How To Make RC Car Body From Aluminium Sheet

Hello, how was the things going on with you guys?  Well, I’m still looking for a body shell for my OEM RC Car and did not found even one that will satisfy my desires so I keep hold on until I may find the body I want.

Actually I have something on my mind, it is just that I cannot find it anywhere even on ebaY, let alone my local hobby store.  I live in a small city called Miri, in state of Sarawak in Malaysia.  There’s very little hobby shop here and the choices are very limited. :-(

Here is what I aimed for.  It is actually a hacked body.  But we need to find the base body somehow to be able to hack it.  Am I right? ;-)

1:10 Ford F350

1:10 Ford F350

Then the guy did some hard modification and then they got this.

1:10 Ford F350 Dual Cabin Silver

1:10 Ford F350 Dual Cabin Silver

Repaint. :-p

1:10 Ford F350 Dua -Cabin Red-Grey

1:10 Ford F350 Dua -Cabin Red-Grey

You can find about this hacks here at, High Lift Crew Cab Dually.

But for my Homemade RC, I plan to make the body ourself out of Coke Cola cans!  Let’s see one guy that have been doing a body with an aluminium sheets, the same materials as Coke Cola cans.

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Never Be Too Proud To Learn From Someone Else

I have totally ZERO knowledge about making a truck RC, let alone a rock crawler type which is much more complicated than ordinary truck because it have a complicated articulation that makes it able to “crawl” among those rocks while other type of RC car cannot.

This is the “Ready To Run” rock crawler for you to see just in case you do not know how they look like.

Rock Crawler

Rock Crawler

See it live in action from the video below.

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Choosing The 1:10 Crawler Truck Body Shell

In my last post titled Finding The Body Shell For My OEM RC Car Project, I have decided to choose 1:10 scale.  This is not a micro nor mini scale.  It’s a quite standard scale which people use to race in official RC events.

My target is to get something like real Hummer look.

Hummer H3 84

Hummer H3 84

And while browsing without knowing a good keyword, I’ve found this body shell.

Hummer Body Shell

Hummer Body Shell

This will cost you $30.33 without the shipping.  Now let’s see what other option we have. :-)

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Finding The Body Shell For My OEM RC Car Project

In my last post titled OEM 2 Channel RC Car Project, I was talking about making the body frame out of cotton buds sticks.  Well, that is possible.  Nothing doubtful about that.  But I have changed my mind.  I’m gonna build this OEM RC by just by buying kits.  Well let’s be flexible with this project.  So I will start by finding the body shell for this OEM RC car.

Hummer H3 84

Hummer H3 84

If you are with me into this project, first we need to determine what scale should we choose.  We need to consider the popularity, and parts availability.  You might not want to play this RC by yourself don’t you?  And you don’t want to end up looking for the parts that have been phased out or very hard to find, and even if you find it, it will be a very expensive investment.  No, we don’t want that.  We want to build high end RC with low budget as possible.

These scales is among popular choices available.

  1. 1:12
  2. 1:10
  3. 1:8

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OEM 2 Channel RC Car Project

Original Equipment Manufacturer 2 Channel RC Car Project would be my first project about my concept, an OEM RC.  I choose to opt-in into 2 channel RC car because it is easy to accomplish rather than a full fledge 4 or more channel rc car or even a simple 2 channel rc helicopter.  Although both of them are just a 2 channel rc, there are big differeces between an rc car and rc helicopter.  An rc car is hundreds times easy to achieve.

So I started with identifying what will I need in this project.  The technology, the items and parts, was it available at online or offline stores or do I need to make it on my own.  I really don’t wish to make my own parts except for the body and “chassis” of this rc car.
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