File this one deep in the rumor mill drawer, but we have started hearing some rumblings about a possible new 1/5th scale coming from Traxxas! This is one of those brothers, uncle’s, roomate’s cat sort of deals, but the last time we reported a Lowered Slash Traxxas Rumor we got a LCG chassis a few [...]
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I think a lot of folks are wondering how the HPI Racing Super 5SC Flux is going to do. It’s priced right, it’s big, and it’s 4WD! We had the chance to unbox one with our good friend Steve from the Hobby Town in Orland Park, IL. First impressions are decent. It’s big and heavy, [...]
No doubt the huge tires on the Losi 5T can present a formidable challenge to any servo. Dark Soul Racing looked at the problem and came up with a nifty dual servo mount. Double your pleasure, double your fun as they say, but in this case two servos can come in mighty handy for swinging [...]
There has been a few vehicles on our ‘wish list’ for a while now, and this is one of them! It sounds like HPI Racing is getting close to releasing the Super 5SC Flux RTR. This truck gives bashers the chills. Since the release of the HPI Baja, A 1/5th scale 4WD has had people [...]
Alumicraft RC aren’t the only ones making aluminum bodies for 1/5 scalers. Race Car Prototypes, which is a company known more for making full scale race car bodies, is releasing their own aluminum body, which you can see to the left right (sorry, I was writing this post while looking in a mirror) here. But [...]
Tired of all the little 1/10th and 1/8th stuff? The MCD Racing booth was packed with 1/5th scale goodness Nuremberg Toy Fair. Highlights include the prototype vehicle with the 2 Tekin motors, and some Castle Creations conversion kits. Even their electric versions need brakes to help slow these huge things down. More pics after the [...]
Apparently the gang over at RC Madness have been hard at work on a secret project. That would be a brushless conversion for the relatively new Losi 5ive-T. According to some info on Dean Berry’s blog over at RC Driver this thing will be a 12S (!) powered beast of a machine. Not much more [...]
Wow! File this under ‘we didn’t see this coming!!’ Losi has just announced the Losi 5IVE-T!! It’s a 1/5th scale 4WD off-road racing truck. Comes with 1/4 scale servo’s, Spektrum radio equipment, and has a drivetrain based on the 8IGHT platform! It has a 2-stroke 26CC gas engine, 5mm CNC chassis, large-bore shocks with 7mm [...]
In the ‘ask and you shall receive’ world, HPI has just announced the new Baja 5sc SS Limited Edition. The 1/5th scale Limited Edition is an unassembled kit for racers that are looking to really get their hands dirty and build it from the ground up. It has been created based on requests that HPI [...]
For all those GO BIG or GO HOME large scale people, Futaba has announced the S3306MG. It’s a 1/5th scale metal gear servo. At 6v is has 333oz of torque and a speed of .16 sec/60. So it sounds like it can pack a punch and be quick about it! Expect the price to be [...]
Sometimes big, 1/8 scale monster trucks like the Savage, just aren’t big enough. For those times, Kershaw Designs has their Stalwart V3, brushless powered, 1/5 scale monster truck. So you’re probably thinking, how could they make a 1/5 scale monster truck brushless powered? Easy, this big boy actually weighs less than a HPI Baja 5B. [...]
RTR Sucks. I said it, and I don’t feel bad for saying it. So any time I hear of a kit version of any vehicle being released I jump for joy. HPI has long been cool about releasing their Baja 5 line as a kit version, so their new Baja 5SC SS comes as no [...]
HPI Racing has some new gear for the recently released Baja 5SC and the Baja 5T. The new TR-10 wheels are true bead locks that will hold your tires securely without glue. The wheels are available in four finishes: white, black, gunmetal gray, and chrome. The fronts measure in at 120x60mm and have a 4mm [...]