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Losing grip – Iterations
It’s why we’re in this hobby. Iterations. Doing it over and over again, but in a slightly different way every time. My guess is that most of you readers are iterating types, because if not this hobby would quickly become dull. Whether racing, bashing, crawling, painting or building, don’t we all try to do it slightly better than last time? [...]
Losing grip – No(t) time to hobby
Yo fellas! I think we all know that this hobby can help us through tough times. It’s quite likely it has seen a couple of you readers make it out of a bad place, or at least someone you know of. At times everyone needs a place where the mind is safe and can wander freely, and a good hobby [...]
Losing grip – Jaw dropping drift releases
Check out what’s happening in the drift scene! In the past couple of weeks Team Associated and Traxxas both have released drift cars. How cool that one big player and The Big Player are getting into this niche of the hobby! And for additional spice among new releases, Yokomo has released their MD 1.0 LTS, moving the cutting edge of [...]
- 8/12/2024
- 10:42 am
- Columns
Loosing Grip
RC Drifting - By: Martin
Losing grip – Comfortably uncomfortable
Yo! Long time no write, I hope you’ve missed me. In between considering whether to emigrate and how to provide for my family when I quit my present job in three months, I have spent some time dreaming up my next body. Nothing like painting to settle my mind when it has been crowded with Big Thoughts and Major Considerations. Truth [...]
- 3/1/2024
- 5:25 pm
- Columns
Loosing Grip - By: Martin
Losing grip – Intrinsic hobby values
Happy Friday everyone! Today, some of you might quit reading after about five sentences. I’m going to elaborate on a topic that’s been swimming around in the back of my mind for quite a while, eluding a firm grasp up until the last few days. Nagging me, a slippery thing that I haven’t quite been able to stick any words [...]
- 2/2/2024
- 6:35 pm
- Columns
Loosing Grip - By: Martin
Losing grip – Gone gone
Yo! Today’s column will be a short one, since I’m on holidays and far away from my RC’s. Tasmania would be an awesome place for some trailing with them, but I what with weight limitations I couldn’t bring anything along. The only RC related stuff I’ve done in the past ten days is planning what I’m going to do in the [...]
Losing grip – Even more than I wanted
Happy New year everyone! Did you see the coolest thing to be teased in a long time? Someone filling that IFS shaped hole in reality that I have been going on about for two years now? Two weeks ago i wrote “will someone take the plunge and release an all conquering IFS rock racer? The offspring of a Losi Hammer [...]
- 1/5/2024
- 12:07 pm
- Columns
Loosing Grip - By: Martin
Losing grip – Sideways
G’day everyone! Depending on when this is published, either 2023 is coming to its end, or 2024 has just been born. Christmas has come and gone. Some of you had a great one, some of you regrettably not so. Christmas is probably either the best or the worst part of the year for a lot of us. In many cases [...]
- 1/1/2024
- 3:10 pm
- Columns
Loosing Grip
RC Drifting - By: Martin
Losing grip – Christmas is coming
G’day folks! There’s probably no need to remind you, but living on the wrong hemisphere I constantly need to remind myself that Christmas is just around the corner. Ninety to a hundred degrees outside, blue sky, beach holiday, warm ocean waters, playing in the surf – it definitively does not feel anything like December to me. This Christmas my hobby wishes [...]
Losing grip – Phoenix, on fire!
Yo everybody! The Phoenix is dead, long live the Phoenix! A car with the brand name Phoenix, does have to have a phoenix paint job, methinks, and this is my attempt to make name and body justice.Back in black, with a phoenix on the bonnet and a phoenix’s feather on the side. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out, [...]
- 12/15/2023
- 6:53 pm
- Columns
Loosing Grip - By: Martin
Losing grip – Outside my comfort zone, again
G’day folks! Once again, I’ve strayed outside my comfort zone in regards to painting lexan bodies. My Vanquish Phoenix is getting a new body and I’m painting it using a combination Tamiya rattle cans, my trusted airbrush, and a fine detail brush. I’m not quite done yet, so at this stage you’ll have to make do with some pictures of [...]
- 12/7/2023
- 2:17 pm
- Columns
Loosing Grip
painting - By: Martin
Losing grip – Hatching plans
Yo and happy generic weekday! May it be a good one and provide you with a bit of relaxing hobby time. Failing that, let it at least provide you with some time of day dreaming of your next project – I’m sure there is one. I myself spend way too much time thinking of upcoming hobby projects, be it RC, [...]
Losing grip – Fawkes finally finished
Yeah, I know, scale pictures is all the rage nowadays. There’s zillions of those around, so I decided to do skate pics instead. Nothing like the local skate park for interesting backgrounds.So, beast number six is finally done: Fawkes the Phoenix. Blue and orange, contrasting colors for a simple and effective color scheme. I’m pretty happy with it, didn’t take [...]
- 11/16/2023
- 8:50 am
- Columns
Loosing Grip - By: Martin
Losing grip – Killing it with Killerbody
Lots of things are great about the Redcat RDS, but not the body. I am very happy about that, since it keeps the price down at lets me spend that money on getting whatever body I want instead. Sure, the included body does a good job covering the chassis and it’s got magnetic body mounts to boot, but for looks? [...]
- 11/3/2023
- 2:21 pm
- Columns
Killer Body RC
Killerbody
Loosing Grip
RC Drifting - By: Martin
Losing grip – VS4-10 interior painting
One thing that didn’t make the move to Australia was my compressor, so a couple of days ago I bought myself new one. Airflow isn’t quite as high as I would like, but it got the job done when I painted the interior of my VS4-10. Gotta do something while I wait for some bits and bobs for my RDS [...]
- 10/25/2023
- 11:20 am
- Columns
Loosing Grip
painting - By: Martin
