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Post by groovy_hippy » Sat Nov 04, 2017 6:10 pm

Just wondering really, and we might be selling a few...

I used to race 1/5 off road buggies (HPi Baja 5B!) . Excellent fun. Replaced that with a Contrast Fuego but never raced it (serious bit of kit - all machined aluminium, hydraulic brakes and a 26cc 2 stroke engine!). Also have an 18th scale stadium truck, brushless, goes like stink (Team Associated RC18T). I started off with a 1/10 electric buggy (Schumacher CAT2000), then had a 1/8 truck (Traxxas Revo) - nitro - great but damn fussy. Even had a centre diff, and inbound horizontal shocks!

The other half has a brushless touring car and an RC18T also.

Amazing how the tech on these has come on over the years...
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Post by srhutch » Sat Nov 04, 2017 6:13 pm

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Post by groovy_hippy » Sat Nov 04, 2017 6:23 pm

Jees, you guys are hard to please...
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Mine in foreground
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Slight accident bent the roof!
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Clean Baja for a change!
Clean Baja for a change!
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His and hers 18Ts
His and hers 18Ts
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Post by Ducklakeview » Sat Nov 04, 2017 6:41 pm

Very nice Jess, but surely anyone that still has a whippy basically has a large scale RC car?? :D :D

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Post by groovy_hippy » Sat Nov 04, 2017 6:50 pm

Ducklakeview wrote: Sat Nov 04, 2017 6:41 pm Very nice Jess, but surely anyone that still has a whippy basically has a large scale RC car?? :D :D

Mike

Long live the stubby!
Well, with better radio now (2.4ghz, not 27 and 49mhz) the aerials don’t need to be so whippy-like! They’re all inside the shell on my current cars I think...
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Post by GuidoK » Sat Nov 04, 2017 6:55 pm

groovy_hippy wrote: Sat Nov 04, 2017 6:10 pm I started off with a 1/10 electric buggy (Schumacher CAT2000)
I ended with a CAT XLS, so a few years before that. I raced a lot in the late 80's/early 90's, both electro buggy 2wd 1:10 and 4wd. (when 1700mah was a lot :rofl: )
If I look now where I live that hobby (electro 1:10 buggies) have almost disappeared. Somehow this hobby isnt as popular anymore as it was in the 80's and 90's (huge national and european championships with lots of entries)

I'm now starting again in 1:28 onroad (so mini-z and stuff) after 25 years.
Love all the brushless electronics, 2 way communication etc. And everything became very cheap compared to 25 years ago. A lot of big brands went bankrupt though. (novak, tekin, LRP etc etc)
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Post by groovy_hippy » Sat Nov 04, 2017 7:33 pm

GuidoK wrote: Sat Nov 04, 2017 6:55 pm
groovy_hippy wrote: Sat Nov 04, 2017 6:10 pm I started off with a 1/10 electric buggy (Schumacher CAT2000)
I ended with a CAT XLS, so a few years before that. I raced a lot in the late 80's/early 90's, both electro buggy 2wd 1:10 and 4wd. (when 1700mah was a lot :rofl: )
If I look now where I live that hobby (electro 1:10 buggies) have almost disappeared. Somehow this hobby isnt as popular anymore as it was in the 80's and 90's (huge national and european championships with lots of entries)

I'm now starting again in 1:28 onroad (so mini-z and stuff) after 25 years.
Love all the brushless electronics, 2 way communication etc. And everything became very cheap compared to 25 years ago. A lot of big brands went bankrupt though. (novak, tekin, LRP etc etc)
The Mini-Zs are interesting - much smaller and cleaner, plus you can set up a track in the garage... The idea has been floated in our household!! :D
I guess with electronics being so cheap to produce a lot of the ‘specialists’ went up the spout. A shame really...It’s a shame the hobby isn’t so popular now either - it’s excellent fun and you can travel a bit too if you want to!
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Post by Silverzedtom » Sat Nov 04, 2017 7:57 pm

Used to love RC cars, I had a Thunder Tiger EB4 S2 nitro 1/8th scale buggy - it was great fun! I remember losing a wheel nut in a playing field and my dad found it somehow!

I always wished I could save enough enough money to build a HPI Baja SS.

Hopefully I’ll get to re live this sort of thing when I have kids...
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Post by mcbeee » Sat Nov 04, 2017 8:12 pm

I'm still thinking about a Traxxas, not keen on the stadium trucks and the monster trucks , there do appear to be a couple of rally style cars out there, but I keep looking at the bunkers at the golf course and thinking "sand buggy" , I had a Grasshopper once when I was younger .... good fun.

my main thing was always building a Tiger tank, the 88mm cannon is exactly to scale with a 22Hornet .... or just stick a Ruger 10/44 in the turret and rip apart a cheap drone for a video targeting system.... not to scale but sounds like it could be fun :)
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Post by GuidoK » Sat Nov 04, 2017 8:20 pm

groovy_hippy wrote: Sat Nov 04, 2017 7:33 pm A shame really...It’s a shame the hobby isn’t so popular now either - it’s excellent fun and you can travel a bit too if you want to!
Yeah also strange because its now more affordable. I think online gaming lead to its decreasing popularity in the end 90's early 2000.

Its still also a really good way to learn about car suspension setup in general. Virtually every suspension/alingment change is adjustable and affects the cars of course in the same way normal cars do. But its much simpeler to change camber, caster etc on an rc car so you can get a feeling really quickly on what every aspect of those adjustments do to a rolling chassis in competative driving.
Much easier than hiring real tracktime, a real pitbox and a team of mechanics :wink:
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Post by groovy_hippy » Sat Nov 04, 2017 9:05 pm

GuidoK wrote: Sat Nov 04, 2017 8:20 pm
Much easier than hiring real tracktime, a real pitbox and a team of mechanics :wink:
Although one of the guys who used to race 1/5 gave that up in favour of real banger racing because it was cheaper!! Towards the end of when I was racing, some of the guys were spending £2k on a car and £50-£100 a race meeting...! :o Alas, going to uni took priority and I gave up...
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Post by buzyg » Sat Nov 04, 2017 10:39 pm

Only raced an RC car once. Was my mates Tamia buggy. I had not a clue how to drive one when we started. Yet some how managed to win a trophy. :lol:

Really peed him off. :wink:
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Post by srhutch » Sat Nov 04, 2017 10:59 pm

I did still have my petrol air boat, which must be about 30 years old now.
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Post by GuidoK » Sat Nov 04, 2017 11:12 pm

srhutch wrote: Sat Nov 04, 2017 10:59 pm I did still have my petrol air boat, which must be about 30 years old now.
Is that a duplex/lesro airboat?
I also have one of those, still somewhere in the attic. I'm thinking of converting it to Lipo/brushless.
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Post by srhutch » Sat Nov 04, 2017 11:16 pm

Just googled and it’s a lesro.

Would need a new engine as I lost the muffler in a lake, but other than that it’s good to go.
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