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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 [...]
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 [...]
Over at Axial they have uploaded a CJ-7 vs Real Jeep – My Axial Adventure Video. The crew at Axial have been making some of the most scale authentic looking trucks on the market for many years now and their Jeep CJ-7 RTR is one of their very best. With a realistic looking body and chassis, the Axial Jeep CJ-7 [...]
New over at Axial is the SCX24 Jeep JT Gladiator RTR. With serious scale realism and a highly capable 4wd chassis, the SCX24 Jeep JT Gladiator is ready for hardcore off-roading indoors, or out. Here are the highlights- * Detailed Jeep JT Gladiator polycarbonate body * Oil-filled shocks * Durable metal chassis * Spektrum SLT2 2.4GHz radio system * Spektrum 350mAh LiPo battery with 0.5A [...]
Just announced by Axial is the 1/24 SCX24 Jeep Wrangler JLU 4X4 RTR. This incredibly scale looking Jeep is fully licensed and designed for serious off-road performance. Here are the highlights- * Detailed Jeep Wrangler JLU polycarbonate body * Two new color options * New oil-filled shocks * Durable metal chassis * Spektrum SLT2 2.4GHz radio system * Spektrum 350mAh LiPo battery and USB charger * Licensed [...]
Check it out! My trx-4 Simba has finally gotten a brother in my SCX10 Akela. Which do you prefer? Cat or canine? Hot or cold. Dusk or dawn? Red or blue? We all have a preference, don’t we? The Lion King or The Jungle Book? So that you don’t have to google it: Akela is the leader of the wolf [...]
New and hot from Axial is the 1/10 SCX10 Pro Scaler 4WD Kit. The new SCX10 Pro offers convenience, value, and top-level performance for your next scale crawler build. Here are more highlights- * Adjustable competition specific chassis * Optimized for climbing, side hilling, and break over * Multi-piece steel tube axles for servo on the axle or chassis-mounted servo * Low and forward [...]
G’day folks! No physics lesson today, but an update on my heavily upgraded SCX24. A wonderful little car it is, suitable for indoors, capable enough for outdoors, small enough to fit in a backpack with room to spare for coffee and biscuits. A lot of bang for the buck, and durable too – it hardly weighs anything, and it certainly [...]
G’day mates! Another week of losing grip is here, and my SCX24 has aged twenty years since last week. As you might remember, it was first repainted by Bob’s grandson Rob in a shark scheme commemorating the Curtis P40 Warhawk that Bob once flew. Initially lovingly taken care of, it was then forgotten and found recently, in a somewhat derelict [...]
G’day folks! The post apocalyptic landscape of winter in southern Sweden is slowly giving way to something that might eventually turn into spring. Snowdrops have started to turn up in the garden, giving us all a little hope of better weather eventually. With better weather comes more RC. Driving when it’s freezing outside is fun, driving on ice is fun, [...]
Any good project starts with a little bit of dreaming. That’s the easy part. After dreaming comes pondering, then calculating and compromising runs in parallell for a while, eventually reaching the decision point side by side and slightly irritated with each other. Both have to be involved, neither can win. Decision point is where it all turns around, but this time [...]
Yes, that’s an Axial Bomber driving through a puddle. And here goes Viper:Not quite as impressive, but what it all comes down to, is this: shared fun. I’ve had a two month hiatus from RC, due to work being busy and spare time scarce, but today I finally hit the trails again. Drift season is gone now, at least for [...]
It is well known that a low center of gravity improves crawling performance, by making a car less prone to tipping over. A forward weight bias improves climbing ability for the very same reason, and that’s why manufacturers compete to have the motor mounted as far forward, and as far down as possible. A wider car also makes it less [...]
As I see it, there’s three different roads to chose between when upgrading an Axial SCX10-3: scale looks, performance or durability. Some upgrades tick not one, but two boxes, other upgrades will be an improvement in one area, and an actual detriment in another. Example on the former: aluminum wheels look good, and also add weight down low, hence improving [...]
There are pros and cons to building a kit, rather than going the easy way and buying an RTR. The main pros being that one can choose electronics, the main cons being that one has to choose electronics. Some people might also add that it is a disadvantage that the body of a kit doesn’t come painted, but for me [...]
