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Monster Truck Madness – Monster Truck Modeling
Hello everyone and Happy Thursday! For most of my “hobby life”, my time modeling has been spent with r/c vehicles. Not so much on scale static models. Sure, I’ve done a few military vehicles, cars, and monster trucks over the years…but I wouldn’t say I’m a modeler. The more I got into scale r/c the last decade, the more that traditional modeling [...]
- 11/30/2023
- 9:31 pm
- Monster Truck Madness
- By: Doug
Monster Truck Madness- Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving all! I’m writing the Thursday Monster Truck Madness from the kitchen this week. The stuffing is in the oven and cranberry sauce is made and sitting in the fridge, so my two responsibilities for the day are done! I’ve gotten big into building 1:25 scale models recently (I will talk about this next week, it’s monster truck related!) and knowing [...]
Monster Truck Madness – Rolling on 73’s
Greetings all and Happy Thursday! The International Monster Truck Museum and Hall of Fame in Butler, IN held it’s annual induction ceremony over the past weekend. This is one of the most important events on the full scale monster truck calendar. JConcepts is a proud sponsor of the HOF, and they usually tease a new r/c monster truck product while in [...]
- 11/16/2023
- 4:52 pm
- JConcepts
Monster Truck Madness - By: Doug
Monster Truck Madness – It’s a baby LMT!
Greetings all and happy Thursday! Well, some big (small) news dropped today! Losi has announced the 1/18 Mini LMT 4X4 Brushed Monster Truck RTR, in Grave Digger and Sonuva Digger body packages. You can click the link here for the full specs, but the main gist is that Losi, well, shrank the larger LMT into a smaller platform that has a very [...]
Monster Truck Madness – 10 Years of Fun
Hey everyone and Happy Thursday! This week marks 10 years of writing for Big Squid, which is pretty crazy to me. Back in 2013, I remember reading the site and seeing they were looking for someone to write a weekly blog on the world of Scale RC, which at the time was starting to REALLY boom. I was running a new [...]
Monster Truck Madness – Monster Mailbag (and Pulling!)
Greetings everyone and Happy Thursday! I received a couple questions via e-mail last week (doug@bigsquidrc.com) that made for good mailbag fodder, so let’s get to ’em. Hello I’m interested in getting into the pulling truck thing been in RC since the 80s have over 35 Plus vehicles would like to build one from scratch but not sure what chassis to use [...]
- 10/26/2023
- 3:47 pm
- Monster Truck Madness
- By: Doug
Monster Truck Madness – Gun Metal Blues
Good day everyone and Happy Thursday- we’re almost to the weekend! Over the last month or so I feel like I’ve not pulled very much trigger, save for a single monster truck race day, but I feel about as busy as ever due to constantly working on various projects. The one I’m focused on finished first is my RC4WD K10 Scottsdale [...]
Monster Truck Madness – Another Season in the Books
Hey all and Happy Thursday! This past weekend, in Waterloo, IL, we just finished our 9th outdoor Summer season of Trigger King R/C monster truck racing. It’s crazy that just the other day it felt like I was preparing my trucks for the first event of 2023. Even crazier than that, it feels like it wasn’t too long ago that we [...]
- 10/13/2023
- 4:48 pm
- Monster Truck Madness
- By: Doug
Monster Truck Madness – E = mc Square Body
Hey folks, Happy Thursday! This week I wanted to talk about the new shoes I got for my RC4WD K10 Scottsdale! While I think the included wheels and tires are very sharp, I wanted my truck to have more of that old school 35″ tires on 15″ wheels look than what it came with. After some poking around online I ordered a [...]
- 10/5/2023
- 10:18 pm
- Monster Truck Madness
- By: Doug
Monster Truck Madness – With My Big Lunchbox
Happy Thursday everyone! I hope you all are making the most of early Autumn and partaking in what is usually some of the best weather for trigger time! Earlier this week the folks at Team Associated unveiled their MT12 Monster Van, a 1/12 RTR monster truck that looks VERY dope! The MT12 is no doubt paying homage to another famous 1/12 van, the [...]
Monster Truck Madness – Working on the Trucks
Happy Thursday everyone! While I haven’t been turning many wrenches the past week on my traditional monster trucks, I have been going at two “monsterous” truck projects! Last week I talked about my new RC4WD K10 Scottsdale and what I planned to do with it. Since then, my wheels, tires, and roll bar have all arrived! I’ve also picked up a JConcepts [...]
- 9/21/2023
- 6:43 pm
- Monster Truck Madness
RC4WD - By: Doug
Monster Truck Madness – Repainting the RC4WD K10 Scottsdale?
Hey gang and Happy Thursday! The RC4WD K10 Scottsdale that I ordered arrived late last week (thank you Remote Control Hobbies of Orlando!) and I’ve had a few days to paw it over. Like seemingly everyone else on the Internet who has one of these puppies, I’m impressed with it. This is the first time I’ve had a LWB Trail Finder 2 [...]
- 9/14/2023
- 3:40 pm
- Monster Truck Madness
RC4WD - By: Doug
Monster Truck Madness – Questions about Dual Motors
Hey gang and Happy Thursday! I received a couple questions last week from a long time reader and I’ve been meaning to talk about one of the topics for awhile but didn’t know how to slip it into a column, so this is the perfect chance. These questions come courtesy of “The Trail Rat”. I am getting into radio control monster [...]
Monster Truck Madness – Squash Vans and Other Fun Projects
Hello everyone and Happy Thursday! Those of you in the states- you’ve almost made it to a holiday weekend! As we head into Labor Day Weekend, we are about to unofficially close the door on Fall. I’m ready for it. It’s been too hot outside! Cool weather, football on tv, and autumn r/c bashing are 3 of my favorite things. I wanted to [...]
Monster Truck Madness – Mini Mud Trucks
Hey gang, Happy Thursday to you! I feel like over the past calendar year I’ve written a lot about mud trucks. Around this time last year the original Traxxas TRX-4 High Trail was announced and released. I preordered one and had a blast with it. Just a couple weeks ago the gang at RC4WD announced the Scottsdale K10. They aren’t out [...]
