All type of rc toys sit on my shelves...i just like to assemble the kits to About 90-95% complete, set them on the shelf, and shop for upgrade parts to store in bins under the shelves.
The Yikong TB7 looks impressive. Many’s RC Garage has a couple of videos in English reviewing the stadium truck version, the DF7, and he was impressed with the quality of the car and the components. It’s definitely not a cheap car though but looks better designed and robust than the Traxxas and Losi offerings.
Same thing happened to RC No Prep Drag that happened to the 'Chevette Only' class at my local track. People kept going farther and farther out of the box from the stock vehicle until people were sinking $7-10k into Chevettes and it killed out all the people who weren't 100% committed.
It's up to the sanction/promoters to set rules that ensure good competition and affordability. The problem is that those people are afraid they'll lose 'the customer' (the racers) if they don't give in to the racers' demands. 'Racers' are always looking for ways to reduce competition; they want less challenge to their victory, and as a result, they push for rules that eventually shrink the sport. Set firm rules, and drag racing will thrive. Give in to the wants of the racers, and it'll die.
@@guest6423Yeeep, and that's exactly sorta what killed that local short track too. People who had been running for years and close with the promoter bringing stuff that didn't fit in the rules so exceptions kept being made.
Yeah man, it is sad. We were having a ton of fun with lightly modded DR10s. Then the tire juice started, and the flavor-of-the-week carbon chassis, and having to push the ESCs to the point of it being a coin flip if they'd pop, and the silly but 'legal' bodies... It would be fun to have a spec class, but I think the opportunity has passed.
Someone please post pics of these $7-10k RC's please. Are they made of platinum and plutonium powered? What makes them so expensive. Been in RC hobby for 40 years and never seen these before.
@@drunkchicken8636 Not to that level, but most of us who got into the no prep game did it because it was cheaper and more accessible than 1/8 eBuggy, Truggy, etc. Once people came in with these custom carbon fiber chassis and started pushing ESCs to their breaking point and getting wilder and wilder with tire prep it got to where you needed a good $1500-2k to start up and be competitive and that's a lot for a hobby with no purse and to just hold a trigger for 2 seconds a few times per meet up.
To answer the question, traxxas tmaxx I've bought one new and sold it the same day ,a few years later bought one highly modified and sold it the next day. Drove like crap bought a savage and loved it . Only mods was a pipe and servo.
Drag racing. Had three vehicles- but trying to get people to get together for legit racing was more work than it was worth. And they weren't nearly as cool as RC crawler peeps.
Completely agree. The competitive nature of drag racing was way less laid back than the crawler stuff. It also became a big money thing so fast. Within 6 months of building a drag car, it became obsolete, carbon chassis became the only way to be competitive. So it just sits on the shelf. Funny he mentioned turning them back into short course trucks, because that's what I've been considering.
Drag racing was a class I thought I would like. I ran like 3 or 4 times and just couldn't get into. I found that crawling and doing comps is what I really love.
I built a drag car for the cover of RC Car Action magazine when RC drag first kicked off, never ran it… and I have MULTIPLE 1/10 crawlers that have never seen dirt or A rock…
My LHS was told Losi is discontinuing the 22s platform for a new mid motor drag car. We killed off our outlaw drag class to make it more affordable for everyone and have been getting better and better turn outs. We had 32 cars for our last race. I tried drifting and without a decent place or anyone to do it with it just wasnt fun.
I bought the Losi Camaro at the peak…still sitting on a shelf never even put a battery in it😂 I bought a MST drift car…never drove it. I had a HPI Savage Nitro I drove once then couldn’t tune it. I bought a airplane and smashed it hard straight into the ground in five seconds, ruined. 1/24 was what got me into crawling back in the day but I couldn’t get into it on the latest wave. I guess I just like 1/10 crawlers😂
I built two drag cars I haven’t driven in the almost two years I’ve owned them, I came to the realization I was never going to have the motivation to be able to be competitive with them. I’ve been thinking of taking them out just to see how fast I was able to get them. That Losi deal at HH would be worth it just for the electronics
I bought a losi 22 5.0, built it, painted it and put nice electronics in it but months later I still haven't gotten around to racing or even driving it lol. I won't get rid of it though because I've never built or painted anything like that before and I'm very proud of it.
The vapor uses a water tank and dropper to fill it. Similar tech with low end vapes. Heats water to vapor and a small pump to shoot it out. I have a budget rc non variable for small kids to have fun with.
A common theme through the comments seems to be drag cars. Right after I built my drag car, it was obsolete. I ponied up for the hot rod electronics, but was on a typical slash lcg chassis....but carbon chassis started becoming a thing, and belted tires, then the wedge bodies were required if you were trying to go that fast. Also did a slash 4x4 with street tires, a castle 1515, and monster x esc. But turned it back into a short course truck, because the grip on the asphalt liked to tear up equipment (and tires) faster than I could keep up with. They sit on the shelf more than anything. I prefer the dirt I guess. My crawlers all have 300+ miles, and I've put hundreds of batteries through my smt10 monster truck (4800kv castle, mamba x, custom metal frame, all the beefy internals, and beef tubes ar60s.) But my favorite part of building anything is doing some cool custom airbrush while painting the body... At this point I just want to do painting all the time, and would just do it for the cost of paint, and liquid mask (I never want to do tape again after using the bitty liquid mask) I'd even do custom paint for an extra clear body, or other crawler parts......but then it becomes a job and probably wouldn't be as fun...... Really I'd rather do anything than continue to work on 1/1 cars. Parts are a real problem anymore. Can't even trust if the new part you put on is even going to work.
