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This lil guy showed up today, and I just have to say... this thing is pretty darned impressive. I grabbed the white one because it kinda makes me think of it as a blank canvas. I'm going to focus mainly on the body in this post.
First of all - including USA-1 decals with it is sacrilegious! This is a Ford F-100. USA-1 was a Chevy. Being a diehard monster truck fan since the beginning, this just irks me a bit. The decals are waterslide decals though, which is kinda cool. It reminds me of my model building days.
And before you go all like "Whoa man! You tore it apart!". Yes, I did. But it is why I wanted to post this. This is one of the best engineered small scale RC's I have ever seen. Move over SCX24 - FMS isn't playin' around!
The body is of course a hardbody, and rivals some of the best 25th scale models I have ever built. The lines are crisp. The flat(ish) surfaces are perfect, with no deformations from mold releasing too early. These guys made a seriously nice model here guys. Very impressive work. I can't wait to get some paint applied.
Disassembling the body for paint... I have to say it - FMS meant for you to take this apart and put a badass paintjob on it. It strips down to just the plastic shell quite easily. Even the lenses in the roll bar are held in with TINY screws. And to show you what I mean about their engineering, just look at the locating tab on the shaft of the lens (bottom of shaft). That's so it doesn't spin in the housing when tightening the screw. Someone was using their thinking cap on this one.
The tail light lenses have clear locking tabs so you can light them up from the back if you are feeling crafty. Sadly, there is no housing to hold LED's in the rear of the truck, but it wouldn't be hard to come up with something.
The grille is very detailed, and even has openings. I can't even begin to tell you how time consuming and costly this mold was to make. Tiny tools break, and this took some tiny surfacing endmills. Or maybe FMS has created a replicator and are keeping it secret
If you look closely, you can see the notch in the left side of the light buckets that locates the lense and keeps it from turning.
I feel like FMS needs to send me a free truck for this, because it turned into a review. But I haven't seen anything this cool when it comes to an RC in a very long time. That being said, a review always needs to have some cons. So here we go.
They should really get rid of the USA-1 decals. It would have been much better to have included a few graphic designs like the Axial Ryft comes with. It would have also been nice if the side markers were actual lenses instead of just molded into the body. And it would also have been nice to have a back window. Where are us hillbillies going to put our gun rack? And it would have been nice if it had an interior. But with the tinted windows, it's really not needed.
I'm just sitting here trying to nitpick this thing, and to be honest, I really can't complain too much. Like I said, it's an impressive little truck, and I am not one to be easily impressed. Great job FMS!
First of all - including USA-1 decals with it is sacrilegious! This is a Ford F-100. USA-1 was a Chevy. Being a diehard monster truck fan since the beginning, this just irks me a bit. The decals are waterslide decals though, which is kinda cool. It reminds me of my model building days.
And before you go all like "Whoa man! You tore it apart!". Yes, I did. But it is why I wanted to post this. This is one of the best engineered small scale RC's I have ever seen. Move over SCX24 - FMS isn't playin' around!
The body is of course a hardbody, and rivals some of the best 25th scale models I have ever built. The lines are crisp. The flat(ish) surfaces are perfect, with no deformations from mold releasing too early. These guys made a seriously nice model here guys. Very impressive work. I can't wait to get some paint applied.
Disassembling the body for paint... I have to say it - FMS meant for you to take this apart and put a badass paintjob on it. It strips down to just the plastic shell quite easily. Even the lenses in the roll bar are held in with TINY screws. And to show you what I mean about their engineering, just look at the locating tab on the shaft of the lens (bottom of shaft). That's so it doesn't spin in the housing when tightening the screw. Someone was using their thinking cap on this one.
The tail light lenses have clear locking tabs so you can light them up from the back if you are feeling crafty. Sadly, there is no housing to hold LED's in the rear of the truck, but it wouldn't be hard to come up with something.
The grille is very detailed, and even has openings. I can't even begin to tell you how time consuming and costly this mold was to make. Tiny tools break, and this took some tiny surfacing endmills. Or maybe FMS has created a replicator and are keeping it secret
If you look closely, you can see the notch in the left side of the light buckets that locates the lense and keeps it from turning.
I feel like FMS needs to send me a free truck for this, because it turned into a review. But I haven't seen anything this cool when it comes to an RC in a very long time. That being said, a review always needs to have some cons. So here we go.
They should really get rid of the USA-1 decals. It would have been much better to have included a few graphic designs like the Axial Ryft comes with. It would have also been nice if the side markers were actual lenses instead of just molded into the body. And it would also have been nice to have a back window. Where are us hillbillies going to put our gun rack? And it would have been nice if it had an interior. But with the tinted windows, it's really not needed.
I'm just sitting here trying to nitpick this thing, and to be honest, I really can't complain too much. Like I said, it's an impressive little truck, and I am not one to be easily impressed. Great job FMS!
How about we all email them and demand more colors?
I have some Tsmiya window tint. Maybe I will black chrome them 
plastidip is my second choice, just limited to certain colors.
