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Some of these guys are just too good at what the can do. Incredible paint work here. Just needs to ditch the rover tire on hood.
Kind of itching to build a scaler. Sure they arent as capable but just like 1:1 it makes it more interesting and highlights driver skills.
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Wonder if this is a @bjowett rig? Just as cool as his full size work.
Saw this video this morning and thought of this post. lol
The detail is insane.
Weathering the Cruiser Part 3, Bumpers
RedHeadedStepChild
Proudly wearing my MC1R mutation!
I need to give kudos to Hirizon Hobby. This Christmas my boys got a 1/18 RTR ECX Ruckus and a Torment.
Not much compared to what some of you run, but a really big deal for them. Anyway, after a few days of play, the rear diff on Aaron's ruckus took a dump.
I emailed horizon about the issue.
No questions asked, this showed up today.
Not much compared to what some of you run, but a really big deal for them. Anyway, after a few days of play, the rear diff on Aaron's ruckus took a dump.
I emailed horizon about the issue.
No questions asked, this showed up today.
wow...pretty awesome service right there.
Horizon is good people. I bet you can find replacement parts for the broken one if you look around some...or just swap in an axle from another 1/18 truck and make it work.
RedHeadedStepChild
Proudly wearing my MC1R mutation!
They sell replacement diffs. That's what I figured I might get out of them. I was very surprised and pleased with how they ended up handling things. I will now buy a replacement diff and pop it in the old truck. Then I'll have one for me
NCFJ
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Horizon is a great company to do business with. I was sponsored by them in the early 90s. They provided me mostly with JR radios, I was one of the first to receive the first of their top line computer radios, PCM10. This was an unreal RC helicopter radio making throttle/collective ratios possible that made 3D helicopter flight possible. Truly ground breaking stuff at the time.
I was predominantly a futabe radio person. Had a 6xas, then upgraded to a 9cap when the 6x found the floor one afternoon. I've still got the 9c and put a 2.4ghz module in it. couple years ago, i picked up a spektrum dx7 and 5 receivers for 140.00, and use that almost exclusively for everything now (indoor planes, outdoor planes, and sailboats)
2.4 was the total game changer for the hobby. Throw in all the computer mixing, exponential, dual/triple rates on control surfaces, etc, and there are no limits with what is capable.
2.4 was the total game changer for the hobby. Throw in all the computer mixing, exponential, dual/triple rates on control surfaces, etc, and there are no limits with what is capable.
NCFJ
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Steve, I was out of the hobby by 1996 and missed the 2.4 change. I will most likely get back into RC planes at some point down the road, I like building planes. During the time that I was in the RC heli business I expanded sideways into building planes on contract.
I was building an Zlinn Extra 300 and a guy stopped by the shop for his heli and saw it. Bought it right there on the spot, unfinished. He alone had me build at least 5-6 more planes. I probably built around 30 total, most high powered with retracts etc. I would sit at my big drafting table night after night during the winter months and build planes.
My first heli radio was a Futaba "gold box" 6 channel analog. Yeee haaa!!!!
I was building an Zlinn Extra 300 and a guy stopped by the shop for his heli and saw it. Bought it right there on the spot, unfinished. He alone had me build at least 5-6 more planes. I probably built around 30 total, most high powered with retracts etc. I would sit at my big drafting table night after night during the winter months and build planes.
My first heli radio was a Futaba "gold box" 6 channel analog. Yeee haaa!!!!
Youre close to Triple Tree Aerodrome. Youll have to check out the Joe Nall event there in May, or any of the other events they host. Triple Tree is at a guy's "house", if you can call 450+ acres, 5 flying venues, a 5200x200 ft bermuda grass runway and an FAA Aerobatic Box to 0 ft AGL a guys house. It's in Woodruff I believe. I went in 2000, and 2003, when it was just a "large" event, not an enormous event as it is now.