Tried r/c boats for a bit but the limitations on where you can use them is much like trying to fly these days in my area. I have some beautiful shelf queens now... who am I kidding, 3/4 of my R/C's live on the shelf.
Thanks for the heads up on the Losi drag cars. I had wanted that black truck a while back. I added my reward points and picked it up for $130. Not a bad way to start the day.
1/24 scale 😂 I thought it would be a fun way to get some crawling in while indoors or over the winter but I just can't. The SCX24 feels more toy grade to me than a WPL C14. I ran the SCX24 like 4 times total and then it sat on a shelf for 2 years until I finally sold it.
@@aaroncarr5725 I started with 1/10 so I guess I just got used to the way they drive. I really wanted to like it, I think if I had put some oil filled shocks and a few other little tweaks it would have been better but I just wasn't interested enough to try. I still want to try a TRX4M and 1/18 Capra though.
This may show how long ago I was into things, but the old Radio Shack X-Mods. There was a big scene of them years ago, but it got stupid quick. Still have a yellow Skyline, sits in its box. Recently I won an Ecto, so now I just love crawling.
Right now my biggest regret in RC is preordering that damn GREEN promoto I’m watching all the videos on the red and blue ones kicking my self for wanting green….
4:45. Ding! We have a winner. Could easily turn that Losi LCG chassis roller into a pretty nice 2WD SCT racer with just a few mods. If you're running on natural dirt, you're already rear motor. Ready to go. 13:09 For me this was comp crawling. I went to a couple of comps and I just wasn't into it. I felt like competitive rigs don't look scale at all and IDK I just didn't have fun with it. Sold off all my crawler stuff and got into some entry level off-road racing stuff and that has been a blast. I guess I just get more enjoyment out of the go fast RC stuff.
The whole SCT Drag racing thing. Since I was a huge Street Outlaws fan.. I instantly built a badass Murder Nova replica and was ready to kick some ass with it. Lol. Turns out since I work full time + have 4 kids …I don’t have that kind of time to dedicate to testing and tuning. So told everything at a loss.
Drifting (old school HPi cars) & No Prep looked cool, but didn’t really get into them as far as competing. Still have a few cars that sit on a shelf lol. Converting a custom DR10 build to a street stock/dirt oval style basher for the hell of it. 🤘😎
Any kind of R/C aircraft. I always think; oh, that looks fun... Buuuuuuuut, then you have to load everything up and go to an open place to fly. Don't have that issue with surface R/Cs. I can take it right outside and run it. 🙂
Nitro. I was so excited when I got my first hobby class Rc, Revo 3.3. But, I live in an area where the weather changes hourly and you spend more time trying to tune it than running it.
Planes.... I spent a year and thousands building a 1/4 scale piper cub plane with all the details. Scale engine and full interior and the first time I flew it another guy at the model airport clipped my wing and destroyed it 10 minutes into it.... Nope... I'm done lol I'll stick to ground vehicles
I got a trophy truck and a buggy from a family friend. They were heavily into competition racing and extremely successful. I tried but could never get into it. Other than breaking a part every single time I drove it I think it also came down to not knowing in that "crowd". I got new bodies for both and now they look pretty on my wall.
The funny thing is my Fallout in RC that I thought I was going to like a lot was drag cars I built a 13.5 a 10-5 a bracket car and an outlaw and sold all that stuff recently! I'm a trail truck crawler guy!
For your question it’s of course drag racing Looked so cool in videos but just blah…. I wanted to like it, upgraded the shit out of a team associated DR10 kit and man it looks good collecting dust on my rack
Boats. I’ve tried them a couple times and always ended in heartbreak. Just like the real thing, they are nothing more than buckets with holes in the bottom that you keep throwing money into.
@@JacobScherer I have a small dumas boat painted up sitting on my office shelf. There is a note inside the hull saying “just don’t” to remind me everytime I want to try it out again.
I tried rc drifting because it looks so awesome but I didn’t have a local track near me and my garage track got boring so I sold everything and just kept my crawlers
It was 1/24 crawlers for me. I thought I would be really into it, but they just don’t challenge and interest me the way 1/10 crawlers do. I still have both SCX24s I bought though.
Great news week. I'd own a drag car.... though I doubt I'd drive it hahaha. I love those utility beds they make, so cool. As for the question. Drifting hahaha. Got a mst rmx 2.0..... drove it for 5 mins.. got bored. Sold it. All with in a week hahahaha.
Scale, but not r/c- slot cars. I was not even a teen someone sold me their old inventory of cars and accessories. Went to the track and most people were laughing because gear is a fraction of success. A few guys took me under their wing, and while I never got great- they steered me to r/cs and u-flight planes which kicked me off on today's path.
