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Yo! Today’s column will be a short one, since I’m on holidays and far away from my RC’s. Tasmania would be an awesome place for some trailing with them, but I what with weight limitations I couldn’t bring anything along. The only RC related stuff I’ve done in the past ten days is planning what I’m going to do in the [...]
Hello everyone and Happy Thursday! I’m not a traditional 1/10 or 1/8 scale off-road racer these days, though many moons ago I used be fairly hardcore about it. I raced 1/10 2wd buggy, 1/10 4wd buggy, 1/10 SCT, 1/10 Stadium truck…I even dabbled with some nitro monster truck stuff in the early 2000’s. I remember the discussion around that time frame when [...]
Greetings everyone and Happy Thursday! It’s gotten cold out and I’m currently taking a break from wrenching on trucks as my next few weekends are devoted to the NFL playoffs (and building Legos!), so I figure this is a good time to talk about large scale monster trucks. In particular large scale solid axle monsters. Large scale r/c is considered something that [...]
Happy New year everyone! Did you see the coolest thing to be teased in a long time? Someone filling that IFS shaped hole in reality that I have been going on about for two years now? Two weeks ago i wrote “will someone take the plunge and release an all conquering IFS rock racer? The offspring of a Losi Hammer [...]
Hello everyone- happy Thursday and happy New Year! The first post of the new year means I get to do my yearly predictions! Last year I hit 75% so I’m gonna try and do the same here….although I’ve got 3 predictions and not 4 so if I wanna go above that mark I’ll have to hit ’em all! As always, these predictions [...]
G’day everyone! Depending on when this is published, either 2023 is coming to its end, or 2024 has just been born. Christmas has come and gone. Some of you had a great one, some of you regrettably not so. Christmas is probably either the best or the worst part of the year for a lot of us. In many cases [...]
Hey everyone, hope you’re in the middle of some very happy holidays! It’s time for one of my favorite blogs of the year- looking back at my predictions for the r/c monster truck space for the now-previous year and seeing what I got right and what I got wrong. I’ll go over my four main bullets below, but you can read [...]
Hey folks, Happy Thursday! We are about to head into a very long weekend, or at least I am, as I’m going to be off from tonight through January 2nd. I am soooo looking forward to both the holidays AND time off. It’ll be some much needed time to get behind my work bench! I’ve got a Tamiya Konghead that’s not going to [...]
G’day folks! There’s probably no need to remind you, but living on the wrong hemisphere I constantly need to remind myself that Christmas is just around the corner. Ninety to a hundred degrees outside, blue sky, beach holiday, warm ocean waters, playing in the surf – it definitively does not feel anything like December to me. This Christmas my hobby wishes [...]
Hello everyone, sorry for the lack of Everybody’s Scalin’ lately. Over the last 6 months me and my wife have been working on something very special. That’s right, I’m giving up everything and becoming Amish. Ok so, that’s definitely not it, could you imagine me trying to raise a barn, or turning some butter? I can, and it’s not pretty. [...]
Yo everybody! The Phoenix is dead, long live the Phoenix! A car with the brand name Phoenix, does have to have a phoenix paint job, methinks, and this is my attempt to make name and body justice.Back in black, with a phoenix on the bonnet and a phoenix’s feather on the side. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out, [...]
Hello everyone and Happy Thursday! Hope your holiday season is goin’ great! I’m so hung up on all the solid axle monster truck stuff that’s always going on that I can be guilty of not paying enough attention to “standard” r/c monster trucks that feature independent suspensions. Hey, most of them make great bashers, but in general they just don’t get [...]
Greetings all and Happy Thursday! Before we get going this week, a big “congrats” to fellow Squid Jeremy on opening his own hobby shop, Juicebox Hobbies. Make sure to give his page a like/follow! I’m sad that I don’t live closer to partake in that sweet oval track he’s building! Good luck with this endeavor bro! In other news, I have finally [...]
G’day folks! Once again, I’ve strayed outside my comfort zone in regards to painting lexan bodies. My Vanquish Phoenix is getting a new body and I’m painting it using a combination Tamiya rattle cans, my trusted airbrush, and a fine detail brush. I’m not quite done yet, so at this stage you’ll have to make do with some pictures of [...]
Hello everyone and Happy Thursday! For most of my “hobby life”, my time modeling has been spent with r/c vehicles. Not so much on scale static models. Sure, I’ve done a few military vehicles, cars, and monster trucks over the years…but I wouldn’t say I’m a modeler. The more I got into scale r/c the last decade, the more that traditional modeling [...]
