Small Crawlers

[AER]

Santa could easily fit this in my stocking!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZeGFIR7ao4

[shedweller]

Just 1:87th scale? - I am subbed to this guy's channel

1:150 RC car https://youtu.be/bG3rvkpDsdg

The kind of stuff I can only dream of - one for the Dr maybe?

How about a functioning rc hiab and chipper? https://youtu.be/6bclPVnbqaA

[IJWS15]

Would prefere something like this, and hire them out with me a driver for garden landscaping and the like , , ,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSwAU7rK8fY

[IJWS15]

Or something to clear the drive when it snows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igvWnzYv3zQ

[shedweller]

IJWS15 said:

Or something to clear the drive when it snows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igvWnzYv3zQ

Why is it that (seemingly) RC in Germany seems to be much more popular than here in the UK?
I fly aircraft (gliders mostly) And the number of manufacturers and retailers in Germany that produce new models on a regular basis is large compared to most other countries including ours,
With gliding being popular in the east of Europe Especially in Czech,Ukraine & Russia.

Some of the German RC and modelling shows look fantastic compared to some of ours and (on you tube at least) are well attended by families etc....I went to a few here and the demographic is very different.

Does RC and modelling in general have an image problem In the u.k compared to our European counterparts?

And if so why? - can anyone enlighten me?

[Mercury00]

I think it is all down to image. Even when I was at school, being into RC and computers was uncool. Germany have that amazing Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, I don't think it would survive in the UK.

[MarkwG]

Mercury00 said:

I think it is all down to image. Even when I was at school, being into RC and computers was uncool. Germany have that amazing Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, I don't think it would survive in the UK.

I think that's part of it certainly: Germany in particular seems to revere engineers & engineering in a way the UK tends to save for vacuous celebrities. Imagine saying you had earned a doctoral degree in engineering - here, blank stares, there, can expect to be addressed as Dr.-Ing... a bit bizarre when you consider our heritage.