I built an Axial SCX 2 builders kit with a 1972 Bronco body. It was fun to build but boring to drive. I sold it. Just not fast enough. Bought a Losi drag roller. Too much money for motors and such. Just put a J Concepts Falcon body on it. Now it's my street basher. Getting back into road racing touring cars. If dirt oval starts up in my area again I'll do that.
Drifting is something I tried and almost immediately didn't want to do again. Going slow with plastic tires just doesn't seem fun to me. Some of the cars people build look pretty cool though.
Great SNU Josh ✌🤠👍 Having Fun Laughing Playing and RCing I've scored another 22s and even though I don't comp drag so much I couldn't pass on the deal i got (had a xtra coupon off) ... Let's just say that I have a HS720 and I've been trying for a year to get the replacement arm for it thru HS and keep getting the wrong one sent to me??? So I'm gonna try it one more time, if I can't get it then it's a sale item 🎶🎁 Whats you're take on the RTR Portal Phoenix??? 👍😎👍 AOAH =Association of Addicted Hobbiest 🙏 SSPH =Stay Safe and Play Healthy My Friend 🏁💯🏁
For this week's question, for me the answer was rc drifting... bought a yokomo yd2s kit, had fun building it, had bigger dreams of fully scaling it out, but didn't. Got a bit intimidated by lighting kits and just kept it simple with a nice scale killer body corvette. Spent way too much money on electronics and in the long wrong run could only drift with any purposeful control on my driveway, any other concrete surface or local racing surface it just spun out of control every time. Gave up traded for a lcg crawler that I feel had way less money into it than the person claimed but did it anyway just to get it out of my sight, my loss their gain. Learned a hard lesson on that one.
I bought me and my son crawlers I still love taking them out but he hates it he doesn't ever want to take them out lol I got him a Traxxas slash brushless and he loves it we usually take them out every day now
I might buy a drag camaro for 150. Try it out and it would be a nice shelf queen or future project to throw regular size tires and make it a drift car lol
For me it was Drift Cars. I found the building and customizing of the chassis and bodies fun, but once I started actually drifting it was just fun for a couple of months. I kept the bodies and wheels to display on 3D printed display chassis then sold everything else. The Horizon deals on the drag cars was tempting but decided to pass and got myself an LMT. That beast is so fun.
Myself and a couple friends tried a 4tec spec class a few years ago at a local indoor track. We thought it would be fun in the winter. Well, the 4tec was way too fast for beginners and the building was colder inside that the outside temperature. We have up and trailed all winter.
Electric rc-helicooter. I had a Trex 450 from Align in 2007. It was not my thing.. And in 2014 my next "air-try" was quadcopter. The 450 did I sell and the quad I still have but not intrested longer. 😕 🇸🇪 😎 🏁
$69 22s Drag roller? Nice. Also, $150 is worth it for the electronics alone. Absolutely bonkers pricing on those. As for an RC thing that I let go, RTRs in general. I would much, much rather have a kit of anything than an RTR.
Drones. Got a lower end drone for Christmas one year, didn't use it much. Traded it for my first hobby grade rc. May get a helicopter or plane (Blue Angels style like Fat Albert or one of their F4's) but I like ground stuff more for now.
Vape Juice fuel, thats good. Got a laugh out of that one. "Area of RC that didn't work out". Thats a great question and a subject that I've been careful to navigate. The question I ask myself is "where do I fit within RC?" Short answer is novice crawling. I don't care for mud and or feel the need to jump things over my house. Keep it simple, upgrade things as they wear/break and make purchases when on sale. I will say the VP products (VS410 Phoenix, tools and wheels) I have are top notch and I enjoy using them. A bit of a long winded answer but hopefully ya get the intent. Cheers!!!
what a travesty and an attack on our freedom to fly toys in parks...🙄 I've been flying rc for 40 years with no issues...now I'm a criminal unless I bow to remote id and/or fly at a prescribed place (FRIA) that I have to pay for the privilege to fly at ? Not to mention the pay to fly app we'll have to use to access our "privilege"...? I despise our guvmint(sic) more very day...👎🏼
@@steve_beatty absolutely correct! We are being treated like we are on parole if we want to fly. The end of the day I'm really worried about people's safety.
I’ve come to find I am only buying rc’s to sit on my shelves. I enjoy looking at them and knowing I could drive them. And that it’s much cheaper to break these rather than a 1:1 full-size vehicle. Pretty expensive shelf models… should’ve just stuck with hot wheels and maisto models! I did buy a losi 22 roller chassis when it first came out, have yet to purchase any electronics and so it too sits on a shelf. Sad to know I paid more for the roller than the RTR is now :(
I bought a drag slash and ran it for awhile, but ended up selling it for more crawlers and on road cars. They’re fun but I enjoy my crawlers more or my other rc’s.
