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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 [...]
Hey all and Happy Thursday! This past weekend, in Waterloo, IL, we just finished our 9th outdoor Summer season of Trigger King R/C monster truck racing. It’s crazy that just the other day it felt like I was preparing my trucks for the first event of 2023. Even crazier than that, it feels like it wasn’t too long ago that we [...]
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, [...]
Hey folks, Happy Thursday! This week I wanted to talk about the new shoes I got for my RC4WD K10 Scottsdale! While I think the included wheels and tires are very sharp, I wanted my truck to have more of that old school 35″ tires on 15″ wheels look than what it came with. After some poking around online I ordered a [...]
G’day folks and welcome back to me! Why can’t we all be like Doug and never miss a column? That guy’s consistency is impressive and beats mine to the extent that it’s embarrassing to mention both in the same sentence. So, let’s drift from that topic to, well, drift. Big boss Brian sent me a big box that showed up a [...]
Hello everyone, and welcome to this week’s Everybody’s Scalin’! Over the last few weeks, I have been working on multiple projects. Between the CrossRC WT4, Axial scx10 iii build, testing the new RC4WD Rock Racer, I made a scale diorama for the upcoming FMSTIVAL in Oxnard CA, at the Murphy Auto Museum, OCT 7th and OCT 8th.FMS Model hit us [...]
Happy Thursday everyone! I hope you all are making the most of early Autumn and partaking in what is usually some of the best weather for trigger time! Earlier this week the folks at Team Associated unveiled their MT12 Monster Van, a 1/12 RTR monster truck that looks VERY dope! The MT12 is no doubt paying homage to another famous 1/12 van, the [...]
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 [...]
