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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Yo and happy generic weekday! May it be a good one and provide you with a bit of relaxing hobby time. Failing that, let it at least provide you with some time of day dreaming of your next project – I’m sure there is one. I myself spend way too much time thinking of upcoming hobby projects, be it RC, [...]
Yeah, I know, scale pictures is all the rage nowadays. There’s zillions of those around, so I decided to do skate pics instead. Nothing like the local skate park for interesting backgrounds.So, beast number six is finally done: Fawkes the Phoenix. Blue and orange, contrasting colors for a simple and effective color scheme. I’m pretty happy with it, didn’t take [...]
Lots of things are great about the Redcat RDS, but not the body. I am very happy about that, since it keeps the price down at lets me spend that money on getting whatever body I want instead. Sure, the included body does a good job covering the chassis and it’s got magnetic body mounts to boot, but for looks? [...]
One thing that didn’t make the move to Australia was my compressor, so a couple of days ago I bought myself new one. Airflow isn’t quite as high as I would like, but it got the job done when I painted the interior of my VS4-10. Gotta do something while I wait for some bits and bobs for my RDS [...]
G’day folks and may it be a happy one! A good way for me to make any day better, is to paint. Case in point: I have more painted RC bodies than I have chassis to fit them on. Currently on my work desk (well, outside dining table) is the body of my VS4-10 Phoenix. According to personal naming tradition [...]
By now, no one can have missed the coolest release of the year: RC4WD’s Miller Motorsports 1/10 Pro Rock Racer. In my mind, this is the best thing that has happened in a long time: someone finally taking the 2.2″ rock crawler-racer game to the next level. Amazing scale looks, 2-speed transmission with selectable 2WD or 4WD, selectable front and [...]
One cool thing with living in Queensland, Australia, is that RCs have become real. 4WD is a big thing here, and street racing is real. Not so back home. Only here have I been able to start to fully relate to the scale bug that now totally dominates the RC world. I enjoy it. Previously, names like Dick Cepek, Mickey Thompson, [...]