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It’s New Year’s Day. You’re all probably too hung over to read this and make sense of it anyway (or maybe I’m still too drunk to write it in a way that makes sense to you…), so I’m just going to put in a bunch of squid related links. Also, nobody is doing anything except partying, so there’s not much [...]
It’s Christmas, what are you doing reading this? Go spend time with your loved ones you loner. On another note, I didn’t get my Clod Buster. 🙁 But I hope Santa brought you all that you wanted and more importantly that you’ve had and continue to have a wonderful Christmas weekend with your loved ones. Be [...]
Photo of the Week:Hyper 8 Pro electric short course conversion by Michael Flower If you have an awesome photo of your car or truck that you think warrants photo of the week honors, there’s multiple ways to get it into consideration. First is our forum, create a thread in any board, we check them all. Second is via the Big Squid [...]
Photo of the Week:Serious fun under a menacing sky by Howard Elton Build Log: A radio controlled gaming PC? On tank tracks? With mechanical grabbing arm? Awesome. ‘Nother Build Log: 1/6 scale Dodge Ram – Those New Bright toys are a good source of great looking, large scale bodies. Going Mainstream?: Apparently Toys ‘R’ Us is selling Traxxas trucks (and Venom and [...]
Photo of the Week:by XiPHiAS PhotographyYou know, ever since the first time I saw a steam powered r/c boat, I’ve wanted to build a steam powered r/c car modeled after a Stanley Steamer of yore. That would be a fun project, assuming it doesn’t burst into flames. Build Log: PontiacGT201’s SCX10 project – Forum member PontiacGT201 show’s off his latest project. [...]
Photo of the Week:‘Full Scale RC Hummer’ by GizMag.com While there isn’t a lot of info on the GizMag.com site except that they took a new Hummer H3 and one month to convert it to RC, there is almost no other information except that it ‘handled well’. Lots of people have done full scale RC but whenever you see someone convert [...]
Photo of the Week:By Nicolas Petit Build Log: Project Groundskeeper Willie – Heavy on pictures, light on text. Don’t know what’s what, but the results are pretty nice, especially the custom chassis plates. Doing Good: Donate $5 to Toys for Tots through TGN Distributing and be entered into a custom Baja 5B Raffle at the Bajambug Toy Drive. Drawing is [...]
Photo of the Week:‘Jeff Hoy Does His MicroMan’ by Brian After packing up at iHobby, I decided Jeff had spent way too much time behind the camera, and it was time for him to give us his best Wesley ‘MicroMan’ Dennis shot! Blog: “Axial’s Blog” – Axial’s Web Blog – Always filled with some good pictures and stories! If you haven’t [...]
Photo of the Week:Yokomo dori-dori by Tamás Kárpáti Article: “Calling the R/C companies out!” – 5 Things Every RC Car Should Include – Careful guys, if you keep doing hard hitting stuff like this you might start to lose advertisers! Build Log: Real Death Racer WIP – NASCAR Meets Mad Max. This one should turn out totally frickin awesome. Cool link: White Lake [...]
Photo of the Week:by Jeff Rogerson The IHobby Expo is just around the corner and I have to finish packing my bags for the flight out. It just occurred to me that the airlines charge for baggage now, so I have to unpack all my r/c cars. I just can’t afford to take 18 bags for a five day trip. Of [...]
Photo of the Week:by Paul Tichonczuk’s friend, Christian So there was a huge thunderstorm taking place east of me last night. A lot of lightning and all that, it looked really cool. So I grabbed my camera, hopped in my truck, and started driving east. After about 25 miles I hadn’t gotten any closer to it. Turns out that thunderstorm was [...]
Photo of the week:by Grant Cox It’s another quickie this week as I wait to catch my plane back home after three weeks of fun in the sun sweating my ***** off in California doing some Navy stuff and learning about sheet metal. Here’s what I made:Build log: Ultimate scrap build – Jumping into the wayback machine for this one, [...]
Jeff sent me a text saying he was going to have trouble getting to his uber weekly R/C around the web post, so I told him I would try and cover. Please don’t send in the hate mail, it’s just once! 😛 Pic of the week Our picture of the week is also the project build of the week! You [...]
Photo of the Week: RC Drift cars by Mia_spb It’s some Slim Pickens this week around the web. It doesn’t help that I’m out of town for a few weeks and don’t have as much time to browse the interwebs as I’d like to have. But oh well, if you don’t like it, ask for a refund. Laughing at other’s expense: [...]
Photo of the Week: By julianfb. So after a few months of behind the scenes work, the Big Boss Man decided our new site was finally ready for prime time. Hope you all like it. Also make sure to make use of the new features at the bottoms of each post to “Like” stuff on Facebook or share on Twitter [...]
