FMS is bringing the spirit of the Camel Trophy to 1/10 scale with their new FCX10 Vary Rover — a launch that guarantees equal components nostalgia and path prowess. How properly does it ship?
From: FMS
Direct Hyperlink: FMS 1:10 FCX10 Land Rover Camel Trophy Version Vary Rover
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Evaluate By: Doug Welker
Photos By: Doug Welker
Specs-
RTR or Equipment: RTR
Age: 14+
2wd or 4WD: 4WD
Shaft or Belt: Shaft
Electrical or Fuel: Electrical
Scale: 1/10
Size: 588mm
Width: 263mm
Wheelbase: 321mm
Motor: 550 Brushed Motor 32T
Pace Controller: R6D-ESC-BS Receiver
Low Voltage Lower-off: Sure
Radio: 2.4GHz MG6 6-Channel Transmitter
Differential: Locked entrance and rear
Driveshafts: Plastic
Shocks: Oil stuffed, plastic physique
Screws: Hex/Metric
Battery: Not Included
Half Quantity: #FMS11044RSYL-SP
Avenue Value: $389
What’s In The Field- You get the Vary Rover, radio, 4 scale Jerry cans, a scale limb riser package, a Camel Trophy badge for the roof rack, and numerous small wrenches.
Construct High quality- The whole lot arrived tight and correctly meshed, although one wheel nut was barely free. First impression? The traditional Vary Rover physique seems completely unbelievable — FMS nailed the stance, proportions, and Camel Trophy particulars.
Check Drivers- Doug Welker
Check Venues- Primarily Castlewood State Park, Bangert Island State Park, and Klondike State Park- all within the St. Louis, MO common area.
Set-up Notes- A T-style battery adapter was used with the XT60-equipped ESC. The included scale equipment match properly — simply ensure to safe the Jerry cans with the supplied double-sided tape or they might eject mid-roll (ask me how I do know). The limb riser package seems superior as soon as assembled, but it surely’s a bit fiddly to construct and never best for onerous crawling — the entrance brush guard flexes when it hits obstacles, which may trigger the risers to pop off.
Turning: The axle-mounted servo geometry provides nice leverage, making steering robust and constant even when moist. The inventory servo is strong for path use, and it handed our water resistance take a look at. Hardcore rock crawlers will need an improve, however for its meant use, it’s matched properly.
Leaping: This isn’t a jumper — it’s a heavy, low-speed path rig. That mentioned, when it did catch a bit of air off a root or rock, the suspension soaked it properly sufficient. Simply don’t count on stunt truck vibes.
Bumps/Whoops: Hitting bumpy sections of path was quite a lot of enjoyable due to the best way the automobile’s suspension reacts. The physique’s weight makes it so the truck desires to remain on the bottom and sort of forces the suspension to do the job, and the result’s one thing that appears like a traditional video of an previous Land Rover pounding the Camel Trophy path. It performs the half properly!
On-Highway: The mixture of that massive, heavy Vary Rover physique up high and a tender suspension with sticky tires down low means you can be in your lid loads. Not advisable!
Grass/Leaves: Being geared up with non-portal axles plus smaller 1.9 tires means the Vary Rover has a decrease experience top in comparison with different related scalers in the marketplace, and subsequently it doesn’t work tremendous nice in taller grass. Identical with leaves. These surfaces are greatest left to taller vehicles.
Path Driving: An absolute blast on the path. Free grime, creek crossings, roots, and small hills are the place this truck excels. Regardless of the massive, heavy physique, it’s surprisingly nimble. The one constant limiter is floor clearance — tall obstacles and enormous roots can grasp it up.
Rock Crawling: The tires give it nice grip on the rocks, and it might make traces that will shock you given how lengthy, huge and heavy the physique is. Being decrease to the bottom completely helps it when crawling, particularly facet hilling. The largest challenge is the massive entrance bumper as it’ll simply trigger the truck to hold up on gnarly rocks, so you might want to assume as you set your course. Whereas it’s extra of a path truck than a devoted rock crawler, it was nonetheless no slouch on the rocks.
