mikdys - have you always been an on road circuit person or did u do 1/10th off road which was my favourite?

If on track - indoors or outdoors?

 

My son raced them actually (I was just the pit man/sponsor!), mainly 1/10 electric saloons (stock & modified) and also 1/10 F1 modified, but he raced 2wd buggies also (8 turn motors just about made 5 minutes on 2000 cells!). He had a go at IC (the Traxxas) but it was a crap car (fell to bits every time it got nerfed!). I must say that I preferred the buggies but his favourite was the F1.

All outdoors stuff and he used to do well in the rain too (pap damps on the saloons and tamiya wets on the F1 - those things stick like glue to a wet track!)

He's grown out of it now and has sold most of his cars (he's only got about 5 left now gathering dust).

This was probably the most far out car he built (never raced it though, D&T project for school):



Here are some of the others:

 

I used to race electric stock and modifieds / indoor and outdoor for a number of years sold most of my stuff to get a new car (proper road car)

recently thought about getting back into it but it would nitro now and probably buggies

 

I have thought about getting back into it but I then remember how much I used to spend on kit and that was 10 years ago so I don't think i can jusify that kind of expense. Especially starting from scratch again but wanting to pick up at the level I left at or at least near to it

Dunno..............maybe though

 

That looks cool but a bit beyond my painting skills I fear.

I used to have a Boomerang but never raced seriously, just off-roading and home-made stunts

I will probably just have this one on display as I don't really have anywhere to run it

PS If you want the ultimate R/C car you need one of these



It even has working disc brakes.

 

Shouldn't you paint i funky spoon colours... mmmm and i want one of these too!!!

 

It was quite expensive that's for sure but nothing like that 1/5th scale would cost to buy & run (nice though!). Not sure if brushless motors are in yet but those have the potential to save a lot of money on motor and battery costs (I got the impression a couple of years back that this technology was being suppressed to keep up motor and battery sales!).

They could also make things fairer (when my son had a go at racing "stock" that was more down to how many model shops and motor dyno prints you could check out to get the fastest motor - the best ones were several 000's of rpm up on the motors we could seem to find - he could still win in the wet though!).

Not sure about IC though - they don't turn on at the flick of a switch and they are very dirty and smelly things. Also, when we ran the Corrally F1, this could outpace the saloon IC cars (like the Traxxas) at free practice sessions (it was amusing to see the look on the driver's faces as this went silently gliding past them all!).

 

I think that's the way forward, I've ordered another body-shell so I will do one in Orange and have a bash at a Spoonified one.

 

I used to find that the Tamiya paint was best as this seemed to take impacts better, but could be difficult to find. Better to spray the lighter colours first (paint on the inside of the shell) and use the masking film that model shops can supply (ordinary tape can "bleed" and also leave a residue that affects the later colours). This used to be a good place for supplies (but not cheap!):

http://www.apexmodels.com/

 

I've just finished one of the bodyshells in a lovely IOP style and fitted some black wheels, here's the pics:








Finally found a use for those Mugen stickers