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What is going on Scalin’ Squids! It has been busy around the BSRC Kentucky HQ, with multiple builds going on and setting up the new off-road park A.K.A Juicebox Holler, things are running smooth. The new trail layout has been working out well, walking paths are big enough for the mower too blow off the trails and obstacles are laid [...]
Hey everyone and Happy Thursday! This past weekend, on Saturday September 10th, BIGFOOT 4×4 held their annual Open House and this one was one of the best yet! The full sized monster trucks put on a show, complete with some old school car crushing (you can see a highlight video I threw together below), and the RC portion of the event featured [...]
When everyone else out there seem to be building their own version of the new TRX-4 High Trail, I’m as behind as ever and am turning a TRX-4 kit into a 2021 Bronco. Goes to prove that I never was an early adopter, and that Brian needs to raise my pay check. Speaking of money: if you want a TRX-4 [...]
We have lift off Squid Nation! The Ecto 1 from Scale Rat is in the shop and starting to get the parts mocked up. Having to wait this long was not ideal, with moving states I knew I couldn’t have given the Scale Rat Ecto 1 the proper treatment until I was in the new shop.There were a few ways [...]
Hey all and Happy Thursday. Before getting into the matter at hand here, I hope to see some of you this Saturday at BIGFOOT Open House! You can click here for event info. Well, I went and did it. I cut the check for a Traxxas TRX-4 High Trail. Having the lift kit pre-installed and that killer Chevy body were too [...]
Do you know where your car’s center of gravity is? I do, and you can find out in less than five minutes. It might save you money, and it might inform you to make better upgrade decisions. I’ll start by explaining center of gravity, will then touch on torque, do a quick brief on tipping point and base of support, and then run [...]
Hey guys, as September kicks off today we are now in BIGFOOT Open House month! This annual Fall tradition is taking place on September 10th at 10AM in Pacific, MO- a suburb outside the city of St. Louis! There will be car crushes with BIGFOOT and Snake-Bite monster trucks, old school monster trucks doing crushes (not sure on the truck line-up [...]
An external BEC is a nifty little device that I recently realised I use too often. Maybe you do as well? My Bomber, Yeti and SCX10III all have one, added by way of default thinking as I was setting up the electronics on them. I had read that it’s a good thing, and so added one to every car without [...]
How best to spread this great hobby of ours? It’s a rich one, with lots of different aspects to dwelve deeper into: driving (duh…), building, painting, racing, engineering. Indoors, outdoors, in mud, on asphalt, at the beach, in the mountains, on the trails. Not that I really have to tell you, you know what I’m talking about. If it is good, [...]
Last weekend I was out exploring and found a wicked Comic shop not too far from the Squid Farm. Comic shops tend to carry action figures, A.K.A scale drivers. While I didn’t find any new drivers, I did stumble across something new that I haven’t seen before. Cardboard pop-up dioramas for 6”-7” inch figures, that also happens to be the [...]
We are in the golden era of scale r/c so it takes a lot to wow me these days, but my jaw dropped when seeing the new Traxxas TRX-4 High Trail Edition. Good freakin’ grief, that square body Chevy body is GORGEOUS. All that chrome! Yes, the purist in me sees the portal axles under that classic GM iron and says HMMM, [...]
Hello everyone and thanks for stopping by! It has been very involved setting up the Big Squid RC Kentucky HQ the last few weeks. As I like to say, “you can’t rush art” with that being said, the new trails are being made and the scale shop is up and running in full swing.The start of the SHRINK RC build [...]
The summer isn’t over yet, but enough of it has passed for me to label it as a good one. I have done a fair bit of trail running with my SCX10III, and although not quite as long walks as I had hoped, certainly enough to be happy about it and to properly evaluate some of the work I’ve put [...]
Late last week the folks at Losi dropped a surprise out of the nowhere, a mega truck version of the LMT in officially licensed King Sling and Bog Hog liveries! This news set monster truck message boards alight over the weekend. This isn’t a case where the LMT platform just made a tire and body swap either- there are a good [...]
FMS Model is hitting the mainstream sizes with their first 1:24 scale rig. The new Power Wagon has the looks, but will it amount to the scale wickedness that FMS Model has become popular for? Find out here, because the Big Squid RC FMS Model 1:24 Power Wagon review starts now!From: FMS Model Direct link: FMS Model 1:24 Power Wagon Unboxing video:Running [...]
