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Monster Truck Madness – Tamiya Kong Head 6×6

Greetings all and Happy Thursday! It only took 4 months of dragging my feet to get it done, but my Tamiya Konghead 6×6 G6-01 is now finished! This truck isn’t exactly going to be a shelf Queen, as I intend to take it out to r/c monster truck events to play around with it….but it will indeed spend most of its life [...]

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Monster Truck Madness – 1/5 Primal M/T V4 is Announced

Greetings all and Happy Thursday! This week I had planned to talk about my Tamiya Konghead build, as the truck is finished save for the paint job. However, with Primal R/C announcing the V4 version of their 1/5 Monster Truck, I figured I’d turn my attention to that big fella. For those that are unaware, the V4 is the fourth revision (duh) [...]

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Losing grip – Comfortably uncomfortable

Yo! Long time no write, I hope you’ve missed me. In between considering whether to emigrate and how to provide for my family when I quit my present job in three months, I have spent some time dreaming up my next body. Nothing like painting to settle my mind when it has been crowded with Big Thoughts and Major Considerations. Truth [...]

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Monster Truck Madness – Rotten Apple Hauler

Hello everyone and a hearty “Happy Thursday” to you! Last week I celebrated my 40th birthday, and the main gift that my fiancee got me was a new roll around toolbox/workstation for my r/c and scale modeling! In Rotten Apple colors, no less!It’s really nice because whereas I had one dedicated work bench for my hobby stuff before, now it’s expanded [...]

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Monster Truck Madness – Talkin’ Losi LMT Spec Racing

Hey folks, happy Thursday to you! This week we are heading into the monster mailbag as I got a good one involving the Losi LMT. Hey Doug, Recently I was watching some Trigger King races,  is there a reason you guys don’t have a LMT spec class anymore? Not really a fair race when stock LMT’s are up against a modded out clod. What about a shock on [...]

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Monster Truck Madness – Trigger King RC Turns 10

Hello everyone and a Happy Thursday to ya! We’ve been working on the schedule for the upcoming Trigger King R/C monster truck racing season and here it is! This year Trigger King turns 10 years old. We’ve come a long way from our first event back in 2014, and we hope you’ll come out and race with us sometime this year! We race [...]

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Monster Truck Madness – So Many Gears

Hey everyone, Happy Thursday! I have finally begun building my Tamiya Konghead 6×6, and thus far it’s been a fun and relatively simple build. The photo above is that of the gearbox, right before mating both sides of the chassis together. It’s a pretty wild design in that the entire driveline is gears! The entire chassis IS the gearbox. There is a [...]

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Losing grip – Intrinsic hobby values

Happy Friday everyone! Today, some of you might quit reading after about five sentences. I’m going to elaborate on a topic that’s been swimming around in the back of my mind for quite a while, eluding a firm grasp up until the last few days. Nagging me, a slippery thing that I haven’t quite been able to stick any words [...]

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Monster Truck Madness – Getting Back Into the Groove

Hey everyone, Happy Thursday! Another week almost over, another week closer to winter being over and being able to get outside. Funny how every year seems to work the same for me. After monster truck racing season ends in October I need a bit to recover. I usually don’t have a ton of desire to work on r/c projects until we [...]

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EVERYBODY’S SCALIN’ – RCGARAGES.COM!

What is up Squid Nation! Over the last few years, I have been seeing a lot of wicked scale garages. Weather its build from scratch, or bought, the scale garage world is opening up, allowing everyone to enjoy another outlet in the hobby.For me, a scale garage is a must have if you are into the scale side of the [...]

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Monster Truck Madness - Building something like a Juggernaut…

Hey all, Happy Thursday! I received a good e-mail from a reader the other day in reference to my 2024 prediction column. I figured it would be a good basis for discussion this week. Hi Doug. Big fan of your articles. Reading the most recent prediction one, I noticed something about the lack of a revival of the Juggernaut occurring being the only [...]

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Losing grip – Gone gone

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 [...]

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Monster Truck Madness – Talkin’ Truggy Bodies

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 [...]

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Monster Truck Madness - What's my ideal size for a Large Sca…

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 [...]

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Losing grip – Even more than I wanted

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 [...]

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