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Today is the day I order a new body. It doesn’t really have to be much younger than the present one, but I’m thinking one without grey hairs and with no Iliotibial Band Syndrome that prevents me from running, but with perfect eye sight and just a tad whiter teeth. I am sure the guys working at the lab in [...]
Hey guys, it’s ya boy Doug. Regular BSRC readers will know me as “the monster truck guy” that writes the weekly Monster Truck Madness column. Don’t worry, that isn’t changing. What IS changing is that I am now going to be writing a semi-regular r/c drag racing column that chronicles my slow descent into THIS kind of madness as well! I’m [...]
I had planned on providing an update this week on my new Tamiya Clod Buster, but instead I wanted to use this space to promote something cool that our friends over at Horizon Hobby and Axial are doing. It’s a tough time for everyone right now and as if local hobby shops needed any more stress than normal, this whole ordeal [...]
What’s been happening in the drift world lately? Not much. The opening of Formula Drift has been postponed, and is now planned to kick off in Atlanta on July 3-4. Yokomo’s home turf Yatabe arena has closed due to corona. MST hasn’t released a new chassis, nor has Yokomo or Overdose. What Yokomo has released, is a new drift site, [...]
Well hello there fellow hobbyists, I hope you and your family members are well. The BigSquidRC Bash Crew has been doing fine, we’ve all been doing the social distancing thing to keep healthy, and, so far, so good. Shall we jump right on in??? So… you would think that the Covid-19 pandemic would be a crusher to the rc hobby. And [...]
When it comes to painting a lexan body it can be hit or miss for me. The Proline Dodge Ramcharger was the last lexan body I painted; overall I think it tuned out good for a few reasons. First off, the main body is only one color, doing one solid color is a lot easier then doing a two tone. [...]
“Industry question Cub, what are you hearing out there? How bad is it so far? (Name withheld by request)” Cubby- Well hello there “Name withheld by request”, pleasure to meet ya, LOL. 🙂 Ya know, I would totally have expected the Covid-19 pandemic to have kicked the pecker-in of pretty much everyone in rc. However, that is not the case. There are some [...]
The best way to beat the quarantine blues? A new build! Not just any new build, but a Tamiya Clod Buster, my favorite r/c of all time. I’m not actually sure how many Clods I’ve built at this point, but I’ve done a good number of them. I’ve never really detailed a build throughout the process, though. Now’s the time. Clods are [...]
Well hello there fellow rc enthusiast, my name is Cubby and this is my report. Each week I like to go over “the big stuff” in the rc news, then add my crazy slant on the rc biz. So… while Covid-19 is making a mess of the world, the rc biz just keeps on cranking out the good stuff. So [...]
Hello everybody, over the last week in between test runs of the new Axial SCX10iii I was pulling out some of my rigs that haven’t been ran in while. One was the Axial Can-Am Yeti Jr., last summer the ESC took a dump after the Can-Am was submerged for a long period of time. Not really wanting to spend a [...]
While I am not a frequent prowler of Facebook groups, I venture into them every now and then when I need to kill some time. Like on night shifts, when everything is quiet, but I still need to stay awake. Perfect time for forays into this thick RC undergrowth, where strange and beautiful things can be found. If not by [...]
“Going cordless What’s a good cordless drill set-up for wrenching Cubby? I am finally ready to make the switch as I am getting older and my arthritis is kicking my ass. Randy B.” Cubby- Well hello there oh Great Randy, thanks for shooting me an email. Ya know, I have used MIP hand tools for close to, ummmmmm, like gee, over 20 years now. [...]
Greetings and salutations! Over the weekend I completed the grueling task of totally cleaning out my basement in preparation for selling my house. That is quite boring in and of itself, but in going through all my old bins and boxes I found a treasure trove of old monster truck memorabilia. Just look at this box of magazines I found.Chomp. Vintage Playboys? [...]
Well hello there fellow rc enthusiast, thanks for coming over to BigSquidRC to check things out. I use THE Cub Report each week to talk about happenings in the industry, new product releases, as well as other non-sense. No need to wait, let’s dive on in… First up, believe it or not, we are nearing the apogee for the SARS-CoV2 virus. [...]
Yo! G’day! What’s up! Mambo vipi! Guten tag! 你好 Tjena! Bonjour! привет! I figure not all readers have English as their first language, so why not try a couple of different languages by way of greeting? With my somewhat eclectic pick of English, Chinese (Mandarin?), Russian, German, Swahili, Swedish and French, I ought to greet roughly a third of the [...]