Things that didn’t work out; I bought 2 drift cars, they are fun but the track is two hours away and I end up drifting alone in a garage, it’s not been getting much use. I bought 2 axial yeti scores (the old collection stuff) and never got around to run them because they are too rare, now I’m trying to sell them but nobody wants them Bought the 3 current traxxas boats (blast, Spartan and m41), they are awesome, but I found out it doesn’t work on the river and the nearest lake without too much algae is an hour away. And batteries don’t have a long life in a boat…. Sailboats same problems with the lake I have 3 slash 4x4, they have been such a disappointing experience I haven’t used them in a while, driveshafts (halfshaft?) lasts about 5 minutes and I don’t bash it. Street cars… I have 12 of these (2 of each model!) and I found out the street in front of our house is too rough, I have to go the the city and drive on an ice rink (during summer it’s just concrete) and it’s the only place I can run them… Also have 2 rc motorbikes, they are aweful, I can’t even make them stand up(and or move) Multiples drones and aircraft’s, we are now a restricted area because someone with lots of money wanted so, now I can’t even fly sub-249 drones… Overall I made a lot of mistakes but I have helped a few person make a decision , and I never managed to sell even 1 rc!
Never really got into Helicopters... Been flying RC airplanes since the 90s but with all the current regulations I doubt I'm going to buy any more aircraft thankfully I live in the middle of nowhere and can fly on my own property... Until Johnny law and the Men in Black come out to my place.
Bashers: bought an AArma Granite, ran it once & decided it wasn't for me. RC's that don't look like real vehicles aren't for me. Gave it to my neighbor's son who's having a blast with it.
Nitro!!!!! Brushless was the best thing that has happened to RC. Nitro is such a pain. Fast.... but a pain. I sold every nitro I owned once brushless motors and lipos hit the market.
Scx24. I gave the 1/24 scale a shot but it just wasn’t for me. I prefer the 1/10 crawler. I Will be picking up a Trx4 sport high trail in the next few weeks.
I knew I liked to bash rc cars but if I was in a race or a serious crawl comp I could play by the rules. So long as I could cut lose afterwards....there is no cutting lose in the air. Subsequently sold everything I had purchased to do with quad copters. Ill stick to the ground thanks. Sold a boat to....maybe if I learned to swim 🤔
The dinofari mod was available before but not rusty. So they took a mod version that wasn’t selling and made it look rusty. While increasing price. :) MOST things they do make sense. Most. 😂
My old Nitro stuff is cleaned up and rebuilt but pretty much 'On The Wall' now. I caught that Axial Bronco Super Sale a while ago but it's so top heavy (and pretty) it's with my nitro stuff for now before I 'rash' it up too much. I really thought I'd like drones but only fooled with a couple cheap ones. Kind of glad I didn't spend a lot on them now. I guess that's not really true. I saved a year and a half for a Mavic 3 but ended up shipping it to United24 sight unseen. I wonder how long it lasted? That was almost a year ago and life expectancy isn't long. I hope it helped!
Local interest in drag racing seems to have picked up thanks to the price cuts. They've been moving a lot of them. And yay, now we can get an unlicensed Jeep with an unlicensed Jurassic Park livery!
You know what needs to happen? SCX6 Gladiator needs to happen!
All type of rc toys sit on my shelves...i just like to assemble the kits to About 90-95% complete, set them on the shelf, and shop for upgrade parts to store in bins under the shelves.
The Yikong TB7 looks impressive. Many’s RC Garage has a couple of videos in English reviewing the stadium truck version, the DF7, and he was impressed with the quality of the car and the components. It’s definitely not a cheap car though but looks better designed and robust than the Traxxas and Losi offerings.
Same thing happened to RC No Prep Drag that happened to the 'Chevette Only' class at my local track. People kept going farther and farther out of the box from the stock vehicle until people were sinking $7-10k into Chevettes and it killed out all the people who weren't 100% committed.
It's up to the sanction/promoters to set rules that ensure good competition and affordability. The problem is that those people are afraid they'll lose 'the customer' (the racers) if they don't give in to the racers' demands. 'Racers' are always looking for ways to reduce competition; they want less challenge to their victory, and as a result, they push for rules that eventually shrink the sport. Set firm rules, and drag racing will thrive. Give in to the wants of the racers, and it'll die.
@@guest6423Yeeep, and that's exactly sorta what killed that local short track too. People who had been running for years and close with the promoter bringing stuff that didn't fit in the rules so exceptions kept being made.
Yeah man, it is sad. We were having a ton of fun with lightly modded DR10s. Then the tire juice started, and the flavor-of-the-week carbon chassis, and having to push the ESCs to the point of it being a coin flip if they'd pop, and the silly but 'legal' bodies... It would be fun to have a spec class, but I think the opportunity has passed.
Someone please post pics of these $7-10k RC's please. Are they made of platinum and plutonium powered? What makes them so expensive. Been in RC hobby for 40 years and never seen these before.
@@drunkchicken8636 Not to that level, but most of us who got into the no prep game did it because it was cheaper and more accessible than 1/8 eBuggy, Truggy, etc. Once people came in with these custom carbon fiber chassis and started pushing ESCs to their breaking point and getting wilder and wilder with tire prep it got to where you needed a good $1500-2k to start up and be competitive and that's a lot for a hobby with no purse and to just hold a trigger for 2 seconds a few times per meet up.
To answer the question, traxxas tmaxx I've bought one new and sold it the same day ,a few years later bought one highly modified and sold it the next day. Drove like crap bought a savage and loved it . Only mods was a pipe and servo.
Drag racing. Had three vehicles- but trying to get people to get together for legit racing was more work than it was worth. And they weren't nearly as cool as RC crawler peeps.
