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Photo of the Week:Hyper 8 Pro electric short course conversion by Michael Flower If you have an awesome photo of your car or truck that you think warrants photo of the week honors, there’s multiple ways to get it into consideration. First is our forum, create a thread in any board, we check them all. Second is via the Big Squid [...]
I rarely comment much before the letters here in the ASK Cubby column, but I gotta say you guys have been blow’n up our mail boxes lately. Just a couple years ago we’d be lucky to get 10 letters a week, now days, especially in the last few weeks, you guys have been going absolutely nuts! We appreciate you taking [...]
Photo of the Week:Serious fun under a menacing sky by Howard Elton Build Log: A radio controlled gaming PC? On tank tracks? With mechanical grabbing arm? Awesome. ‘Nother Build Log: 1/6 scale Dodge Ram – Those New Bright toys are a good source of great looking, large scale bodies. Going Mainstream?: Apparently Toys ‘R’ Us is selling Traxxas trucks (and Venom and [...]
You have questions, we have answers, you have issues, we’ve got your tissues. ========== “To whom it may concern; you may want to revise your test results & testing methods in the 4s lipo shootout… Capacity test: You put the turnigy lipo in last place because it had the lowest mah capacity; that’s utterly ridiculous. That’s like scoring a Ferrari higher because its [...]
Photo of the Week:by XiPHiAS PhotographyYou know, ever since the first time I saw a steam powered r/c boat, I’ve wanted to build a steam powered r/c car modeled after a Stanley Steamer of yore. That would be a fun project, assuming it doesn’t burst into flames. Build Log: PontiacGT201’s SCX10 project – Forum member PontiacGT201 show’s off his latest project. [...]
Tis’ the season to email Cubby. Let me present to you this weeks stellar letters…. ========== “ok so i have a mamba max pro st up in my Traxxas bandit(similar to the rustler). the motor has a 2s limit and heats up fast even geared low. i was wondering what you thought of Novak ballistic motors, they seem to be good but [...]
Photo of the Week:‘Full Scale RC Hummer’ by GizMag.com While there isn’t a lot of info on the GizMag.com site except that they took a new Hummer H3 and one month to convert it to RC, there is almost no other information except that it ‘handled well’. Lots of people have done full scale RC but whenever you see someone convert [...]
Each week we bring to you only the very best of our readers questions, this week is no exception. ========== “hi i have found the shootouts very helpful i own a baja 5b and i have just got a 2wd slash so i have no idea about brushless and i was curious if a brushless shootout might be in the future 6.7#TreverM. Race [...]
Photo of the Week:By Nicolas Petit Build Log: Project Groundskeeper Willie – Heavy on pictures, light on text. Don’t know what’s what, but the results are pretty nice, especially the custom chassis plates. Doing Good: Donate $5 to Toys for Tots through TGN Distributing and be entered into a custom Baja 5B Raffle at the Bajambug Toy Drive. Drawing is [...]
Noobs, guru’s, it doesn’t matter, they all have questions…. ========== “Hi, I would like to know what size Lipo you would recommend for the Evader EXT2? I know I will have to add the LVC, but they say the rest is good to go with a Lipo. I an new to Lipo technology and not sure how to size (20c,30c and so on). Thanks,Robert” Cubby– What’s [...]
Photo of the Week:‘Jeff Hoy Does His MicroMan’ by Brian After packing up at iHobby, I decided Jeff had spent way too much time behind the camera, and it was time for him to give us his best Wesley ‘MicroMan’ Dennis shot! Blog: “Axial’s Blog” – Axial’s Web Blog – Always filled with some good pictures and stories! If you haven’t [...]
Meng Tzu once said, “When a man’s finger is not like those of other people, he knows to feel dissatisfied; but if his mind be not like that of other people, he does not know to feel dissatisfaction. This is called ignorance of the relative importance of things.” With that, we are on to the first letter of the week… ========== “hi [...]
Yet another week, yet more questions…. ========== “Hi Cubby! My friends and I have really gotten into the new Losi Micros Rally/SCT. These things are great on lipo! Since the batteries are so small (using FlightMax 350s – perfect fit!) we were wondering if we could make a harness to charge two of them at the same time. We’d set the charger at [...]
Photo of the Week:Yokomo dori-dori by Tamás Kárpáti Article: “Calling the R/C companies out!” – 5 Things Every RC Car Should Include – Careful guys, if you keep doing hard hitting stuff like this you might start to lose advertisers! Build Log: Real Death Racer WIP – NASCAR Meets Mad Max. This one should turn out totally frickin awesome. Cool link: White Lake [...]
After missing last weeks edition (I was slack’n as usual), I present you with this weeks best questions (with rather iffy answers). ========== “Greetings, I was amazed at the live feed setup that you had at the expo and was thrilled to view it. This was a terrific idea and hats off to your team for pulling off such an endeavor. Thanks [...]
