circle. A lot of the rest was of plain toy-grade construction, but it did sport a fairly nicely-made plastic hard-body resembling a generic Japanese 2-door pick-up truck.

Being as I have a transmitter that works with it, I was able to test it as soon as it got here. Although it was in a fairly well-used condition as received, I was pleased that it ran properly as soon as I powered it up. A subsequent strip-down soon after this revealed no major damage to anything, and showed all the moving parts to be in pretty good condition.

So - potentially a neat little project - and in a way a small Christmas present to myself - just to do a tidy-up job, really. In their day, these were just cheaper versions of something like a Tamiya Brat. And some Brats ended up looking very (very) nice indeed.