What projects can you dream up for your RC construction toys to build? Because only your imagination puts limits on the number of different activities that heavy equipment creates.
And with practice your imagination actually has no limits.
When I was young I played in the sandbox with die cast construction toys. I had the front loader, excavator, bulldozer, and dump truck. And they kept me distracted for hours. I piled up mounds of sand, and then leveled them. I filled the truck beds, and drove those loads to another spot to dump them.
I shaped buildings, roads, ponds, and lakes with those toys.
But today we have the remote control models. They give us more opportunity for creation than those little metal toys from my youth.
Think about some ideas for projects you can erect in your back yard.
Sticking with sand as your building material for a moment, what does your mind suggest?
Once as I walked along Venice Beach I spotted the sand sculpture of a mermaid. The artist was so skilled that the mermaid truly looked real. That image remains in my head even now, although that was some years ago.
If you train yourself to operate your RC construction toys skillfully do you think you can sculpt a sand mermaid? Might take a load of patience, but yeah, I believe you could do that.
What about playing with your models on the beach? Build a sand castle complete with a moat. Create a likeness of Poseidon for the beach strollers to admire. Sculpt sharks, whales, and other forms of sea creatures. How about a sea monster or two?
Once your mind starts working on ideas you’ll be hard pressed to keep up with it when you try writing them all down.
Turn your thoughts away from sand, and consider the opportunities your back yard dirt offers you.
You can build a whole city out there. Take the sod up from a measured area (set it aside for later landscaping use), and start digging with the excavators. Space the loose dirt around the area in piles, and add a little water. Now you have some mud to work with. Shape the mud into your buildings with the front loaders. Once that mud dries you’ll have some hard, rigid structures.
After you build your houses, office buildings, parking garages, banks, and other structures put streets through your city. Grade the street beds so they wind around your buildings, and make sure each structure sits on a street.
Want another project idea? Construct a highway system. Put in mountains, and wind your road around it from base to peak. Include long stretches of highway to speed your radio control cars and trucks along. Stick a bridge into the design here and there.
Some other activity thoughts for your design efforts are racing event parks, monster truck rally arenas, and recreation areas with lakes.
The only thing that limits the variety of projects available is your imagination. And the only thing that limits your imagination is you. Let it run wild, and you’ll dream up hours of fun things to do.
The only thing that’s left is developing your RC construction toys operating skill. And then using that skill to create lifelike sculptures, buildings, lakes, and roadways.
