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Myself & a few other members of my local R/C car club travelled the short distance to the up & coming model shop/R/C venue Radshape RC for a special open day event dubbed 'Tamiya Takeover'.

Fellow club member Richard, has been scratch building a R/C model of the Legionnaire Coach that featured in the famous heist film The Italian Job. This is actually the second coach that he has built - the first one he debuted a couple of years ago at a Japanese car show (JAE) but had miscalculated the length/scale of the coach which mean't only two Tamiya Minis would fit into the back. Whilst he was building the Mk2 Coach Rich added all sorts of extra fun features & upgrades over the MK1 coach - various lights, sound effects, opening side door, steering & head turning driver figure etc etc!

Anyway Richard used the 'Tamiya Takeover' event as a suitable deadline to have the Italian Job coach finished & ready - so we all went up with our Minis & put on a little display on RadshapeRC's short drift track... Kettering Club Member, Adam collected the footage taken on various cameras from the day & put together this nice little video;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NU2B5DOv8s&feature=youtu.be

That came out awesome. Killer work.

Good stuff

Brillant team work there! Love it! Would be cool to see more from the coach creation and functioning. How many channels were used? 4?

Awesome! That bus looks fun as hell to drive.

That was cool,great camera work.

Thanks for the kind comments - I think Richard, the builder of the Coach would be most appreciative

I don't know much about the Coach other than that at the heart of it are the remains of an old Tamiya touring car chassis (TL-01?) - The transmitter is an aeroplane unit with multi channels - so switches can be flicked to activate doors/ramps etc over & above the fwd/rev & steering controls to drive the coach.



I love the way the Coach drives - it has a surprising turn of speed & is quite manoeuvrable with the twin steering at the front.