Whoa, now here is a way to put some serious scale realism in your Mojave II Four Door! Take a look at the new Complete Metal Interior from RC4WD. The metal interior is ultra-detailed and can help take your truck from run-of-the-mill to serious scaler. * Made from stainless steel & ABS plastic * Metal parts are powder coated in black * Hand [...]
New from Dynamite is the Prophet Sport Mini 50 Watt battery charger. This affordable little charger is AC powered and can charge up to a 4S LiPo. Its small size makes it easy to take just about anywhere, while handy LED indicators display charge status. Here are some of its other highlights- * 50 watts of total charge power * Max charge [...]
“PRC QX-4 Hi There, I read your newsletter every day and wonderd if you could do a review of the PRC QX-4 that seems to be made by FS Racing. I’d like this for my boys for Xmas for inside crawling… are there any alternatives? Regards, Marc” Cubby- Yo Marc, aren’t you a lucky guy! I am proclaiming your email as “Letter Of The Month”. [...]
Expanding on their new Scale Adventure line-up, Carisma has announced the SCA-1E Lynx ORV. The Lynx is designed to look like the ultimate zombie chase mobile and comes on Carisma’s highly capable SCA-1E scale crawler platform. The ORV in its name stands for “outbreak response vehicle”, rugged and ready to defeat the zombie hordes. The Lynx comes in ready to run [...]
Announced at SEMA by CEN Racing is the REEPER American Force Edition monster truck. The biggest news on the new REEPER is its American Force SS8 wheels and Fury Country Hunter M/T tires. These help give the REEPER a genuine lifted truck look. Here are some of its other highlights- * 150 amp Hobbywing ESC * 1450kV brushless motor * 25mm big bore [...]
Perfectly in time for the approaching holiday season, Horizon Hobby has announced their Scale And Save event. The scale and save event can save you up to $30 on a new Horizon Hobby crawler. Some of the Losi trucks that are in the event include the Night Crawler 2.0, Rock Rey, and Baja Rey. For ECX they include the Barrage [...]
The folks at JConcepts have posted information on how to convert a Traxxas Slash into a full-on drag car. The JConcepts Street Eliminator Concept Car is a Slash with several simply mods that make it ready to tear up the asphalt. You can follow This Link over to the JConcepts’ website to learn how to convert your Slash over to a [...]
Are you ready to race stadium truck this winter? If not, have a look at the new TLR 22T 4.0. The fourth version of the 22T comes with an advanced, mid-motor laydown transmission, this moves the motor forward to a more central location. With the new motor placment, the 22T 4.0 drives flatter, it is more consistent, and it helps [...]
Have you seen our review of the body-less Traxxas 4-Tec 2.0? In case you have not, we tested the Traxxas with stock wheels & tires, plus we popped on a Traxxas Ford GT body. However, the real beauty of that car is that it doesn’t come with a body, thus saving you the cash to buy the exact body style [...]
Last weekend our BigSquidRC Bash Crew made the trip to beautiful Denver, Colorado for the first ever Rocky Mountain Hobby Expo. The Rocky Mountain show was put on to showcase rc cars, airplanes, and boats, as well as model railroading and other hobbies. This year the show was two days long, both of which were open and selling to the [...]
The staff here at BigSquidRC hopes that you and your family had fun on Halloween. We know the staff over at Hobbico had fun because of the video shown below. Check out the video to see the Hobbico crew going huge with the ARRMA Outcast. The video shows the Outcast catching serious air at a pumpkin patch, jumping over, and [...]
Coming soon for all you Traxxas TRX-4 owners is a CCHand Pawn Metal Front Bumper from RC4WD. The bumper was designed for not only a scale look, but to also be beefy enough to handle serious off-roading. Here are some of its highlights- * CNC mahinced from billet aluminum * Black anodized and powder coated finish * ABS plastic molding * Weight- 7.39oz * Width- [...]
The second booth that the BigSquidRC Bash Crew stopped at during the Rocky Mountain Hobby Expo was HRP Distributing. HRP, also known as Hobby Recreation Products, had a large booth and a bunch of new gear at the show. With scale crawling as hot as it is right now, HRP had a bunch of new scale accessories on display. HRP has [...]
Yesterday we posted about the new ’79 Ford Bronco body from Traxxas, today we are posting more new products that are on display at the SEMA show in Las Vegas. Well known as being one of the leaders in ready-to-run trucks, Traxxas has announced a new TRX-4 Kit. The scale crawling crowd loves to build their trucks from the ground, so [...]
Years ago I remember Cubby saying that if Traxxas decided to enter the scale market that they would totally own it. Now it does indeed look like Traxxas is going full bore into the scale realism market. Being shown at SEMA later this week is a 1979 Ford Bronco Body for the TRX-4. The Bronco is fully licensed by Ford, but [...]
