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The Backyard – I Got A Tamiya BBX Kit
Hello everyone and Happy Friday! Welcome to The Backyard. A little surprise followed me home last week from the local hobby shop. I didn’t intend on buying anything, but they had a “20% off everything in the store” sale, and I couldn’t resist grabbing the Tamiya BBX 2WD Off-Road Buggy Kit (BB-01) that they had on the shelf. I have been eyeing [...]
The Backyard - Musings About Getting Back into Off-Road Raci…
Happy Friday all and welcome to my little slice of the Internet, The Backyard. Over the last two weeks, I’ve been looking at returning to what originally got me into the hobby 30 years ago, off-road racing. It’s been awhile since I’ve been in to it. I spent the last 10 years seriously racing solid axle monster trucks, and before that [...]
The Backyard – Bench Racing
Greetings all and Happy Friday. Welcome to The (very snowy) Backyard! Before I get going here- good vibes to all of you in the western US dealing with the wildfires. I hope you all stay safe! We’ve had over a foot of snow the last week here in St. Louis, with more coming down now as I write this, so yeah, [...]
The Backyard – Predictions for 2025
Hello all, and Happy Friday! Welcome to the first Backyard of 2025. Today, I’m going to make some predictions for some things that we are gonna see in world of r/c in 2025, and then this upcoming December we’ll review how well I did! For the sport of it, these are indeed actual predictions and not things that I know of [...]
The Backyard – Revisiting my 2024 Predictions
Hey all and Happy Friday! Welcome to a holiday time-vortex edition of The Backyard! Well, it’s my last post of the year. With that, time to take a look back at my predictions and see what I got right or wrong. Then, next week I’ll take out the crystal ball and make some educated guesses as to what we will see [...]
The Backyard – R/C Eras Tour – What’s Next?
Greetings all and Happy Friday! Christmas is next week, so I hope ya’ll got your shopping done….I know I haven’t! Apologies for the Taylor Swift pun in the title here, but I couldn’t resist. Hey, so yesterday Cubby decided to take a break from retirement to drop a Cub Report, and it was a good one. I would suggest you read it, [...]
The Backyard - HPI Returns and a big week in small scale cra…
Hello everyone, a happy Friday to you! As we hit mid-December, a time when business and news traditionally dies down as everyone collectively goes on a break until the New Year, the r/c world had some interesting news/releases drop. The HPI Venture18 1985 Toyota Hilux SR5 crawler was announced, and a day later the Redcat Ascent-18 International Scout II – 1/18 Scale [...]
The Backyard - Losi NASCAR and more Niches they should go af…
Hello everyone and happy Friday! One of the big r/c stories in the second half of 2024 has been the release and success of the Losi NASCAR. These licensed vehicles are solid runners, look fantastic, and have a sub-$200 price point. As such, it should be no surprise the initial batch of them sold out quick. They hit the sweet spot [...]
- 12/6/2024
- 1:51 pm
- The Backyard
- By: Doug
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The Backyard - Support Your LHS This Holiday Season (and eve…
Hello everyone and welcome to a special Monday edition of The Backyard. After taking last week off for the Thanksgiving holiday, I figured it would be nice to double up this week, so The Backyard will run Friday as well. In the spirit of Cubby and the looooooong running and mostly-retired Cub Report, today I wanted to talk about the state of [...]
The Backyard – Lotta Stuff Going On
Hello everyone and Happy Friday! It’s been a busy week of r/c stuff! Yesterday we posted our review of the CEN Racing 1/10 Sicario 4WD DL Series Dually RTR, which was the result of around a week’s worth of bashing. I think it was probably the most filthy I’ve ever had a truck post-shakedown! I had to spend almost as much [...]
The Backyard – Retro Releases I’d Like To See
Hey everyone and Happy Friday! Welcome to The Backyard. Retro releases sure are in these days, at least when it comes to r/c racing! Kyosho Optimas and Team Associated buggies and trucks, oh my! You also have companies like Tamiya, who are always re-releasing various classic stuff. I love to see it. So much so that I thought it would be fun [...]
- 11/15/2024
- 3:27 pm
- The Backyard
- By: Doug
The Backyard - Never Sell Your Radios, Chargers, Batteries, …
Hey all, a happy Friday to you! Welcome to the Backyard. Today I am going to hopefully impart some wisdom. This is wisdom that I’ve come about first hand, via myself or friends of mine. It’s normal to get burned out by the hobby, just as it is with any kind of thing you do for fun. And when someone is burned [...]
The Backyard – The 1:24 FMS Camel Trophy Trucks
Hey everyone and happy Friday! Welcome to November – start warming up the credit cards for all that holiday shopping! Last week I discussed a large scale crawler I’ve been working on, but this week I wanted to shift to the opposite end of the spectrum. Over the Summer, when the FMS FCX24M Land Rover Camel Trophy Edition 1:24 mini crawler trucks [...]
- 11/1/2024
- 5:16 pm
- The Backyard
- By: Doug
The Backyard – Rotten Apple Axial SCX6 Honcho
Hey everyone and Happy Friday! This week I wanted to share the project I’ve been spending the last couple months on. I finally took the plunge into large scale r/c with an Axial SCX6 Honcho! This is something I had been wanting to do ever since the Honcho version of the SCX6 was announced. Despite being involved in the hobby for over [...]
- 10/25/2024
- 5:00 pm
- Axial
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The Backyard – What is your favorite winter hobby activity?
Hey everyone and Happy Friday! Welcome to the first Backyard proper. Cubby came out of retirement this past Wednesday with some (great!) opinions on carpet racing, and one of the things that spurred on said opining was the fact that indoor carpet racing used to be a thing that he did over the winter, after outdoor season was over. As the temperatures [...]