Completely agree. The competitive nature of drag racing was way less laid back than the crawler stuff. It also became a big money thing so fast.
Within 6 months of building a drag car, it became obsolete, carbon chassis became the only way to be competitive. So it just sits on the shelf.
Funny he mentioned turning them back into short course trucks, because that's what I've been considering.
Ended up with 5 cars, an old school traxxas light system,, you are exactly right,, now I can't get anything for them, lol😅
Crawler people and drift people are the nicest, most friendly, awesome people in RC.
Same here.
@@Serial_Enthusiast True that
Drag racing was a class I thought I would like. I ran like 3 or 4 times and just couldn't get into. I found that crawling and doing comps is what I really love.
I built a drag car for the cover of RC Car Action magazine when RC drag first kicked off, never ran it… and I have MULTIPLE 1/10 crawlers that have never seen dirt or A rock…
My LHS was told Losi is discontinuing the 22s platform for a new mid motor drag car. We killed off our outlaw drag class to make it more affordable for everyone and have been getting better and better turn outs. We had 32 cars for our last race. I tried drifting and without a decent place or anyone to do it with it just wasnt fun.
I bought the Losi Camaro at the peak…still sitting on a shelf never even put a battery in it😂 I bought a MST drift car…never drove it. I had a HPI Savage Nitro I drove once then couldn’t tune it. I bought a airplane and smashed it hard straight into the ground in five seconds, ruined. 1/24 was what got me into crawling back in the day but I couldn’t get into it on the latest wave. I guess I just like 1/10 crawlers😂
I built two drag cars I haven’t driven in the almost two years I’ve owned them, I came to the realization I was never going to have the motivation to be able to be competitive with them. I’ve been thinking of taking them out just to see how fast I was able to get them. That Losi deal at HH would be worth it just for the electronics
My old nitro buggy. I was getting pumped to race and then got hooked on crawlers (scale and comp) so I sold the nitro with everything I had for it.
I’ll be waiting for the Element IFS2 kit version!
already have 2 Yikong trailbreaker on my way, Loran you got some new Competitor coming!!!!!
I did convert my dr10 to a sand buggy! 😅
I bought a losi 22 5.0, built it, painted it and put nice electronics in it but months later I still haven't gotten around to racing or even driving it lol. I won't get rid of it though because I've never built or painted anything like that before and I'm very proud of it.
The vapor uses a water tank and dropper to fill it. Similar tech with low end vapes. Heats water to vapor and a small pump to shoot it out. I have a budget rc non variable for small kids to have fun with.
A common theme through the comments seems to be drag cars.
Right after I built my drag car, it was obsolete. I ponied up for the hot rod electronics, but was on a typical slash lcg chassis....but carbon chassis started becoming a thing, and belted tires, then the wedge bodies were required if you were trying to go that fast.
Also did a slash 4x4 with street tires, a castle 1515, and monster x esc. But turned it back into a short course truck, because the grip on the asphalt liked to tear up equipment (and tires) faster than I could keep up with.
They sit on the shelf more than anything. I prefer the dirt I guess.
My crawlers all have 300+ miles, and I've put hundreds of batteries through my smt10 monster truck (4800kv castle, mamba x, custom metal frame, all the beefy internals, and beef tubes ar60s.)
But my favorite part of building anything is doing some cool custom airbrush while painting the body... At this point I just want to do painting all the time, and would just do it for the cost of paint, and liquid mask (I never want to do tape again after using the bitty liquid mask)
I'd even do custom paint for an extra clear body, or other crawler parts......but then it becomes a job and probably wouldn't be as fun......
Really I'd rather do anything than continue to work on 1/1 cars. Parts are a real problem anymore. Can't even trust if the new part you put on is even going to work.
The old Cox control line planes in the 70’s. I think I was about in 6th grade, my dad and I tried it and immediately lawn darted the thing.
lol
@@MrLunithy This brings back bad memories hahaha
Definitely was getting an RC boat, only reason I kept one was for the good pictures with the trailer. I know I’m not the only one lol
Tried r/c boats for a bit but the limitations on where you can use them is much like trying to fly these days in my area. I have some beautiful shelf queens now... who am I kidding, 3/4 of my R/C's live on the shelf.
I personally like building and wrenching more than actually driving them.
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I bought the trike, and you can fill it up with water for smoke.
The led lights collor the smoke.
Thanks for the heads up on the Losi drag cars. I had wanted that black truck a while back. I added my reward points and picked it up for $130. Not a bad way to start the day.
1/24 scale 😂 I thought it would be a fun way to get some crawling in while indoors or over the winter but I just can't. The SCX24 feels more toy grade to me than a WPL C14. I ran the SCX24 like 4 times total and then it sat on a shelf for 2 years until I finally sold it.
I really like my 1/24 Scx24 rc. I have a Capra and a scx bronco too.
I have 5 SCX24 and 1 TRX4M. All of them are upgraded. Had a blast. Haven’t touched them since dove head first into 1/10 scale rigs.
@@aaroncarr5725 I started with 1/10 so I guess I just got used to the way they drive. I really wanted to like it, I think if I had put some oil filled shocks and a few other little tweaks it would have been better but I just wasn't interested enough to try. I still want to try a TRX4M and 1/18 Capra though.
