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Axial Racing has not let up on the scale skinny pedal all year and has released another rig! The new Axial Racing SCX10 II Ford F-100 RTR is taking the RTR body game to another level with a four-piece bed and the super scale hinge pin body mounts. The 1955 Ford F-100 is a much-needed scale body in an 1/10 [...]
“New ARRMA Has Landed!!!!!!!!! Hey Cubby what do you think of the pics of the new ARRMA? Is it better than the Traxxas X-Maxx? Martin P.” Cubby- Yo yo yo there Martin, and thanks for the letter. A snail mail for a sticker pack per the usual. So what about that new ARRMA? Ya know, we place bets on days when the new Horizon [...]
I’ll be blunt with you. My main purpose of writing today’s column is simple: to raise money. It works like this: I write columns, I get paid, I can then use said money to buy stuff. Stuff that I can then take to a nearby patch of asphalt and play with. Essentially, nothing has changed since I was about nine [...]
The absolute moment JConcepts announced their Krimson Dually wheels, I knew I HAD to have a set of them. Now that I’ve got ’em, have them mounted and have run them, let’s talk! So, the Krimson Duallys. Let’s talk about the name, first. As with most of JConcepts monster truck stuff, the product names are a wink and a nod to [...]
Hello fellow rc fanatics, welcome to BigSquidRC. THE Cub Report is a weekly column that talks about new rc products, as well as industry happenings, new trends, plus a few rants here and there. Shall we dive right on in??? Can you EVEN BELIEVE that Big Squid turns 15 years old this year? Holy freaking cow does time fly when you [...]
Apparently, I don’t watch enough tv and have been missing out on a cool show called Truck Night in America. But one of the local Crawler courses, Crawler Canyon, and pretty much everyone else has seen it and Crawler Canyon put on a scale version of the show. After going back and forth on what rig to use for this [...]
“Make racing great again! We need help. Hey Cubby, I’m looking for some racing advice from a different perspective. I help run the local dirt track. This summer we had pretty weak attendance. Our track is special, not because we power wash the pit barn out once a year or because we have the cleanest port-o-john in the city. Our track is [...]
Got an e-mail over the weekend from a reader asking about the Tamiya TXT-2 Agrios. I’ve never talked about this truck before, despite having owned one, so this will be a great time. Doug, Wanting to build a truck. But, on a budget. Seen the Tamiya Agrios platform in the txt-2 and is the direction I am thinking of going. Was wanting [...]
Hello there avid rc fan, welcome to Big Squid and to THE Cub Report. While Ping is busy retiring from the writing game, here I am slaving on. Such is life, shall we dive right on in? So… the “biggest” news from last week was such that we didn’t even post it??? Yup, that would be the 30 day countdown timer [...]
A while ago a buddy of mine, Cody Johnson owner of Dixieland R/C, sent me a Boom Rod end set for our Axial Racing UMG10. Now, in the beginning of the UMG10 build I didn’t think twice about the Rod ends. As I was tearing the rig down the other week to install the Boom rod ends, I then realized [...]
“New budget Trail Rig Hey Cubby, Are there any trail rigs worth buying that are less than $200? Here in Canada $200 USD ends up more like $260 CAD and it makes a difference, especially with Christmas presents on a budget. Maybe there’s a builders kit that costs less than $200? Thanks for the help! Jadyn D. P.S. Could I get some of those [...]
Once upon a time, I was in the army. I was stationed in the north, in a country far, far away, where winters were long and fierce. It so happened that quite often I would arrive to my regiment by plane, together with a couple of my platoon mates, and we would then get picked up at the airport by [...]
My favorite thing to do in this web space, bar none, is to show off the ridiculously cool builds that my monster truck racing buddies routinely pull off. This week, let’s talk about Jordan Sicht’s insane Grave Digger #1 replica. There are a lot of Digger builds out there, but this is one of the craziest you are going to see. [...]
Well hello there, my name is Cubby and this is my weekly column on rc. Sometimes THE Cub Report is about product news, sometimes it is just worthless rambling, but either way, shall we dive on in??? Even though our podcast with JConcepts’ Jason Ruona has been up a couple weeks, I had yet to listen to it. Over the weekend [...]
While Jeff Hoy still helps us out at Big Squid, sadly he no longer does his “Around The Web” column. It was our biggest column back in the day, one that fans loved. Actually, it wasn’t just our readers that loved it, but so did the rest of the staff around here. To have some fun, I decided to pull [...]
