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Happy Thursday everyone! While I haven’t been turning many wrenches the past week on my traditional monster trucks, I have been going at two “monsterous” truck projects! Last week I talked about my new RC4WD K10 Scottsdale and what I planned to do with it. Since then, my wheels, tires, and roll bar have all arrived! I’ve also picked up a JConcepts [...]
ShrinkRC has released a new line of parts for the Traxxas TR4X-M 1/18 High Trail Edition Cheyenne 10. As if the little rig didn’t look wicked already, now you can scale it out and look even better. The new parts are a hood scoop, toolboxes for the bed, along with full interior. The interior mounts right to the body and [...]
Hey gang and Happy Thursday! The RC4WD K10 Scottsdale that I ordered arrived late last week (thank you Remote Control Hobbies of Orlando!) and I’ve had a few days to paw it over. Like seemingly everyone else on the Internet who has one of these puppies, I’m impressed with it. This is the first time I’ve had a LWB Trail Finder 2 [...]
Happy today folks! It’s happy days for us RC-hobbyists, the amount of kits and RTRs available is staggering. I wonder if anyone is able to keep track of them all nowadays? So many brands, so many different scales. It’s definitively beyond me. In my little corner of the RC-universe things are slowly progressing. I work on the one build build, I [...]
Hey gang and Happy Thursday! I received a couple questions last week from a long time reader and I’ve been meaning to talk about one of the topics for awhile but didn’t know how to slip it into a column, so this is the perfect chance. These questions come courtesy of “The Trail Rat”. I am getting into radio control monster [...]
Having just finished building the chassis of my Vanquish VS4-10 Phoenix, but not yet done all the electronics, I am already looking forward to laying my hands on its successor. Naturally, it will be the VS4-11 Dragon, bringing a couple of improvements to an already great rig. Now mind that it hasn’t yet been released, development might actually not have [...]
Hello everyone and Happy Thursday! Those of you in the states- you’ve almost made it to a holiday weekend! As we head into Labor Day Weekend, we are about to unofficially close the door on Fall. I’m ready for it. It’s been too hot outside! Cool weather, football on tv, and autumn r/c bashing are 3 of my favorite things. I wanted to [...]
Hey gang, Happy Thursday to you! I feel like over the past calendar year I’ve written a lot about mud trucks. Around this time last year the original Traxxas TRX-4 High Trail was announced and released. I preordered one and had a blast with it. Just a couple weeks ago the gang at RC4WD announced the Scottsdale K10. They aren’t out [...]
G’day folks! Losing grip’s here again, starting to come to grips with the next build. The kit not yet having made it here and me being abstinent, I have done what little I could with the parts I had available. Great things have humble beginnings, right? Winch servo from Shift RC, winch line from Reefs RC and a scale Warn [...]
Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s Everybody’s Scalin’! The Big Squid RC scale shop has been extremely busy these last few weeks. With a bunch of new releases and a few more still to come, getting some time to start the Cross RC WT-4 has been a challenge. A build of this magnitude needs to be done slow, as [...]
Hey folks and Happy Thursday! Last week I wrote about updating my Rotten Apple paint scheme and it’s now finished so I wanted to share it here! The body I’m using is a JConcepts ’97 F-150, which works with the looooooong wheelbase of the TLR LMT. I trimmed a little extra out of the fenders and rounded the front by the bumper [...]
History and hobby both repeat themselves, right? Then we die, and then we’ll see. Or not. Anyway, I’ve got a new project coming up, the process being the standard one. Dreaming, choosing, planning, slowly accumulating, bargaining (with wife), building, painting, upgrading. Have done it before, will do it again. Ours is a great hobby! Contrary to what last week alluded to, [...]
As we predicted, the new RC4WD Trail Finder 2 LWB Chevrolet Scottsdale has sent the scale crawling world into a frenzy. And, rightfully so. When I heard We were getting the new Scottsdale, I imagined the RC4WD Blazer with just a longer bed and that was it. I have learned over the years that when I get insider info on [...]
What’s up everyone? Happy Thursday! It’s funny how the hobby works. A couple weeks ago due to being in the middle of moving houses and a variety of activities that all seemed to hit at once, I was ready to write about how I was dealing with burn-out and was perhaps on the verge of needing to take a break from [...]
A couple of days ago I was found guilty of smuggling. It was a simple case for the prosecutor, who found and secured all the hard evidence needed for conviction. I had nothing for it, but to plead guilty. Sadly, it wasn’t the first time. I am a repeat offender. One more strike, and I’m out. The contraband was four JConcept [...]