@@John-shreds I wanted to like it, I guess I'm just too used to 1/10. I'd love to try the 1/18 Capra though.
You just haven’t put $2-$300 in aftermarket parts to make them
Capable 😂😂. They really are amazing once you get the right set up.
This may show how long ago I was into things, but the old Radio Shack X-Mods. There was a big scene of them years ago, but it got stupid quick. Still have a yellow Skyline, sits in its box. Recently I won an Ecto, so now I just love crawling.
Right now my biggest regret in RC is preordering that damn GREEN promoto I’m watching all the videos on the red and blue ones kicking my self for wanting green….
I feel your pain... From what Losi and Frank Root has told me, I doubt my pre-order from 6/27 is going to ship before winter...
4:45. Ding! We have a winner. Could easily turn that Losi LCG chassis roller into a pretty nice 2WD SCT racer with just a few mods. If you're running on natural dirt, you're already rear motor. Ready to go. 13:09 For me this was comp crawling. I went to a couple of comps and I just wasn't into it. I felt like competitive rigs don't look scale at all and IDK I just didn't have fun with it. Sold off all my crawler stuff and got into some entry level off-road racing stuff and that has been a blast. I guess I just get more enjoyment out of the go fast RC stuff.
Your awesome thanks for this weeks update
The whole SCT Drag racing thing.
Since I was a huge Street Outlaws fan.. I instantly built a badass Murder Nova replica and was ready to kick some ass with it. Lol.
Turns out since I work full time + have 4 kids …I don’t have that kind of time to dedicate to testing and tuning. So told everything at a loss.
Drifting (old school HPi cars) & No Prep looked cool, but didn’t really get into them as far as competing. Still have a few cars that sit on a shelf lol. Converting a custom DR10 build to a street stock/dirt oval style basher for the hell of it. 🤘😎
Any kind of R/C aircraft. I always think; oh, that looks fun... Buuuuuuuut, then you have to load everything up and go to an open place to fly. Don't have that issue with surface R/Cs. I can take it right outside and run it. 🙂
Monster trucks. Looked great on the shelf.
Nitro. I was so excited when I got my first hobby class Rc, Revo 3.3. But, I live in an area where the weather changes hourly and you spend more time trying to tune it than running it.
That camaro is the iconic #Splitbumper
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Planes.... I spent a year and thousands building a 1/4 scale piper cub plane with all the details. Scale engine and full interior and the first time I flew it another guy at the model airport clipped my wing and destroyed it 10 minutes into it.... Nope... I'm done lol I'll stick to ground vehicles
I got a trophy truck and a buggy from a family friend. They were heavily into competition racing and extremely successful. I tried but could never get into it. Other than breaking a part every single time I drove it I think it also came down to not knowing in that "crowd". I got new bodies for both and now they look pretty on my wall.
The funny thing is my Fallout in RC that I thought I was going to like a lot was drag cars I built a 13.5 a 10-5 a bracket car and an outlaw and sold all that stuff recently! I'm a trail truck crawler guy!
For your question it’s of course drag racing Looked so cool in videos but just blah…. I wanted to like it, upgraded the shit out of a team associated DR10 kit and man it looks good collecting dust on my rack
Shout out to Bardwell!!! The drone daddy!!!
I got a jet for Christmas. First time out I wrecked it twice. Figured out I’m just going to stick to surface lol
Boats. I’ve tried them a couple times and always ended in heartbreak. Just like the real thing, they are nothing more than buckets with holes in the bottom that you keep throwing money into.
Haha, I was going to say the same thing!
@@JacobScherer I have a small dumas boat painted up sitting on my office shelf. There is a note inside the hull saying “just don’t” to remind me everytime I want to try it out again.
@@longtalltexanrc3358 now that is funny 🤣😂
@@JacobScherer it’s sad but true
Charisma maybe doing a rally car? Or a boat
I tried rc drifting because it looks so awesome but I didn’t have a local track near me and my garage track got boring so I sold everything and just kept my crawlers
Same here.
I purchased a Losi 22 drag, unboxed it, sat it on a shelf, admired it for a while, put it back in the box, and sold it.
It was 1/24 crawlers for me. I thought I would be really into it, but they just don’t challenge and interest me the way 1/10 crawlers do. I still have both SCX24s I bought though.
Crawling and Drag Racing
Roren Heary. Omg I’m dead lololol
Great news week. I'd own a drag car.... though I doubt I'd drive it hahaha.
I love those utility beds they make, so cool.
As for the question.
Drifting hahaha. Got a mst rmx 2.0..... drove it for 5 mins.. got bored.
Sold it.
All with in a week hahahaha.
Scale, but not r/c- slot cars. I was not even a teen someone sold me their old inventory of cars and accessories. Went to the track and most people were laughing because gear is a fraction of success. A few guys took me under their wing, and while I never got great- they steered me to r/cs and u-flight planes which kicked me off on today's path.
Bought the f100...if anything...it will look cool on the shelf...and I can use the cheapo electronics for another project 😀
Horizon hobbies show Canada some love so I bought the 22S No Prep Drag Roller for $130 Canadian
I built an Axial SCX 2 builders kit with a 1972 Bronco body. It was fun to build but boring to drive. I sold it. Just not fast enough. Bought a Losi drag roller. Too much money for motors and such. Just put a J Concepts Falcon body on it. Now it's my street basher. Getting back into road racing touring cars. If dirt oval starts up in my area again I'll do that.
