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Things are moving in the world of RC drifting! By now you cannot have missed that Redcat has surprised us all by releasing a serious contender to the drift scene. While I have been taking a break from drifting for a while now, this is a release that has me excited. I should make a note that when I write “serious [...]
Hey all and Happy Thursday! One of the coolest things about the solid axle monster truck genre within the world of RC are all the small builders that are building custom products for the variety of platforms out there. The Clod, Axial SMT10 and Losi LMT hog their share of the limelight, but today I wanted to show off a small [...]
Today: heads. Because heads are important, not only to people in general, but also to an RC interior. If you’re doing an interior, it’s worth spending a bit of extra time on your chosen driver’s head, because that’s what our eyes are naturally drawn to. The very first thing anyone will see, upon reflex, is your driver’s face. We all [...]
Element RC has released the new Enduro Trailwalker Black RTR with a Scratch N’ Weather body. The updated Trailwalker looks wicked and reminds me of an older truck you would take in the woods for some off-road fun. The new Trailwalker Black is loaded with performance parts as well as the Stealth X gearbox. But what intrigued me the most [...]
A really good thing with the SCX10III is that it comes with an interior, complete with a driver. It certainly adds a lot to the look. Especially so if the interior is nicely painted. True, it is seldom seen up close, but still I like to spend some time on it. I mean, why not? It’s a hobby after all, [...]
Happy Thursday all! As we are set to hit February next week, many of us are at the height of bench racing season. New builds for warmer weather are being planned or are actively underway. All those builds need one thing regardless of whether they are a monster truck, buggy, scaler, or stadium truck….a set of tires and wheels. And when many [...]
Hey gang, happy Thursday! This week we are heading to the mailbag! Hello, We just got an Axial SMT10 Grave Digger from tower hobbies. We’re planning to race against a 2WD Traxxas Stampede that has the Traxxas brushless upgrade. So, I’ve been chatting with a man from Holmes Hobbies to try to find the best brushless set up for our SMT10. My question for you is: [...]
G’day folks, it’s time to Pimp My Ride! As you may know, ever since I released the TRX-4 Simba, I have felt a dire need to update the look of my SCX10III. I want to bring it up to the same standard as its Traxxas mate, which to me means both a new paint job and adding a bucketload of [...]
Farm Truck 2 has aged a lot in the last 2 weeks. While the cab of the truck was off for me to work on the motor, a gust of wind blew into the shop knocking over a wall to the scale shop. The wall landed right on the Dodge cab, cracking both pillars along with cracking the passenger door. [...]
Hey everyone and Happy Thursday! It’s a bit of a slow news week and I’ve been lazy with my current monster truck projects so I’m going to answer an e-mail that I received about 2 weeks ago from reader Voldemart07. Hey Doug I have been in the rc hobby for about 8 years and I want to build a race clod [...]
G’day mates! I hope you’ve all had a good Christmas and that you got some RC stuff from Santa. I did and did not. Christmas was great, but no RC stuff for me this year, somewhat surprisingly. My wife forgot about the Vanquish VS4-10 I had on the top of my list and gave me an Exit game instead. Or [...]
And just like that, it’s a new Event Season! Kicking off the year with the granddaddy of them all is The Ultimate Scale Truck Expo. The 7th annual USTE is sure to carry on its reputation of being the best RC Scale Modeling event in the country. This year’s event will bring more venders, beautiful trails, more vender row activities, [...]
Hello everyone and a Happy 2023 to you! I wound up spending the last two weeks at home, and given it’s been a long time since I’ve done that I had totally forgotten how time kind of just ceases to be and all days roll into one while on a long holiday break. It was nice getting back to the normal [...]
One of the easiest ways of improving your rigs crawling performance is to move its center of gravity closer to the ground by adding weight down low. The further down, the better. In other words: think around the axles. Portal covers, C-hubs, knuckles, differential covers and such. There’s numerous brass options available, and I have had the pleasure of trying [...]
Greetings gang! I hope your holidays were happy and that you find yourself surrounded by all sorts of new r/c gear! As we are preparing to flip the calendar over to 2023, I wanted to make a few predictions for the year to come. Let’s get to it.Losi LMT Sees a Refresh The Losi LMT has been out for two years [...]