Tires: The included tires work nice on each the path AND on the rocks. I used to be stunned at how properly they connected as they’re a very good compound, particularly for an RTR. Cosmetically although, I feel the tires are the one weak spot on what’s in any other case a spectacular wanting rig. I imply, they don’t look horrible or something, however the tread sample isn’t very real looking and it will’ve been cool to see some sort of licensed tire or scale showing sample.
Remember that of the three vehicles that make up the 1:10 FCX10 Camel Trophy line, the Vary Rover and Defender 110 each have these identical 4.19″ OD sized tires. The Discovery II contains bigger 4.72″ OD tires. That offers the Discovery barely extra floor clearance.
One thing of notice is that these are bead lock tires, so you’ll be able to swap them to one thing else do you have to wish to. I take a look at mounted a set of JConcepts 1.9 Bossman 4.19″ OD tires they usually match nice on the inventory wheels.
Energy: This truck was made for 3S. On 2S, you simply don’t have sufficient high finish velocity or low finish torque, no matter whether or not you might be in first or second gear. On 3S although, it felt REALLY good. Each gears are very usable, with the truck having loads of low finish grunt in 1st gear and good wheel velocity in 2nd. The ESC and motor felt positive heat-wise on 3S, even on lengthy path runs. 3S is the place it’s at!
Radio: The included 6-channel does the job. One of the simplest ways I can describe it’s that it seems like a beefed-up commonplace fare RTR radio. That’s to say you get first rate ergonomics and numerous analog trims, but it surely feels correctly weighty and in addition has a great deal of controls, being it’s a six channel. I very very like the paddle you utilize to show the lights on and off. It’s straightforward to shift gears, and the truck does so clean sufficient. It will positive be good to have the ability to simply flip the flip indicators off although.
Damaged Components: The Vary Rover was trailed onerous, however the one ill-effects are some critical rock rash on the axles, some creek moss wrapped across the knuckles, and a lacking Jerry-can that fell out as a result of the correct mounting tape wasn’t used! The one upkeep that was carried out on the truck all through our testing was tightening a wheel nut that was a bit free from the manufacturing unit. Nothing else over the course of three path runs and numerous bash periods. It proved to be a troublesome truck.
Misc Notes:
Man, this assortment of vehicles seems stellar. FMS did an exquisite job recreating the traditional Camel Trophy Vehicles in 1/10 style. I’m a Camel Trophy nut, and I actually assume they did good work right here. I’d think about there will likely be bleed over right here of 1:1 followers wanting to choose one in all these up simply to show them!
One of the simplest ways I can describe driving the Vary Rover is that it seems like you might be driving a efficiency oriented, lexan body-equipped 1.9″ scaler however with a smidge of ultra-scale hard-body vibe thrown in. What I imply by that is you could run it onerous and nonetheless recover from/by quite a lot of terrain….however you might want to drive it with juuuuust a little bit of care and technique in case you are tackling something wooly. It’s a candy spot as a result of whereas I like wheeling super-scale rigs and all that accompanies that, I like to have the ability to lead foot my stuff as properly and this one does sufficient of each to make me joyful!
The hookup for the lights is finished through a magnetic connection on the rear of the truck, which is extremely slick. For these questioning what the large deal is, it means you’ll be able to simply take away the physique with out additionally having to unhook a lighting wire harness.
Talking of the physique, one other cool characteristic is FMS clipless mount system that makes use of a latch system to simply mount or unmount it.
The included limb risers look very cool when mounted on the truck, however they’re a little bit of a PITA to construct. They mount to the massive entrance brush guard/bumper of the Vary Rover, and mentioned mounting factors are fairly bendable if you hit obstacles. This meant the limb risers saved falling off when onerous obstacles can be hit, which was fairly frequent when doing a little hardcore rock crawling. Finally, one of many items of mounting {hardware} backed out and fell off someplace on the path, so the risers have been simply eliminated. They give the impression of being nice, simply be cautious of holding them on the truck if you happen to plan to run onerous and bang into stuff!
Abstract:
The FMS 1:10 FCX10 Vary Rover Camel Trophy Version blends nostalgia, realism, and trail-ready enjoyable at a strong worth level. For those who’re a Land Rover fan, Camel Trophy fanatic, or simply somebody who loves a truck that each seems nice and performs properly, there’s a good probability you’ll be actually proud of this in your fleet!