Thank you for the FAA update Josh.
Lowrider 64 had to have one. Built it, put a stereo in it. Ain’t touched it.
Drifting is something I tried and almost immediately didn't want to do again. Going slow with plastic tires just doesn't seem fun to me. Some of the cars people build look pretty cool though.
Smt 10 mud truck every time I took it out run 5 minutes and it broke threw it away now trx4 mud truck works great
I bought 4 kyosho mini-z's for indoor drifting and they rarely get used. they are very loud on the flooring and don't handle like expected
U4 Racing. It's my favorite type of racing but getting folks together without driving 3.5 hours 1 way is difficult. Totally killed it for me.
Great SNU Josh ✌🤠👍 Having Fun Laughing Playing and RCing
I've scored another 22s and even though I don't comp drag so much I couldn't pass on the deal i got (had a xtra coupon off) ... Let's just say that I have a HS720 and I've been trying for a year to get the replacement arm for it thru HS and keep getting the wrong one sent to me??? So I'm gonna try it one more time, if I can't get it then it's a sale item 🎶🎁
Whats you're take on the RTR Portal Phoenix???
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For this week's question, for me the answer was rc drifting... bought a yokomo yd2s kit, had fun building it, had bigger dreams of fully scaling it out, but didn't. Got a bit intimidated by lighting kits and just kept it simple with a nice scale killer body corvette. Spent way too much money on electronics and in the long wrong run could only drift with any purposeful control on my driveway, any other concrete surface or local racing surface it just spun out of control every time. Gave up traded for a lcg crawler that I feel had way less money into it than the person claimed but did it anyway just to get it out of my sight, my loss their gain. Learned a hard lesson on that one.
i got one 1/14 jdm semi truck to try something else, after silly fast drag racers this seems to have bright future
I bought me and my son crawlers I still love taking them out but he hates it he doesn't ever want to take them out lol I got him a Traxxas slash brushless and he loves it we usually take them out every day now
I might buy a drag camaro for 150. Try it out and it would be a nice shelf queen or future project to throw regular size tires and make it a drift car lol
The Camaro body is a 70 1/2 split bumper Camaro
Short course, built one from scratch, but never really enjoyed it as much as crawlers and drifters.
For me it was Drift Cars. I found the building and customizing of the chassis and bodies fun, but once I started actually drifting it was just fun for a couple of months. I kept the bodies and wheels to display on 3D printed display chassis then sold everything else. The Horizon deals on the drag cars was tempting but decided to pass and got myself an LMT. That beast is so fun.
Myself and a couple friends tried a 4tec spec class a few years ago at a local indoor track. We thought it would be fun in the winter. Well, the 4tec was way too fast for beginners and the building was colder inside that the outside temperature. We have up and trailed all winter.
Was getting into RC drag racing but realized the money that needed to be spent. Selling everything
Electric rc-helicooter. I had a Trex 450 from Align in 2007. It was not my thing.. And in 2014 my next "air-try" was quadcopter. The 450 did I sell and the quad I still have but not intrested longer. 😕
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Never owned anything with gas, but did try 1/24 scale once it was the Ambush by Proline ( drove it less than 5 times )
$69 22s Drag roller? Nice. Also, $150 is worth it for the electronics alone. Absolutely bonkers pricing on those.
As for an RC thing that I let go, RTRs in general. I would much, much rather have a kit of anything than an RTR.
Rc Monster Truck and the drift scene. I guess I like the looks more that the actual driving aspect.
That's crazy about the aviation. What is the cost to register a plane? I know people that have 20 plus plane
Drifting. Bought a nice MST and i can’t drive it. i’ve run at least 10-15 packs through it. I still have the car, but she sits on a shelf now.
Drones. Got a lower end drone for Christmas one year, didn't use it much. Traded it for my first hobby grade rc. May get a helicopter or plane (Blue Angels style like Fat Albert or one of their F4's) but I like ground stuff more for now.
Vape Juice fuel, thats good. Got a laugh out of that one. "Area of RC that didn't work out". Thats a great question and a subject that I've been careful to navigate. The question I ask myself is "where do I fit within RC?" Short answer is novice crawling. I don't care for mud and or feel the need to jump things over my house. Keep it simple, upgrade things as they wear/break and make purchases when on sale. I will say the VP products (VS410 Phoenix, tools and wheels) I have are top notch and I enjoy using them. A bit of a long winded answer but hopefully ya get the intent. Cheers!!!
Strawberry vape juice lol.
Thank you bro for covering the remote i.d. issue. It's actually really bad for the hobby. Appreciate you mentioning bardwell to he is awesome 🤜
what a travesty and an attack on our freedom to fly toys in parks...🙄 I've been flying rc for 40 years with no issues...now I'm a criminal unless I bow to remote id and/or fly at a prescribed place (FRIA) that I have to pay for the privilege to fly at ? Not to mention the pay to fly app we'll have to use to access our "privilege"...? I despise our guvmint(sic) more very day...👎🏼
@@steve_beatty absolutely correct! We are being treated like we are on parole if we want to fly. The end of the day I'm really worried about people's safety.
