Rock Crawling - seriously good fun

[BIGKEV]

I've never really been into RC cars 0 just planes etc - however about 20 mins from our house this weekend just gone they had a competition involving scale 4X4 rock crawlers and on the sunday it was all about the specific crawlers like this

 

Loads of fun and I'd never even had a go before on the scale trail and someone kindly lent me a rig (pajero) and I had a go and got a 3rd on the podium lol

 

great fun.

does anyone here do this?

 

have some random pics of the day - and yes that is Lara croft sitting on a Scale Recaro bucket seat lol - Awesome

 

 

[stevepeanut]

http://www.oldskoolford.co.uk/phpBB2/vi ... p?t=104660

 

heres my thread the other day, I had bought a new tamiya frog and seen this in the shop, then was checking out the videos online, I seriously want one

[V6MAT]

Very cool! i want to do RC cars but i want to build em from the ground up but dunno how to start

[vibrating_Cake]

 

seriousley anal stuff there!!!!

[RossMK2]

These are my rc's i want a rock crawler now though

 

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=2669650040993353364&ei=Ru_ASuzlC4T22wLOobX2Bg&q=kyosho+alpha+3+pure+ten&hl=en#

 

Bare with this one in the middle

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=587655588164896999&ei=n_HASvP5MpPc2gKAnPzaBg&q=lightning+2+sport&hl=en#

 

I was only little on this

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=587655588164896999&ei=n_HASvP5MpPc2gKAnPzaBg&q=lightning+2+sport&hl=en#docid=6381674946216471494

[BIGKEV]

the real thing lol

 

[stevepeanut]

Very cool! i want to do RC cars but i want to build em from the ground up but dunno how to start

 

theres a few main things to look at

 

petrol or electric? electrics are very simple and rarely go wrong, petrols can be very very fast, but can take a lot of looking after and sometimes the engines can go pop

 

do you want it for fun in the garden or local park etc, or do you want to race it in competitions?

 

after that, you have on road, touring cars are very popular, or off road, theres buggies, trucks, rock crawling, rally cars

 

and scale, how big do you want to go? 1/10 is the most popular

 

building it yourself is very satisfying, I just built the tamiya frog last weekend, it took about 5 hours to build and paint,

 

ask in your local model shop too, most people who work in model shops tend to own lots of cars, and race them too

[GT_lenny]

heres a couple of my old off roaders look how realistic they are-

 

 

 

 

 

 

probably as cheap as the models too

[D-FENS]

Love the sound of the engine in the video clip spoilt by the knobheads screaming in the background when it does a wheelie .

[V6MAT]

Very cool! i want to do RC cars but i want to build em from the ground up but dunno how to start

 

theres a few main things to look at

 

petrol or electric? electrics are very simple and rarely go wrong, petrols can be very very fast, but can take a lot of looking after and sometimes the engines can go pop

 

do you want it for fun in the garden or local park etc, or do you want to race it in competitions?

 

after that, you have on road, touring cars are very popular, or off road, theres buggies, trucks, rock crawling, rally cars

 

and scale, how big do you want to go? 1/10 is the most popular

 

building it yourself is very satisfying, I just built the tamiya frog last weekend, it took about 5 hours to build and paint,

 

ask in your local model shop too, most people who work in model shops tend to own lots of cars, and race them too

 

thank you! im an electronic engineering student and want a challenge, just for personal use...will have to think more about it, maybe start off just a car and modify it after time