I grew up in Orlando, and spent some time at Bob Fiorenze's hobby shop in Winter Springs. He was one of the pioneers in scale jets, and had a huge fiberglass sr71 at the shop, along with several f4 phantoms, an f18, ann f15, an a4, and other jets. Retracts, brakes, drouge chutes, flaps, the whole 9 yards. back in the 80s. I also spent way too much time at Glenn and Sharon Harkey's Central Florida Hobbies. Miniature Aircraft's original office was a couple miles from my house, and I'd ride my bike there to try to nose around.
I let my AMA lapse in 2004, because our club had a radical transformation of power. I fly gliders and slope planes occasionally over on the blue ridge parkway, and fly indoor stuff. Ive not yet broken down and gotten a multi-rotor(i refuse to call them drones). Never got into helis after seeing a guy take a hirobo shuttle rotor blade to the arm after geting turned around while learning to hover. I had to hold direct pressure on his arm while someone else drove to the 7-11 to call for help.
I race in multiple classes of rc sailboats, and serve as the commodore of our local rc sailing club. I was fortunate enough to win a national championship in one of those classes back in Sept. They can be equally as exciting as flying a heli or plane, but the risk of damage is a whole lot less
I grew up in Orlando, and spent some time at Bob Fiorenze's hobby shop in Winter Springs. He was one of the pioneers in scale jets, and had a huge fiberglass sr71 at the shop, along with several f4 phantoms, an f18, ann f15, an a4, and other jets. Retracts, brakes, drouge chutes, flaps, the whole 9 yards. back in the 80s. I also spent way too much time at Glenn and Sharon Harkey's Central Florida Hobbies. Miniature Aircraft's original office was a couple miles from my house, and I'd ride my bike there to try to nose around.
I let my AMA lapse in 2004, because our club had a radical transformation of power. I fly gliders and slope planes occasionally over on the blue ridge parkway, and fly indoor stuff. Ive not yet broken down and gotten a multi-rotor(i refuse to call them drones). Never got into helis after seeing a guy take a hirobo shuttle rotor blade to the arm after geting turned around while learning to hover. I had to hold direct pressure on his arm while someone else drove to the 7-11 to call for help.
I race in multiple classes of rc sailboats, and serve as the commodore of our local rc sailing club. I was fortunate enough to win a national championship in one of those classes back in Sept. They can be equally as exciting as flying a heli or plane, but the risk of damage is a whole lot less
little_joe
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Welp, I intended to get my LC70 body all worked up this weekend, but turns out I was shorted several pieces. Been going back and forth with the seller trying to get this sorted. Maybe I can make some progress on the chassis mods.......
Wasn't Greg Mushro that sold it to you, was it?
That was just too low of hanging fruit to pass up
That was just too low of hanging fruit to pass up
Snow day!
NCFJ
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@stevezero I know of Bob Fiorenze, He was well known for Jets and I met him him once briefly at the Toledo show. My company name was Hel-X if that rings a bell. Always up on the stage at the White Plains show in NY if that helps. I flew and made parts for the Miniature Aircraft XL 60 and 30. Brothers ran the place after their father started up the business. The name Curtis Youngblood ring a bell?
little_joe
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I kind of rebooted my build using the LC70 body. Determined the RC4WD LWB chassis with 2-speed transmission and divorced xfer case just wasn't going to cut it; luckily a local friend wanted that so we struck up a deal. While I wait for my chassis, tranny/xfer, and missing LC70 body parts, I've been working on the body a little - and I got my tires and wheels ready. Mickey Thompson Baja MTZ on the new throwback LC wheels (3.3" tires on 1.55" wheels):
Thats cool, Stan. I recognize the name. Never made it to Toledo or the White Plains shows. Its funny, where I live in NC, was quite the RC hotbed in the early 2000s. RJ Gritter grew up here (does a ton of 3d flying, variable pitch prop development, etc, indoor electric pioneer), QueQue Somenzini was living about 5 miles from me. My old neighbor/coworker/bad influence and I moved up to NC for our employer, and he brought one of his planes so we would have something to do. He used to compete against the Shulmans in pattern contests back in the day. I think he even comepted against the Noll family, and the Hyde family.
jfz80
Cruisin’
Hadn't had the bully out in a couple years at least. Quick reminder all the fun lines are oh so close to the danger zone. Not to fear sheared an axle pin in under five minutes LOL
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