All the way back in August, I got my hands on a Goblin 570 from SAB Helidivision thanks to my friends at PrestigeRC/HeliDirect. Over the past few months, I have been diligently working on it while getting more and more excited for flying season to start this now snowy 2015. I have only built a Baja 5B SS in all my time in RC, [...]
Want to beef up your Helion Dominus? Now you can with Front Upper & Lower Arms from RPM RC. Molded here in America from legendary RPM nylon, the RPM arms are beefed up in all the right places and have tighter tolerances than the stock units for less slop. Each package contains one upper and one lower arm and have [...]
With spring time just around the corner (YES!!!), it isn’t too early to start looking for a new rc boat. The latest boat from Thunder Tiger is the Olympian Deep-V. The Olympian is a rtr that comes stock with a 2000kV brushless motor and a one meter long (39.1″) high performance deep-v hull. Water cooling is used to keep the [...]
With the Invertix400, Blade 200QX, and Leap 3D inverted flight type quadcopters already on the market, the team over at AerialFreaks wanted me to try out their new Hyper400 3D just to see how theirs stacks up to the competition. Needless to say I got very excited when a few days after our conversation that a quadcopter was sitting on my front porch, sooner than anyone [...]
Tired of every new product being murdered out? Looking for that clean all-white 80’s look in your next buggy? If so, Tamiya has you dialed with the new White Version of the Dark Impact buggy. With virtually every molded part coming white, they don’t get much cleaner looking than the new Dark Impact. Some of the other notable features of [...]
Gmade is known for several things, one of which is their wheel and tire line-up. Their latest wheels are GT02 Beadlocks. These are designed to fit most popular 2.2″ tires and are a true internal beadlock design with no gluing required. The GT02s come in black and have a scale realistic design to look good out on the trail. The [...]
There are plenty of good reasons to buy an 18th scaler, but most people buy them because they are so affordable and typically hard to break. Dromida has sold boatloads (literally) of 18th scalers over the last couple of years and recently we got a chance to test out their new DB4.18 Desert Buggy. Is the DB4.18 a good noobie [...]
Flipping a boat in the middle of a lake can take hours to recover, which needless to say is not any fun. That’s why the lastest from Pro Boat, the Recoil 17″ Deep V, comes with a Self-righting feature. If you find yourself upside down with the Recoil, just hit the gas and it self-rights itself and you are instantly [...]
Some of the latest and greatest in tire design comes from JConcepts with their Diamond Bar 2.2″ 2wd Buggy Front Tires. As you can see by their interesting tread design, the Diamond Bars are specifically made for consistent traction, not to dig-in or be edgy on high-bite surfaces. The Diamond Bars will be available in three different compounds and come [...]
Low profiles servos are smaller and lighter than “normal” size, but can make for an easier install while still offering plenty of performance. The latest servo from Spektrum is a low profile unit called the S6270. The S6270 is blazing fast with a transit speed of .05 at 8.4 volts. It is no slouch at torque either with 174 oz-in [...]
In an rc world that now revolves around scale realism, it is not just about how scale your wheels are, or just the accuracy of your windshield wipers, it is about the all around package, even the sound coming out of your truck. To be truly scale realistic, your ride has to have it all, from the scale wheel nuts [...]
The latest product from our friends at Dynamite RC is the Passport Ultra Force Touch Battery Charger. Featuring an easy to use touch screen interface, the Ultra Force was designed to charge a wide variety of batteries at fast charge rates. The maximum charge rate on the Ultra Force is 15 amps and it can discharge at up to 5 [...]
Like the smell of nitro in the morning? Can’t live without a car sporting a “Digital Zebra” paint job? If you answered yes to both of those questions then HPI Racing has you dialed with their new Ken Block Fiesta ST RX43 WR8 3.0. The latest version of the WR8 comes with a Nitro Star G3.0 engine and world famous [...]
MIP has a new 7075 Aluminum 3-gear transmission set-up for you guys using stock class motors in your Associated B5M. Named the MIP Box, it comes with a transmission case, motor plate, and gear cover. The MIP Box is 50% lighter than the stock tranny case and has less drag. More importantly, because of its aluminum construction it acts as [...]
The folks at Hobbico have announced a new GPS & Speed Meter for your bashing enjoyment. The Pro Series Big 5 monitors GPS, speed, altitude, distance and time. Easily hooked up to your PC to show data logging, it can even plot your path on Google Maps. The Big 5 can be used for recording top speed or can be [...]
