Hello friends, thanks for joining us here at BigSquidRC. Today is Monday, the day when I post a real hodgepodge of happenings, thoughts, and rants about the remote control industry. So what’s up? First up, we posted info regarding our first ever scale crawling event earlier today. The Mud, Rocks, and Tears Scale Showdown has been in the works for a [...]
Coming up on April 7th is our first scale event called the Mud, Rocks, & Tears Scale Showdown. The BigSquidRC Bash Crew is working in conjunction with the St. Louis RC Freaks to put on one of the most challenging, and more importantly fun, scale crawling events to go down this spring! Mud, Rocks, & Tears Scale Showdown When: April 7th, registration [...]
Recently posted by HB Racing is a new Ride Height Gauge. The HB gauge is made for the racing crowd to make it easy to get an accurate ride height reading. The gauge can be used on 1/10th or 1/8th sized vehicles and shows height from 15 up to 45 millimeters. Dual bearings are used for smooth action and the [...]
Hey all, Happy Friday to ye’. Time to talk paint. Last week I was doing a simple JConcepts Ford F-250 rattle can job, painting a truck solid pink (don’t ask!). Yes, that dark orange body at the top of this page was supposed to be pink. Whoops. I’m decent at solid color paint jobs these days, having done around 75 probably, but [...]
The Demon SG4 scale truck from Cross RC came out of nowhere, and instantly had a ton of interest and people questioning everything about it. How do they get one? Who is Cross RC? What sort of quality is the kit going to be? It’s has been a while since we got our hands on a true kit, so lets [...]
Wouldn’t it be cool if you could put some scaled down rc kit boxes inside your rc garage? Now HPI Racing makes that possible. HPI has announced a number of Scale Kit Boxes that are now available. You can never put enough detailing into an rc garage, the HPI boxes should make for a nice addition to yours. The free scale [...]
Just uploaded by ARRMA is a video called All Conditions / All Action. The video does a great job of showing off the snow driving capabilities of the 4×4 Mega Series Senton short course truck, a truck that is also a blast to drive on grass, dirt, and sand. Watch the video below for some great slow-mo snow drifting action. Afterwards, [...]
When ECX announced the Barrage Doomsday from Horizon Hobby our mouths dropped! We had never seen a vehicle quite like it before. Part monster truck, part crawler, and sporting a hefty dose of Mad Max, the Doomsday is one of the most unique looking trucks to hit the market in a long time. Over the last few months we’ve been beating [...]
New from Boom Racing are scale 5.0 32V TiVDT Valve And Engine Covers for the Team Raffee scale engine. The Boom Racing kit comes with four pieces- an air intake, rocker covers, and the top engine cover. All the parts have been made via 3D printing and are very nicely scaled for an authentic look. Pricing is right around $59, it [...]
What is the fastest road course class that you can race on-road? That would be the 1/8th scale 4wd nitro class. What is a good car for the class? One of the very best over the years has been the XRay RX8. For 2018 XRay has given the RX8 numerous revisions to lower lap times, as well as to increase [...]
1/10th buggy racers, these two are for you. Team Associated has just announced the newly updated RC10B6.1 and the RC10B6.1D. While not an all new design, the engineers at Team Associated made some smart changes to aid in maintenance, as well as speed on the track. * 6.1D gets an all new Lay Back Stealth transmission * +1 Ackermann plates and gull [...]
“Castle Mamba X SCT Pro Review Hey Cubby, I realize that is a relatively old review, but I was hoping maybe to get some info from you. Specifically you mentioned temperatures on normal bashing gearing. My question is do you recall a pinion/spur combo you used on the Pro-2 to keep the temperatures good when bashing? Thanks very much ahead of time, Randall B.” Cubby- [...]
There is no doubting that the original Traxxas Summit is a legend in the bashing world. From its burly size, to its ability to get over just about anything, the Summit has been putting smiles on driver’s faces for years. Now Traxxas has announced a new 1/16 Summit. This version of the Summit is much smaller than the original 1/10th, [...]
Coming soon to replace the D413 is the HB Racing D418. The D418 is a 4wd race buggy that sports numerous revisions over the previous model. The buggy comes with an all new chassis with raised side guards, as well as harder a-arms. Here are some of its other new features- * Chassis layout similar to the E817 buggy * Easy access [...]
Here ya go rock crawling fans, Losi has just announced the Night Crawler SE. The Special Edition of the Night Crawler comes with more lights to make night crawling easier than ever, plus it received a new Exoskeleton cage. The cage not only gives the Night Crawler SE a tough look, but should also work well for protecting the body [...]
