I’ve been out of the hobby 15 plus years I would say and just got back into it with this arrma outcast 4s. It’s insane how far these things have come since then.
Anybody into RC’s?
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I remember the crappy ones I had as a kid that had the wire attached to the car from the remote
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I had a Traxxas Slash 2WD a few years back (like picture below) .. had the brushless motor and High capacity LiPo battery ... thing was a rocket... had to keep rebuilding the transmission .
Kept breaking shafts... traded it for a couple of bar stools and a 40" TV .
They've come a long way from when I was a kid.
Kept breaking shafts... traded it for a couple of bar stools and a 40" TV .
They've come a long way from when I was a kid.
When I was a kid, my parents got me a Traxxas Rustler for Christmas, in kit form. The car literally came in a box full of parts and bolts. Everything had to be assembled.
It turned out to be a great learning experience for me, and I had a blast running it (and repairing it).
I wanted to get back into the hobby after a 20+ year hiatus, but I am having trouble finding a platform that is being sold completely disassembled.
It turned out to be a great learning experience for me, and I had a blast running it (and repairing it).
I wanted to get back into the hobby after a 20+ year hiatus, but I am having trouble finding a platform that is being sold completely disassembled.
Today when they crash they usually come apart on their own lol.
Scale ships, mostly tugs and fishing boats. Tend to buy kits or RTR's and super detail them, weather, lights, improve the running gear for scale performance; tugs should not be able to plane 
Keeps me occupied during the cold season.
Fun on the dock after the real boating...plus you can have a few drinks!
Keeps me occupied during the cold season.Fun on the dock after the real boating...plus you can have a few drinks!
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My son and I got Traxxas Hawk trucks mid 90s when he was around 10. Great experience building them but man was that white nylon or whatever fragile. Later we ended up racing 4wd touring cars indoors on carpet and he had an RC10T truck. I still have the car, it's never been run outside. Keep thinking I should get back into it with something newer but don't know what. Helicopter? 
I have a Slash 4x4 with the Castle sidewinder Brushless upgrade. Billet motor mount to replace the plastic that quickly broke. Used as a beater. I also got the Ironman Stewart HPI desert Trophy. Mostly just to look at. My favorite race truck of all time. It's a pretty old-fashioned and slow rc but looks awesome.
Built several primative single channel r/c airplanes. They were essentially powered gliders. Had rubber band powered escapements like this one. They are a challenge to fly. I'd crash mine, take it home rebuild it and crash it again the next day.
Decided early on I wasn't pilot material.
Decided early on I wasn't pilot material.
Traxxas has added new models certainly but the Slash series still seems to be their core products. They have been upgraded over the years but they still sell them, and a lot of them I would assume.
I've been into RC cars since the 80's. Tamiya is still a big player and they still sell them as kits which I think is fantastic. But the once big names like Associated and Losi are like boutique brands now. I LOVE the original RC10 and have had many, many of them. I have a bunch still in in various states of disassembly that I need to eBay or something.
Traxxas cars weren't taken very seriously back then but they basically own the hobby now. Good on them but it just seems strange to me.
Traxxas cars weren't taken very seriously back then but they basically own the hobby now. Good on them but it just seems strange to me.
I had a Duratrax ThunderQuake way back when.
Far from performance, but it was fun to bash around in. Broke it, fixed it, broke it again
Nitro or nothin
Far from performance, but it was fun to bash around in. Broke it, fixed it, broke it again
Nitro or nothin
Bud_One
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I remember the Tamiya Lunchbox back in the day being on my wish list ... seemed so cool and still cool..
I forgot I still have a Tamiya VW bug. Assembled but put back in the box in the garage many years ago. Tamiya always looked the most authentic but broke easily
My brother and I literally burned the tires off a couple of Gold Pan RC10's back in the 80's.
Man! They were so fast!
I think I still have them somewhere in the basement. I can't imagine the ni-cads are looking very good...
My younger brother had the lunch box, i had Grass Hopper and Black Foot
I had a Hornet when I was 12, I remember it would do wheelies or even flip over backwards with a slow reverse and then full power on carpet which blew my mind at the time... Funny how it was the most reliable RC car I ever had, and with some bigger tires was really quite fun. Then I had a Tamiya nissan king cab, which was a pretty good race truck with the stock motor, but then my buddy upgraded and then I had too and then we started breaking gear boxes together...
After a frustrating summer of a half dozen broken gears, and stripped LSD's I got a real snowmobile that winter, and then a real dirtbike (which were 100X more reliable) and rode those and a mountain bike instead of fighting with RC stuff. My buddy got a couple nitro rc cars but always seemed to run like khrap and then broke some parts...
20 years later I should have just bought my kids tamiya hornets... the new traxxas 1:16 stuff seems to be good for about 10-20 hours then its done... I tried some chinese 1:16 copies and they work for about as long as well. Anyways, we have moved on to the snowmobile, atv, mountain bikes and skiing which are all still 100x more reliable!
My kids are lobbying for the $800+ 40mph ones but I'm done with buying them RC stuff...
I’ve flew some drones that were fun because they basically hover themselves. The helicopters were a lot more difficult to controlMy son and I got Traxxas Hawk trucks mid 90s when he was around 10. Great experience building them but man was that white nylon or whatever fragile. Later we ended up racing 4wd touring cars indoors on carpet and he had an RC10T truck. I still have the car, it's never been run outside. Keep thinking I should get back into it with something newer but don't know what. Helicopter?
When I was researching it seemed to be arrma vs Traxxas. With arrma being owned by horizon hobby now.
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