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Hey gang, happy Thursday! This week we are heading to the mailbag! Hello, We just got an Axial SMT10 Grave Digger from tower hobbies. We’re planning to race against a 2WD Traxxas Stampede that has the Traxxas brushless upgrade. So, I’ve been chatting with a man from Holmes Hobbies to try to find the best brushless set up for our SMT10. My question for you is: [...]
G’day folks, it’s time to Pimp My Ride! As you may know, ever since I released the TRX-4 Simba, I have felt a dire need to update the look of my SCX10III. I want to bring it up to the same standard as its Traxxas mate, which to me means both a new paint job and adding a bucketload of [...]
Farm Truck 2 has aged a lot in the last 2 weeks. While the cab of the truck was off for me to work on the motor, a gust of wind blew into the shop knocking over a wall to the scale shop. The wall landed right on the Dodge cab, cracking both pillars along with cracking the passenger door. [...]
Hey everyone and Happy Thursday! It’s a bit of a slow news week and I’ve been lazy with my current monster truck projects so I’m going to answer an e-mail that I received about 2 weeks ago from reader Voldemart07. Hey Doug I have been in the rc hobby for about 8 years and I want to build a race clod [...]
G’day mates! I hope you’ve all had a good Christmas and that you got some RC stuff from Santa. I did and did not. Christmas was great, but no RC stuff for me this year, somewhat surprisingly. My wife forgot about the Vanquish VS4-10 I had on the top of my list and gave me an Exit game instead. Or [...]
And just like that, it’s a new Event Season! Kicking off the year with the granddaddy of them all is The Ultimate Scale Truck Expo. The 7th annual USTE is sure to carry on its reputation of being the best RC Scale Modeling event in the country. This year’s event will bring more venders, beautiful trails, more vender row activities, [...]
Hello everyone and a Happy 2023 to you! I wound up spending the last two weeks at home, and given it’s been a long time since I’ve done that I had totally forgotten how time kind of just ceases to be and all days roll into one while on a long holiday break. It was nice getting back to the normal [...]
One of the easiest ways of improving your rigs crawling performance is to move its center of gravity closer to the ground by adding weight down low. The further down, the better. In other words: think around the axles. Portal covers, C-hubs, knuckles, differential covers and such. There’s numerous brass options available, and I have had the pleasure of trying [...]
Greetings gang! I hope your holidays were happy and that you find yourself surrounded by all sorts of new r/c gear! As we are preparing to flip the calendar over to 2023, I wanted to make a few predictions for the year to come. Let’s get to it.Losi LMT Sees a Refresh The Losi LMT has been out for two years [...]
Hey gang and Happy Holidays! As many of us head into a work break between Christmas and New Year’s, and I wanted to do a quick follow-up on my “What is a Retro RC Monster Truck?” post. The time is right for an r/c company to release a scale old school monster truck. I’ll do my annual “predictions” column in a week [...]
As Christmas quickly approaches, what better time than now to go over a few rigs that would make great gifts for under the tree this year! Since I already burned up my next 6 Christmas’s by buying a Side by Side, I will be living vicariously through all of your RC gifts this holiday. ELEMENT RC ENDURO SE TRAIL TRUCK, SENDERO [...]
Hey gang and Happy Thursday to you! Every now and then in this space I’ve discussed my love of the SnowRunner / Spintires series of video games. I recently got a Tamiya Globe Liner to build into a truck for purposes such as this (more details on the build coming soon here, as I’m already modifying it!). Well, last weekend I [...]
G’day folks and welcome to another Losing Grip column. Except for Doug, he’s not welcome, he stole my planned subject for today! Dang. Anyway, late again, I am sorry to say, but such is the nature of hobbies. They require spare time, and when little or no spare time is acquired, hobbies are given no quarter. What I am happy to [...]
Hey folks, Doug here and Happy Friday! Sorry this is coming out a day late, but I was on the road all of yesterday! What is a Retro RC Monster Truck? This is a subject I’ve been wanting to tackle for awhile now. It’s a very opinionated topic in the r/c monster truck world. I recorded a video on the topic and [...]
Hello everyone and welcome back to this edition of Everybody’s Scalin’. The scale shop is almost as busy as Santa’s right about now. With ongoing builds such as, the Ecto1, Farm Trucks engine bay, the ShrinkRC Chevy, and few new releases, starting something new wasn’t on the books for the scale shop. After receiving the new Frixion RC Drag Racing [...]
