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Lotta solid axle monster truck talk in these parts, so I wanted to give some love to my Arrma Granite 4×4 BLX 3S which is now sporting a new shell! The JConcepts 1993 Ford F-250 Traxxas Stampede body is a direct fit for the Granite, as it’s designed right at a 10.5″ wheelbase. Perfect width as well. The only thing you may [...]
G’day mates, hi buddies and what’s up dudes! Nothing’s much is up here, but rain is pouring down. While one of my main drift theses is that just about anyone can find a place to drift close to where they live, I am not an advocate of drifting in miserable weather. In this weather I wouldn’t even take a crawler [...]
Well hello there fellow rc fanatic, I am Cubby, and this is my weekly column about our hobby. As people start filling out their taxes here in the America, the rc industry is gearing up for the annual “spring bump” in sales that tends to go along with people getting money back from their taxes. Once consumers get those fancy [...]
By now I think its safe to say that most people have seen the Traxxas Snap-on edition flatbed 6×6. Traxxas has done a few promotional rigs for Snap-On in the past and most of them end up on E-Bay extremely expensive. Until now, I never took an interest in any of them, but the Traxxas 6×6 flatbed got my attention [...]
“X-Maxx Cubby, Do you have any set-up suggestions on the X-Maxx? Just picked one up from a friend, are there any immediate mods that you know of? Bradley H.” Cubby- Hola there Bradley, thanks for taking a bit of your day to write in to BigSquidRC. If you email me your home addy, I will shoot ya out one of our sticker packs. So ya, [...]
Greetings everyone- it’s ya monster truck boy, Doug! I’m fresh off an MT racing weekend where I did very little actual racing. Instead, I spent the day driving around a brand new Axial SMT10 Grave Digger, sharing the remote with as many of my MT-obsessed buddies as I could, to get some collective impressions. The original Axial SMT10 came with a [...]
Here we are folks, another beautiful week in the rc hobby. Thanks for making the jump over to BigSquidRC, one of the best rc news/reviews sites on the web (but that is JMO, LOL). For this week I’ll start off with… Back during my “heyday” of rc, Team Associated was known as the technology leader, but in recent years that was [...]
A week ago, just about everytning I own was in boxes and bags, neatly stuffed away in the attic. A couple of days later, just about everything I own was all over the place, in a humongous mess that I had to wade through to get into the kitchen. Today, things are a bit more organized, and I can see [...]
What’s up everybody, last week the plague hit my home, so I didn’t get time to put out a post. With The Ultimate Scale Truck Expo only 14 Days away and only having 6 more days to finish up the builds it has been crunch time. Out of the 4 rigs we are bringing, the RC4WD Trailfinder 2 Blazer still [...]
“Skool bus body Mr. Cubby hope u can help me out. I’m a school bus driver and i am looking for a school bus body all over the net and was not able to find one. Since you are the rc man i was hoping you can use u your connections to find out where I could find [...]
I really, really tried to think of a dedicated monster truck topic for this week’s MTM, but after two weeks of trying to hold back the drag racing talk after Team Associated announced the DR10, well, the dam’s gonna break. And hey, since I’m venturing into drag racing talk, I just realized I never posted a picture of my boss “Magnum [...]
Last week was a big one for new releases thanks to the Nuremburg Toy Fair. Held in Germany, many of our industry’s top manufacturers were in attendance to show off new products for 2020. Nuremburg has long been one of the biggest trade shows held in our industry, lets have a look at some of the bigger announcements. Kyosho had been [...]
“Insert Question Here Hi Cubby, I have a tire insert question. What kind should I be running inside my tires????? I drive an E-Revo with Trenchers, would I even notice a difference by going to harder foams? Gary S.” Cubby- Hello there Gary, as always, thanks for writing in. Snail mail for a sticker pack bro. OK, so I will try and boil down [...]
I like to believe that I don’t often rant in this column, but today, please allow me. What’s up with MST’s pricing model? It makes no sense what so ever. On one end, we have the budget kits of the RMX 2.0S and the soon to be released FXX 2.0S. The RMX has a fair price of around 200 dollars for [...]
If you are reading this column, there is a good chance you own an r/c monster truck (or 10!). Probably good odds that if you are in the m/t fraternity, you own at least one 1/10 or 1/8 scale rig. Whether it’s a solid axle or independent suspension truck, there is one common truth – an 8 dollar black Kimbrough servo [...]
