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The Backyard – ReRe-Mod
Greetings everyone and happy Friday! Welcome to The Backyard, my little slice of the Internet. Off-road Retro Re-Releases are mega hot right now, as many of the hobbyists today have the disposable income to happily sling at the vehicles they either owned as a youngster, or wanted to own but didn’t quite have the money for. I’ve really enjoyed seeing all [...]
The Backyard – Building a Vanquish H10 Optic
Hello everyone and Happy Friday! Well, out of nowhere last week I decided to do a thing- I ordered a Vanquish H10 Optic kit. I have been eying one of these rock buggies since they were announced as an RTR last year. Late in 2024 a kit version was announced, and since then the rig has been receiving rave reviews online. [...]
- 2/21/2025
- 7:17 pm
- The Backyard
- By: Doug
The Backyard – It’s Pronounced He-la-mon and other news
Hello everyone and Happy Friday! Several big bits of r/c news dropped this week to help break through the monotony of winter! The 1/8 Axial AXP8 Gilamon 2.2 4×4 RTR Brushed Trail Buggy was announced yesterday after several days of being teased. This is a totally new Axial release featuring all new parts/moldings and the big feature of which is the new ASD [...]
The Backyard – Winter Paintjobs Drag Me Down
Greetings all and happy Friday! Welcome to The Backyard, my little slice of nonsense on the Internet. If there is one thing that absolutely grinds my winter r/c projects to a halt, it’s needing to lay down a paint job when the weather is frigid. I currently have 3 projects totally backlogged because of this- a modified 4×4 pulling truck, a mini [...]
The Backyard – 2025 gets rolling with some new releases!
Happy Friday all and welcome to The Backyard. Lots of news this week, as various companies, most notably Tamiya and Kyosho, announced their 2025 releases at the Nuremberg International Toy Fair in Germany. Sadly for me, another year without a Juggernaut 2 re-release. Fans of on-road cars and buggies are probably happier though! Tamiya has the BMW license again, and they appear [...]
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 [...]
