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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
Pro-Line
The Backyard - By: Doug
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 [...]
Welcome to “The Backyard” – I’m baaaaaack!
Hello dear reader, it’s your old pal Doug. You may remember me from posting under the Everybody’s Scalin’ For the Weekend blog years ago, or more recently (up until a month ago) the weekly Monster Truck Madness post! At the end of August, I said my goodbye. It took me about a week of twiddling my thumbs (perhaps to be more [...]
Monster Truck Madness – Until Next Time
Hey everyone and Happy Thursday! This post is a bittersweet one, as it’s going to be my last regular weekly blog for the site. For the past 11 years I’ve written a weekly blog post for BSRC. Whether it was under the “Everybody’s Scalin’ For the Weekend” or “Monster Truck Madness” title, I think I can count on one hand the amount [...]
Monster Truck Madness – Cross R/C Announces a Tractor?
Hello everyone and Happy Thursday! So Cross R/C announced a product that’s a bit out of left field, but one that I’m VERY excited for- an r/c farm tractor! The Cross R/C Ironbull TL4 Tractor. The photo above is from the Cross RC Facebook page, and you can find a video announcing the tractor right here. Not a lot of info is out [...]
Monster Truck Madness – Finishing up the SCX10.3 Mud Truck
Hello everyone and Happy Thursday! It’s ya boy Doug here for another edition of MTM. Yes, I said last week would be the last regular of edition of MTM, but given I have irons still in the fire I figured I’ll keep it up through the end of August before discussing “what’s next”. P.S.- to give any long time readers out [...]
- 8/16/2024
- 10:38 am
- Axial
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Monster Truck Madness - By: Doug
Monster Truck Madness – Time for a Change
Hello everyone and Happy Thursday! It’s time for an announcement! This week is going to be my last regular weekly Monster Truck Madness post. Please note that I said “last regular” and not “last”! 10 years ago I was one of a group of friends that started up the Trigger King R/C Monster Truck Racing Series in St. Louis, MO. We started [...]