@@steve_beatty It only took a couple drone pilots to post videos of a 747 flying by their drone. You can thank them.
I’ve come to find I am only buying rc’s to sit on my shelves. I enjoy looking at them and knowing I could drive them. And that it’s much cheaper to break these rather than a 1:1 full-size vehicle. Pretty expensive shelf models… should’ve just stuck with hot wheels and maisto models! I did buy a losi 22 roller chassis when it first came out, have yet to purchase any electronics and so it too sits on a shelf. Sad to know I paid more for the roller than the RTR is now :(
I bought a drag slash and ran it for awhile, but ended up selling it for more crawlers and on road cars. They’re fun but I enjoy my crawlers more or my other rc’s.
1/24 scale crawlers…. No doubt I used it to see if I’d like a crawler then after that it was almost like a hot wheels lol
Things that didn’t work out;
I bought 2 drift cars, they are fun but the track is two hours away and I end up drifting alone in a garage, it’s not been getting much use.
I bought 2 axial yeti scores (the old collection stuff) and never got around to run them because they are too rare, now I’m trying to sell them but nobody wants them
Bought the 3 current traxxas boats (blast, Spartan and m41), they are awesome, but I found out it doesn’t work on the river and the nearest lake without too much algae is an hour away. And batteries don’t have a long life in a boat…. Sailboats same problems with the lake
I have 3 slash 4x4, they have been such a disappointing experience I haven’t used them in a while, driveshafts (halfshaft?) lasts about 5 minutes and I don’t bash it.
Street cars… I have 12 of these (2 of each model!) and I found out the street in front of our house is too rough, I have to go the the city and drive on an ice rink (during summer it’s just concrete) and it’s the only place I can run them…
Also have 2 rc motorbikes, they are aweful, I can’t even make them stand up(and or move)
Multiples drones and aircraft’s, we are now a restricted area because someone with lots of money wanted so, now I can’t even fly sub-249 drones…
Overall I made a lot of mistakes but I have helped a few person make a decision , and I never managed to sell even 1 rc!
Drifting and boats. Bought both, used both 1 time😅
Never really got into Helicopters... Been flying RC airplanes since the 90s but with all the current regulations I doubt I'm going to buy any more aircraft thankfully I live in the middle of nowhere and can fly on my own property... Until Johnny law and the Men in Black come out to my place.
The new "12th" Carisma is a 1/5 scale 21x12 with a working T- shirt launcher. I tried 1/12 pancar racing. Turns out my reflexes weren't fast enough 😢
Bashers: bought an AArma Granite, ran it once & decided it wasn't for me. RC's that don't look like real vehicles aren't for me. Gave it to my neighbor's son who's having a blast with it.
Nitro!!!!! Brushless was the best thing that has happened to RC. Nitro is such a pain. Fast.... but a pain. I sold every nitro I owned once brushless motors and lipos hit the market.
To answer this week's question, I bought a boat it's 2 years ago. ...... it's still in the box. No interest now. Lol
Scx24. I gave the 1/24 scale a shot but it just wasn’t for me. I prefer the 1/10 crawler. I Will be picking up a Trx4 sport high trail in the next few weeks.
1/8 scale 4x4 buggy. Wasn't into the fast. Have stuck with my 1/10 trail trucks/crawlers
I knew I liked to bash rc cars but if I was in a race or a serious crawl comp I could play by the rules. So long as I could cut lose afterwards....there is no cutting lose in the air. Subsequently sold everything I had purchased to do with quad copters. Ill stick to the ground thanks. Sold a boat to....maybe if I learned to swim 🤔
The dinofari mod was available before but not rusty. So they took a mod version that wasn’t selling and made it look rusty. While increasing price. :)
MOST things they do make sense. Most. 😂
Arrma go fast vehicles. “Infraction” it was fun on the first set of tires. Bhu-bye after that.
I have a SkyRC 1:4 bike. I used it once or twice as it was so unintuitive and not fun to drive
I would say on Road cars. I still have a few but started selling them off.
Damn had a JP theme class 1 rig. Got all the characters, but a YJ body.
I was very disappointed with relatively inexpensive drones. Actually felt I was ripped off. Never again, totally sticking to 4 wheels on the ground!😊
My old Nitro stuff is cleaned up and rebuilt but pretty much 'On The Wall' now.
I caught that Axial Bronco Super Sale a while ago but it's so top heavy (and pretty) it's with my nitro stuff for now before I 'rash' it up too much.
I really thought I'd like drones but only fooled with a couple cheap ones. Kind of glad I didn't spend a lot on them now.
I guess that's not really true. I saved a year and a half for a Mavic 3 but ended up shipping it to United24 sight unseen.
I wonder how long it lasted? That was almost a year ago and life expectancy isn't long. I hope it helped!
70 to 73 custom camaro split bumper with bumpers removed.
I would have to say the mini z’s bought two of them upgraded them raced a couple times then never touched them again
Local interest in drag racing seems to have picked up thanks to the price cuts. They've been moving a lot of them.
And yay, now we can get an unlicensed Jeep with an unlicensed Jurassic Park livery!